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by Bill Batson For Beverly and Seth Gopin, Metal and Stone is a place where people come to commemorate all “life cycle” events. They...
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by Bill Batson Like millions of Americans, West Nyack’s Robin Bell dreads her commute. It’s not the time it takes to cover the 26,000...
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by Bill Batson “As a matter of law, the house is haunted.” This sentence in a ruling by the New York Supreme Court in...
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by Bill Batson Shared events define a community. The event has to be so overwhelming in its substance and scope that it becomes a...
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by Bill Batson Pierre Bernard, America’s first yogi, lived on an ashram he called the Clarkstown Country Club in Nyack from 1920 until his death...
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by Bill Batson Since his death in 1842, John Green’s house has lived on, standing at the foot of Main Street, occupied by a...
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by Bill Batson Cemeteries were segregated in America until the mid-20th century. Even black veterans of America’s armed conflicts were dishonored when buried. Today,...
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by Bill Batson Carson McCullers came to Nyack in 1945 to convalesce and create. For 22 years she found a place to do both, completing The...
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by Bill Batson On 9/11, I think of my friend John Perry. He was a New York City beat cop who was also active...
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by Bill Batson Like a siren song, tales from her great uncles and father brought Leslie (now Lezlee) Peterzell to Nyack. Born in Manhattan...