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May 24, 2019 Support us at highlandscurrent.org/donate ‘Hate Has No Food and Farm Wins Former Prison New Nelsonville Home Here’ Beacon development proposal could create 250 jobs Mayor Says He By Jeff Simms kill and Beacon, will create 300 temporary Dutchess activists construction jobs and up to 250 perma- Will Resign raise funds for anti-bias ive years after soliciting propos- nent jobs. als for the 39-acre former Beacon That could be a year or more away, Village Board to select a yard signs F Correctional Facility site, New however; once finalized, the proposal York State has awarded development must go through a lengthy approval trustee as interim rights to a food and farming hub. process, beginning with an environmen- Urban Green Food’s proposal to create tal review by the Beacon Planning Board. By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong a campus with farming, a restaurant and But Mayor Randy Casale said this week a hotel, along with a network of public that Urban Green Food has checked off wo months trails, was selected last week by Empire virtually “everything we would like to see and a day State Development, the state’s real estate happen” at the site, including providing after being development agency. Organizers say the T elected, Nelson- project at the site, which straddles Fish- (Continued on Page 10) ville Mayor Chris Caccamise announced on Monday (May 20) A Hate Has No Home Here sign spotted that he plans to in Beacon Photo by B. Cronin resign because of an unforeseen Caccamise By Brian PJ Cronin move out of the village. avin McInnes, who lives in West- The date of his exit remained unclear, but chester County, is best-known as “it will be the very near future,” Caccamise G the founder of The Proud Boys, an said at a Village Board meeting. He organization he refers to as an all-male explained that he and his family will “most “Western chauvinist” drinking club but likely” move to a home outside Nelsonville. that the Southern Poverty Law Center clas- Caccamise defeated incumbent Mayor sifies as a hate group and Twitter considers Bill O’Neill in the March election after a a violent extremist group. One would think contentious race that partly focused on the that he’d be hard to offend. Village Board’s handling of ongoing federal And yet, on Dec. 28, McInnes sent lawsuits brought by Homeland Towers, letters to his neighbors in Larchmont Verizon and AT&T after Nelsonville denied asking them to remove yard signs that an application for a cell tower overlook- had been posted around the neighbor- ing the Cold Spring Cemetery. The election hood that he felt were directed at him. The also saw the defeat of Trustee Alan Potts signs, which were created by a Chicago BUSINESS 101 — First-graders from Haldane Elementary quizzed Foundry Cafe owner and brought to the board two newcomers, community organization and designed and chef Jeff Consaga (left) about his Cold Spring business on May 20 for a class Dove Pedlosky and Lisa Mechaley. to be nonpartisan (blue on one side and project. See story on Page 16. Photo by Michael Turton The mayor did not offer details on red on the other), feature a U.S. flag in the reasons for his decision, calling it a the shape of a heart and the words “Hate “personal thing” and saying, “I have to Has No Home Here” in several languages. think about the future of my family. It The news of McInnes’ letter and the signs School Budgets Pass Easily in was unexpected.” He described the turn of caught the eye of a member of the Dutchess events as “absolutely awful. And I regret County Progressive Action Alliance. At the it more than I can express.” time, anti-Semitic fliers had been posted Beacon, Cold Spring, Garrison Caccamise and Village Clerk Mindy at several Beacon churches and Dutchess Jesek said Monday that the four village County colleges. The activist, who asked Funding for Desmond-Fish library also approved trustees — the others are Michael that her name be withheld for fear of retri- Bowman and Dave Moroney — must bution by racists, thought the signs could By Chip Rowe $300,000 annually. select one of them to serve as mayor until serve as a response to the fliers. According to the New York State an election is held in the spring. “I thought they were beautiful signs,” oters on Tuesday (May 21) over- United Teachers union, only 10 of 576 The outgoing mayor recommended she said. “And they were conveying a beau- whelmingly approved school school district budgets across the state that either Bowman, who was not at the tiful message that needed to get out there.” V district budgets in Cold Spring, were defeated on Tuesday. Eight of those meeting, or Moroney, both elected in 2018, The members of the alliance decided Garrison and Beacon for 2019-20 and 10 budgets were among the 18 in which succeed him, since they have the most to raise $100 to buy signs to distribute. added new members to the Haldane districts asked voters to override the experience. He described himself as “not But when the group created a GoFundMe and Garrison boards. Voters in Garrison newly permanent, state-mandated tax very good at” running board meetings, campaign in February, within three also approved increasing funding for the (Continued on Page 5) Desmond-Fish library from $75,000 to (Continued on Page 8) (Continued on Page 9) 2 May 24, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org FIVE QUESTIONS: MARCI REAVEN

By Brian PJ Cronin about other places where similar and slabs, we brought in lumber, we brought contributory events happened, so birth- in fish. We did lots of things to help people arci Reaven is a curator of Hudson place is always tough to defend. But the feel the river and the landscape. By Michael Turton Rising, an exhibit at the New-York sheer extent of the uses people made of Has your personal view of Historical Society in New York M the landscape and the degrada- the Hudson changed? Name three great City that examines two centuries of ecolog- tion — but also change — that I’m not a native ical change and environmental activism on American bands, 1960s happened as a result of all of New Yorker. I’m the river. She will speak on Saturday, June those uses, did bring to the from California, through present day. 1, at the Putnam History Museum. fore lots of tough, conten- so I had a lot to What inspired the exhibit? tious concerns. It was in learn. But I under- The historical society has a wonderful those challenges that a stood better how Aerosmith, collection of Hudson River School paintings. lot of environmentalism intimately the Guns N’ Roses, These 19th-century painters were thinking developed. city is tied to the about the landscape and the environment in What was the biggest river. I began to Tom Petty and the different ways, and Louise Mirrer, our presi- challenge of putting see myself as a citi- Heartbreakers dent, thought it would be interesting to use together Hudson Rising? zen of the Hudson their art to look at the landscapes from the How to bring the outside River region. vantage point of modern times. in. The exhibit is about nature Did anything surprise you? and the environment, but we’re Yes — the extent to which the Hudson River in a museum with no windows. region was an incubator for environmental So we brought in objects that thinking and action throughout the Indus- people can touch, such as trial Era —the exhibit starts in the 1820s — bricks, and slag from and how much it has defined the present. the Cold Spring furnaces. We The river is often cited as the created scen- birthplace of the American er y d r aw n environmental movement. Would from paint- you agree? ings. We have ~ Kyle Perrucci, Beacon Whenever you talk about the “birth- live-edge tree Marci Reaven place” of something, one always can think The National, The Strokes, Interpol

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Response to hate Thank you for the excellent — and fright- Tell us what you think * ening — article on local white supremacists, Winner: 45 “The Extremist Next Door” (May 17). Expos- he Current welcomes letters to the editor on its coverage and local issues. Better Newspaper ing these people and these organizations is T Submissions are selected by the editor to provide a variety of opinions and Contest Awards the first step in exposing their lies and the voices, and all are subject to editing for accuracy, clarity and length. We ask that *New York Press Association, 2013 - 2018 cynical dishonesty their cause is based on. writers remain civil and avoid personal attacks. Letters may be emailed to editor@ Steven Ventura, Beacon highlandscurrent.org or mailed to Editor, The Highlands Current, 161 Main St., NNA* Winner: Cold Spring, NY 10516. The writer’s full name, village or city, and email or phone Any racism on the bases of ethnicity or number must be included, but only the name and village or city will be published. 16 Better skin color can only be overcome by shining Newspaper light on it. To discuss it openly is healthy. Our Contest Awards community has come a long way, but there is always room for improvement. As Martin St. Philip’s began as a church of the privi- Congratulations for your article, “The *National Newspaper Association, 2016-2017 Luther King Jr. said, “I have decided to stick leged few in Garrison. But that changed Extremist Next Door.” with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” after the Civil War, and perhaps because Unfortunately, as we continue to evolve NYNPA* Winner: J. Carlos Salcedo, Philipstown of it. Many Civil War veterans lie in our as a nation, deep divides threaten the fabric 4 Awards for churchyard. The priest was a returning of our society. We are seeing white suprem- Excellence “The Extremist Next Door” shows the Union Army chaplain. He led his people in acy erupt in riots and slaughter. Many of complexity of our community. It is not as * New York News Publishers Association, 2017 service to the surrounding communities, of your readers are members of minorities and clear-cut as we had imagined, or as positive many races and classes. need to be protective of their security. as we had hoped. PUBLISHER Happily, we still follow his lead, and invite Shortly after the article was published, Highlands Current Inc. The church calls us to the positive aspects others to help — of whatever race or class a link to it was shared on the Philipstown 161 Main St. of our nature and to build up our commu- or faith or political views. In fact, the most Locals group on Facebook. Someone in that Cold Spring NY 10516-2818 nity. We invite those souls who are lost in compassionate person in Jesus’ parables was organization immediately decided that it 291 Main St., Beacon NY 12508 the sin of white supremacy, or other sins, an immigrant — the good Samaritan. should be removed. I am trying to under- to turn and follow where Jesus led the way. FOUNDER In this complicated world, let us build stand what they might have been think- Gordon Stewart (1939 - 2014) Our communities are complicated. Our up our community together, and love our ing: That the community should not be kept families are complicated — in history and neighbors as ourselves. informed of local white supremacy activity? MANAGING EDITOR today. Rev. Stephen Holton, Garrison That there is nothing to worry about? That Chip Rowe You note a relative of the Osborn family [email protected] Holton is the interim rector of St. Philip’s. hate-mongering is acceptable? of Garrison whom you describe as a white Thank you for keeping us aware of what is ARTS/FEATURE EDITOR supremacist. There was another Osborn rela- Thanks for your superb journalism in going on around us, giving us the opportunity Alison Rooney tive who was an attorney in New York City covering “the extremist next door.” When to stand up for our beliefs and fight bigotry. [email protected] before the Civil War. He defended escaped I started reading the article, I had no idea Cali Gorevic, Cold Spring SENIOR CORRESPONDENT slaves from their former masters, who would that the extremist was literally next door Michael Turton re-enslave them. When he lost a case, in that —ouch! Your coverage is a wake-up call for This was excellent reporting, as well as a miscarriage of justice which characterized our all of us in the Hudson Valley that hate is heads-up to our community. I thought it was REPORTERS country at that time, he helped them escape to Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong pervasive (i.e., not just in someone else’s important that other locals know about the Brian PJ Cronin • Joe Dizney Canada. He also helped black colleges. neighborhood) and must be addressed with article so I shared it on Philipstown Locals. Pamela Doan • Deb Lucke During the Civil War, when President love and education — and with resistance. It was taken down. Now, that is a moment Skip Pearlman • Jeff Simms Lincoln dedicated the battlefield at Gettys- I hope that your journalism will spark a of truth. When a newspaper article is taken burg, he said: “Four score and seven years community conversation about construc- down because two people complain about LAYOUT DESIGNER Pierce Strudler ago, our fathers dedicated on this conti- tive ways of addressing this matter among it being a “political” posting [which is not nent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and religious, civic and other leaders in Beacon allowed on the group], you have to ask your- ADVERTISING DIRECTOR dedicated to the principle that all men are and Cold Spring. Maybe The Current could self, what is political about the article? Michele Gedney created equal.” For information on advertising: host a meeting inviting our leaders and Joanne Kenna, Cold Spring 845-809-5584 We are a new nation, not like the old Highlands residents to explore options. [email protected] nations of Europe that were divided by race My only concern is that such a conversa- It comes as no surprise that awful people highlandscurrent.org/ads and class, and where many served the few. tion may inadvertently create a platform like Jesse Dunstan and the like are in our We were driven or dragged here. Now we for white nationalists. But shining a light midst; there are racists everywhere. His attempt to build a new nation, where all on darkness is the best road to take. despicable ideology is born of ignorance might be equal, regardless of race and class. Alan Brownstein, Cold Spring and perpetuated through hate. I am compelled to wonder what was in this man’s past that put him in his current THE HIGHLANDS CURRENT (USPS # pending) state of being; he grew up in Garrison, which I would like to think was progres- May 24, 2019 Volume 8, Issue 21 (2475-3785) sive during his formative years. is published weekly by Highlands Although it is thought-provoking, his Current Inc., 161 Main St., Cold Spring, individual story is not worth dwelling on. NY 10516-2818. Application to Mail Since the election of Donald Trump as at Periodicals Prices Pending at Cold Spring, NY. POSTMASTER: Send address president of the U.S., hatred and stupid- changes to The Highlands Current, 161 ity have come out of the shadows and into Main St., Cold Spring, NY 10516-2818. the mainstream once again. It’s worse than Mail delivery $30 per year. highlandscurrent.org/delivery most people thought and individuals like [email protected] Dunstan are living proof. It will take a © Highlands Current Inc. 2019 concerted effort to put them back in their All rights reserved. No part of this publi- rightful place, the sewers of history. cation may be reproduced in any form, My thanks to The Current for having the mechanical or electronic, without writ- courage to shine a light on the dark side of ten permission of the publisher. things here in the Hudson Valley. Richard Shea, Philipstown Shea is supervisor of Philipstown.

