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#OTD in 1780 British Major John André was hanged as a spy at Tappan, New York
Image: “The Unfortunate Death of Major André,” from The New Complete and Authentic History of England, BARNARD Edward
Published by Author, London, 1782
A reproduction of this print is part of the HSRC’s collection and is on view now as part of our exhibition entitled Rockland Voices. http://www.rocklandhistory.org/program.cfm?page=422
To read more about the Treason of the Revolution, visit our archived issue of South of the Mountains,1963, Vol. 7, No. 4 Here:
www.RocklandHistory.org
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Once upon a time, George Boldt, owner of NYC's Waldorf Astoria, built a castle for his wife, and this castle lay in the sea on an isle called Heart Island. (Okay, not the sea, but the #StLawrenceRiver.) No expense was spared in his quest to build a majestic Rhineland castle for his wife, Louise. Tragically, Louise passed away before the property was completed, and the unfinished castle lay wasting away until the 1970s, when the #ThousandIslands Bridge Authority acquired the property and began the ongoing restoration that continues.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . . .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Pictures above is the “Power House and Clock Tower”, which is connected to Heart Island by that stone bridge. .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Yes, it's touristy. Yes, you should go see it if you're in the area. It's quite pretty, and you can't visit #AlexandriaBay without checking out this Great Gatsby-esque edifice.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #1000islands #uscanadaborder #castles #castlesoftheworld #travelpics #travelphotos #visitnys #iloveny #historicbuildings #boldtcastle #heartisland #touristspots #exploreny #newyorkexplored #scenicnewyork #nyshistory #historicsites #uscastles #travelblogger #travel #vacation #vacay #vacationpics #familytravel #exploredeeper #traveldeeper #alexbay (at Boldt Castle - 1000 Islands, NY) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv6vzkxhQe-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Die Cut Handle Stylin' Totes and Erie Canal songs and boats! 🎶Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal cont…🎵🎤 Verses 5&6: Get up mule, here comes a lock We'll make Rome 'bout six o'clock One more trip and back we'll go Right back home to Buffalo Low bridge, everybody down Low bridge, we're coming to a town You'll always know your neighbor And you'll always know your pal If ya ever navigated on the Erie Canal Can you pick out our 2 previous Erie Canal posts to find Verses 1-4? #singoutloud #singlikenooneislistening #eriecanalsal🐴 #15milesontheeriecanal #eriecanalsongs #sunnyday #pinestreetbridge #diecutting #diecut #underthebridge #kraftbags #krafty #barge #canalboat #styling #navigation #eriecanal #nyshistory #brandedbag #yourlogohere #mindyobusiness #canalcruise #tourist #wny #imonaboat #lowbridge #packaging #packagingdesign #custom #customservice (at Lockport Locks & Erie Canal Cruises) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT-7TXksIOC/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Henry Johnson became a hero on the battlefield and a legend in #AlbanyNY. But sometimes, even legends need a hand. Watch "Henry Johnson: A Tale of Courage" Thursday at 7:30pm on WMHT. wmht.org/henryjohnson #AlbanyNY #history #MedalofHonor #HenryJohnson #NYS #NYShistory #war #WWI #harlemhellfighters #WMHT (at WMHT Public Media)
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http://peekskillmuseum.org/ #Peekskill #LocalHistory #Westchester #Annsville #HudsonValley #NYShistory #PeekskillMuseum #AnnsvilleNY (at Peekskill, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwwtglUgwC6/?igshid=134s45trucxsv
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Sir William Johnson was important blah blah blah... The man had game. Playa had over 20 children with five different ladies. And that's just the ones we know about. Daaaaamn.
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April 12, 1974 - 50 YEARS AGO
excerpt from The Journal News
CLARKSTOWN MAY BUILD SITE - BURGER STAND ROLLS OUT MOTORCYCLES
Riding instructor-mechanic Miles Devlin of Spring Valley at trail area
📷 Journal News Staff photo - Ted Neuhoff
One of the few places in eastern Rockland where motorcycle riders can ride on a challenging course off the road is being leveled, and a hamburger stand will soon rise on the site.
An undeveloped, hilly area on the corner of Central Avenue and Route 59 in Central Nyack has been used for years by novice riders and dirt track enthusiasts to test their noisy machines.
