Name of Community: Columbia County, NY Established (date): 1786 Land area: 648 sq. miles Population: 1,810 Population over 65: 23.8% Racial Makeup: White 90.1%, Black 5.2%, Latino 4.9% Veterans: 4,123 Persons per household: 2.31 Per Capita Income: $35,581 Bachelor Degree or above: 31.3% Life expectancy: Male 77.6, Female 81.4 Number of Coronavirus cases: 84 (4/14/20) Number Read more about Hillsdale by the Numbers[…]
By Quinn Humphrey 4/5/20 So today is the first day that I’ll be documenting my time in quarantine. It’s been a crazy few weeks and I can feel myself going stir crazy being so isolated. It’s way worse for me, being a diabetic and all. My parents don’t want me to go out or interacting Read more about The Push Toward The End: Journal | April 2020[…]
By Quinn Humphrey It was a quiet mid-March afternoon when the lives of the Bohart family were changed forever. Nothing was out of the ordinary, beyond their growing concern over the presence of COVID-19 near their home in New York City. It was on this day that the family decided to relocate, to their summer Read more about Living with It: One Family’s Struggle with COVID-19[…]
By Quinn Humphrey A ghost town in the Berkshire Mountains: This is what Hillsdale, New York has become. On a walk down its main street, I see a total of three people, a few cars and lots of boarded-up shops. Only a handful of businesses are still open. The only people out of their cars are Read more about The Hidden Hamlet[…]