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By the middle of January 125 years ago, some 800 workers and 1,800 horses assembled at Rockland Lake to begin the annual ice harvest,...
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As Christmas approached 150 years ago, foggy days and nights compelled the closure of steamboat travel to Haverstraw. The roads just outside Nyack consisted...
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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...
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On Saturday, July 8, rowers from throughout the region took part in the Rockland Rowing Association‘s first annual Masters Summer Regatta on Rockland Lake....
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He was good at everything he tried including building Upper Nyack’s most expensive riverfront estate that has survived and thrived until today. The name...
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by Mike Hays During the Gilded Age, Rockland Lake ice, known for its purity, was so beloved in New York City that it was...
Nyack Weekender
The Palisades Interstate Park Commission and NYS Parks are looking for volunteer help on October 17th (rain date 10/24) to plant trees at Rockland...
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by Mike Hays The aroma of a clambake permeated a grove of trees near the Northwest corner of Rockland Lake in 1874 as some...
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by Mike Hays First a creaking. Then a sudden crescendo of metal-on-metal screeches, wood timber groans, and grinding brakes filled the air as tons...
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by Mike Hays Once upon a time, one of the largest and most important local industries in Nyack was ice harvesting, so called because...