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by Mike Hays After a snowfall quiets the landscape, there’s a noise. The shrieks and shouts of children riding sleds. Nyack took special pride...
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By Mike Hays Before SUVs and all-wheel drive cars, navigating Nyack’s hilly unplowed roads in the winter was made possible using locally made horse-drawn...
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by Mike Hays Electricity was in the air on Friday night July 8, 1887. The full moon paled by comparison. Villagers celebrated. Bands paraded...
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by Bill Batson San Francisco has City Lights. New York City has the Strand. And Nyack has the Pickwick Book Shop. The experience of...
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by Mike Hays The Gettysburg Address, given by Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 1863, looms large in our national imagination, but is, in reality,...
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by Mike Hays 2020 is a perfect year to examine the subject of erratics, especially one named Balance Rock. An erratic, among its several...
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by Mike Hays “A-l-l A-b-o-a-r-d” was announced so loud that it could be heard from the ferry landing to the top of the Nyack...
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by Mike Hays Pure air. Spacious grounds for exercise. Clear, wholesome water. Large well-ventilated rooms. These were some of the ways Nyack’s private educational...
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3 Iconic Mid-20th Century Ice Cream Stores Go Up In Flames! by Mike Hays “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream”...
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by Bill Batson The light of a life lived to its fullest is never extinguished. From February 21, 1940 until July 17, 2020, Congressman...