Arts
by Bill Batson On the occasion of the publication of Nyack Sketch Log, Volume 2, here is the first Nyack Sketch Log. I had...
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History
by Mike Hays It’s the middle of the 19th century and a lone fugitive slave has missed his “safe house” while traveling through Nyack...
Arts
by Bill Batson My first Nyack Sketch Log, published on August 23, 2011, was an early exercise in truth telling. Liberty Street is Aptly...
News
by Dave Zornow “Historic preservation is not for sissies,” says local author and filmmaker Tina Traster. “It takes grit, determination and magical thinking.” The...
Arts
by Bill Batson On May 18th, Toni Morrison will attend the dedication of a monument in Nyack’s Memorial Park to the painful period of...
News
Did You Know that 60 percent of the human body is water. About 50 percent of Nyack is under water. Nyack’s 1.6 square miles...
News
The display cases in the Carnegie-Farian room explore the period in history when Nyack was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Through objects, images,...
News
by Bill Batson In 1884, Nyack, NY was a bustling river community and the commercial heart of Rockland County. This sketch is from a...
Arts
by Bill Batson Nyack will soon host a monument to the painful period of history when African slavery was a global industry. Later today,...
News
by Bill Demarest Once in a while, something as simple as a hand-painted wooden sign can evoke enough emotion that it stirs a community...