After reading your wonderful column for years, I finally got the nerve to write to you about a painting that I inherited about 40 years ago. In your profession, are there times when you spend a great deal of time trying to figure out the artist’s signature? Well, that is my dilemma. Not only have […]
Dear Editor, I’m a high school student concerned about the growing presence of litter, particularly plastic waste, in Rockland County. As a Keep Rockland Beautiful litter clean-up volunteer, I can attest to the astounding number of garbage bags filled in a short period containing single-use plastic water bottles, to-go food containers and bags. New […]
Ice, Ice Baby! The Knickerbocker Ice Festival Returns to Clarkstown It’s hard to imagine now, but Rockland Lake was once the site of one of the largest and most successful industrial operations in the Hudson Valley. Prior to the widespread availability of household refrigeration in the early 1920s, ice harvesting was a major industry in […]
The Open Space Institute (OSI) has been awarded nearly $1 million in grants through New York State’s Regional Economic Development Councils (REDC) to complete significant projects at two of the state’s premier outdoor recreation destinations: most notably for Rockland, the popular Reeves Meadow Trail Network in Harriman State Park. “We are grateful to Governor Kathy […]
Bluefield Camp Girls at Hook Mountain Bathing Beach Nyack, N.Y. Circa 1913-1917 The image features a group of Y.W.C.A. campers from Camp Bluefield wading in the Hudson River at Nyack Beach. After the Blauvelt Rifle Range was abandoned by the New York Guard in 1913, it was used as the site for a summer camp […]
Slovenia has long embraced a unique relationship with leisure activities, and in recent years, it has seen a swift development of the gambling industry. Some Slovenian gamblers view the activity purely as a pursuit of profit or entertainment, but many adopt a more contemplative approach that emphasizes mindfulness, presence, and the meditative qualities inherent in […]