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LETTERS AND COMMENTS No Home for Hate (from Page 1) (Continued from Page 4) weeks enough money came in to purchase 1,000. (To date, it has raised $3,500 from Bravo to The Current for publishing 74 people; see gofundme.com/hate-has-no- this valuable article. My heart goes out to home-here-dutchess). The printer warned those individuals who have to live with the them that the delivery would be the size of pain and shame of being related to a hate- What Can I Do? a small car. monger, but I hope they find the courage The Southern Poverty Law Center, which “We looked at each other and said, ‘Oh to publicly denounce the ideology of hate. my gosh, now what do we do?’ ” she said. Linda Tafapolsky, Garrison tracks extremists, has created a guide to what individuals and communities “If anybody wants materials, we give them can do in response to bias and hate. It materials.” Your report is a must-read for local resi- Requests for the yard signs, which have dents. The tactic of normalizing the ideas can be downloaded at bit.ly/splc-guide. been spotted in Beacon and Philipstown, espoused by these groups is a danger to can be made through the GoFundMe page. the entire country and something that The group also offers bumper stickers, must be combated at every turn, which is window clings and buttons. difficult and important work. The activist said she is realistic as to Andrew Johnson, Beacon simultaneously. We need new interdisci- We should continue to take steps to what the campaign will accomplish. Refer- plinary models to help all of us become defend and protect ourselves, both at ring to a white supremacist group based “The Extremist Next Door” shines a more effective and strategic in opposing home and at synagogues. in Fishkill that The Current reported on bright light on hate. But what can we do hate, relying on testable theories, rather We should continue to be in coalition last week, she remarked: “That group is about it, as individuals, communities and than being guided by our outrage. Help- with people of good conscience, with Afri- not going to see these signs and say ‘Oh my organizations? ing produce that knowledge is the goal can-Americans, immigrants, LGBT folk and goodness, we’re bad people.’ But I’m hoping It matters whether hate is confined to of the faculty and students collaborating others who are targeted by white supremacy. that people who feel that it’s appropriate the margins or becomes mainstream. The at Bard College’s Center for the Study of We should continue to hold our elected to discriminate and do cruel things will more mainstream, the more normalized Hate, where I am director. officials accountable for how they protect realize that there are a lot of people here and more dangerous it is. The threat is Ken Stern, Annandale us from domestic terror. who don’t agree with them. And the more from both types of hate — the visceral And most of all, we should live our of these signs that we can get up, the more kind that sometimes gins up people with I very much appreciate knowing that literal values as proudly and loudly as we can. they’ll have to see that.” guns or bombs, or the normative type that Nazis live and spread filth minutes from my One of our core values is that we all — accepts hate as “just the way things are,” front door. This is excellent reporting. in our different hues and faiths — are all like when Jews were kept in ghettos or Kelly Tanner, Beacon images of the One God and we all bleed red people were enslaved because of the color just the same — no one life is more valu- Story of the Signs of their skin. How much of a loser do you have to be able than another. So with that in mind, Hate is like a bully — if you don’t stand to think the best thing about yourself, the I want to invite all of us — Jews, Chris- The Hate Has No Home Project was born in a neighborhood in Chicago up, the bully becomes emboldened. When- character trait you are proudest of, is the tians, Muslims, Hindus and all people of where 40 languages are spoken at the ever we hear hate against anyone, we color of your skin and where your ances- good conscience, who find the ideology of local elementary school. should do our best to interrupt or expose tors are from? Pathetic. blood-purity repugnant, to live our values it. While that’s a hard thing to do, and Colin Cheyne, via Facebook at the Units of Love blood drive on Sunday, Carmen Rodriguez and her neighbors sometimes scary, it is important if we June 2, as a form of protest. It will be held in North Park had organized several want to cultivate a culture in which hate Way back in the second century, the from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Lewis Tomp- community projects such as Ribbons of Peace (residents put ribbons on is less likely to become accepted. If you’re sage Rabba taught that no person can say kins firehouse at 13 South Ave., in Beacon. their front railings to promote their not concerned when hatred is directed that their blood is more precious than the The blood collected that day will not community as a peaceful one) and All against another group, do this thought blood of another. go just to Jews or just to African-Amer- Are Welcome (signs created in response experiment: substitute your own group, It’s a remarkable statement, really — we icans or just to Muslims. It will go from to the mass shooting in June 2016 at and see if you feel the same, or if the same Jews have always been a particular people, human beings who open their hearts to Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando). societal rules apply. with distinct customs and traditions other human beings in pain, suffering But in the fall of 2016, a surge in anti- We also have to be creative. Some which at times we have thought repre- from accidents or from cancer. immigrant sentiment prompted the communities, when faced with a proposed sented the very will of God. That heritage I recognize that the U.S. blood system has group to create a new campaign. “Our white supremacist march, have started which we value teaches that at the most a complicated racial and ethnic history, and community is particularly sensitive “Project Lemonade” programs, raising fundamental level of life itself, we all bleed that even to this day its treatment of LGBT to the issue of foreign nationals not pledges tied to a metric (such as how long the same red blood. donors is deeply problematic. Nonetheless, being welcome,” said Rodriguez. Two the march lasts) with money to be given Unfortunately, not all our neighbors agree. I cannot imagine a better rejoinder to our students at the elementary school to things the haters would detest, like With some truly extraordinary reporting, white supremacist neighbors, who think suggested the phrase, “Hate Has No hate-crime training for police or anti-bias The Current laid out that the Hudson Valley their blood purer than ours, than to fill the Home Here,” a local artist came up education. The hateful speech is no longer has the unfortunate distinction of being an blood system with the donated blood of Jews with the design, and signs went up “free,” and sometimes the hate group may important center of white nationalism. and blacks and Mexicans and Muslims. around North Park. back off. This is not far away and this is not theoreti- May our blood supply be so diverse that “What we didn’t count on,” recalled Hate has been, and will always be, part cal. Here, in the area where we make our lives the white supremacists refuse medical Rodriguez, “was the power of the of the human story. But we tend to focus and build our community, are people who treatment, lest they be tainted with our internet. It got a lot bigger than what we on hate in a silo. What motivates an indi- produce a podcast which, in its own words, blood. And may we soon see a day when intended.” vidual to hate? How does hatred work in says the only realistic option for solving the the distinction between O+ and B- is the Shortly after the November 2016 groups? How does it play out in politics? “problem” of Jews, blacks and other non- only blood purity anyone tries to maintain. election, images of the sign started To combat it better, we have to under- Aryan groups is “un-ironic extermination.” Brent Spodek, Beacon spreading online. Rodriguez had posted stand that hate operates on all these levels So what do we do? Spodek is the rabbi at the Beacon a link to the artwork on a community Hebrew Alliance. association’s homepage, and the traffic on Thanksgiving Day crashed the website. Editor’s note: We received a number of emails from readers who were sympa- “People were calling me, and I was yelling Have You Been a Victim of Hate? thetic to the views of white supremacists ‘I’m making pies!’ ” Rodriguez says. and critical of our reporting, but none was Today the group has its own site at Because there is no reliable data on hate crimes, harassment or signed. As a policy, The Current does not hatehasnohomehere.org where the intimidation, the nonprofit newsroomProPublica launched a project publish unsigned letters. Alex McNabb, artwork can be downloaded. It also has called Documenting Hate. It includes an online form that allows victims a co-host with Dunstan on the podcast a map where visitors can learn where to or witnesses to report bias incidents that are shared confidentially “TDS,” complained on Twitter that he find signs or note where they have spotted with civil-rights groups and journalism outlets that are members of the has been a racist longer than the article them, which includes lawns worldwide. project, including The Current. See highlandscurrent.org/hate. implied. We apologize for the error. 6 May 24, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org Memorial Day 2019 In Memoriam The ‘Lost’ Faces of Vietnam

