Nyack People & Places
by Mike Hays For the last 15 years, Marydell Faith and Life Center, located at 640 N. Midland Ave. just beneath Hook Mountain, has...
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by Mike Hays It’s not an iconic “one if by land, two if by sea” Paul Revere midnight ride story. But Upper Nyack’s Major...
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by Mike Hays Weary from 4 long days of train rides from California, Capt. Ray Hays of Champaign, IL was ready for a change....
Arts
The Life of Forgotten River Town Poet, Florence Ripley Mastin by Mike Hays Mostly forgotten today, Florence Josephine Mastin (or Ripley, as she chose...
History
by Mike Hays Clang! Crash! Slam! “OUCH!!” That was the sound of the men working at the Historic Nyack Icehouse on Sunday mornings in...
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by Mike Hays The Gettysburg Address, given by Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 1863, looms large in our national imagination, but is, in reality,...
History
by Mike Hays The new Esposito Trail signs started with the deepening cracks in the tennis court of South Nyack’s Franklin Street Park. Andrew...
Features
Did Carson McCullers Dance With Marilyn Monroe at Her Nyack Home? by Mike Hays “I was always homesick for a place I had never...
History
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...
History
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...