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		<title>Nyack Sketch Log: St. Philip&#8217;s A.M.E Zion Church</title>
		<link>http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2012/02/bb_stphilipsame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Batson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Batson

Two years before Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as president, St. Philip's A.M.E. Zion Church was founded in 1859 by abolitionist John W Towt. Today, the term abolitionist is considered a badge of honor.  In the 1850’s, as slave catchers roamed the north empowered by the loathsome Fugitive Slave Act, the title brought legal jeopardy and mortal danger.  It was under the gathering and ominous clouds of a civil war over race based slavery that Towt arrived in Nyack determined to contribute to the welfare of the black community.]]></description>
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		<title>Nyack Sketch Log: Pilgrim Baptist Church</title>
		<link>http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2012/02/bb_pilgrimbaptistchurch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Batson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Batson

Pilgrim Baptist Church has found a safe harbor at the corner of High Avenue and North Franklin Street. The building has multiple slanted roofs and high arched windows that look like the peaks of cresting waves.  The pulpit is on the North side of the nave facing south, under a series of massive wooden beams that shelter the pews as the hull does the cargo of a sturdy ship.  But the pulpit didn’t always face South and Pilgrim Baptist church did not always rest at this spot.  The spiritual voyage of this flock began in 1875 above a carriage shop on Burd Street.]]></description>
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		<title>Nyack Sketch Log: Edward Hopper Mania</title>
		<link>http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2012/02/bb_hopperpsychohaverstraw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Batson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Batson

The building in Haverstraw that was the subject of Edward Hopper’s 1925 painting “House by the Railroad” still stands proud.  The haunting depiction of the three story house by Hopper came to the attention of the cast and crew of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie classic, Psycho.  Hopper’s painting inspired not only the design of the Bates Mansion in the 1960 production, but the mood of the film as well. From Nyack to Haverstraw to Hollywood, Hoppermania is contagious.]]></description>
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		<title>Nyack Sketch Log: Save Our Green House</title>
		<link>http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2012/01/bb_green_house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Batson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/?p=23774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Batson

The man who built this house, with the benefit of slave labor, laid much of the foundation for the village we occupy.   Since his death in 1842, John Green’s house has had many owners and tenants.  Because of the neglect of its current absentee landlord, the building might soon crumble into dust.]]></description>
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		<title>Nyack Sketch Log: Couch Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Batson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Batson

Not every beautiful old house in Nyack merits its own historic marker.  For other properties, the traditional historic marker is not a loud enough shout out.  Clearly, there are many addresses that could compete for the title of most interesting building in the village.  In lieu of the debate over criteria, and before a jury can be impaneled, I suggest the former offices of a feminist pioneer, known as Couch Court, for future consideration.]]></description>
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		<title>Nyack Sketch Log: Fellowship of Reconciliation</title>
		<link>http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2012/01/bb_for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Batson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Batson

This is the house where Martin Luther King would have slept.  Were it not for an assassin in Memphis in 1968, our nation’s Nobel Prize winning champion of nonviolence would have made it to Nyack.  The purpose of his visit would have been to commune with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an organization that shared in his philosophy and stood with him during his defining struggle.]]></description>
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		<title>Nyack Sketch Log: Vincent’s Ear</title>
		<link>http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2012/01/bb_vincentsear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Batson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Batson

Until recently, painters in Nyack were second-class artisans. Nyack’s musicians could fine-tune their instruments at Long Island Drum Center. Local writers could always haunt the stacks at Pickwick Book Shop. Our thespians were able to find an audience at Elmwood Playhouse. But Edward Hopper, were he alive today, could not have bought a paintbrush in his hometown. Tracy Kachtick-Anders appreciated this irony when she came to Nyack two years ago. In September, Tracy opened the doors of Nyack’s only art supply store.]]></description>
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		<title>Nyack Sketch Log: Warts and All</title>
		<link>http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2012/01/bb_nyack1884map/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Batson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1884, Nyack, NY was a bustling river community and the commercial heart of Rockland County. This sketch is from a widely circulated map made by L. R Burleigh in that year that depicts a jumble of homes, businesses and churches. I recently took a closer look at this historical document and discovered that our 19th century republic on the Hudson was not as indivisible as the promise made in our pledge of allegiance.]]></description>
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		<title>Nyack Sketch Log: Village Hall</title>
		<link>http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2011/12/bb_nyackvillagehall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Batson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Batson

Nyack will inaugurate its 59th mayor on Saturday, December 31 at 12n. The smooth transition of government, from  Nyack's current mayor, Richard Kavesh, to new mayor Jen Laird White, is the hallmark of American democracy.  The public event will take place at Village Hall.]]></description>
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		<title>Nyack Sketch Log: Pickwick Book Shop</title>
		<link>http://www.nyacknewsandviews.com/2011/12/bb_pickwick20111219/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Batson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bill Batson

San Francisco has City Lights, New York City has the Strand and Nyack has the Pickwick Book Shop. The experience of shopping at Pickwick has changed little since it first opened in 1945. A seemingly infinite number of titles are crammed into a dense thicket of shelves. Books cover the floor and walls, arching as they approach the ceiling in ponderously tall stacks, in the way that trees canopy in a rain forest. At the center of this untamed landscape of literature is Pickwick’s owner, Jack Dunnigan.]]></description>
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