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In 1923, in what can only be described as a mind-bogglingly crazy proposition, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission had the audacity to suggest mining...
Health & Wellness
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. –Marcel Proust You don’t have to travel far...
History
by Mike Hays Undercliff, or Underclyffe as it was styled in 1885, was an estate house named for its presence near or ‘under’ Hook...
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The Story of Larchdell by Mike Hays The barons arrived like a flock of hungry migrating birds devouring Upper Nyack’s farmland by building large...
Nyack People & Places
by Mike Hays If Nyack was once called the “Gem of the Hudson,” then the gem of that gem must have been the 4.9-mile...
History
by Mike Hays “We certainly need it. I don’t see how there can be any opposition. Go to it and do it quickly.” This...
Health & Wellness
by Mike Hays The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. –Marcel Proust You don’t have...
History
by Mike Hays It’s not an iconic “one if by land, two if by sea” Paul Revere midnight ride story. But Upper Nyack’s Major...
History
by Mike Hays The thunder of cannons, the crash of cannonballs, the crack of musket fire. Villagers may think of the Revolutionary War as...