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Cemeteries were segregated in America until the mid-20th century. Even black veterans of America’s armed conflicts were dishonored when buried. Today, Mount Moor Cemetery...
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Cultivating vegetation and historic preservation are two of the organizing principals of Florence Katzenstein’s life. As the founder of historical societies on both sides...
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Natalie Couch, the first woman to vote and practice law in Rockland County, lived in this distinctive five-peaked tower on the south-west corner of...
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Imagine the stories that would be told if houses wrote autobiographies. This stately structure on South Highland Avenue could tell us if slaves were...
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Men and women who survived American slavery built St. Charles African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Sparkill in 1865. If your eyes haven’t set...
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The Late Dr. Travis Jackson often quoted this African proverb: “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify...
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Orangetown lost a champion for open spaces when Catherine Minford Dodge passed away on November 23, 2022. Catherine grew up in Nyack, where she lived at the...
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Maureen’s Jazz Cellar is a cozy, subterranean music venue reminiscent of the great New York City jazz clubs like the Village Vanguard. Thanks to...
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Cemeteries were segregated in America until the mid-20th century. Even black veterans of America’s armed conflicts were dishonored when buried. Today, Mount Moor Cemetery...
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Having just welcomed the year 5783 in the Hebrew calendar with Rosh Hashanah, members of the Jewish community recently gathered to ponder the passage...