"Sugar Loaf", oil on canvas, Barbara Vandersluys, 1975
Private collection of Diane Westerveld
"Autumn Landscape, Sugar Loaf, Orange County, New York"
Jasper Francis Cropsey, ca.1870-75
Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Sugar Loaf Mountain (postcard, 1906)
The Giant Rock" (postcard, 1906)
James Mari plowing Main street with one of his bulldozers after the big blizzard of 1947. Building across Main Street is present-day "Endico Watercolors"
Sugar Loaf's community was classically very tightly-knit, and neighbors pooled resources in order to maintain the hamlet
Mr. Mari designed and excavated "Swetlow's Pond" in 1950.
James Mari plowing snow next to the AME Methodist Church, near site of present-day "Fellowship Hall", for which he excavated and built the foundation.
Note undeveloped Pine Hill Rd. on hill in background.
Building in background is Maxinne Charles' present day "Sugar Loaf Bed and Breakfast", a splendidly restored example of understated colonial elegance.
Local Kids playing in Plowed snow in front of the AME Methodist Church, 1947
The days of REAL Blizzards- James Mari plowing Main Street after the blizzard of '47. Across street are present day "Olala", "The Candle Shop" and Waldron-Smith Foss residence
Mrs. Myers' house.
Upon Mr. Meyers' death in the mid-20th century, His widow propped him up in a chair facing a window so that he might face, even in death, his beloved Main St. one last time.
In keeping with his wishes, his cremated remains were carried by "Bus" LaRoe to the summit of Sugar Loaf Mtn. and spread thereupon, in the tradition of countless Sugar Loaf residents.
Although Mrs. Meyers returned to her native Isle Of Man afterward, ensuing Autumns found her visiting Sugar Loaf, as a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Green.
Frances Green recounts such events with the accuracy and detail of an historian extraordinaire, and the Sugar Loaf Historical Society is deeply indebted to her for her poignant oral accounts of Sugar Loaf's 20th century history. It is her wish, and that of many other "old-timers", that the lives and legends of Sugar Loaf's pre-commercial days be so remembered.
The face of Mrs. Meyers' original house has been well-preserved through the tasteful planning of an addition to the tiny structure. Although a municipally-directed (despite the artisan-owners' plans) parking area covers some of the lawn, the charm of the original "Meyers House" can still be felt, esp. on crisp Autumn evenings.
The Meyers House, home to "Sundog Stained Glass", examples how many artisans balance the original charm of their properties with the more pragmatic needs of cottage industries.
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