n 2014, of the 58,300 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Wall I of Faces (vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces), 24,000 had no photos. Only one state, Wyoming, had images of all of the men and women whose names appear on the memorial in Washington, D.C. The National Newspaper Association put out a call to members to alert readers to the missing photos. Five years later, 38 states are complete, and only about 1,300 photos still missing. The remaining states include New York, where about 500 photos are missing, mostly for service members from New York City and Long Island. In the past two years, photos have been located and posted for Beacon natives Devine Thomas Devine (Army), Everett Foster (Air Force), John Jay Bennett (Army) Philipstown Frederick Harris Joseph McGaughan and Philip Mattracion (Navy). Only one Austin Robinson Peter Menger Dutchess County native remains without World War I George Stafford Howard G. Mitchell a photo: Michael Garlo, a Marine from Percy W. Arnold James J. Tomlins John F. Mignault Fishkill who was killed in 1969. All Putnam County service members have Edward Burns Frank H. VanHouten Jr. George S. Mitchell at least one image. George A. Casey William B. Wilson William T. Morrison Charles N. Clainos The names of service members from World War II Patrick J. O’Brien Charles DeRhan the Hudson Valley or nearby who are Arthur J. Baxter Francis G. Peattie John R. Fisher still without photos are below. If you John H. Beattie Guy D. Pendleton Clarence Fahnestock have an image of any of these service Robert A. Bennett George Perrault James Harvey Hustis members, please contact us at editor@ Luigi F. Bettina Kenneth G. Perry highlandscurrent.org. J. Paulding Murdock William J. Brennan Dominick J. Phillipo Carmen A. Ramputi World War II John W. Briggs • Richard Davis Jr. (b. 1945), Mount Robert V. Resek Martin E. Adams Frederick H. Brewer Foster Vernon, Marines, d. Sept. 27, 1968 Edward Budney Thomas B. Carrol Lester F. Roberts • Ronald C. Edwards (b. 1950), New H. Ellis Bowden Peter J. Seranto Calvin Clensay Rochelle, Marines, d. Oct. 13, 1969 Gerald Dale John Collins Francis T. Splain Jr. Warren Eitner Nicholas T. Coppola Burton Stevens • Joseph Ficara (b. 1950), White W. Russel Farrell Raymond W. Detweiler Stuart F. Stripple Plains, Marines, d. April 21, 1969 Ralph Fleming Andrew B. Eichorn Richard E. Sutton • Michael Garlo (b. 1948), Fishkill, Arthur Gilman George J. Eichorn William J. Tallman Marines, d. Aug. 20, 1969 Walter Glanville Paul L. Facteau Rody J. Tighe Francis J. Toth • Ramon H. Gonzalez (b. 1939), Thomas Lutz Robert M. Faris Newburgh, Army, d. Feb. 13, 1968 Stanley Matthews Ralph L. Fleming George P. Turiga Anthony Nastasi David Fontaine Andrew Urbanak • James J. Hefner (b. 1948), Goshen, Allen W. Olsen George P. Frederick Joseph C. Usifer Army, d. Aug. 19, 1968 Joseph V. Richardson Saul Gerlich Rosco L. Vaughn Jr. • Dennis M. Hotaling (b. 1949), Lester B. Roberts Alexander J. Grudzina James J. Walker Middletown, Army, d. March 23, 1971 Arthur Warren Michael J. Groza John P. Wasnorowicz (b. 1945), Louis J. Westerhuis • Raymond C. Jackson Vietnam Joseph Halbosky Bennett Mount Vernon, Army, d. Jan. 15, Rene’ Zahner Aldon Asherman Gordon E. Hughes 1967 Henry I. Idema John Bennett Korea Edwin J. Johnson • Cornelius P. Keneally (b. 1937), Keith Livermore Anthony N. Scalzo John Keto White Plains, Army, d. Sept. 13, 1966 Albert A. Knight Vietnam • James G. La Fleur (b. 1947), Beacon Orville Kranz John J. Bennett Middletown, Army, d. May 30, 1968 Ernest H. LaChance Thomas E. Devine • Moses J. Lewis (b. 1947), Mount World War I George LaChance Everett Foster Vernon, Army, d. Dec. 31, 1967 John J. Bump Arnold E. Lasko Philip R. Mattracion Frank Cramade Robinson C. Lent Terrence E. O’Neil • Bruce E. Reed (b. 1948), Peekskill, Army, d. Feb. 28, 1969 Herman G. Deicke Walter M. Lewis William R. Phillips George H. Deveson Judah H. Lewittes James S. Pittman • Franz X. Wallner (b. 1936), Yonkers, Frank D. Fairclough James J. Lockwood Emilio Rivera Army, d. June 11, 1966 Frederick A. Garrison Michael E. Maskewicz Joseph T. Slinskey

The men remembered here died during their wartime service, either during Photos have been located and combat or from disease or accidents. The Philipstown list is taken from the posted in the past two years war memorial at Main and Chestnut streets, Cold Spring. The Beacon list for these Beacon residents Mattracion was compiled by Robert William Phillips for the Beacon Historical Society. who died in the Vietnam War. highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current May 24, 2019 7

Memorial Day A Long, Thin Line of Personal Anguish Ceremonies By Ernie Pyle mine detectors twisted and ruined. boat that lies twisted and half sunk at the For information on Here are torn pistol belts and canvas water line. He barks appealingly to every NORMANDY BEACH- water buckets, first-aid kits and jumbled soldier who approaches, trots eagerly along parades and services, HEAD, June 17, 1944 heaps of lifebelts. I picked up a pocket Bible with him for a few feet, and then, sensing see Page 12. — In the preced- with a soldier’s name in it, and put it in my himself unwanted in all this haste, runs ing column we told jacket. I carried it half a mile or so and then back to wait in vain for his own people at about the D-Day put it back down on the beach. I don’t know his own empty boat. wreckage among why I picked it up, or why I put it back down. *** remembers for a long time. our machines of war Soldiers carry strange things ashore with Over and around this long, thin line of *** that were expended in them. In every invasion you’ll find at least personal anguish, fresh men today are rush- The strong, swirling tides of the taking one of the Normandy beaches. one soldier hitting the beach at H-hour with ing vast supplies to keep our armies pushing Normandy coastline shift the contours of But there is another and more human a banjo slung over his shoulder. The most on into France. Other squads of men pick the sandy beach as they move in and out. litter. It extends in a thin little line, just ironic piece of equipment marking our beach amidst the wreckage to salvage ammunition They carry soldiers’ bodies out to sea, and like a high-water mark, for miles along the — this beach of first despair, then victory — is and equipment that are still usable. later they return them. They cover the beach. This is the strewn personal gear, a tennis racket that some soldier had brought Men worked and slept on the beach for corpses of heroes with sand, and then in gear that will never be needed again, of along. It lies lonesomely on the sand, clamped days before the last D-Day victim was taken their whims they uncover them. those who fought and died to give us our in its rack, not a string broken. away for burial. As I plowed out over the wet sand of the entrance into Europe. Two of the most dominant items in the I stepped over the form of one youngster beach on that first day ashore, I walked Here in a jumbled row for mile on mile beach refuse are cigarettes and writing whom I thought dead. But when I looked around what seemed to be a couple of are soldiers’ packs. Here are socks and shoe paper. Each soldier was issued a carton down I saw he was only sleeping. He was pieces of driftwood sticking out of the sand. polish, sewing kits, diaries, Bibles and hand of cigarettes just before he started. Today very young, and very tired. He lay on one But they weren’t driftwood. grenades. Here are the latest letters from these cartons, by the thousand, water- elbow, his hand suspended in the air about They were a soldier’s two feet. He was home, with the address on each one neatly soaked and spilled out, mark the line of our six inches from the ground. And in the palm completely covered by the shifting sands razored out — one of the security precau- first savage blow. of his hand he held a large, smooth rock. except for his feet. The toes of his GI shoes tions enforced before the boys embarked. Writing paper and air-mail envelopes I stood and looked at him a long time. pointed toward the land he had come so far Here are toothbrushes and razors, and come second. The boys had intended to do a He seemed in his sleep to hold that rock to see, and which he saw so briefly. snapshots of families back home staring lot of writing in France. Letters that would lovingly, as though it were his last link with up at you from the sand. Here are pocket- have filled those blank, abandoned pages. a vanishing world. I have no idea at all why Ernie Pyle, a columnist and war corre- books, metal mirrors, extra trousers, and Always there are dogs in every invasion. he went to sleep with the rock in his hand, spondent, was killed in April 1945 at age 44 bloody, abandoned shoes. Here are broken- There is a dog still on the beach today, still or what kept him from dropping it once he during the Battle of Okinawa. This column handled shovels and portable radios pitifully looking for his masters. was asleep. It was just one of those little is reprinted with permission of the Scripps smashed almost beyond recognition, and He stays at the water’s edge, near a things without explanation that a person Howard Foundation.

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School Votes (from Page 1) to increase by about 2.7 percent. hot water heating system plus air condi- Beacon Fifteen percent of the district’s 3,947 tioning in elementary and middle school Beacon City School District residents cap, it said. The Haldane, Garrison and registered voters (which includes 27 resi- classrooms that was estimated last fall approved a $73.6 million budget for 2019- Beacon budgets were each below the cap. dents of Fishkill at the district’s northern to cost $7.6 million. Board President Ray 20 by a vote of 749-193, which represents border) came to the polls. O’Rourke said the board hopes to present a 6.6 percent turnout among 15,066 regis- Haldane the proposition to voters in the fall. tered voters. In Cold Spring, voters Garrison The spending, which is an increase of about approved the proposed Garrison district resi- Desmond-Fish $3 million, or 4.3 percent, over last year, is $24.6 million budget, dents voted 328-98 to A referendum presented to Garrison just under the state-mandated tax cap for 465-110. It represents approve an $11 million school district voters to increase fund- the district of 4.4 percent. It will increase the an increase of 2 percent budget for 2019-20, an ing for the Desmond-Fish Public Library taxes on a Beacon home assessed at $300,000 from last year, which increase of 1 percent over from $75,000 to $300,000 annually passed, by about $200 annually. is under the state- last year. 264-162. School officials say the budget will pay for mandated tax cap. McNall There were two candi- The owner of a Garrison home assessed at an additional elementary school teacher, new The board also asked dates for two seats on Tormey $300,000 will see his or her annual library high school courses such as Introduction to voters to approve spending of up to $1.6 the seven-member board tax increase from $51 (17 cents per $1,000 of Italian and a social worker who will be based million on capital improvements (which currently held by Jill Corson Lake and Derek assessed value) to $192 (64 cents per $1,000). primarily at the high school and specialize passed, 451-121) and up to $75,000 for a school DuBois, who did not run for re-election to As Philipstown residents, Garrison home- in the prevention of drug and alcohol abuse. bus and equipment for utility vehicles (which a fourth term. Lake got 318 votes to win a owners also pay a tax of 27 cents per $1,000 Voters also approved spending up to passed, 457-116). second term and newcomer Sarah Tormey, to the Butterfield Library in Cold Spring. $450,000 to purchase two school buses and Haldane had three candidates for two a romance novelist who is president of the The library board said the additional four vans (727-243) and to allow the district seats on its five-member board, currently Garrison’s Children Education Fund (GCEF), $225,000 annually will increase the percent- to shift funds to increase spending on a held by Jen Daly and Laura Hammond, received 339. Because GCEF’s bylaws do not age of public support in its $678,000 budget capital improvement project by $700,000, who did not seek re-election to her second allow its board members to also serve on the from 20 percent to 45 percent. It said other to $9.7 million, after bids to install lights full term. Daly won a third, 3-year term school board, Tormey will step down and be libraries in the Mid-Hudson Library System at an athletic field came in higher than with 411 votes, and the second seat will be succeeded by Karen Nelson. average 78 percent public support. expected (740-232). filled by Sean McNall, the artistic director The Garrison district had a 21 percent “On behalf of our board of trustees, many Three incumbent board members, all and director of education for the Hudson turnout among its 2,055 registered voters. thanks to all who voted ‘yes’ for the library seeking their second, 3-year terms, ran Valley Shakespeare Festival, who received Under the approved budget, the tax rate referendum, and to all who voted ‘no,’ as well,” unopposed. Meredith Heuer received 814 345 votes. Laura O’Connell got 268 votes. will increase to $21.24 per $1,000 of assessed said Anita Prentice, president of the library votes, followed by Michael Rutkoske (786) Anne Dinio, the business manager for value, from $20.81. For a home in Philip- board, in a statement. “Our library’s mission and Antony Tseng (678). The candidates the district, said she could not provide the stown with a market value of $700,000, that is to sustain democracy, and that’s what won easily in 2016, the first of three consec- precise tax rate per $1,000 of assessed prop- will translate to about $140 annually. happened. Throughout this process, people utive election cycles that saw voters install erty value until the tax warrant is prepared The ballot did not include a proposition have listened to each other and disagreed an almost entirely new school board. in August, but she said the rate is expected to approve spending for a high-efficiency respectfully, an ideal of civic discourse.”

