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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: Helen Hayes MacArthur

  • December 4, 2012

by Bill Batson

Legend has it that when Helen Hayes MacArthur first saw this fine example of Italianate architecture on North Broadway, her husband, playwright Charles MacArthur told her it would cost them a Pretty Penny. The name stuck. From 1934 until 1990, the actress who was known to the world as the First Lady of American Theater lived here in the Village of Nyack as a mother, wife, neighbor and civic leader –not as a celebrity. This week’s sketch log is composed almost entirely from remarks made by Mrs. MacArthur in a private home in Nyack sometime in the 1980′s.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Rockland Center for the Arts

  • September 18, 2012

by Bill Batson

In the contest to draw an audience for the arts, Rockland County is David to the Goliath of New York City. But when it comes to attracting artists to take up residence, the region has assembled a pantheon of American cultural deities worthy of Mount Olympus. Figures like actor Helen Hayes, composer Aaron Copland, painter Edward Hopper and writer Ben Hecht, to name a few, made their home in our neck of the woods. Fortunately for us, a few of these important creative artists combined their efforts to leave us a living institutional legacy: The Rockland Center for the Arts.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Wright Bros. Real Estate

  • May 1, 2012

by Bill Batson

When Ray Wright was selling real estate, he would tell people trying to find his office to look for the prettiest house in Nyack. When those prospective buyers arrived at Wright Bros. Real Estate on the corner of Depew Avenue and South Broadway, they were relieved that their broker was as honest as he was bold. This stunning example of Queen Anne Victorian architecture, that was the basis of Wright’s boast, stands as a symbol to the longest continually operating real estate company in Rockland County.

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Nyack Sketch Log: Flash Sketch Mob

  • April 10, 2012

by Bill Batson

Veni, Vedi, Sketchi means I came, I saw, I sketched. The original boast from Julius Caesar was more ominous. For our purposes, the Latin verb for ‘€œI conquered’€, ‘€œvici’€ has been replaced with a playful invitation to create.

On June 16 a legion of artists will construct a portrait of the Village of Nyack in two hours. Today’s Nyack Sketch Log is an invitation to professional and amateur artists, students and art lovers to join the flash sketch mob.

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Nyack Architecture is Nyack History

  • February 6, 2012

“Architecture is one of the most enduring clues to history,” says Win Perry, the President of the Historical Society of the Nyacks. “It helps us visualize how people of various periods lived, what delighted them, what was fashionable, what they could afford, and how they chose to express themselves.” Nyack’s rich architectural history is the focus of the historical society’s Winter 2012 edition.

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As Others See Us: Rockland Center For The Arts

  • December 21, 2011

Rockland County is home to the largest non-profit multi-arts center in New York. The Rockland Center For The Arts (RoCA) has three galleries, a two acre sculpture park, a summer day camp, year-round performance and more than 100 courses and workshops. But despite 60 years serving the community, the economic recession has hurt RoCA and the arts community in general.

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Rockland Theatre on N. Broadway in Nyack, 1930. Photo Credit: Norman A. Burke, Nyack Library collection

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Nyack’s Lost Theaters

  • December 12, 2010

Nyack’s SuperBlock champions point to a long and rich theatrical history in the village producing opera, vaudeville, dramas, musicals and avant-garde performance art in venues like the Rockland Theatre, Broadway Theatre and the Tappan Zee Playhouse. John Patrick Schutz shares some of that history.

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Sunday: Walk Through Upper Nyack History

  • September 28, 2009

Learn the history of the Hopper House, the “Goosetown Against the World”  fire company, Pretty Penny and the Port of Upper Nyack during the Upper Nyack Walking Tour on Sunday 10/4. Nyack history fans and walking enthusiasts should meet at the Hopper House at 2pm. No reservations required. There’s a[...]

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