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by Bill Batson Shared events define a community. The event has to be so overwhelming in its substance and scope that it becomes a...
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by Bill Batson Since his death in 1842, John Green’s house has lived on, standing at the foot of Main Street, occupied by a...
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by Bill Batson Like a siren song, tales from her great uncles and father brought Leslie (now Lezlee) Peterzell to Nyack. Born in Manhattan...
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by Bill Batson “This church is a miracle.” That is how the wife of the pastor of Hollingsworth Memorial, Evangelist Myrtle Jones, has described...
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by Win Perry, Historical Society of the Nyacks The WRITTEN NYACK HISTORY begins in 1675-76 when a 20-year-old Dutchman named Herman Douwese (son of...
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by John Patrick Schutz This House Matters, a documentary by Valley Cottage resident Tina Traster, made its debut to a room of enthusiastic history...
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Nyack Sketch Log author Bill Batson is away this week — but his art is still with us remembering Nyack as it once was,...
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by Bill Batson This house was saved from destruction in the early 1970s by an ad-hoc coalition that included neighbors, Rotarians, labor unions, students...
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by Bill Batson The YMCA is such a ubiquitous institution they practically own a letter of the alphabet. The Y gained global brand identification...
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by Bill Batson In the contest to draw an audience for the arts, Rockland County is David to the Goliath of New York City....