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Nyack Sketch Log Honors South Nyack’s Tish DuBow

  • May 14, 2013

by Bill Batson

Former South Nyack Mayor Patricia “Tish” DuBow was honored by residents and local elected officials at a community celebration in Franklin Street Park on Friday May 9. After nine years in the Mayor’s office, DuBow chose not to run for another term. However, DuBow’s 23 years of public service are not over. She has been appointed to complete the un-expired Trustee term of Bonnie Christian, who was elected Mayor on March 19th. This week’s sketch log is dedicated to DuBow’s service to the citizens of South Nyack.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Our Village Was A Stop on The Trip to Bountiful

  • May 7, 2013

by Bill Batson

Nyack was a stop on The Trip to Bountiful. The play of that name was just nominated for a Tony Award for best revival, and its author, Horton Foote, lived in this house in Upper Nyack in the 1950s. Foote joined theater greats Helen Hayes, Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht and Carson McCullers who called our village home. For a moment in time, if you wanted to find some of the most important figures in American theater, you need only take a stroll down Broadway – in Nyack.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Oak Hill Cemetery According to Luke

  • April 30, 2013

by Bill Batson

According to former Oak Hill caretaker Luke Conroy, “cemeteries are for the living.” Seated in the first floor office of this house, where he oversaw these hallowed grounds and met with family members, Conroy found his true vocation. “I realized that I was there to help families work through their grief to seek wholeness,” says Conroy who followed a spiritual path that took him from Oak Hill to St. Ann’s Church, where he is now a Deacon.

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Nyack Sketch Log: NAACP President Frances Pratt

  • April 23, 2013

by Bill Batson

Elegant hats have become the symbol of local civil rights icon Frances Pratt. But when she arrived at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City 60 years ago, she wore a borrowed dress and shoes too tight for walking. On Thursday, April 25, Pratt will officiate over her 44th annual fundraising dinner for the local chapter of the NAACP at the Pearl River Hilton. From head to toe, France Pratt’s story is as bold and compelling as her sense of fashion.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Rotary Clock

  • April 18, 2013

by Bill Batson

The Nyack Rotary Club celebrates their 90th anniversary on Friday with a gala event at the Nyack Seaport. Here is the story of the origins of this global charitable organization and the impact the local club has had on our village.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Earth Day Action Near & Far

  • April 16, 2013

by Bill Batson

Like millions of Americans, West Nyack’s Robin Bell dreads her commute. It’s not the time it takes to cover the 26,000 mile round trip. And while she certainly misses her family during the weeks she spends at her remote workspace; that is not the worst part. It’s the carbon footprint from the passenger and ski-equipped cargo planes that troubles her the most. Robin Bell is a climate scientist and air travel is the only practical way for her to get to her “office” at Field Camp Twin Otter in Antarctica.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Towering Treasures

  • April 9, 2013

by Bill Batson

In London, the jewels are in the tower. In Nyack, the towers are the jewels. The evidence of our architectural opulence is on display in “Towers of Nyack,” a photo exhibit by Bob Goldberg that runs through June 1 on Saturdays from 1-4p, at the Museum of the Historical Society of the Nyacks located at 50 Piermont Avenue. If you haven’t experienced Bob’s love for local architecture and history during one of his walking tours or lectures during the last three decade, this show gives a hint of what you’ve been missing.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Planting New Playgrounds

  • April 2, 2013

by Bill Batson

Innovative playground plans are blooming like spring flowers in Memorial Park. Members of two initiatives, one to renovate the children’s playground and one to build a skate park, were well represented at the last two Village Board meetings. Both groups seek maximum public participation as they begin to raise funds for the design and building phases of their projects. These efforts are now merging under the umbrella of the Nyack Parks Conservancy creating an open space planning-palooza on our underutilized waterfront.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Couch Court

  • March 26, 2013

by Bill Batson

This distinctive towered structure on the corner of South Broadway and Depew was the home of the first woman to vote and practice law in Rockland County. Even though a marker erected by the Historical Society of Rockland County records the achievements of Natalie Couch, I admit that I walked past the plaque a thousand times before I stumbled onto the compelling story of Nyack’s pioneering feminist.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Mayor Jen Laird-White

  • March 19, 2013

by Bill Batson

Jen Laird-White is only the third woman to be mayor of the Village of Nyack. In recognition of Women’s History Month, Nyack Sketch Log talks with our Mayor about the State of The Village, the backlash officials received after passing a resolution supporting Governor Cuomo’s Gun Control legislation, the high and low points so far and her future plans.

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