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also provides the Port Jervis line, west of the Hudson River. The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey operates Stewart Airport in New Windsor. Neal Zuckerman, a Garrison resident who represents Putnam County on the MTA governing board, said the results of Malo- ney’s idea could vary, depending on how it is implemented. If the HVTA contracted with Metro- North, residents would lose their presence

on the MTA board, where their clout is PRIVATE SANCTUARY already diminished, he said (Zuckerman Contemporary flair on 6.6 acres. Master suite with and the Dutchess, Rockland and Orange fireplace plus two en-suites. Private deck. WEB# PO1530638 | Putnam Valley | $779,500 representatives share a single board vote.) “Unless the MTA spins off Metro-North, we would have taxation without represen- tation,” he said. “That is what Connecticut has,” because the state pays the MTA for Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney speaks at a "town hall" forum in Beacon on May 19. service but has no board representation. Photo by L.S. Armstrong Establishing an independent HVTA “is a bigger question,” he added. “It has, like so many things in life, pros and cons.” Maloney Proposes Replacing MTA CONTEMPORARY COLONIAL Neither Port Authority or MTA execu- Fully renovated. Oversized kitchen, fireplace, tives responded to requests for comment master suite with loft. Deck/stone patio. WEB# PO1551789 | Cold Spring | $499,000 Also, derides President Trump’s ‘unethical’ conduct on Maloney’s idea. Challenging Trump By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong Authority because nobody has got time Maloney also discussed the battles by to focus on our stuff; they’re focused on Democrats in Congress with Trump. ep. Sean Patrick Maloney on Sunday New York City. I’d rather have the controls, “Every American should read the Muel- proposed replacing the MTA and have the bonding authority, locally, so ler report,” he said. “It’s a depressing and Port Authority in the mid-Hudson R those assets are prioritized and so there’s a thorough litany of unethical, improper and Valley with a regional agency to over- regional transportation plan.” unpatriotic conduct by the president and his see trains, transit, Stewart International That plan, he suggested, should include campaign. We’re going to have an election GARDENER'S PARADISE Airport and related infrastructure. ongoing east-west transit between Beacon [next year] and this ought to be a big issue.” Pristine three-bedroom home offers living room, In a May 19 “town hall” forum at the dining room, den, porch and slate patio. and Newburgh. “Let people get to work Maloney is on the House Intelligence Memorial Building in Beacon, the four- WEB# PO1458404 | Garrison | $495,000 easier from Newburgh,” which he said is Committee, one of the panels probing foreign term Democrat, whose Congressional “is dying for some of the economic activ- interference in the 2016 election, Trump’s district includes the Highlands, also urged ity that’s going on here” on the east side of finances and allegations against him. The voters to read the report by special counsel the river. If Newburgh-area residents “can administration has refused to cooperate, Robert Mueller on Russian interference in get to that [Metro-North] express train to forcing the House to issue subpoenas. the 2016 election and outlined ways, includ- go to New York City, it would transform “It’s not OK” to flout Congress and “we ing impeachment, that Democrats can Newburgh.” In addition, a new transpor- need to enforce those subpoenas” in court, confront President Donald Trump. tation network could “get you to Stewart Maloney said, predicting victory. (This week Hudson Valley transport Airport so that the combination of commut- federal judges in New York City and Wash- PRIVATE LAKE COMMUNITY Maloney told the 75 or so people who ing and airport traffic and economic activity ington ruled in favor of House committee Sun-filled home. Fantastic lower level, French doors to private deck. Heated sunroom. attended the forum that he has been “work- and tourism across the river all can justify requests for financial data Trump sought WEB# PO1531623 | Garrison | $449,000 ing on a bunch of ideas that will help the this capital expenditure,” he said. to keep secret.) He added that the House Hudson Valley.” For example, he said, “we He noted that the effort would require must continue its “aggressive oversight” should get out of the MTA [Metropolitan federal funding and policies “that reward and noted that while it could impeach the Transportation Authority]. I would create regional transportation plans,” along with president, the Republican-controlled Senate an HVTA [Hudson Valley Transportation resources for other area needs, such as “the would still have to remove him. Authority] that would exercise control.” nuts and bolts, the bridges, sewers, roads.” Maloney listed three routes forward for Speaking as a resident of the mid-Hudson MTA includes Metro-North, which oper- those who oppose the president: impeach- Valley, Maloney (who lives in Philipstown) ates trains to New York City on the Hudson ment and removal; a demonstration of crim- urged state and other officials to “give me Line, serving Garrison, Cold Spring, Beacon inal liability; or voting him out of office in BEAUTIFUL HOME NEAR LAKE the airport, give me the bridges, give me the and other municipalities; the Harlem Line 2020 — the latter being “the biggest and best Bright, welcoming home. Master suite with cathedral ceiling. 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Nelsonville (from Page 1) Thomas Robertson, who also had served sion I ran thinking, I’ll just leave,” if elected, only two months of his trustee term before Caccamise said. “That was absolutely not adding that “it really takes someone who resigning. my intention.” PERFECT LITTLE GETAWAY knows what they’re doing, to do this.” Speaking from the audience, Robertson “The other trustees are hearing about Charming cottage. Two bedrooms, office, fireplace, Under state law, after a current trustee contended that well before this year’s elec- this for the first time tonight,” Pedlosky heated sunroom. Private lake community. becomes mayor, he or she can appoint tion Caccamise “knew about” his reloca- said. “It’s a surprise to us, as well.” WEB# PO1546972 | Garrison | $345,000 someone to fill the newly vacated board tion. Another audience member mentioned Robertson refused to back down. “I’m seat. The appointed trustee will serve until rumors of an effort by Caccamise and others really disturbed by your election,” he told COLD SPRING BROKERAGE 845.265.5500 the spring election. to take control of the board before he left. He Caccamise. “You shouldn’t have run. I hope HOULIHANLAWRENCE.COM Caccamise became a trustee in August ran as a team, with Pedlosky and Mechaley. you’ll be gone before the next meeting. I’m when O’Neill tapped him to replace “I don’t want anyone to have the impres- glad you’re going.” 10 May 24, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

take care of themselves,” said Sarah Simon, Beacon Prison (from Page 1) Common Ground Farm’s director. The nonprofit Common Ground leases tax revenue for the city, involving local busi- farmland from the state at the Stony Kill nesses and creating trails for biking and Farm Environmental Education Center, and walking. would now be able to expand its operations Casale said he believes Urban Green Food with programming at both sites, she said. It hopes to receive the permits necessary to is considering several opportunities at the open the “tunnel road” — a single-lane, former prison, including an “incubator” for unmaintained road that runs under Inter- small farm-based businesses and developing state 84 and ends at Dutchess a partnership with the Beacon Stadium — to bike and pedes- school district to “grow food that trian traffic. The project can go right into the cafeteria” at According to Empire State could “grow the high school, which is adja- Development, it will work with cent to the site. the developer on the site plan food that “It’s not just the acreage that and the environmental review. can go right makes this appealing for us,” After that’s complete, Beacon she said. “There’s not another and Fishkill officials will be into the space like this in Beacon that asked to set up a joint zoning- cafeteria” at comes with the infrastructure approval process. The proj- the adjacent for offices or educational facil- ect also must be approved by ities. It’s an opportunity to do the Empire State Development Beacon things we can’t do at Stony Kill.” One of the 22 buildings on site at the former Beacon Correctional Facility Photo by J. Simms board, the state comptroller and High School. An advisory committee the state attorney general. that helped select the proj- New York State is offering $6 ect included Casale, Dutchess Doe Fund, which wanted to create a farming After Empire State Development issued million in grant funding for the redevelop- County Executive Marc Molinaro, represen- and job-training center to help homeless and another call for proposals last year, the ment of the site, but that requires a sepa- tatives for state Sen. Sue Serino and Assem- low-income people seek employment and self- agency sent two of the applications it rate application and is subject to the project bly Member Jonathan Jacobson, Fishkill sufficiency. received to the advisory committee, and obtaining all the necessary approvals. Supervisor Bob LaColla and Beacon schools The Doe Fund withdrew its proposal in “it wasn’t even close,” with Urban Green If the project is approved, Urban Green Superintendent Matt Landahl. 2017 after a coalition of officials — includ- Food as the front-runner, Casale said. Food, an offshoot of Urban Green Builders, New York first asked for proposals for the ing Casale, Molinaro and Serino — asked Project organizers will appear at the a New York City-based real estate company, property in 2014, a year after the prison was Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reject it because they Beacon City Council’s June 10 meeting to plans to partner with All You Knead bakery decommissioned. (Before the prison opened argued it had evolved from an economic provide more details about their plans, and Common Ground Farm to transform in 1981, the site was home to the Matteawan development plan to one “inconsistent with Casale said. “This can be great for Beacon the prison commercially and also make it State Hospital.) The request prompted only a the site’s mixed-use, recreational and desti- if it’s done and it’s done right,” he added. “a place where people can get outdoors and single proposal, from the New York City-based nation development potential.”

