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Cemeteries were segregated in America until the mid-20th century. Even black veterans of America’s armed conflicts were dishonored when buried. Today, Mount Moor Cemetery...
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by Bill Batson When you buy your fresh fruit and baked goods from one of the booths at the Nyack’s Farmers’ Market, you are...
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Cultivating vegetation and historic preservation are two of the organizing principals of Florence Katzenstein’s life. As the founder of historical societies on both sides...
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Natalie Couch, the first woman to vote and practice law in Rockland County, lived in this distinctive five-peaked tower on the south-west corner of...
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Imagine the stories that would be told if houses wrote autobiographies. This stately structure on South Highland Avenue could tell us if slaves were...
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Men and women who survived American slavery built St. Charles African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Sparkill in 1865. If your eyes haven’t set...
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The Late Dr. Travis Jackson often quoted this African proverb: “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify...
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by Bill Batson Over the past 32 years, John Rossi has created over 700 woodcut replicas of private homes and public buildings in Rockland...
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Every time I passed this sign, I struggled to decipher the mysterious acronym. Not knowing the meaning of the hieroglyphic written in glass neon...
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This is the house where Martin Luther King would have slept. Were it not for an assassin in Memphis in 1968, our nation’s Nobel...