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Imagine a writer so determined to attend a workshop to hone her craft, she’d accelerate the weaning of her child. Sometimes the backstory of...
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Nyack People & Places
It’s amazing to consider that Nyack once had a beautiful pristine brook with a rocky bed and deep gullies that flowed year-round. Nyack Brook,...
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The childhood home of one of America's greatest visual artist was saved from destruction in the early 1970s by an ad-hoc coalition that included...
Nyack People & Places
It is a mental picture you won’t forget. An elegantly dressed 60-year-old man driving a herd of geese from the grounds of his large,...
Nyack Sketch Log
“This church is a miracle.” That is how the wife of the pastor of Hollingsworth Memorial, Evangelist Myrtle Jones, has described this brick and...
Nyack Sketch Log
This year, St. Philip’s A.M.E Zion Church on the corner of North Mill and Burd Streets celebrates 160 years of worship. The church was...
Nyack People & Places
Electricity was in the air on Friday night July 8, 1887. The full moon paled by comparison. Villagers celebrated. Bands paraded through the streets....
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Not only was it the hottest 4th of July on record but it was also the loudest, proudest, and longest 4th of July parade ever in...
History
A cloud of steam gushed from the locomotive as it approached the station of milling passengers. The locomotive came closer and closer until it...
History
It can’t be, but it is. There was once a glass house built by a sun-worshipping naturist in Nyack. Evelyn Word Provost Leigh built...