Fishkill Supply Depot Would Have Looked Like During the Revolutionary Definitions and Data on Nearly Every- Cies and Governments

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January 31, 2020 ISSUE 400 Support us at highlandscurrent.org/join Beacon Counts Putnam D.A. Its Blessings Requests Phone City completes natural resource inventory Breaker

By Jeff Simms Also says new state evidence law unworkable wo years ago, Beacon began to document its natural and cultural By Leonard Sparks resources. What exactly did the city T he Putnam County district attor- have going for it? How about this: more than 4 miles of ney plans to buy a device that will Hudson River shoreline; state-certified T allow investigators to retrieve “important areas” for rare plants and animals; photos, texts and other information from estuarine, marine, freshwater and forested the locked Apple and Android phones of wetlands; and 10 parks and preserves. suspects. What’s next? Figuring out how to protect The Legislature’s Audit and Adminis- them. tration Committee on Jan. 23 approved a The 64-page Natural Resource Inven- request from Robert Tendy to spend $9,500 tory, or NRI, was completed this month. to purchase Cellebrite, which is made by an This painting by Hudson Valley artist John Gould, “The Last Cantonment 1783,” is “a good It is filled with dozens of maps and charts, Israeli company for law enforcement agen- depiction of what the Fishkill Supply Depot would have looked like during the Revolutionary definitions and data on nearly every- cies and governments. War,” according to Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot. Image courtesy John Gould thing under the sun, literally, within the Cellebrite’s system is “a powerful inves- 4.7-square-mile city. tigative tool, and we will be using it to our “It really is a foundational planning tool,” advantage,” Tendy said. Revolutionary War said Laura Heady, the conservation and A court order is required before a phone land-use program coordinator for the state can be accessed, he noted. “You can’t just Department of Environmental Conserva- grab a guy’s phone and apply Cellebrite,” Battle Rages in Fishkill tion’s Hudson River Estuary Program, which he said. “If you did that, any information (Continued on Page 9) (Continued on Page 3) Critics oppose themed tourist complex on historic site

By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong Sometimes called Crossroads, the parcel lies across Snook Road from the hat may be the last battle of the 18th-century Van Wyck Homestead, a American Revolution is being onetime farmhouse now owned by the W fought in Fishkill. Fishkill Historical Society that served as The fight pits an historical organization a Continental Army headquarters in the and residents against a pugnacious devel- epicenter of the Fishkill Supply Depot, oper. It also involves a local government which operated from 1776 to 1783. that until recently seemed ready to accom- Established by Gen. George Washing- modate him. ton, the entire supply depot sprawled from At stake is a 10.5-acre parcel on the east northern Philipstown to Fishkill Landing side of Route 9 (the Albany Post Road of (part of present-day Beacon) and Fishkill colonial days), opposite the largely vacant village (which served as New York’s wartime Dutchess Mall. capital for six months) and extended east- Over many years, the dispute has involved ward along the current state Route 52. a thicket of litigation; allegations that During the Revolutionary War, several someone salted the property with bones thousand soldiers and others lived or to suggest it contains important patriot worked on the site, which included such burials; political maneuvering; withering facilities as barracks, officers’ quarters, attacks on social media; and spying on the blacksmith and craft shops, warehouses, historical group by an undercover investi- stables, training grounds, an armory, HONORING THOSE WHO SERVED — The Lewis Tompkins Hose Co. in Beacon held gator hired by the developer. artillery placements, powder magazine, a its annual memorial service and breakfast on Jan. 26 to remember late members. The skirmish reflects broader concerns prison, and other operations essential for A service at St. John the Evangelist Church was followed by a meal at the firehouse. about the impact of development on neigh- the war. Gen. Israel Putnam oversaw the Those remembered included two members who died in 2019 (Larry Natoli and Alex boring communities, including Beacon, depot, and, like Washington, Alexander Bowen), all firefighters lost on 9/11 and in various wars, and Bobby Cramer, the former which could end up processing the site’s Hamilton and John Jay and other colonial president of the company who perished fighting a fire at 144-146 Main St. on Jan. 29, sewage, and Philipstown, which shares leaders came and went. 1955, and is the only Beacon firefighter to die in the line of duty. His daughter, Mary mountains, streams and Revolutionary Cramer Wassi, who was 4 at the time, attends the service each year. Photo by Ross Corsair (Continued on Page 6) War history with Fishkill. 2 January 31, 2020 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

