News Nyack Sketch Log: Metal and Stone by Bill Batson For Beverly and Seth Gopin, Metal and Stone is a place where people come to commemorate all “life cycle” events. They... Bill BatsonNovember 15, 2016
News Nyack Sketch Log: Local Scientist to Lead National Organization with Global Impact 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... Bill BatsonNovember 1, 2016
Arts Nyack Sketch Log: A Legally Haunted House by Bill Batson “As a matter of law, the house is haunted.” This sentence in a ruling by the New York Supreme Court in... Bill BatsonOctober 25, 2016
Arts Nyack Sketch Log: The Brink’s Robbery by Bill Batson Shared events define a community. The event has to be so overwhelming in its substance and scope that it becomes a... Bill BatsonOctober 18, 2016
News Nyack Sketch Log: Yoga Reborn Here 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... Bill BatsonOctober 11, 2016
News Nyack Sketch Log: Support the John Green House 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... Bill BatsonOctober 4, 2016
News Nyack Sketch Log: Our Segregated Cemetery 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,... Bill BatsonSeptember 27, 2016
Arts Nyack Sketch Log: Celebrate Carson McCullers 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... Bill BatsonSeptember 20, 2016
News Nyack Sketch Log: On 9/11, I Remember a Hero, John Perry 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... Bill BatsonSeptember 6, 2016
News Nyack Sketch Log: Siren Song Sails a Daughter of Nyack Back Home by Bill Batson Like a siren song, tales from her great uncles and father brought Leslie (now Lezlee) Peterzell to Nyack. Born in Manhattan... Bill BatsonAugust 30, 2016