Photographed in the ground floor gallery of Orient Hall(destroyed by fire in April of 1959); several individuals are identified from left to right as follows: Else Rogo, William Frauenfelder, Tony Hecht, Harvey Fite, and Stefan Hirsch. Four...
A copy of a Rockland Review article in which the Ivanhoe Inn is described as the place where Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur wrote the play, "Front Page." Village historian Jean Pardo identifies that as an error. The inn which the playwrights rented...
Author Ben Hecht is seated at a dinner, holding a cigar in his left hand. Seated next to him is actor Robert Shaw. Two Nyack officials are standing in the back, Alex Caglione and Rocco Logiodice. Both served terms as mayor of Nyack.
John Lodico, Sr. talks about growing up in Upper Nyack near the river in the Van Houten's Landing neighborhood near the river. He focuses on the Italian American immigrant culture there, particularly as epitomized by his father, his time at Nyack...