Photograph identified as follows: "Bard's Folly." Written and produced by Harvey Fite in Orient Theater (1935), this is a skit about John Bard reluctantly giving his consent to having a college and enrolling the first student. Cast (from left to...
A crowd is listening to this unidentified singer during the first "Clearwater' sloop fund-raising festival to be held in Nyack. Memorial Park on the waterfront was the setting in August 1970. A large sign in the background proclaims, "This river is...
The title of this image was taken from the envelope containing the negative. There is no other identifying information about the subjects or circumstances of this portrait.
This is a continuation from the front page of an article about the play "Nothing But the Truth," published by the "Pawling School Weekly" on February 5, 1921. (second column, second paragraph). It lists those who were responsible for the scenery,...
"Now and Then and Long Ago" was compiled by Cornelia Bedell from other books, newspaper articles and new writings. The following excerpt was written in 1932 about a map of the Nyack Turnpike.
The structure in the foreground, sometimes referred to as the 'Stone Jug,' was the first dormitory on campus. An article in a February 1897 issue of the St. Stephen's Messenger notes the following: "In this house lived the few students, who at...
Leah writes about Daniel losing his hat from a train car, her illness and Sisey's influenza. She writes about many of the "invalids" she meets in Saratoga.
Leah is joined by her aunt Ann while staying on Staten Island. She writes about her trip to New York City. Leah is not feeling well and mentions how difficult the cold baths are. She writes about shopping, making calls and her attempts at having...
Leah thanks Maria for her long letter and hopes that with the help of her new gold pen she can do the same. She misses her old home, but comments that her new home is satisfactory. She writes about her new friends and requests some of her things,...
Leah writes about how ill she has been and needed to take laudanum. Her neighbour, Mrs. Hassard brought her some sassperilla tea. She hope to visit with Maria soon.
On the 1884 Burleigh map, "Nyack on the Hudson," there are several houses of this style on Jackson Avenue, west of Franklin Street. And the house is said to be on the 1873 Dripps map, when the street was called Smith Street. Little has changed...
Known as the Sweets, this house was bought by Kenneth and Cora Sweet in 1924. There is a history of their family and the Derven family in Terry Talley's book, "Gems of the Hudson." The turreted Victorian was built about 1868 on the site of the...
There is a question about the architecture of this Depot Place house. Was it a plain house dressed up with elaborate carpenter Gothic, or was there - at some time- even more of the detailing?
