On a marble memorial in front of the Rockland County Courthouse are 6 columns, each engraved with the names of 40 men – the 240 Rocklanders who died in uniform during WWII. Half-way down the third column appears the name David J. Hirsch, who is the only person from Rockland County who took part in […]
In 2005, when Joe Lynch was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, it was already 40 years since his death. He had twice been the Bantamweight Champion of the World back in the early 1920s, the Roar- ing Twenties, an era known as the Golden Age of Boxing, when boxing was the preeminent […]