FIVE QUESTIONS: ANGEL ELEKTRA

By Michael Turton sation. I was raised in a Christian house- hold and taught to love one another and not By Michael Turton ngel Elektra will present a Drag judge one another. Catholic priests should Queen Story Hour for children reevaluate themselves and worry about the Where is Super A at the Putnam Valley Library on mishaps they are involved in. Saturday, Feb. 1. Registration is full. Bowl LIV on your What do you think are the What books do you use in your story misconceptions and fears some priority list? hours? people have regarding those who We read all kinds of stories that deal with are not heterosexual? acceptance, love and tolerance; that’s what we They fear drag queens are pedophiles. My want kids to take away from the experience. mission is to change that perspective. Drag Pretty low. I don’t care Examples include The Very Hungry Cater- is an art form. It has no gender; anyone can pillar and Julian is a Mermaid. All books do drag! I do it because I enjoy perform- for either team, and I are approved by the local librarians and have ing; I studied musical theater and doing didn’t bet anything. absolutely nothing to do with sexuality. How do you respond to a local Cath- drag allows me to embrace creativity. I am olic priest who wrote that programs a married, gay man. It’s all about express- What is your goal? such as yours “promote gender ing love and acceptance. I’m changing the world by dressing up as my confusion in innocent children and favorite characters. I can’t tell you how many spread immoral disordered ideas What would you say to parents children have approached me with stories of among children and adults”? who are unsure about bringing not being accepted. Is that the world we want The program does not promote gender their child? to live in? When I was a child I needed this kind confusion. We simply do what a librarian Parents can bring them if they wish, or of experience to help me identify myself. Unfor- does, except with a little sparkle. Immoral not! Eventually the child will be able to tunately, there was no program like DQSH. disorder? That shouldn’t even be a conver- make his or her own decisions. I can’t tell you how many children have approached me with ~ Rob Runcie, Cold Spring stories of not being accepted. Is that the world we want to live in?

It should be a good game. I grew up in the Bay area. Go 49ers!

~ Doug Berman, Beacon

It’s probably a negative number on my list. Don’t know who’s playing. Don’t care.