Lecture series Open: 11:00am to 5:00pm Magazzino Italian Art Foundation Reconsidering Arte Povera Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 2700 Route 9, Cold Spring, NY 10516 June 1, 2019, 3:00-5:00pm Sunday, Monday 845 666 7202 [email protected] Leaves of Grass, Clay, and Bronze: Closed: Tuesday, Wednesday www.magazzino.art Giuseppe Penone and Walt Whitman Admission is free to the public Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, No reservation required Hunter College and the Graduat Free shuttle from Cold Spring Center, CUNY train station highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current May 24, 2019 11 The Calendar Magical Mystery Tours Art center to offer Meet the Artists immersive exhibit Hello Neighbor involves 10 “lead” artists who each oversee one environment, including some creation that will be done on-site during the exhibit. Ryan Biracree (Beacon), the Desmond-Fish Library digital services coordinator, will share his cabinet of curiosities. (He’s also a taxidermist.) The Costellos Kit Burke-Smith (Beacon), the art center’s education coordinator, has brainstormed an environment in which elements are created with knitted yarn. Breaking the Silence Steve Gerberich (Newburgh) turned discarded labor-saving devices into fantastical Rube Goldberg-esque Concert in Beacon to highlight mental-health services sculptures. Carla Rae Johnson (Peekskill), made an environment called Candace Winter with some of her By Brian PJ Cronin creations for "The Woods" Photo provided “Bridge” that will feature a hen a member of Karen James’ meticulously crafted wood family began to have mental- sculpture that brings together the By Alison Rooney visual and verbal. W health issues four years ago, here have been many installations she and her brother Brandon didn’t know Gene Panczenko (Peekskill), a at the Garrison Art Center, but where to turn. technical director, has worked “I like to consider myself pretty well- in video and audio to create one T perhaps nothing quite like what informed in terms of social services and surprise environment; his ambient is coming on June 1. what’s going on,” she said, “but when music will fill another. Katie Schmidt Feder, the center’s direc- tor, has organized a transformation of its you’re in the thick of it, you’re trying to Kat Stoutenborough (Beacon), a two galleries into what is being described figure stuff out and it’s overwhelming. fiber artist, made “The River” with as a “collaborative immersive art experi- You’re dealing with the hospital, the insur- repurposed objects, textiles, light ance, what’s covered, what’s not covered, and whimsy. ence” titled Hello Neighbor: A Look Into the World of Others & Into Other Worlds. what resources are available to you.” Trimqueen — Jana Platina Phipps — In this case, over four weekends, visitors Fortunately, a friend who is a former social and Sarah Petchell (Peekskill) will co- will be invited to navigate a far different worker steered them to the Mid-Hudson lead an installation called “Boudoir,” Noetic art center than they are accustomed to. chapter of the National Alliance on Mental in which “you’re looking into a “Although we have far less square foot- Illness (NAMI). The nonprofit “helped us to woman’s conversation with herself, When it comes to mental-health services, age [than immersive exhibits mounted in understand the system, they empowered us, as she gets ready,” Phipps says. Dutchess County is sometimes referred to as Santa Fe, New York City and elsewhere], they gave us a voice. And that helped us to services rich but information poor. In addi- Joan Vogt (Cortlandt Manor), a we are using many of the same funda- help our family member,” she said. tion to NAMI, there’s Mental Health Amer- scenic artist and assemblage- mental concepts,” explains Schmidt maker, starts with items she ica of Dutchess County, the Dutchess County Feder, including “collaborative creation finds in thrift shops or the side of Stabilization Center and the Dutchess by artists, designers and craftspersons the road. Her installation, “Trevi County Helpline, the latter of which can be whose work might not be the type to be Kitchen,” provides a look at a accessed via text message and a phone app. exhibited in a traditional gallery setting; private moment of longing. But the stigma that continues to utilizing recycled and repurposed materi- surround mental-health problems can Candace Winter (Lake Peekskill) is als; exploring not just the visual but audio co-leading an environment called make it difficult to educate people about and sensory.” “The Woods,” for which she has those many services. To promote them, Ten artists were invited to participate; created objects that she says I Am Beacon, an organization in which about 20 others were selected after an may evoke a feeling of wonder or Brandon James is active, decided to orga- open call in which they submitted diora- “creepy bizarre discomfort.” nize a free concert with multiple perform- mas or through participation in work- ers at Beacon’s Seeger Riverfront Park. Kim Walhauer (Tomkins Cove), shops. Their work comes in multiple helped install the 20-plus dioramas The four-hour Rock Out 4 Mental Health forms — light projection, textiles, diora- and will stage a mysterious black- will take place starting at noon on Satur- mas, gadgets and even a cabinet of curi- light environment dreamed up by day, June 1 (the rain date is June 2), with osities — and are designed, when seen Katie Schmidt Feder that holds a scheduled performances by The Costel- through windows (a la Rear Window), to hidden story that might just explain los, rappers Noetic and Tony E., Dilson evoke other worlds. the other spaces. Hernandez, Charge the Mound, Russ St. “I’m absolutely loving it because you (Continued on Page 19) Tony E. Photos provided (Continued on Page 16) 12 May 24, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

THEEdited byWEEK Pamela Doan ([email protected]) AHEAD For a complete listing of events, see highlandscurrent.org/calendar.

SUN 2 Birds of Prey Day BREWSTER 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Green Chimneys 400 Doansburg Road | 845-279-2995 bit.ly/birds-of-prey-day This annual event, now in its 27th year, will include more than 100 raptors handled by falconers from across New York and Connecticut (as well as Lauren McGough, a Mongolian eagle hunter from Oklahoma who was featured last fall on 60 Minutes). Cost: $15 ($5 children ages 3-11, seniors)

KIDS & FAMILY Summer Gala, June 1 TUES 28 New Moms & Infants Group SAT 1 Alliance. Volunteers are also needed GARRISON Illuminated Festival for set-up and clean-up. Email 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library [email protected]. NEWBURGH 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 Noon – 10 p.m. Lower Broadway desmondfishlibrary.org newburghilluminatedfestival.com ANIMALS & NATURE The group is open to all, including This annual festival will include pregnant women who would like to SAT 25 three stages with musical performers, join the community of new moms. as well as art, dance, poetry, theater, Open Barn Email [email protected]. multicultural food, performance WAPPINGERS FALLS artists and activities for children. Free 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Stony Kill Farm SAT 1 79 Farmstead Lane | 845-831-3800 First Burst stonykill.org Memorial Day, May 27 SAT 1 Community Day Summer Gala Barn guides will talk about the chickens, cows, pigs and GARRISON COLD SPRING sheep that live at the farm. Free 1 – 4 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library MEMORIAL DAY in this show hosted by the Elks. 5 – 9 p.m. Boscobel | 1601 Route 9D 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 There will also be raffles, food 845-809-5750 x12 | hvshakespeare.org desmondfishlibrary.org SAT 1 SUN 26 and music. Admission is free; the Longtime Cold Spring real estate Turtle Talk The community is invited to Maritime Service cost to register a vehicle is $15. agent Robert McCaffrey (above) will celebrate summer with a 25-foot be honored at this annual dinner and GARRISON COLD SPRING climbing wall, bouncy house, races garden party to raise funds for the 7:30 a.m. Boscobel | 1601 Route 9D 11 a.m. Waterfront dock THURS 30 and games, juggling, live music, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. 845-265-3638 | boscobel.org garden activities, arts and crafts, Hudson Valley Access to Guests who dress in fairytale- Health Care Coalition Experts from the Constitution kite flying and ice cream. The rain MON 27 inspired costumes could win tickets Marsh Audubon Center will date is SUN 2. Free Parade and Service COLD SPRING to see Into the Woods. Cost: $350 discuss the habits and history of 9:30 a.m. Old VFW Hall | 34 Kemble Ave. COLD SPRING snapping turtles while introducing TALKS & TOUR 9 a.m. Village Hall | 85 Main St. Judy Farrell of the Philipstown SUN 2 participants (at a safe distance) Organized by the VFW and Town Board is co-chair of the Units of Love Blood Drive to snapping turtles that live in TUES 28 coalition, which has representatives Constitution Marsh. A guided bird American Legion posts, the parade BEACON Psychedelic Salon from Putnam, Westchester, Dutchess, walk will follow along Boscobel’s will stop at the monuments at 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Orange and Rockland counties and mile-long trail. Cost: $12 ($8 for COLD SPRING Main and Chestnut Streets, the Lewis Tompkins Firehouse 6 p.m. Split Rock Books | 97 Main St. Mountain Avenue Cemetery, the shares information and resources to children, ages 5 and younger free) 13 South Ave. | bit.ly/BHAUnitsofLove 845-265-2080 | splitrockbks.com Church on the Hill, the Nelsonville improve access to health care services. Organized by the Beacon Hebrew Village Green memorial and Members of the Permaculture Arts the Cold Spring Cemetery. THURS 30 Coffee with a Cop MON 27 GARRISON Parade and Service 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Dolly’s BEACON 7 Garrison’s Landing | 845-225-4300 1 p.m. City Hall | 1 Municipal Plaza putnamsheriff.com Line-up will begin at noon, and a Bring your questions and service organized by the American concerns to Putnam County Legion will follow the parade at the Sheriff’s Deputy Anthony Tolve Memorial Building, 413 Main St. during conversation on the patio.

COMMUNITY SAT 1 Farm With Your Farmer: SUN 26 Weeding Elks Car Show COLD SPRING BEACON 9 a.m. Glynwood | 362 Glynwood Road 1 – 4:30 p.m. Elks Lodge 845-265-3338 | glynwood.org 900 Wolcott Ave. | 914-474-1891 Learn about tools and techniques Admire classic vehicles from to keep your garden weed-free — and Birds of Prey Day, June 2 the 1940s to 1980s in all classes find out which weeds are tasty. Free highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current May 24, 2019 13

