Nyack People & Places
by Mike Hays “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes” sang David Bowie in the timely song Changes 50 years ago, just as America began secret negotiations in Paris during...
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by Mike Hays The aroma of a clambake permeated a grove of trees near the Northwest corner of Rockland Lake in 1874 as some...
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by Mike Hays If Nyack was once called the “Gem of the Hudson,” then the gem of that gem must have been the 4.9-mile...
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by Mike Hays The buzzing whine of prop planes and the whir of revving engines before filled the ears of residents living near the...
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by Mike Hays Marydell Faith and Life Center summer camps in Upper Nyack enabled inner city kids during and after the depression to experience...
History
Miramare is the eighth edition of Nyack People & Places’ Barons of Broadway series, tracing how Upper Nyack farmland was converted to large estates by...
History
by Mike Hays It’s a long way from Nyack to the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Fl, once the winter home of the Ringling Brothers...
History
by Mike Hays “We certainly need it. I don’t see how there can be any opposition. Go to it and do it quickly.” This...
Arts
by Mike Hays “There’s a man outside making a picture,” exclaimed Helen Hayes’ daughter Mary. It was November, 1939, at Pretty Penny, the family’s...
History
by Mike Hays Isaac Marshall Van Wagner’s Nyack Portraits Isaac Marshall Van Wagner, Nyack’s first professional photographer, never said “Cheese” when he took a...