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Putnam Considers Human Rights Commission More Hate Group Would work to counter hate in 2018. There were no incidents reported would be appointed by the county execu- Signs in Beacon in 2014, 2015 or 2016. tive and approved by the Legislature. The Flyers promote white crimes, intolerance Hyre said hate crimes don’t affect just commission would have no budget or staff. the immediate victim but the community. Montgomery said a commission would nationalist group By Holly Crocco “What we need to do is put something in help bring communities together. “In each Posters promoting Patriot Front, a place to protect all of our citizens, and little pocket of the county we have organi- white nationalist group, appeared hile only a few hate-crime inci- creating a Human Rights Commission will zations that are working on these issues,” in and near Beacon last week dents have been reported in do just that,” he said. she noted, but there is no “conversation with slogans such as “Not Stolen. W Putnam in recent years, lawmak- “Every community does things differ- happening on a county level. This county Conquered” and “Reclaim America.” ers seem to agree that the county should ently, and the magic will happen when you needs more of an opportunity for public Propaganda from the group, which create a Human Rights Commission. folks appoint people to this commission participation, and this is the way to do it.” is based in Texas, also showed up in Brooklyn earlier in the month. “This was driven by the people of Putnam and they decide what they need in Carmel, Terry Raskin, president of the Putnam County,” said Legislator Nancy Montgomery or what they need in Patterson, or Philip- Valley Library board, said she and her In October 2018, posters promoting (D-Philipstown), during the Legislature’s Jan. stown, and they work together to make colleagues supported the idea. “Education The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi 23 Rules Committee meeting. “I’ve received a these things happen,” he said. is key to preventing discrimination of any website, were posted on two lot of emails and phone calls and input from One task of the commission would be to kind,” she said. churches in Beacon. people who are interested in joining.” organize seminars on discrimination in hous- Masha Waldman, who lives in Mahopac, The Southern Poverty Law Center, James Hyre, an administrative law judge ing, employment, credit and public accom- said acts of intolerance and hate are more which tracks extremist groups, with the Westchester Human Rights Commis- modation, Hyre said. It would also host prevalent in Putnam County than residents has documented more than 1,000 sion, told lawmakers that from Sullivan and discussions on addressing hate and intoler- may believe. posters and banners hung by hate Dutchess counties south to Suffolk on Long ance, organize programs to celebrate diver- “It’s very easy to live in this bubble and groups across the country since Island, Putnam is the only county that doesn’t sity and speakers for schools and community not realize what’s going on if you are white, January 2018 and says members have a commission. events, and collaborate with religious organi- straight and financially secure,” she said. of Patriot Front and another white supremacist group, Identity Evropa, Hyre, who drafted a lengthy proposal for zations and governmental agencies. “We have incidents now and then where are responsible for most of them. the Legislature to review, said he was moti- The state Division of Human Rights has there’s a flair-up of boys behaving badly at vated by the number of hate incidents being “a significant budget,” he said, and the a sports event. We say, ‘Oh, it’s a few bad From 2014 to 2018, law- reported around the state. “It’s disgusting,” federal Equal Employment Opportunity apples.’ I’m sorry to tell you the truth — it’s enforcement officials in Dutchess he said, noting that law-enforcement officials Commission and Department of Hous- pervasive and it’s insidious.” County reported 19 hate-crime reported 525 incidents to the New York State ing and Urban Development also have Legislator Amy Sayegh (R-Mahopac incidents to state officials. Data for 2019 has not yet been released. Division of Criminal Justice Services in 2018 resources. Falls) acknowledged that prejudice and — 352 in New York City and 146 elsewhere. “Nobody’s ever knocked on their door bullying happen everywhere, including in According to the state, the Putnam and said, ‘Please come to Putnam,’ ” he said. Putnam, but said she thinks schools and Legislator Neal Sullivan (R-Mahopac) County sheriff reported an incident in 2017, Hyre recommended that a commission be communities do a good job at promoting said the Legislature will work with the Law and the New York State Police reported comprised of 12 volunteers, including two respect and kindness. “I think our kids are Department to create a commission, which two incidents in Putnam in 2017 and one people from each town in the county. They pretty great,” she said. he said could take a few months.

HIGHLAND STUDIO Phone Breaker (from Page 1) you got would be suppressed because you didn’t have a search warrant.” The purchase comes as county prosecutors face a new pressure: a new state require- ment, effective Jan. 1, requires them to automatically turn over evidence to defense attorneys within 15 days of an arraignment. The change to the discovery process, during which prosecutors and defendants share information before trial, was approved by the state Legislature last year as part of PRINTMAKERS the annual budget process, along with a law that ended cash bail for misdemeanor and FINE ART many nonviolent felony charges that has received much more attention. PRINTING Prosecutors have always had to share SCANNING evidence but were able to withhold written LARGE FORMAT statements, recordings and other information until the trial started. Defense attorneys HUDSON VALLEY’S also had to request the evidence in writing. Critics said the old rules, derided as ARCHIVAL PRINTING the “blindfold law,” allowed prosecutors SINCE 1997 to release information at the last minute, Cellebrite's Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) is used to get data from giving defense attorneys little time to locked smartphones PICTURE FRAMING respond, and to withhold evidence during print & map gallery plea-deal negotiations or before a defen- as Cellebrite. mistrial or dismissing some or all charges. dant appeared before a grand jury. Prosecutors can request that a court Tendy said he believes the new law is too The law includes a list of 21 types of mate- extend the deadline by 30 days when the restrictive, because lab results or search- 845-809-5174 rial that must be shared with defendants, discoverable materials are “exceptionally ing through multiple tapes and gathering including co-defendant statements, grand voluminous or, despite diligent, good faith witness statements and hospital records jury testimonies, witness names, labora- efforts, are otherwise not in the actual can easily take longer than 15 days. 31 STEPHANIE LANE tory results, deals made with prosecution possession of the prosecution.” State legislators, he said “don’t under- COLD SPRING, NY witnesses and evidence collected from cell- Judges can impose a range of sanctions stand how much time it takes to certify a www.thehighlandstudio.com phones and computers through tools such for failure to comply, including declaring a case for readiness,” Tendy said. 4 January 31, 2020 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