Collective will lead a discussion of the SUN 26 healing power of psychedelic drugs. Breakneck Ridge Revue Reservations required. Cost: $16 BEACON 7 p.m. Towne Crier | 379 Main St. TUES 28 845-855-1300 | townecrier.com Scam-Proof Your Life The band, which includes Andrew GARRISON Revkin, David A. Ross, Patrick 6 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library Stanfield Jones, Todd Giudice and 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 Mark Murphy, will be joined by the desmondfishlibrary.org Trouble Sisters. Cost: $15 ($20 door) Learn how to protect your personal data and accounts THURS 30 from scams. Free Ukulele Open Mic BEACON WED 29 7 p.m. Towne Crier | 379 Main St. Hidden Treasures of the 845-855-1300 | townecrier.com Hudson Valley Held every other month, the BEACON Uke Open Mic is hosted by Wendy 7 p.m. St. Andrew’s Church Matthews of the Edukated Fleas, 15 South Ave. | 845-831-0514 who will be looking for performers to feature at the next Hudson beaconhistorical.org Valley Ukulele Invitational. In a talk sponsored by the Beacon Sign-up begins at 5 p.m. Free Historical Society, Tony Musso will discuss lesser-known historical sites that played an important role in the SAT 1 growth of the Hudson Valley. Free Rock Out 4 Mental Health BEACON The Mallet Brothers Band, June 1 SAT 1 Noon – 4 p.m. Riverfront Park Linda Dahl rockout4mentalhealth.com This fundraiser, organized COLD SPRING Olu Akiwuimi — will be joined by I Am Beacon, will feature SAT 25 SUN 26 4 p.m. Butterfield Library by Evolution, which includes performances by The Costellos, International Artists Dan Botkin 10 Morris Ave. | 845-265-3040 Rachel Evans, Debra Kaye and Noetic, Tony E., Dilson Hernandez, Residency BEACON butterfieldlibrary.org Scott Beall. Cost: $10 ($15 door) Russ St. George, Jerry Kitrow and BEACON 3 p.m. Howland Cultural Center As part of the Charge the Mound. See Page 11. Free 3 – 6 p.m. Scenic Hudson River Center 477 Main St. | 845-831-4988 ongoing Writers SAT 1 8 Long Dock Park | beaconarts.org howlandculturalcenter.org Reading at the The Mallet Brothers Band Library series, SAT 1 At this reception, meet the Botkin, Linda Dahl will The Kennedys BEACON artists who have been working who is 8:30 p.m. Towne Crier Café | 379 Main St. one of 34 discuss the art PUTNAM VALLEY since May 12 in the Red Barn and 845-855-1300 | townecrier.com artists who of fiction (“the 7:30 p.m. Tompkins Corners Cultural Center view works they have created. contributed truth that didn’t 729 Peekskill Hollow Road | 845-528-7280 This band from Maine plays a mix of Americana, jam, roots and to an exhibit happen”) and tompkinscorners.org SUN 26 read from her Erica trilogy. Free rock. Cost: $15 ($20 door) to mark The husband-and-wife duo Hudson Valley Free Day the 100th Maura and Pete Kennedy will BEACON anniversary SAT 1 perform songs from their latest VISUAL ART 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Dia:Beacon of Pete Seeger’s birth that ends on Hudson River Rising release, Safe Until Tomorrow. Cost: 3 Beekman St. | 845-440-0100 MON 27, will discuss his series of $20 ($15 seniors and students) SAT 25 COLD SPRING Eco Print Workshop diaart.org 12 paintings, For Everything There 5 p.m. Putnam History Museum On the last Sunday of each month, is a Season, that was inspired by BEACON 63 Chestnut St. | 845-265-4010 SAT 1 the museum opens its doors at no Seeger’s song, “Turn Turn Turn” Noon - 3 p.m. New York Textile Lab putnamhistorymuseum.org Expansions Crossroad charge to residents of Dutchess, and Ecclesiastes 3:1-18. Free 146 Main St. | newyorktextilelab.com Marci Reaven, the vice president Music Project Putnam and other nearby counties. Using regionally sourced flowers for history exhibitions at the New- Present identification that includes FRI 31 BEACON and leaves, participants can York Historical Society, will discuss proof of residency at the admissions 8 p.m. Howland Cultural Center experiment with “eco printing” on Poseneske Sessions an exhibit she curated there, Hudson desk. (Hudson Valley Free Days are 477 Main St. | 845-765-3012 silk textiles using steaming and BEACON Rising, that examines through art sponsored by Kiki McMillan, Charlie howlandculturalcenter.org hammering to extract pigment. 6 p.m. Dia Beacon | 3 Beekman St. and artifacts how the river “has been Pohlad and the Pohlad family.) In Goldee and the Wolves — with Registration required. Cost: $68 845-440-0100 | bit.ly/dia-lecture an incubator for our ideas about the addition, residents of Beacon, Chelsea, Goldee Greene, Chris Shawn, Bill In the first of a series of environment and our relationships Fishkill and Glenham are admitted Imperial, Rafael Figueroa and lectures about aspects of the work to the natural world.” See Page 2. free every Saturday and Sunday. of Charlotte Posenenske, Rey Cost: $10 (members free) Akdogan and Alan Ruiz will discuss form, followed in subsequent MUSIC weeks by labor, space and play. Reservations required. Free SAT 25 Decora SAT 1 BEACON Hello Neighbor 8:30 p.m. Towne Crier | 379 Main St. 845-855-1300 | townecrier.com GARRISON 3 – 11 p.m. Garrison Art Center The musician and performance poet brings together folk and 23 Garrison’s Landing | 845-424-3960 hip-hop. Christine Dominguez garrisonartcenter.org will open. Cost: $25 ($30 door) There will be food and an I Spy program from 3 to 5 p.m. for children ages 5 and older at SUN 26 the opening of this multimedia Schroeder Umansky Duo exhibit. From 5 to 6:30 p.m., curious COLD SPRING cocktails and fascinating finds 4 p.m. Chapel Restoration | 45 Market St. will be shared. At 9 p.m., the Night 845-265-5537 | chapelrestoration.org Peepers program will begin with Violinist Amy Schroeder and electronic music artist Kidaudra, cellist Felix Umansky will be joined projections and lighting. See Page by pianist Yalin Chi for a program 11. Cost: $20 ($5 for ages 5 to 17) that includes Dvorak’s Trio in F Minor, Op. 65 and Chausson’s Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 3. (Continued on Page 14) Donations are welcome. Free Breakneck Ridge Revue, May 26 14 May 24, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

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SAT 1 SAT 25 FRI 31 Leaves of Grass, Clay and The Artichoke Unpresidented Bronze BEACON BEACON COLD SPRING 8 p.m. Howland Cultural Center 7:30 p.m. Catalyst Gallery | 137 Main St. 3 p.m. Magazzino Italian Art 477 Main St. | 845-831-4988 845-204-3844 | catalystgallery.com 2700 Route 9 | 845-666-7202 artichoke.brownpapertickets.com Actor and SiriusXM host John magazzino.art Hosted by Drew Prochaska, this Fugelsang will present his one-man In the second installment of a four- episode of the ongoing storytelling show, which he describes as “the And Then They Came for Us, May 31 part series of lectures, Reconsidering series will feature performers true story of a comedian trying to Arte Povera, Emily Braun, an art who have told their tales on The raise a toddler while his country writer during a dinner in the site’s town’s assessment of the history professor at Hunter College, Moth, Story Collider and Comedy was electing one.” To RSVP, email 18th-century barn. Cost: $150 value of your property, this is will explore parallels between Central Presents. Charming [email protected]. Cost: $5 your annual opportunity. Guiseppe Penone’s art and writings of Disaster will provide music. Some material may not be suitable for SAT 1 Walt Whitman, specifically Leaves of FRI 31 A Dancer’s Bookshelf: TUES 28 Grass (1855). Free children. Cost: $15 ($20 door) And Then They Came Words in Motion City Council for Us FRI 31 POUGHKEEPSIE BEACON BEACON 2 & 6:30 p.m. Bardavon | 35 Market St. 7 p.m. City Hall | 1 Municipal Plaza STAGE & SCREEN Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 7:30 p.m. First Presbyterian Church 845-831-1870 | balletartsstudio.com 845-838-5011 | cityofbeacon.org BEACON 50 Liberty St. SAT 25 Ballet Arts Studio in Beacon will Bannerman Island moviesthatmatterbeacon.org Nunsense Boats leave dock at 7 and 8 p.m. present its annual spring student TUES 28 Shown as part of the ongoing concert and performance. Cost: $15 GARRISON 845-203-1316 Board of Trustees Movies That Matter series, this 2017 ($12 seniors and children ages 12 7:30 p.m. Philipstown Depot Theatre bannermancastle.org/movie-nights COLD SPRING documentary presents an account and younger) 10 Garrison’s Landing | 845-424-3900 In the first of a series of movies of the incarceration of 120,000 7:30 p.m. Village Hall | 85 Main St. brownpapertickets.com/event/4208393 that will screened over the summer Japanese-Americans after Japan 845-265-3611 | coldspringny.gov The popular musical and fall on the island, this popular bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Free CIVIC comedy, directed and 1986 comedy follows a teenager WED 29 choreographed by played by Matthew Broderick who TUES 28 Christine Bokhour, decides he needs a break from SAT 1 Board of Assessment School Board follows a group of school. Other films in the series Dinner & Conversation Review GARRISON 7 p.m. Garrison School | 1100 Route 9D nuns as they mount will include Psycho, The Wizard with Edgar Allan Poe COLD SPRING 845-424-3689 | gufs.org a variety show. Also, of Oz, Jurassic Park, House of BEACON 3 – 5 & 7 – 9 p.m. Philipstown Town Hall SUN 26, FRI 31, SAT 1, Wax and Abbott and Costello 4:30 p.m. Mount Gulian | 145 Sterling St. 238 Main St. | 845-265-5200 SUN 2. Cost: $25 ($20 Meet Frankenstein. Cost: $40 845-831-8172 | mountgulian.org bit.ly/grievance-booklet students and seniors) Robert Gleason will portray the If you want to appeal the

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he bracing yet soothing proper- ties of sea air have been part of rest T cures and unwinding for centuries. Now, you don’t have to drive to the ocean to partake — it’s in Nelsonville at Hudson River Healing & Wellness, a new spa that includes a salt room, sometimes called a Clients can use a zero-gravity chair. salt cave or grotto. Photos by A. Rooney The spa’s owner, Tara Sweet-Flagler, is eager to tell people about it. “There are natural caves around the world from a galvanizing moment for the Cold Spring which salt is drawn,” she explains. “There native (she’s a 1987 Haldane grad), who are qualities in this salt which are used for decided she wanted to overcome her fear wellness activities.” of owning a business. “This is something Sweet-Flagler, who, over the past 20 years, I’ve thought about for a long time,” she says. began and developed the exercise physiology “There are so many things I want to share Tara Sweet-Flagler The entrance to the salt room program at Dutchess Community College with this community. I’m still working on (where she still teaches), says alternative the list of too nervous to try: I took a hot-air healing practices such as yoga, meditation balloon ride, but I still want to paddleboard degrees with 40 to 50 percent humidity. retail products, including many cannabi- and salt air have improved her own life over and to skydive.” There is calming background music and diol (CBD) items. “I keep hearing back from the past five years as she struggled with Sweet-Flagler’s small space on Nelson- deep breathing is encouraged. people who are trying them that they’re fibromyalgia and chronic pain. ville’s commercial stretch is dominated by The room is large enough for small great for sleep issues, anxiety and for pain,” “I felt so depressed — it was, ‘why can’t its salt room, which is a cloistered cham- groups, including several that meet weekly. says Sweet-Flagler. The spa holds a CBD I move?’” she recalls. “I tried meditation ber of Himalayan salt blocks illuminated There’s a Thursday morning meditation happy hour on Fridays at 6 p.m., which class, then healing techniques, Qi Gong, by crystal lamps. The floor is covered with and a Monday afternoon children’s play begins with a CBD treat and ends with a cupping, others. I became exposed to all crushed salt that resembles sand (shoes group in which toddlers can play in the salt cup of CBD tea. of these methods.” Nevertheless, her own must be removed but there are no other while caregivers relax. Therapy sessions Hudson River Healing & Wellness is experience aside, “this isn’t just for people clothing restrictions). Customers can opt such as massage, reflexology, acupuncture, located at 290 Main St. A 45-minute salt- who are ill; in fact, it should be part of a to relax on a zero-gravity chair, on pillows reiki, Thai bodywork and crystal healing room session is $35. For more informa- wellness routine.” resting on the crushed salt, or in the salt. treatments can also be booked. tion, visit hrhealingwellness.com or call Turning 50, as she did not long ago, was The temperature is maintained at 68 to 70 The balance of the space is dedicated to 845-240-1822.

