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Did Carson McCullers Dance With Marilyn Monroe at Her Nyack Home? by Mike Hays “I was always homesick for a place I had never...
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by Mike Hays A 1962 Chevy Bel Air station wagon turns off Rt. 303 into the Nyack Drive-in just before sunset. Inside, kids in...
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by Mike Hays “A-l-l A-b-o-a-r-d” was announced so loud that it could be heard from the ferry landing to the top of the Nyack...
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by Mike Hays Pure air. Spacious grounds for exercise. Clear, wholesome water. Large well-ventilated rooms. These were some of the ways Nyack’s private educational...
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3 Iconic Mid-20th Century Ice Cream Stores Go Up In Flames! by Mike Hays “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream”...
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by Mike Hays 3 sharp blasts from the Peerless Finishing Company’s factory whistle announced that Harry Atwood, birdman extraordinaire, would fly his biplane on...
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by Mike Hays It’s been a brutal year, and in that way, the perfect time for a Brutalism renaissance. Brutalism is a midcentury modern...
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by Mike Hays Claus, Flas, Dick, Cuff, Pompey, and Dick. Say their names, for they were enslaved people purchased by Orangetown landowners Peter and...
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by Mike Hays Nyack College, 1919 to 1972 Christian hymns did battle with yoga “om”s in Nyack Heights in between WWI and WWII. There...
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by Mike Hays Nyack was a mecca for incendiary fires for nearly 3 years when Village Clerk Smith smelled smoke coming from the Jackson...