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EDITOR LETTERS AND COMMENTS Chip Rowe [email protected] Willie’s closes Select comments from The Current’s I do not use Uber and I don’t spend a lot Facebook page: SENIOR EDITOR of time in Beacon — reasons given for the I think their food killed them. Correction Leonard Sparks demise of Whistling Willie’s in Cold Spring Eileen Brady In “On the Spot” in the Jan. 24 — but I had been a regular customer for a ARTS EDITOR issue, we inadvertently switched long time (“Whistling Willie’s Closes Its Alison Rooney They should have let the old-timers who the photos of Taylor Del Villar and Doors,” Jan. 24). However, I did not spend [email protected] hit the antique stores be their business. Sandy Endres. Taylor said she a single dollar there after the 2016 football Beacon belongs to the young. I love the looked forward to snowboarding SENIOR CORRESPONDENT season, and I know I am one of many sports Depot and always go there. during the remaining days of Michael Turton fans in the area who would say this. Gail Miller winter and Sandy to celebrating At that time, the front door of Willie’s her 15th leap-year birthday. REPORTERS was covered with a large red, white and I stopped at Willie’s several times after Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong blue mural with bold letters that read “We hiking and had great fun. Brian PJ Cronin • Joe Dizney Stand!” This, as everyone at the time was Samantha Jones I wonder if Barber and Brew had an effect. Pamela Doan • Deb Lucke aware, was a show of support for a blatantly We love it there and walked past Willie’s to Skip Pearlman • Jeff Simms racist (i.e., typical) position staked out and I gave it a couple of shots after Bill have a drink there. harped on repeatedly by our wonderful [Sohan] passed, but it was never the same. Michelle McCoy LAYOUT DESIGNER president. Pierce Strudler The Listening Room [live music on Wednes- The display struck me at the time as an days] was a high point. There’s nowhere to hear live music ADVERTISING DIRECTOR extremely unwise business decision, and Mark Westin anymore. We would eat the yucky food when Michele Gedney while Uber, Beacon and other factors may we wanted to hear live music. For information on advertising: have played a role in Willie’s fortunes, Food went downhill, prices went up. Mindy Jesek 845-809-5584 perhaps the lesson is that one’s business Not a lot of choices with good food in Cold [email protected] is not the best place to trumpet divisive Spring. Joanne Kenna highlandscurrent.org/ads political views. Beacon speeds Just after moving to Verplanck Avenue If you can’t help yourself, please spare us I used to go all the time in the 2000s and in December, I called the Beacon Police the snowflakey complaints about all the never had a problem with the food. The Department about people speeding on the other things that took customers away. service was pleasant but just took forever. 25-mph street. I was told it has been a prob- Jay Mueller, Cold Spring THE HIGHLANDS CURRENT Paul Volpicelli lem for years. The department put up a box (USPS #22270) / ISSN 2475-3785 that monitors speeds digitally but it was January 31, 2020 only there for about week. During that time, Volume 9, Issue 5 (2475-3785) people may have slowed down (a little). is published weekly by Highlands This morning I saw flashing lights and Current Inc., 142 Main St., Cold Spring, NY 10516-2819. Periodicals Postage Paid glanced out the window. A deer had been at Cold Spring, NY, and at additional hit and was in the road. The police were offices. POSTMASTER: Send address coercing it to cross the road but its leg was changes to The Highlands Current, broken. He collapsed in the road. This 142 Main St., Cold Spring, NY 10516-2819. Mail delivery $30 per year. could have easily been a child walking to highlandscurrent.org/delivery school. Children walk up and down this [email protected] street, crossing back and forth every single Distribution audited by the Circulation day. What will it take to get people to slow Verification Council down? © Highlands Current Inc. 2020 Something is seriously wrong when I All rights reserved. No part of this have the police, a city council member, the publication may be reproduced in any mayor and multiple residents telling me form, mechanical or electronic, without written permission of the publisher. it’s always been a problem. Take a moment to stand on Verplanck in the morning and watch people speed by. The number of tick- * Winner: 45 Better ets that could be written would bring in lots Newspaper Contest Awards of revenue for the city. * New York Press Association, 2013 -18 Kim Beller, Beacon

