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Memorial Day weekend is a great time to pack a picnic, bring the kids, enjoy river views, and visit the numerous memorials throughout Nyack’s...
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by Visit Nyack Nyack Library will host a book discussion this evening at 7pm on The Ex-Slaves’ Fortune: The Story of Cynthia Hesdra, by...
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by Bill Batson Unending battles over Confederate flags, monuments, and the National Anthem suggest that the issues contested in the Civil War and Civil...
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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 It’s the middle of the 19th century and a lone fugitive slave has missed his “safe house” while traveling through Nyack...
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by Bill Batson Major gaps in my ancestry explain my fascination with family, local and black history. I was born in the interval between...
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by Bill Batson If you visit Nyack’s Memorial Park, you can see the results of research conducted by Dr. Lori Martin. Two years after...
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by Bill Batson On May 18th, Toni Morrison will attend the dedication of a monument in Nyack’s Memorial Park to the painful period of...
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Did You Know that 60 percent of the human body is water. About 50 percent of Nyack is under water. Nyack’s 1.6 square miles...
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The display cases in the Carnegie-Farian room explore the period in history when Nyack was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Through objects, images,...