News Center For Safety & Change Do you know the origin of the phrase “rule of thumb?” It was the maximum thickness of an object that a man in 18th... Bill BatsonSeptember 27, 2022
Arts Piermont Remembers Forgotten Fallen Firefighter Thomas Pomplin 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... Bill BatsonSeptember 13, 2022
Arts A House Haunted by Art When printmaker Sylvia Roth moved into her home in South Nyack in 1977, she had no idea it was the birthplace of a major... Bill BatsonSeptember 6, 2022
News Yoga Reborn Here 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... Bill BatsonAugust 30, 2022
Arts Straight Lines Ruin Everything When I draw a building, the inhabitants are mostly strangers to me and the people who built the structure are like phantoms who interact... Bill BatsonAugust 23, 2022
News First Woman to Vote in Rockland County Practiced Law Here 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... Bill BatsonAugust 16, 2022
News Nyack Sketch Log: Bibsy Author Brenda Ross 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... Bill BatsonAugust 9, 2022
Nyack Sketch Log Hopper House 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... Bill BatsonAugust 2, 2022
Nyack Sketch Log Hollingsworth Memorial Church “This church is a miracle.” That is how the wife of the pastor of Hollingsworth Memorial, Evangelist Myrtle Jones, has described this brick and... Bill BatsonJuly 26, 2022
Nyack Sketch Log St. Philip’s AME Zion Church 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... Bill BatsonJuly 19, 2022