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Do you know the origin of the phrase “rule of thumb?” It was the maximum thickness of an object that a man in 18th...
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Daniel Goswick, Sr., Ex-Chief of the Piermont Fire Department is on a mission to properly commemorate a 19th-century firefighter named Thomas Pomplin. “Pomp,” as...
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When printmaker Sylvia Roth moved into her home in South Nyack in 1977, she had no idea it was the birthplace of a major...
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Pierre Bernard, America’s first yogi, lived on an ashram he called the Clarkstown Country Club in Nyack from 1920 until his death in 1955. The...
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When I draw a building, the inhabitants are mostly strangers to me and the people who built the structure are like phantoms who interact...
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by Bill Batson Natalie Couch, the first woman to vote and practice law in Rockland County, lived and held “court” in this distinctive five-peaked...
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Imagine a writer so determined to attend a workshop to hone her craft, she’d accelerate the weaning of her child. Sometimes the backstory of...
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The childhood home of one of America's greatest visual artist was saved from destruction in the early 1970s by an ad-hoc coalition that included...
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“This church is a miracle.” That is how the wife of the pastor of Hollingsworth Memorial, Evangelist Myrtle Jones, has described this brick and...
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This year, St. Philip’s A.M.E Zion Church on the corner of North Mill and Burd Streets celebrates 160 years of worship. The church was...