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Start Reading Now The Family of Ann Meeropol thanks the June book club selections communities of Philipstown and Beacon for everything you did to support us as we cared for Butterfield Book Club Kids’ Book Club MON 3, 7 P.M. THURS 27, 4 P.M. our beloved wife/mother/mother-in-law/sister/ The Library Book, by Susan Orlean Comet in Moominland, grandmother in the final months of her life. Butterfield Library, Cold Spring by Tove Jansson Split Rock Books, Cold Spring Helen Savoit Book Club TUES 11, 1:30 P.M. History Book Club It made all of the difference in the world. The House Children, THURS 27, 7 P.M. by Heidi Daniele We Crossed a Bridge and It Howland Library, Beacon Trembled: Voices from Syria, by Wendy Pearlman With gratitude and appreciation, Fiction Book Club Split Rock Books, Cold Spring THURS 13, 7 P.M. Michael Meeropol A View of the Harbour, Beacon Book Club by Elizabeth Taylor THURS 27, 7 P.M. Kathryn Karusaitis Basham Split Rock Books, Cold Spring Killing Commendatore, Ivy Meeropol by Haruki Murakami Graphic Novel Book Club Location available to members Thomas Ambrose (for Adults) meetup.com/Beacon-BookClub Gregory Meeropol TUES 18, 7 P.M. I Never Liked You, Patrycja Mikos by Chester Brown Julian Meeropol Ambrose Split Rock Books, Cold Spring Dylan Ann Meeropol Ambrose 18 May 24, 2019 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

Small, Good Things the master. Susan’s recipe is a mere five ingredients: Salted Honey Pie For one 9-inch pie; serves 8 flour and water, sugar, salt and butter. The operative words and instructions for mastery Easy as Pie are “cold” and “fast” — everything must be kept cold (including the flour, which she keeps By Joe Dizney in the refrigerator, and the water, which is ie — food iced). If the butter gets too soft, a trip to the cooked in fridge is in order. Work fast and loose by hand flour-water and with little ceremony for a light, flaky crust. P Susan specifies organic, unbleached all- paste or dough — has been around purpose flour (Bob’s Red Mill is her go-to) since the beginning and high-fat, unsalted European-style of civilization. The earli- e s t butter (Kerrygold, Plugras). The dough Greek and Egyptian examples were hand- must rest, refrigerated, between mixing fashioned containers in which meat was and rolling it out to allow glutens a chance cooked, ostensibly sealing in the juices and to “relax,” making for more elasticity and flavor. avoiding breakage. The prepared dough is The Brits unappetizingly celebrated rolled out as quickly as possible and chilled this feature by referring to their earliest once again in the pie pan before ultimately emblematic meat pies as coffyns (coffins). being baked. This was the precursor to en croute (“in Her recipe is easily doubled for a two-crust crust”) cooking, a technique brought to its pie, or the mixed and wrapped unformed cultured apotheosis by the French. dough can be frozen for convenience. But truth be told, the pie was initially a Since local fruit is a mere gleam in the Susan’s Foolproof Crust crude culinary kluge, as much a practical eye at present, I sought some other sweet solution to the absence of kitchenware as filling to test Susan’s master crust and • 7 to 8 tablespoons unsalted butter (high fat European-style) came across an intriguing salted honey anything we would recognize as a recipe. • 1 cup organic unbleached all-purpose flour Pie dough was little more than the material pie on chef David Lebovitz’s blog (davidle- • 1 scant tablespoon sugar from which these makeshift casseroles or bovitz.com). desserts got cooked in a time of few or no Beyond the Beatles’ musical reference, it • ¼ teaspoon salt actually harkens back to ur-recipes for sweet baking pans. Pie-making served equally • ¼ cup ice water (or a bit more) well for cooking, storing and transporting. pies which generally used honey as a sweet- ener. A quick web search uncovered a rich 1. Cut butter into dry ingredients with a pastry cutter until pebbly (the consistency That’s to say pie — or rather, pie crust of coarse meal). Add water a little at a time and stir with a fork or your fingers just — was less a recipe than a technique, used vein of variations, mostly based on a pie from Brooklyn’s Four & Twenty Blackbirds bakery, until a slightly sticky dough forms and holds together. Form into a puck shape, widely and unceremoniously, for cooking wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour, or up to 24. what-have-you, savory or sweet. The process but the filling in most is basically a simple was perfunctory, casual and rustic: the crust and not-too-sweet custard (this one uses 2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove dough from fridge, unwrap onto a floured working surface. Whack it a few times to flatten it and let sit for about 10 minutes was most likely not even meant to be eaten, buttermilk, but whole milk or cream were to soften. Flour a rolling pin and slowly roll dough out to about a 13-inch circle. and a far cry from the precious and peculiar referenced as was a dairy- or at least lactose- recipes that intimidate the contemporary free version). The baked and cooled pie is 3. Carefully lift an edge of the pastry onto a floured rolling pin and roll the rest of (well, at least this particular) home cook. finally tweaked with a finishing sprinkle of it loosely around the pin. Reverse the process over a 9-inch pie pan, unrolling the There are people, however, who make flaky sea salt — Maldon is perfect. Don’t use dough over the pan, making sure you have even overhang all around. Trim edge or fold and crimp the excess under itself. Gently press dough to the bottom of pan the magical formula look preternaturally kosher or any other commercial boxed salts. and prick with the tines of a fork. Chill for 30 minutes. easy, and my friend Susan is one of those The crust for this variation is pre- (or people. She can knock out a perfect pastry blind-) baked, which is a bit more energy- 4. Blind baking: Line bottom of chilled pie shell with parchment or foil and weigh and rustic tart — mixing bowl to oven — in and time-intensive. But on the whole it’s down with dried beans or pie weights. Bake for 15 minutes, then remove briefly what seems like five minutes, without break- still just as easy as pie. from the oven and get rid of the parchment/foil and beans/weights. Cover edge ing a sweat and hardly measuring things. with a crust shield (or create one by gently covering just the edges with foil). Return pan to oven and bake for another 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and Anticipating the sweet season of fruits Visit for news cool on a rack while you prepare the filling. and berries, the season most identified with highlandscurrent.org updates and latest information. the classic and archetypal “pie,” I consulted Honey Pie Filling

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and goods by participating artists will be Feder, and the second more immersive. the third, at 9 p.m., called Night Peepers, (from Page 11) Exhibit on display for purchase. She hints at an “interesting” method of will feature projections, black-light paint- don’t have to hold back on anything and you Admission to Hello Neighbor requires a connecting between the two. ing, and a performance from electronic can work with things you don’t normally,” ticket, which is $20 for adults and $5 for There will be three opening parties on music artist Audra Kizina, whose music says Candace Winter, a contributing artist. children and teens ages five to 17 at garri- Saturday, June 1. The first has staggered and embroidery art will also be featured in The centerpiece of the exhibit will sonartcenter.org/coming-up. Groups of six admission times beginning at 3 p.m. and parts of the exhibition. include artwork made during two commu- or seven people will move through the space includes I SPY activities and food for fami- Tickets for the opening parties are also nity textile workshops. The space will also at 10-minute intervals. The first gallery is lies; the second, at 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m., has $20 for adults and $5 for children and feature an Art Automat, where small works more voyeuristic, according to Schmidt been dubbed Curiosity & Cocktails; and teens.

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MARITIME HONOR — The Putnam County Sheriff’s Department honored former deputy Charles Moore (left) on May 15 by naming one of its new patrol boats after him. Moore, a former Marine who served two tours in Vietnam, joined the department in 1967 and was a member of its first SWAT team, its first undercover narcotics agent, and its first chief dive officer; he also organized its first toy drive. Moore, who retired in 1987, is shown with Capt. James Babcock Jr. Photo by Lydia JA Langley

SUN (AND FOOT) POWER — Garrison School Principal Alex Levine rides a solar-powered bicycle during a Youth Climate Summit held at the school on May 17. The day-long event was attended by middle school students from Garrison, Manitou, Haldane, Putnam Valley, Highland Falls- Fort Montgomery, Carmel, Byram Hills and Tarrytown who were instructed to create action plans for their schools or districts. For more photos, see hghlandscurrent.org. Photo by Ross Corsair

50 YEARS OF SAILING — State Assembly Member Jonathan Jacobson (right), whose district includes Beacon, presented a proclamation from the Legislature on May 17 to Greg Williams, executive director of Clearwater, aboard its namesake sloop to honor the organization’s 50th anniversary. Photo by Brian PJ Cronin

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of Fleischmann’s yeast, which resemble 1. Repeal Section 2, Chapter 1, which gum. When the clerk turned his back, the reads: “No boy shall at any time after Looking Back in Philipstown men began to “sample” the stock. Within a sundown engage in any play, or game, few moments they were rolling on the floor or sport which shall cause any running, By Chip Rowe ened enforcement of an ordinance against in gastrointestinal distress. or noise, or other disturbances in the fast driving. “The speed at which half of Complaints were heard that several shop- Village of Cold Spring, under penalty of 150 Years Ago (May 1869) the horses are driven on Main Street is too keepers were selling cigarettes to minors. $3 for each offense.” John Tilford of Nelsonville reported great,” noted the Recorder. William Church Osborn, who represents 2. Amend Section 4, Chapter 1 to read: that he had been returning on the river William Entrott of Cold Spring was hired Putnam County in the Constitutional “The discharge of firearms, or of fire- from Newburgh when he helped rescue an as a keeper at Sing Sing prison. Convention, was said to personally support works, except one week previous to giving women the right to vote but believed Fourth of July, or one week thereafter, intoxicated man, Patrick Lynch, who had 125 Years Ago (May 1894) it should be left up to the legislature. will not be permitted.” jumped into the river. Tilford and others The first open-air concert of the season The men employed in the brickyards 3. Amend Chapter 7 to require licenses were barely able to keep Lynch from jump- was presented at the bandstand by the between Cold Spring and Fishkill went on to peddle meat, fish, fruit, vegetables ing back into the water. Kemble Cornet Band, which had purchased strike for better wages but most returned to or general wares from a wagon, cart or Gas pipe leaks at the corner of Main and new uniforms. work after receiving a counteroffer — work sleigh ($10), or without ($4). In addi- Chestnut killed five maples on the east Two men who inquired at S.B. MeKeel’s for the same wages, or don’t work at all. tion, set fees for circuses ($15 a day, side of Chestnut — “standing monuments store in Nelsonville if the clerk had any The Ordinance Committee recommended plus $3 per sideshow); menageries ($10); of the poisonous effects of coal gas upon chewing gum were directed toward cakes the roots of trees,” according to the Cold several changes to the Village Code: minstrels, illusionists or spiritualists Spring Recorder. ($3); and panoramas and “exhibitions After Willie Pelham returned to his of natural or artificial curiosities” ($2). father’s jewelry store on Main Street 4. Repeal the license requirement for (where he sleeps) to find the rear door “hacks” who convey passengers on ajar, he cocked his revolver to search for stages, coaches or wagons. the thieves he suspected (incorrectly) were A village trustee reported complaints hiding inside. A sudden start discharged that water from the village pumps was the pistol, and Pelham shot himself in the being wasted. It was referred to the Water left hand. Committee. J.B. Bosseau of Highland Falls sent a The village president reported that the check for $45 to J. Goodsell of Newburgh, property tax rate would increase by 11 but the “J” looked so much like an “I” that cents, to $4.75 per $1,000 of assessed value, the post office gave it to Isaac Goodsell, largely because of a new law that exempts who cashed it. When Joseph Goodsell church parsonages. found out, he had Isaac arrested. The Village Board increased the lamp- A valuable team of horses owned by lighter’s salary to $25 per month from Samuel Avery was standing unfastened in $22.50. a yard when it jumped over the wall, ran The 285-foot yacht Margarita, owned down Paulding to Chestnut and onto Wall by Philadelphia banker Anthony Joseph and then to Furnace, where they fell and Drexel Jr. and named for his wife, dropped the mare broke a leg, rendering her useless. anchor off Garrison. It carried a crew of Twenty-six trees planted last spring made 64 men. a continuous line from Division Street A complaint was heard about a farmer in Nelsonville to Furnace Street in Cold who lived south of the village and parked Spring. The village advised homeowners his horse on Main Street for 10 to 12 hours opposite the trees to position tying posts while he visited the saloons. so their horses could not reach the bark. After a report that Thomas Ashcroft had Pete Daly, 9, was caught in Mrs. Truman’s disappeared, and was supposed to have house on Chestnut Street stealing from her committed suicide by drowning in the pocketbook. A repeat offender, he was sent to Foundry pond, William King spent most of the House of Refuge but escaped. Two days a day dragging the water without success. later, he showed up at the slaughterhouse The mystery was solved when Ashcroft of O.H. Speedling, saying he had “lived on returned on the train Sunday evening after briars.” The sheriff took Daly to New York visiting friends in New York City. City, “where it is hoped he will reform.” The president of the Village Board tight- Scenes from Sing Sing prison about 1867 (Continued on Page 22)

