Collections : [Marist College]

The James T. Cox Collection consists of plays, both professional and amateur (student), musicals, and screenplays. Also included are several videotapes of the Marist College Council on Theatre Arts productions. The portion of the collection consisting of student written plays was developed by Gerard A. Cox.

This collection consists of scrapbooks of various print media highlighting concert and baseball programs.

This collection contains various mementos collected by Thomas Steininger throughout his years with the Marist Brothers in St. Ann’s Hermitage. Included in the collection are pamphlets, letters and various religious mementos from the Marist Brothers.

The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Collection consists of studies, reports, correspondence, and clippings documenting the society’s interests in local environmental issues. The collection also includes office materials, litigation, and Clearwater events.

The Lowell Thomas Papers encompasses a wide range of materials documenting the life, family, and professional career of Lowell Thomas. These materials include correspondence, administrative and financial documents, manuscripts, printed materials, photographic materials, motion picture films, audio recordings, and memorabilia.

Northeast Biologists, Inc. conducted tests on the Hudson River and it’s fisheries between the years of 1965 and 1968. The collection consists of the findings of Northeast Biologists, Inc., including reports and studies the company compiled over the three-year period.

As advocates of the environment and members of Scenic Hudson, Inc., founded in 1963, Senator and Mrs. Seymour dedicated their time and efforts to the preservation of Storm King Mountain, directly confronting the Consolidated Edison Company’s proposed pumped storage facility at Storm King Mountain, near Cornwall, New York. The records consist of correspondence, clippings, legal documents, agenda and minutes of meetings, memoranda, studies, reports, publicity materials, printed matter, and maps.

The Cornwall Collection documents the issues surrounding the Pumped-Storage Project at Cornwall-on-Hudson by the Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. The collection includes various scientific studies in the Hudson River Estuary, specifically fish studies in the Indian Point area. It also includes legal documents from the Storm King Case, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.

"Banjo Fred" Starner was a Professor of Economics at Drew University in New Jersey, but was dismissed due to his political activism. He was heavily involved in the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a project conceived by Seeger in which a ship would be constructed through community funding and sponsor environmental and folk education programs. He helped with the initial fundraising and was on the ship’s maiden voyage in 1969 as a crew member. Starner was involved in a number of other projects as well. Starner was fascinated by hobo culture. A significant amount of effort towards the end of his life was focused on producing the documentary film "That’s the Ticket Road Hog: The Hobo’s Song", released in 2009,

Stephen Duggan was a born in White Plains, NY. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University and Columbia University. At Columbia he met Beatrice Abbott, whom he married in 1936 and had four children with. Stephen graduated from Columbia Law School and began working at the Wall Street firm of Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett where he became partner. In 1963-64 both Stephen and Smokey Duggan helped found the Scenic Hudson Preservations Conference – an organization whose mission was the prevention of Consolidated Edison’s plan for a pumped-storage power plant at Storm King Mountain. The case was an important founding moment in the development of environmental law and Stephen Duggan himself is often credited as a pioneer of the concept of environmental interest law. In 1970 Stephen and Smokey Duggan founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, a public interest law firm dedicated to the protection of natural resources. Smokey Duggan was appointed as the NRDC’s representative to the nongovernmental organization of the United Nations. The Duggan Family Papers is a collection of letters, legal documents, financial records, administrative correspondence, published information, newspaper clippings and photographs relating to the lives of Stephen and Smokey Duggan and their involvement in the Storm King Case and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Also included is the collected research and notes of Mary Vance Duggan resulting from her screenplay on the Duggans and the campaign against the Con-Ed plan for Storm King Mountain.