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by Mike Hays When we burn our 2020 calendars and combine its ashes with the ashes of all of our plans, hopes, and expectations...
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History
by Mike Hays The polio pandemic was a scourge that reappeared every summer through the first half of the 20th century, killing and crippling...
Arts
by Bill Batson A current exhibit on South Greenbush Road in West Nyack features the work of a group of Rockland residents who introduced...
Nyack People & Places
Lost Nyack: The Rockland Theater by Mike Hays Nyack’s history is visible in its preserved buildings, from its Victorian homes to its 19th century...
Nyack People & Places
by Mike Hays Riots and Russians in Rockland? Indeed! On a steamy, moonlit August night in 1942, the largest crowd ever to attend an...
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...
Nyack People & Places
by Mike Hays It was the charity baseball game of the century. A motorcade of buses and cars from New York City brought stars...
Arts
by Bill Batson In the contest to draw an audience for the arts, Rockland County is David to the Goliath of New York City....
Arts
by Bill Batson Flash Sketch Mob returns to Nyack for ART WALK 2015! The Flash Sketch Mob returns on June 20th, adding Main Street...
News
by Bill Batson This structure, rising above the corner of South Broadway and Depew Avenue, with its distinctive five-peaked tower, was the home of the...