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Looking Back (from Page 21) and small black bags were a familiar site son Coal Co. by two Garrison boys. A resi- around the village as they responded to an dent of the Westchester County Home, 100 Years Ago (May 1919) average of 320 calls each month — began rais- Farrell apparently was sitting on the dock The governor signed a bill that required ing funds to replace the corps car, which had when he suffered a heart attack. an 8-foot-wide horse lane on the side of more than 65,000 miles on the odometer and 50 Years Ago (May 1969) every newly constructed road. broke down often. The pupils of Helen Jimenez Trees along Main Street were being Linda Nobile of Cold Spring was named announced they would perform a musical valedictorian and Suzanne Matthews of trimmed in anticipation of the installation revue, Echoes from the Hayloft, at the Haldane of the new electric light system. Nelsonville the salutatorian of the Haldane Central School as a fundraiser for the cause. Class of 1969. George McAndrew, while crossing Main There were numerous complaints about Street, was hit and knocked down by an A group of young men from Philipstown commuters who took up more than one voted to organize a chapter of the United automobile whose occupants stopped long space when they parked along the wall at enough to make sure he was all right. States Junior Chamber, or Jaycees, and the foot of Main Street and in the Depot selected temporary officers until elections 75 Years Ago (May 1944) Plaza to catch the train. could take place. The Philipstown Public Health Nurses [U.S. The body of Daniel Farrell, 67, was found Cadet Nurse Corps] — whose blue uniforms on rocks next to the Hudson near the Garri- 25 Years Ago (May 1994) Fourth-graders from the Garrison School Public health nurses were a familiar site visited the Mother Lurana Social Center to in 1944. ask seniors what life was like before TV, indoor bathrooms, airplanes, washers and dryers, lengers unseated incumbent Trustees Eric refrigerators, fast food, central heat and super- Richter and Dean Anderson. markets. The children also heard about the ice State Sen. George Pataki, a resident of man, the milk man, the egg and bread man, Garrison, won the Republican nomination the vegetable peddler, the coal man, the scis- for governor. At the same time, Assembly- sor sharpener, the tin man and the rag man. man Vincent Leibell announced his candi- The Cold Spring Hotshots won the annual dacy for the seat Pataki vacated to run for Putnam Highlands Birdathon, spotting 162 the higher office. species in a 24-hour period, nearly toppling After 20 years in business, Mary Fauteux the record of 165 set the year before. closed her antique store to begin a four-year Maria Galarza-Lindner won a seat on physician’s assistant program at a West the Haldane school board with 514 votes. Virginia college. She opened the shop in 1974 Solange Muller received 392 and Dave after moving to Cold Spring from Minnesota. Merandy got 253. Leonora Burton’s newly formed High- In Garrison, the school budget, which land Basket Co. won second place among included a 4.8 percent tax hike, was 91 competitors in a national gift-basket approved by a vote of 256-216, and two chal- competition.

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Answers will be published next week. © 2019 King Features Synd., Inc. See highlandscurrent.org/puzzle for interactive versions. 24 May 24, 2019 For mail delivery, see highlandscurrent.org/delivery SPORTS Follow us at twitter.com/hcurrentsports SPORTS HONORS No. 3 Haldane Perseveres, Then Meets No. 2 Girls’ Basketball but we played well,” he said. “This is an amaz- Haldane junior Bella Monteleone Boys’ lacrosse record season ends in semi-finals ing group of guys, and it’s been a great season.” was named fifth-team All-State by the New York State Sportswriters Softball Association among small high Haldane's Darrin Santos (in Haldane (12-3) received the No. 1 seed schools and junior Olivia McDermott white) scores the game-winner among four teams in Section 1, Class C, and was named to the ninth team. in overtime on May 17. For more will host No. 4 Keio (2-12) on May 28. The photos, see highlandscurrent.org. Boys’ Soccer winner will advance to the title game on Photos by S. Pearlman May 30. Haldane senior Devin Heanue Beacon (8-13), the No. 19 seed of 20 teams signed a letter of intent to play soccer this fall for Binghamton in Section 1, Class A, on May 22 upset No. University. 14 Lincoln (9-9), 27-4, and was scheduled to travel to No. 3 Pearl River (15-4) on May 23. Girls’ Golf See highlandscurrent.org. After placing third in the inaugural Baseball Dutchess County Girls Golf The Beacon High School squad has been Invitational on May 14, the Beacon inconsistent on offense all season, and girls’ golf team had four players named to the All-League team: that inconsistency hurt the eighth-seeded Analiese Compagnone (ranked Bulldogs on May 20 as they bowed out of 7th), JoAnna Galbo (11), Brielle the Section, 1 Class A playoffs in the first Travis (13) and Diana Campos (16). round with a 4-0 loss at Dutchess Stadium to ninth-seeded Harrison (12-9). Track & Field Harrison scored once in the fourth inning, The Liberty League on May 20 By Skip Pearlman this team,” Crowe said. “They played from twice in the fifth and once in the sixth, and named Abbey Stowell, a 2018 behind, from ahead, they never gave up, that was it. The Bulldogs, who finished 12-8- Haldane grad, as Rookie of the he Haldane High School lacrosse and it was a fantastic season.” 1, managed just three hits off Huskies starter Week after the Ithaca College team, seeded No. 3 in the Section In the loss to Briarcliff, Giachinta had Mike Corso, a pitcher they had chased out in freshman won the heptathlon with T 1, Class D playoffs, defeated No. 6 five goals and two assists, and Beachak and the second game of the season. 4,174 points (and a winning javelin Dobbs Ferry in dramatic fashion on May 17, “We couldn’t hit the fastball, and that’s throw of 32.89 meters) at the Santos each had a goal. John Hankel tallied winning in overtime, 13-12, but three days 22 saves in goal. something we’ve worked on,” said Manager All-Atlantic Region Track & Field later ran into No. 2 Briarcliff, which ended Conference Championships. Haldane reached its first semifinal thanks Bob Atwell. “He shut us down.” the Blue Devils’ historic season. to its thrilling victory over Dobbs Ferry (13-5) Matt Monzoeillo started for Beacon, After finishing the regular season with in the quarterfinals. Haldane came back allowing eight hits and taking the loss. two decisive wins over North Salem and a from four down in the third quarter to tie “Matt pitched well enough to win,” Atwell 14-2 record, Haldane received a bye in the the game, and from two down in the fourth. said, “but we didn’t help him” with six errors. first round of the tournament. Had the team With the teams trading goals, the Blue Devils Nick Lepere was the only Bulldog to have defeated Briarcliff, which won 12-7, it would tied it at 12-12 with 4:24 remaining. success at the plate, going 2-for-3. VARSITY have faced No. 4 Pleasantville (13-6) in the Less than two minutes into the sudden- In the Section 1, Class C tournament, title game on Thursday. death, Santos took a pass from Beachak and which includes four teams, No. 4 Haldane SCOREBOARD “We felt like we needed to execute to buried it from 12 yards out. lost the first game of a best-of-three series perfection to have a chance” against Briar- against No. 1 Tuckahoe on May 20, 4-0, and Track & Field Giachinta ended the game with four goals cliff, said Coach Ed Crowe. “We played and four assists, Besim Diba notched a hat- was scheduled to host the Tigers on May 23 Haldane @ Northern County our best game of the year, and we had to Championship trick and two assists, Beachak had a hat-trick, for Game 2. See highlandscurrent.org. — they’re ranked No. 2 [in Class D] in the Santos had two goals and one assist, and Will Girls’ 400 meters state. 3. Ashley Haines (1:01.34) Westerhuis had a goal. Hankel had 15 saves. “We got three goals in the third to make “John played phenomenal in both games,” Girls’ 800 meters it a close game,” he added. “It was only in 3. Ashley Haines (2:27.69) Crowe said of his goalie. “He kept us in it the last few minutes they pulled away. I against Briarcliff, and against Dobbs in Beacon @ Northern County couldn’t ask for a better effort.” Championship overtime he came up with a huge pass The Blue Devils, who finish at 15-3, had that started the game-winning play. And Girls’ High Jump never advanced so far in the regionals. With 3. Alicia Williams (4-09) for Sam to produce the way he did in both its first league title, its best record ever, and its games [nine goals, six assists] as a two-way Girls’ Triple Jump first victory over rival Putnam Valley, Crowe 3. Naomi Anderson-Benjamin midfielder, I believe he’s the best player was liking what his team accomplished. in our area. Brad Dowd neutralized their (32-03.5) “It’s never easy to be the smallest school Boys’ 3,200 meters faceoff guy for us, and gave us good defen- in Section 1, and the kids did everything sive play overall.” 3. Ryan Cory (9:56.45) that was asked,” he said. Boys’ Long Jump Giachinta called it “one of the craziest The Blue Devils also for the first time had games I’ve ever been a part of. We don’t let the 1. Mark Guzman (20-03.5) four players who reached 100 career points: Boys’ Triple Jump goals [deficit] affect our mentality, we just try sophomore Darrin Santos, juniors Jagger to get back in the game in any way possible.” 1. Tre Smith (42-0) Beachak and Mame Diba and senior Sam Boys’ Discus Mame Diba said a key was that the Blue Giachinta, who finished with 200. Devils kept their composure. “We struggled 1. Joshua Rivera (135-01) “I can’t say enough about the character of on ground balls and turned the ball over a bit, Matt Manzoeillo delivers against Harrison.