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Nyack Sketch Log: Father’s Day Mandela Meditation

  • June 18, 2013

by Bill Batson

According to the most recent reports, Nelson Mandela’s health is improving, but his condition is still serious. I spent the entire week leading up to Father’s Day thinking about South Africa’s first democratically elected President. Mandela and my father are about the same age. Just this January, my father was hospitalized for a week with a lung infection similar to the one that Mandela is fighting.

Having lived in South Africa for two years in the 90s, I was privileged to meet Mandela and some of the men who served time with him during the 27 years of captivity that preceded his presidency. Here are two illuminating anecdotes about Mandela that I meditated on this Father’s Day weekend.

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Local Arts Index: Eric David Laxman

  • June 15, 2013

For over a century, our region has been home to extraordinary artists. Local Arts Index highlights the work of individuals who continue our community’s rich creative legacy.

“In college, I graduated with a BS in Chemistry, but I had a strong interest in studio art and decided to take figure drawing and clay figure modeling. In my junior year at Tufts University, I enrolled in a stone carving class at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. That evening class changed my life.”

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Rockland Legislature Bans Radioactive Fracking Waste

  • June 12, 2013

A ban on the use of waste products from the natural gas drilling operation known as fracking could become local law with the stroke of the pen from Rockland County Executive Scott Vanderhoef. The Rockland County Legislature unanimously passed the ban on Tuesday, June 4

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Nyack Sketch Log: Kids Explore Nature & Art at Strawtown Studio

  • June 11, 2013

by Bill Batson

Every month for two years, she guided parents and their children through Harriman State Park, sometimes for full moon hikes. Those forays into nature flowed into Strawtown Art & Garden Studio, a popular camp and afterschool program, now centered on 5 acres on South Mountain in New City. Meet environmental artist, advocate and educator Laurie Seeman. (and learn about this tipi too!)

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Juneteenth Festival & Fun Run Celebrate Black History

  • June 8, 2013

Please Note Scheduling Change:

On Saturday, June 15, two Juneteenth Independence Celebrations will be held. The Laurence H. Holland Memorial Fun Run and African American History Walking Tour will kick off, rain or shine, from Memorial Park at 8a. However, because of forecasted inclement weather, the Juneetenth Festival will now be held at the Rockland Community College in the Ellipse Auditorium of the Technology Building.

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Local Arts Index: Ray Lagstein

  • June 8, 2013

For over a century, our region has been home to extraordinary artists. Local Arts Index highlights the work of individuals who continue our community’s rich creative legacy.

“The real motivation, if I can call it that, was the occasion of the death of my second parent. Thus began an orphaned freedom, where I began to spontaneously experiment with all things new and unfamiliar.”

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Nyack Sketch Log: It’s Bike Season, Be Safe

  • June 4, 2013

by Bill Batson

Last month, there were two dramatically different cycling events in Rockland County. On May 19, 7000 cyclists rode through Nyack as part of the Gran Fondo, a competition that demonstrates the growing popularity of the sport. The other, a Ride of Silence on May 21, sponsored by the Rockland Bicycling Club, commemorated the injury and loss of life that happens too often when human and motor powered vehicles collide.

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Local Arts Index: Lynn Stein

  • June 1, 2013

For over a century, our region has been home to extraordinary artists. Local Arts Index highlights the work of individuals who continue our community’s rich creative legacy.

This week meet Lynn Stein, the Artistic Director and curator at Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA), who is also a painter, illustrator, actress and jazz vocalist.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Rockland Community Farming

  • May 28, 2013

by Bill Batson

John McDowell admired this big barn every time he drove down Little Tor Road in New City. The award- winning composer/musician and his wife Alexandra moved to Pomona in 1999 to a property that had been a farm as early as 1780. One fateful day, he noticed the greenhouses adjacent to the red barn were being dismantled. “I feared that another farm was being lost to suburban development.”

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