NNA* Winner: Carbon credit 31 Better Based on the timing, I would have Newspaper thought Randy Casale would have been Contest Awards asked to comment, because all of this * National Newspaper Association, 2016-18 happened under his watch as mayor (“Beacon’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fall NYNPA* Winner: 25 Percent,” Jan. 24). 8 Awards for Ralph Fleming, Cold Spring Excellence Thank you for the report of Beacon’s * New York News Publishers Association, 2017- 18 (Continued on Page 5 highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current January 31, 2020 5

LETTERS AND COMMENTS

(Continued from Page 4) uals who you knew of or knew well over who are making a living at it and am sad on Rockledge Road permits the telecom- these many years (“Looking Back in Phil- for those who had life dreams crushed by munications companies to add 5G anten- greenhouse gas reduction. And congratu- ipstown,” Jan. 24). arcane rules and petty complainers. What nae to the tower without village approval lations to the forward-thinking voters and Leonard Lindros, Garrison do so some people want — no businesses and (“Nelsonville Approves Cell-Tower Settle- leaders of Beacon. A 25 percent reduction is Main Street turned into a long area of hous- ment,” Jan. 24). Any amendment to the nothing to sneeze at. Imagine if all 18,000 New on Main Street ing? There has to be a better way to encour- village code addressing 5G installation U.S. cities with populations under 20,000 Good luck, best wishes (“Clothing Store, age business and not hinder it with unfair cannot be applied retroactively. did the same. That would have a very real Cafe Coming to Cold Spring,” Jan. 24). Hope regulations. We have some great talent in the Responsible scientists have raised seri- impact on the climate crisis from our little that whomever opens this establishment village and great ideas that could be tapped. ous concerns about 5G radiation exposure, chunk of the planet. has lots of money, because Main Street is Tony Bardes, Cold Spring which transmits at far higher frequencies Citizens Climate Lobby has a bill on the no longer the Boulevard of Dreams thanks than 4G technology. Higher frequency radio House floor with 75 co-sponsors, including to Amazon and all the other online venues Nelsonville tower transmissions penetrate deeper into tissue, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, which would that are putting brick-and-mortar stores The settlement by the Nelsonville Village posing potentially catastrophic health risks. force companies producing carbon emis- out of business. Board that will allow a cell tower to be built Bill O’Neill, Nelsonville sions to take serious action. (See energyin- Patty Villanova, Putnam Valley O’Neill is a former mayor of Nelsonville. novationact.org.) Let’s hope our leaders at the federal level will get “hot” about climate We need a diner! We have way enough change and follow in Beacon’s footsteps. coffee and way too few burgers and fries. Personally, I recently installed solar Sara Dulaney, Cold Spring panels on my home and in a week with four NOTICE cloudy days, I’ve produced more electricity I can’t understand “parking waivers.” than I’ve used. Plus, it gives me great plea- They are selling non-existent spaces. It’s Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Zoning Board of Appeals of thesure to watch my tea water boil with energy unfair to penalize and extort funds from GARRISON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Village of Nelsonville at the Village office, 258 Main Street, on: from the sun. potential businesses that want to open in GARRISON, NEW YORK 10524 Carinda Swann, Beacon Thursday January 30, 2020 at 7:30PM Cold Spring. Opening a business is hard enough, but to make them jump through KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION to hear the appeal of Jacqueline Snyder from the denial of approval from the Building InspectorLooking back hoops like this and a multitude of other for a Shed in a HR (Hillside Residential) Zone requiring 25 FT setback from a side property line, I’m 81 and have lived in Garrison since per section 188.26, schedule B. A 10ft X 16ft existing shed located on the easterly portion regulations is just not right. DATES SET IN GARRISON of the property requires a building permit, but is located within approximately 13’ 3” of the 1946. It’s always fun to read about individ- I applaud the survivors on Main Street property line contrary to the above section. A variance fr5om the required setback is necessary Garrison Union Free School will hold its Kindergarten Registration from 25 ft to 13 ft. for the 2020-2021 school year on Tuesday, February 4 and All interested persons will be heard at the above time andplace. Wednesday, February 5 from 9 to 11 a.m. and from 1 to 3 p.m. on both days in the hallway outside of the Main Office. The child does A copy of the application is on file at the Nelsonville Villageoffice and is available for public NOTICE not need to accompany the parent/guardian for registration. review, Monday through Friday,between the hours of 9am and 3pm.

