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* Winner: 10 Better Newspaper Contest Awards *New York Press Association, 2013 School opens next week. Drive safely! FREE | FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014 69 MAIN ST., COLD SPRING, N.Y. | www.philipstown.info West Point Foundry Workers O’Neill High DefiedDanger, Economic Vagaries School Welcomes Labor built an industry ago, Penman’s tombstone, if it still exists, today cannot readily be found; grave- Garrison Students and community yard weeds grow high, many stones lie toppled, and inscriptions on others have Incoming freshmen By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong worn away. attend orientation A diverse workforce — except n Thursday, Aug. 18, 1859, Wil- By Mary Ann Ebner liam Penman, a 19-year-old ap- in gender Oprentice, went to his job at the Penman’s untimely demise, portend- group of 16 Garrison high school West Point Foundry. He never came ing the deaths of thousands of young freshmen may be doing their home. In an incident shrouded in mys- men a few years later in the Civil War, A homework in Philipstown come tery, he died on the job, “killed by a can- underscores the risks confronted daily next Wednesday, Sept. 3, but they’ll be non discharge,” according to a sketchy by those who turned Cold Spring from a learning in the classrooms of James I. note in an obscure book. tiny riverfront hamlet into a thriving 19th- O’Neill High School across the river in this Whether any parents or siblings century village, home to an innovative new academic year. Students will make mourned him is unknown, but his young industrial giant, the West Point Foundry, a “Fresh Start,” the theme of O’Neill’s peers clearly felt his loss. His tombstone, an ironworks established in 1817. Known James Lahey and Margaret Lahey in Freshman and New Student Orientation in the Old Cold Spring Cemetery (next to not only for its state-of-the-art cannons, an undated photograph: A West Point held Wednesday (Aug. 27), as they invest the Haldane school campus), was “erect- but for policies both enlightened and pa- Foundry employee, James lost an arm in in the next chapter of their education. ed as a tribute by fellow apprentices,” re- ternal toward workers, the foundry of- a workplace accident. Highland Falls Fort Montgomery Cen- lates the obscure source, Old Tombstones fered employees houses (initially rented, Photo courtesy of Bethe Myers and Scenic Hudson tral School District’s high (To page 6) of Putnam County, a 1975 compendium then sold), many still in use, and encour- of grave listings. Though visible 40 years aged family life. (Continued on page 3) James I. O’Neill High School Principal Louis Trombetta, Assistant Principal Robin Haberman and Guidance Counselor Patricia Lofaro Photo by M.A. Ebner Shirley Hot, owner of Beacon’s The Pandorica, in front of an “exploding tardis.” Photo by S. Hixson Doctor Who Brings Legions of Fans to Beacon families and a lot of young people were Tea Room becomes Pandorica moving up from the city and they weren’t attracted to the place. It wasn’t their By Sommer Hixson style. I figured I should become a little can’t stop giggling,” Shirley Hot more contemporary.” said. Last month, the proprietor Without going too far into the complex La Dana, a small sailboat anchored offshore at Cold Spring for the past several “Iof The Cup & Saucer Team Room storylines of Doctor Who, a science fic- months, has sparked curiosity among village residents. Photo by M. Turton in Beacon reopened her business as a tion show created by Sydney Newman, theme restaurant based on the cult TV The Pandorica is a fictional underground series, Doctor Who. The average wait for prison beneath Stonehenge, the actual Mystery Boat a table at The Pandorica, Hot’s new es- prehistoric monument in England. The quent visitors to the waterfront indicate tablishment, is now two hours or more. series has celebrated avid fandom since La Dana prompts questions that the boat has seldom, if ever, left it first premiered on BBC1 Television in She says she receives 30 to 40 phone calls By Michael Turton anchor. Residents have also wondered a day, and The Pandorica’s Facebook 1963, the day after President Kennedy about the legality of leaving a boat an- page is fast approaching 10,000 “likes.” was assassinated. This past Saturday, ince late this spring, the most com- chored for an extended period of time in Needless to say, business is good. Aug. 23, the newer BBC America series mon question on the Cold Spring that location. th Hot purchased The Cup & Saucer in premiered its eighth season and its 12 Sriverfront has been, “What’s with Capt. William McNamara, spokesman 2007, after she worked there as a wait- Doctor, portrayed by Peter Capaldi (In that boat?” A small sailboat, La Dana, for the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, ress and a cook. “For the last two or The Loop, World War Z). has been anchored close to shore, di- said La Dana is believed to be owned by a three years I was considering a redesign Hot, who is British, has been watching rectly across from Moo Moo’s Creamery, resident of Nelsonville. The Hudson Riv- because Beacon had changed. Young Doctor Who (Continued on page 11) for several months. Comments from fre- er, he added, is governed (To page 4) 2 August 29, 2014 The Paper www.philipstown.info | Philipstown.info Mouths to Feed that your children, left to their own de- vices, will make the right choices so that you can stop monitoring them. Eat A Bean Her brothers are like that. They will add lettuce and tomatoes to their sand- By Celia Barbour wiches, eat entire peaches and come looking for more. y daughter, bless her, will lick a With Dosi, I have to be more vigilant. peach. Left alone, she will live on cereal, frozen M This display of bravery swells peas, macaroni, and cinnamon toast, my heart, even if, immediately thereafter, with an occasional bowl of frozen blue- she narrows her eyes and shakes her head. berries topped with milk and sugar as an “Too sour,” she says, both annoyed and evening treat. apologetic. And if there is chocolate ice cream in the In all likelihood, her impromptu ver- freezer one day, it will not be there the next. dict means that she will not revisit So it is up to me to keep green beans peaches until she is well into her teens. in the house. I need to provide her with She is 10 now, and I want her to love sautéed spinach or broccoli with garlic, good food — food that will make her caramelized kale, grilled zucchini. I need strong and healthy, calm and clear- to make smoothies, and hummus for her minded. I also want her to experience carrots. I need to chop parsley for her to the things that thrill me, like a perfectly sprinkle over her buttered noodles, and Potato salad with green beans and herbs Photos by C. Barbour ripe, exquisite peach. But most of all, I slice up apples or bananas and set them want to stop worrying about her diet — down beside her. She eats these things gingerly lick a slice of perfectly-ripe peach. all.) In the rocky New England soil and and this, at heart, is simply a permuta- gladly, so long as they are offered to her. We were in New Hampshire when she challenging New England climate, they tion of the great longing every parent With Dosi, eating well is a joint ven- did that, and a little while later, I went manage to grow some of the sweetest, feels, always and forever: to be confident ture. And sometimes I forget to keep up for a walk. The sky was overcast and tenderest carrots, tomatoes, squashes, my end of the bargain. drizzly, and no one wanted to join me. and beans I have ever tasted, anywhere. My mother thinks my daughter is picky, I started off up the hill, hiking into the Their farm stand operates on the hon- and she would like for me to think so, too. dark woods, but stopped hardly 10 min- or system, out of a wooden shed by the To her, rejecting food is not only immor- utes later. It had occurred to me that side of a dirt road. I open the coolers one al (she grew up during the war) but also perhaps the organic farm down the road by one. Peppers, zucchini, onions, po- slightly unhinged, a sign of obstinacy bor- was selling green beans. I turned and tatoes, carrots ... and finally, in the last dering on madness. But who gets to decide headed in the opposite direction. one, a tangle of slim, young green beans. what “picky” means? Not her. Not me, ei- Two miles later, I arrived at Booty I fill my knapsack with three pounds ther. According to the National Institute Farm (“Booty” is the family’s last name, of them, put cash in the box, and head of Health, 25 to 35 percent of children are and does not refer to anything else at back uphill, feeling purposeful and good- defined as picky — by their parents. The motherish. And happy that my pleasure pediatricians don’t tend to agree. To them, Potato Salad with Green and Dosi’s will soon be in perfect sync. most picky kids are doing just fine. So I try to see the logic in Dosi’s choices: Beans and Herbs One secret to a flavorful potato salad is to splash the potatoes with some She does not like juicy, acidic foods.