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The Barons of Broadway #18 In this eighteenth episode we investigate Henry Palmer, a Revolutionary War hero, who arrived in Nyack in 1776 as...
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Peter Williamson died in Upper Nyack in January, 1886. He was said to be the last living person in Rockland County born in bondage....
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by Bill Batson The physical appearance and legal status of the John Green House has markedly improved since this 2012 Sketch Log illustration. Massive...
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by Mike Hays Peter Williamson died in Upper Nyack in January, 1886. He was said to be the last living person in Rockland County...
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by Mike Hays The thunder of cannons, the crash of cannonballs, the crack of musket fire. Villagers may think of the Revolutionary War as...
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by Winston Perry As Pete Seeger and many folksingers at hootenannies sang, “there’s meetin’ here tonight, there’s a meetin’ here tonight, I can see...
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by Mike Hays “Fore!” yelled a golfer as the shot faded right off course, bouncing on the tennis court, onto Broadway Avenue, and landing...
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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 After the Lent House in Orangeburg was unceremoniously demolished two months ago, efforts to save the John Green House in Nyack...
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by Bill Batson The man who built this house, with the benefit of slave labor, laid much of the foundation for the village we...