
The Jiffy Newsletter Podcast
A documentary audio zine about upstate New York, exploring cozy histories, odd mysteries, and personal dispatches from the land of bucolic barns and Kinderhook blobs.
Each episode is an upstate odyssey. From high-stakes bake-offs and haunted antiques to roadside cows and quaking trees, host James Cave brings you stories from New York’s non-Manhattan regions – told with curiosity, humor, and the occasional text message from a stranger.
Podcasting since 2024 • 21 episodes
The Jiffy Newsletter Podcast
Latest Episodes
A Break For Some Local News
While on a holiday break at the Columbia County Fair, I'm sharing this special episode featuring local news stories from the Chatham Courier newspapers of the 1800s, available through the Hudson River V...
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The World's Most Ultimate Hudson Valley Picnic Of All Time
I finally received my first Listener Question!!! (You can use the link in the show notes above to send in yours.)So when listener Murphy asked how to create "the ultimate Hudson Valley picnic before it's too late," I embarked on a journe...
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A Postcard From Pinkster Fest
It’s a Jiffy Audio Postcard today from Rothermel Park in Kinderhook, where the Pinkster Festival – a powerful Black cultural celebration with Dutch colonial roots – was revived for the first time in more than 200 years.Pink...
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The Hungry Eye Looks At Ruth Reichl And The Screaming Focaccia
I locked James out of the studio for this one.Because Ruth Reichl – my hero, my origin story, my reason for existing – came to Chatham, New York, to judge the Great Chatham Bake-Off. And I, The Hungry Eye, the anonymous food critic for t...
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