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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...
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by Mike Hays The purchase of 26 acres on Nyack Heights was a closely guarded secret, even the close associates of A. B. Simpson,...
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by Mike Hays Widewater is the fifth of the Nyack People & Places’ Barons of Broadway series, tracing how Upper Nyack farmland was converted...
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by Amy Alinkofsky Not even a pandemic can stop the arts. This summer, RoCAs’ popular teaching artists are offering new online classes that are...
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by Mike Hays Peter Williamson died in Upper Nyack in January, 1886. He was said to be the last living person in Rockland County...
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by Mike Hays Meet the man responsible for one of the possible legends behind Upper Nyack’s pet moniker, Goosetown. Meet an orphan, inventor, soldier,...
Arts
by Amy Alinkofsky Although Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA) remains closed due to NY Pause, it continues its mission of enrichment through the...
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by Mike Hays The thunder of cannons, the crash of cannonballs, the crack of musket fire. Villagers may think of the Revolutionary War as...