A McDonald's restaurant is presently being built on the property. As a result, young riders will probably have to use their trail bikes along area railroad rights of way unless a new dirt site is developed, according to spokesmen at a Central Nyack motorcycle shop, The House of Power.
“Now, a lot of these kids will go riding along the railroad tracks in the county," said Miles Devlin, a mechanic at the shop."They can't be supervised as they should."
But, the future may hold relief for neighbors, customers, and shop officials, owner Sal Mangiameli explained, in the form of a riding area at the Clarkstown town dump.
The shop owner has been negotiating with the town for the right to build up the area for supervised trail riding and training.
The "mini-bike park" would be operated as a profit to the town recreation department and there would be a nominal feefor a day's worth of riding, he explained.
Leveling the hills has forced Mangiameli, 34, of Orange County, to invest $10,000 in a dynomometer, a device which simulates road conditions and allows both the shop's personnel and customers to test the motorcycles indoors.
Other bikes licensed and registered road cycles will still be tested on the streets at the rear of the shop unwelcome news to at least one couple which has been "miserable for six years" in the face of daily noise from the large street bikes.
"Seven other families were driven out of the neighborhood because of the noise," said George Wamsley, 69, of 4 Central Ave. "The neighborhood has gone to hell and we're strapped in."
He and his wife say the value of their home has plummeted and that they would be unable to purchase another home for the amount of money they've been offered for their present one, located next door The House of Power.
The owner of the motorcycle shop said, "We try to get our business done without offending other people but some people just don't like motorcycles."
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Sixty years ago today, the Beatles arrived to screaming fans at New York's JFK Airport to begin their first American tour. Two days later they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show.”
Here in Rockland, teen girls were able to get a Beatle haircut from Mr. Paul’s in West Nyack. ‘Miss Beatle’ models it in this vintage ad from the salon.
Clipped from the Journal News, Feb. 1964.
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#OTD (Oct. 2) in 1780 British Major John André was hanged as a spy at Tappan, New York
Image: “The Unfortunate Death of Major André,” from The New Complete and Authentic History of England, BARNARD Edward
Published by Author, London, 1782
Major John André was captured by Colonial militiamen in Tarrytown after his meeting with Benedict Arnold. He had the plans of West Point hidden in his boots. André was taken to Tappan and kept as a prisoner in what is today the ‘76 House. After a trial, André was sentenced to death for being a spy. On October 2, 1780 André was executed by hanging. His last words were, “I have nothing more to say than this: that I would have you gentlemen bear me witness that I died like a brave man.”
André was buried in Tappan. In 1821 his remains were disinterred and taken to England for burial in Westminster Abbey. Benedict Arnold, the general who became a traitor, became an officer in the British Army. Arnold died in London in 1801.
A reproduction of this print is part of the HSRC’s collection and is on view now as part of our exhibition entitled Rockland Voices. http://www.rocklandhistory.org/program.cfm?page=422
To read more about the Treason of the Revolution, visit our archived issue of South of the Mountains,1963, Vol. 7, No. 4
www.RocklandHistory.org
#rockland history#local history#rocklandhistory#rockland county#nyshistory#nys history#orangetown#hudson river valley#hudson river#major john andre#benedict arnold#american revolution#tappan#Tappantown
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#FBF - News From Yesteryear
July 26, 1873 – 150 YEARS AGO
Rockland County Journal
VALLEY COTTAGE
[Image: Valley Cottage Post Office on Lake Road, ca. 1892. Kearney's Meat Wagon in front of the Post Office. Courtesy of the Valley Cottage Library, via NYHeritage.org.]
Last Saturday the Valley Cottage post-office, on the road leading to Waldburg and Haverstraw, was opened for business for the first time since Mr. Green received his appointment as postmaster. The office for the present is established in Mr. John Rider’s cottage, because it is the most accessible for the residents in the immediate vicinity.
The name, Valley Cottage, is derived from the fact that nearly twenty years ago when Mr. Green became a resident of the valley, he named his domicile “Valley Cottage,” and the neighborhood around became known by this name.
When the Rockland Central Railroad is extended to Rockland Lake, and in running order, a station will be established at the above point and arrangements will be made to locate a village in one of the loveliest valleys in our county.
