The Hopper House presents Matthew Murray’s “Abandoned America” and Tracy Silva-Barbosa “Transcending Time” exhibit from March 27-May 9.

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by Alan Carlisle

Trina’s Hunn’s post about Petersen’s Boatyard (NyackNewsAndViews, 12/16/2009) is full of wisdom.

Change is the only constant and better to manage it then allow it to eat you up. Listen to her advice…she wants the boat yard as it is.. she moved there to embrace its’ opportunity..but her worldly experience understands where this zone request may certainly end up..she is so right about the devil you know.

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by Erich Martin Hicks

If you are attended the first annual Rockland County Buffalo Soldiers award dinner at the Nyack Center earlier this month or you are interested in the story of the Buffalo Soldiers…keep telling that history. Read the novel, Rescue at Pine Ridge, “RaPR”, a great story of black military history…the first generation of Buffalo Soldiers.

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by Joseph Mitlof

As a Black History Month project, HUGRS, the Historic UnderGround Railroad Society based in Nyack, is creating a petition to support the naming of the new L.I.R.R. tunnel as the “Harriet Tubman Memorial Tunnel.”

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The New Yorker senior editor and staff writer Hendrik Hertzberg writes about receiving Catcher In The Rye as assigned reading when he was a junior at Suffern High School in a 2/17 blog post on The New Yorker’s Website.

My eleventh-grade clique at Suffern High School, in a corner of Rockland County, New York…was in transition from post-Civil War rural to pre-Vietnam War suburban. The year was 1959.

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By Arthur H. Gunther

UPPER NYACK – It seems that at age 67, you can still learn new tricks, lots of them. About windows, for example. Old windows.

Since last summer, I have been privileged to be on a volunteer crew restoring 1800s windows at the Old Stone Church. The 1813 former Methodist Episcopal church, now community property rescued to save and showcase history, naturally requires maintenance and restoration, given its age. The crew, also including Win Perry, Joe Diamond and Vince Morgan, has been focusing on double-hung window sash almost untouched in more than a century. Continue reading →

by by Joseph Mitlof

The two lantern lights hanging on the Underground Railroad exhibit here in Nyack would have been a most welcomed sight on a cold snowy February night for an escaping African American  fleeing North to freedom.  Lanterns were one of the numerous signals that were provided by “station masters” to signal a safe haven.  Somehow it seemed appropriate to visit the old barn on this cold February night of Abraham Lincolns birthday.

The Rockland County Buffalo Soldiers will present their first annual award dinner on Saturday 2/13 at the Nyack Center.

This event, in honor of  African-American History Month, will pay tribute to some of the early military efforts by black men and black women and their contributions to the country’s quest for “liberty and justice for all.”

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by Patrick Bulla

The paintings of former Nyack resident Dorothy Johnson Deyrup are the subject of a retrospective exhibition at The Edward Hopper House Arts Center in Nyack from Saturday Feb 13 – March 21.

Born today, we might consider Dorothy a photojournalist, having traded her camera for a brush, for her work is compelling and iconographic, telling stories and depicting moments in life suspended in time.

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by Joseph Mitlof

It was suggested to me that I share my recent suggestion to the Van Houten Landing Association with NN&Vs folks. So here it is. First let me note that to those who know me I’m known as someone who not only thinks ‘out of the box’ but as someone who long ago burned the damn box and scattered the ashes to the four winds-seven seas-whatever. Of course one tends to p _ _ _ off a lot of folks with such behavior, especially those comfortably ensconced in said Box. Anyways, as we say in Brooklyn, here’s the gist of my message to VHLNA2009 and to NN&Vs readers.

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