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“There’s a man outside making a picture,” exclaimed Helen Hayes’ daughter Mary while looking out the window of their home, Pretty Penny, on North...
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Garret Henry Hopper, who went by “G.H. Hopper” in business and “Garry” among friends, bore the appearance of an Edwardian intellectual or a European...
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Polio has reared its ugly head again in 2022 as it did frequently every summer so many years ago when it crippled and killed...
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by Bill Batson Legend has it that when Helen Hayes MacArthur first saw this fine example of Italianate architecture on North Broadway, her husband,...
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by Bill Batson On November 6, the Nyack Center’s Legacy Gala will honor three of my dearest friends, Kris and Tom Burns and Ray...
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by Mike Hays “There’s a man outside making a picture,” exclaimed Helen Hayes’ daughter Mary. It was November, 1939, at Pretty Penny, the family’s...
History
by Mike Hays The polio pandemic was a scourge that reappeared every summer through the first half of the 20th century, killing and crippling...
Arts
by Mike Hays “There’s a man outside making a picture,” exclaimed Helen Hayes’ daughter Mary. It was November, 1939, at Pretty Penny, the family’s...
Arts
by Bill Batson Legend has it that when Helen Hayes MacArthur first saw this fine example of Italianate architecture on North Broadway, her husband,...
Arts
Nyack’s most famous house on North Broadway was once home to the First Lady of American Theatre. On Sunday May 5 you can take...