This post-office will be the nucleus around which it will centre, and if energy and persistent effort can accomplish anything, these qualities will be found admirably developed in such men as J. A. Green, David O. Storms, Jacob und George Polhemus, John Rider and others.
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[Image: Foyer, Fort Comfort Inn, Piermont. Undated postcard no. 333365, Published by Moore & Gibson, Inc., New York. Printed in Germany. Image courtesy of the Piermont Public Library, via NYHeritage.org.]
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Please join us as we remember all those who were impacted by the tragic events of September 11, 2001. We will never forget. #neverforget 🇺🇸
📷 (c) Dorice Arden; 9/11 Memorial, Haverstraw.
Francis Joseph Trombino: The Rockland Brinks Robbery Survivor Who Perished in the 9/11 Attacks
Francis J Trombino- known by many as simply ‘Joe,’ was a Korean war vet and truck driver who had been with Brinks since the late 1960s and lived most of his life in Clifton, NJ. He was killed on the morning of September 11th, 2001 when two World Trade Center towers collapsed.
But that sunny September morning was not the first time Trombino had crossed paths with terrorists. In 1993, his armoured truck had left the WTC complex a few hours before Islamic terrorist Ramzi Yousef drove an explosives-laden rental van into the underground parking garage and set the fuse.
However, before either of the Islamist attacks on the World Trade Center site, Trombino survived a deadly ambush and robbery from Weather Underground and black sepratist gunmen nearly 20 years before the 9/11 attacks.
As Trombino and fellow guard Peter Paige were picking up money from Nanuet Mall in Rockland County, NY, in October 1981 when masked gunmen burst from a nearby van and opened fire with shotguns and an M-16 rifle, killing Paige instantly. Trombino was able to get off a round before being struck in the shoulder, arm and upper body multiple times.
After swapping vehicles, the domestic terrorists would then try and shoot their way through a roadblock set up by police in West Nyack, NY, killing two police officers and wounding another before trying to flee on foot or carjack motorists.
Trombino’s injuries would require multiple surgeries. He nearly lost his arm in the gunfight. Brinks reassigned him as a driver where he would continue to work for another 19 years. According to family, Joe hardly complained about the surgeries and therapy, telling them that ‘These things are a part of life’.
Joe Trombino was about a year away from retirement on the morning of September 11th. According to co-workers, he stayed in the underground garage with his truck when the planes hit, calling the Brinks dispatcher and inquiring about the whereabouts of the guards who had gone into the WTC buildings to make a pickup (they had managed to escape but had no means of communication). Trombino told the Brinks office in his last phone call that water was starting to seep in and the walls were starting to crumble around him. —Not Another New England Sports Blog, 2011
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#MarkerMonday
On this spot in the 1970's, a garage was reborn as a refuge where rock-'n'-roll bands gave voice to a generation yearning for change. Back when music was captured on vinyl. Brooks Arthur's 914 Sound Recording Studios allowed musicians the freedom to hone their craft away from the pressures of the big city. Among the iconic tracks laid down here were Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run" and Janis Ian's "At Seventeen" - anthems of youthful rebellion emblematic of the time. The music made here endures long after 914's last note.
In memory of Kevin J. Quaranta
Erected 2016
To listen to a podcast about the marker, and 914 Sound Studios click link below:
To see a photo album of the unveiling: https://flickr.com/photos/100479933@N04/sets/72157669530137814
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“Over the years, the studio and its Solid State Logic console recorded 16-track hits for the likes of James Taylor, The Ramones, Dusty Springfield and Ashford & Simpson, among others, and won a Grammy for Janis Ian's 1975 album, Between the Lines. Everyone involved with the studio eventually moved on to other efforts—Arthur left for the West Coast to work with the likes of Neil Diamond, while Larry Alexander, assistant engineer, moved up to the Power Station in New York City; these days, he has his own studio at home.
And 914 Sound Studios itself? The “914” no longer applies—it came from the local area code, which changed years ago—and “Sound Studios” isn’t accurate now either: Today, the site where so much rock history was recorded is now a car wash.”—Prosound
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY – NEWS FROM YESTERYEAR
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July 13, 1972 – 50 YEARS AGO
Excerpt from The Journal News
TINY BLOWS KISSES, MIND OF AUDIENCE
Tiny Tim, in a canary yellow double-breasted jacket, flung himself onto the stage floor and kicked his legs into the air continuously blowing kisses to the crowd at Clarkstown High School North.
