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by Brian Jennings 150 years ago this week, Rockland County was struggling with what it meant to be an American, reflecting on the meaning...
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by Brian Jennings The July 1863 action by the federal government sparked a bloody four-day long riot in Manhattan which took hundreds of lives....
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The newspaper business is contracting and editors are blaming everyone but themselves for the reduced readership. 150 years ago this week, the editor of...
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by Brian Jennings On June 7, 1862, you can almost imagine the cries of bloody murder in Rockland County from that day’s edition of...
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by Brian Jennings 150 years ago this week. there may have been a war waging between Union Soldiers and Confederates in the South and...
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by Brian Jennings 150 years ago this week the Civil War waged on — and some of the Union generals decided to take bold...
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by Brian Jennings A divisive moral issue that pits neighbor against neighbor and is the talk of the nation. Maybe its a measure of...
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by Brian Jennings The headline in the Rockland County Journal demanded readers’ attention. But considering the time at which it was written, it was...
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by Brian Jennings On May 2, 1862, the death of Abram Blauvelt, a volunteer from Orangeville in Rockland County, was reported in the Rockland...
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by Brian Jennings A tour of Oak Hill Cemetery in Nyack reminds us that the Civil War isn’t just remembered in history books. A...