That same year Howland bought an estate along Fishkill Creek in the upstate village of Mattewan, naming his new home Tioronda.

To me, growing up during the Depression, the corps proved a salvation, as it did to many hopeless, unemployed and penniless youths in my dirt-poor, upstate village.

They always spent their vacation months together, usually traveling, and occasionally, when Peter was working on a book, sequestering themselves in a quiet upstate village.

But according to people in this upstate village, their museum is one that America sorely needed: a museum about the science, history and sociology of Jell-O.

In his new movie, "Wendigo," the Wolfman legend becomes the basis for a story of family tension, class warfare and ecological revenge, set again in a snowy, isolated upstate village.

A state judge has given the upstate village of Kiryas Joel another chance to continue operating a separate public school district for its disabled children.

The day after local officials snubbed Bill Auble's proposal last April to build apartments and a shopping center on farmland that borders this tiny upstate village, something curious happened.

Tractors amble along the narrow highway that cuts through this upstate village, and it's not unusual to see rows of corn growing in backyards.

They made a name for themselves in this quiet upstate village by being bad: ditching school, guzzling beer, smoking dope, annoying merchants and winding up too often at the police station.