A thrilled audience of thousands watched from packed bleachers as the world-famous warbler paused in mid-song to hurl his robin's egg blue tie into the human wave edging off the bleachers and up to the skirt of the stage.
The songs were sung in his famous high falsetto and a deeper, less-known, masculine voice. They ran the historical gamut from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" to "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Teen Angel" to "Tip Toe through the Tulips." The crowd clapped, hummed, and hooted its approval.
As Tiny Tim came onto the football field, in a sleek new station wagon, the children who had been chanting "We want Tiny Tim" broke ranks and charged. Tiny Tim remained inside while policemen and Clarkstown Recreation staff herded the too-eager ones back to the bleachers.
The station wagon circled back toward the Clarkstown High School Clinic, where Tiny Tim had been awaiting his act and the crestfallen children settled back on their haunches on the track in front of the bleachers.
"Richard Shippler has lost his mummy and daddy," squawked the loudspeaker. "We want Tiny, we want Tiny," howled the crowd.
Tiny Tim first appeared on the stage at 9:30 carrying his ukulele in a tattered white paper shopping bag. Announced as "a singer of serious songs," Tiny opened up with "The Waltz of The Bells." "Tingaling, tingaling," he sang, dipping into his shopping bag for a little bell with which he accompanied the song.
"I am glad to be here in wonderful, wonderful Clarkstown." said Tiny, reading the name of the town from a crumpled note which he pulled from a jacket pocket. "I am glad to be here with the Rams and near Route 59," he added, then putting the note back in his pocket.
Becoming more and more impassioned as he went on, Tiny finally was on his knees, hitting the stage with his hands, his curls bobbing in the stage lights as he wound up one of Elvis Presley's famous hits, "Blue Suede Shoes." The performance ended after almost an hour, with Tiny Tim thanking his band and his audience.
Tiny Tim was not the only feature of the two-and-a-half-hour show staged by the Clarkstown Parks Board & Recreation Commission.
The Bob Thomas Orchestra led off with a musical medley, and the Harmonica Rascals, of Ed Sullivan fame, filled in. "We had a ball, and the audience was great, said Dan Barry, saxophone player for the Bob Thomas Orchestra. The band's medley ran favorite selections from the '30s and '40s, appealing to the older sections of the audience.
The Harmonica Rascals featured a dwarf fallman in fur-covered chaps, who ran out into the audience twice during the show. Even after Tiny Tim, some of the children liked the dwarf best.
The Clarkstown Parks Board & Recreation Commission offers next the West Point Military Band, performing for free at the same place and time on July 19.
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The new episode of Crossroads of Rockland History is streaming now. It originally aired on Monday, April 15, 2024 at 9:30 am, on WRCR 1700 AM Radio
Listen to it here: https://on.soundcloud.com/KC4LinxBQupUztk99
We learned all about two new history exhibitions opening later this month.
First, we explored “When This You See, Remember Me: Inscribed Quilts from Rockland County” at the Historical Society of Rockland County. The exhibition's guest curator, Peggy Norris, a member of the American Quilt Study Group, Ridgewood (NJ) Historical Society, and Genealogical Society of Bergen County, discussed how, through the quilts, we can learn about local women, the times in which they lived, and their textile artistry. Peggy will also give a presentation on the quilts on Sunday, May 5, at the HSRC.
“When This You See, Remember Me” runs from April 21 to October 27, 2024, and is open to the public on Wednesdays–Fridays and Sundays, 1–4 pm, and by appointment. Admission is $5 per person and benefits the Society’s education and preservation missions.
For information, visit https://www.rocklandhistory.org/program.cfm?page=1114
Then we focused on “Creating Community 1950,” the new exhibition at the The Orangetown Historical Museum & Archives. Museum Director Mary Cardenas and Curator Elizabeth Skrabonja shared how a building, baby, and business boom exploded in Orangetown in the 1950s.
“Creating Community 1950” can be seen at the historic DePew House, 196 Chief Bill Harris Way, Orangeburg. It opens on April 21 and extends through November 2024. Exhibition hours are Tuesdays & Fridays 10 am–2 pm, and Sundays, 1–4 pm. Admission is free.
For information, visit https://www.orangetownmuseum.com
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