Mindy Jesek, Village Clerk Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Zoning Board of Appeals Parents/guardians are required to bring the following: Village of Nelsonville of the Town of Philipstown on Monday, February 10, 2020 at 7:30 P.M. at the Philipstown January 21, 2020 Recreation Department, 107 Glenclyffe, Garrison, New York to hear the following appeal: • Original birth certificate - child must be age 5 by December 31, 2020 Michael Kinsley, 8 Ferris Drive, Garrison, New York, TM#90.12-1-10. The applicate is • Immunization records/Recent physical seeking approval to construct a new, addition of 18’x35’ to the rear of the house, where • Proof of residency a portion of the addition lands within the setback of the side yard. As seen on the property survey, the existing house shows to be 22’2” from the property line at the rear ¡ Owners of the house. Therefore a variance of 7’10” will be needed for proposed addition. Which • Signed contract of sale or deed, and is found under town code 175 (SR)Zoning District). • Telephone, utility, cable bill, etc. (2 required) ¡ Renters At said hearing all persons will have the right to be heard. Copies of the application, plat • Notarized affidavit of landlord, map, and other related materials may been in the Office of the Building Department, 2 and Cedar Street, Cold Spring, New York. • Rent receipt (within 30 days) indicating address, and • Telephone, utility, cable bill, etc. (2 required) Robert Dee, Chairman of the Town of Philipstown Zoning Board of Appeals Dated January, 13,2020 Information about the Tuesday, April 28th orientation for parents/ guardians at 10:00 am will be given out at registration. NOTICE For additional information, call 424-3689 ext. 221 Haldane Transportation Requests Due by April 1st Haldane Central School District is accepting applications for Private/ Parochial School Transportation for the 2020/2021 school year. Completed applications should be mailed to: Haldane Central School District 15 Craigside Drive Cold Spring, NY 10516 ATTN: Transportation Dept. and received not later than April 1st, 2020 Contact Elisa Travis at the Haldane Transportation Department at 845-265-9254 ext. 171 if you have any questions. Applications can be found on the haldaneschool.org website

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the memory of the heroes who served — and (from Page 1) Supply Depot are buried — at the site, and permanently The depot also sheltered British prisoners scar the historic landscape of Fishkill.” of war and its hospitals treated wounded At a June 2019 Planning Board hearing, men from battles as far away as New Jersey Keith Riley, a FOFSD trustee who teaches — a grueling trek in the age of wagon travel social studies in the Carmel school district, — as well as victims of disease. noted that “in the 1970s, we allowed a valu- In 1974, the land around the Van Wyck able piece of history to be paved over. I Homestead, including Crossroads, was cannot tolerate this. The Continental Army listed on the National Register of Historic who fought and died for us deserve better.” Places. Crossroads is thought to contain (Dutchess Mall opened in 1974 on what had Revolutionary War graves, although that’s been part of the Supply Depot.) a subject of fierce debate. “You can build an I-HOP anywhere, but there’s only one Fishkill Supply Depot,” What is planned said Lance Ashworth, a West Point gradu- Domenico Broccoli, of GLD3 LLC and ate who is president of the FOFSD. Snook-9 Realty Inc., owns Crossroads, Johanna Yaun, the Orange County histo- which he has valued at $15 million. rian and coordinator of the Mid-Hudson Around the gas station, Broccoli wants activities planned for 2025 to commemorate to construct a complex called Continen- the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revo- tal Commons, with a 2.5-story, 90-room lutionary War, which will focus on “supply- hotel; 5,000 square feet of restaurant space ing the army,” recommended the board order (perhaps with an International House of an in-depth, sophisticated archaeological Pancakes); 16,000 square feet of retail; and study of the Crossroads site. She predicted a 720-square-foot visitor’s center, along with the board “would look very foolish” other- parking lots and walkways, all designed to wise. “Just look across the street at that empty replicate an 18th-century colonial village. In [Dutchess] Mall and ask if that is the legacy a rendering of the project, military re-enac- you want to leave behind,” she said. tors interact with visitors, and the build- Theresa Kraft, the FOFSD’s secretary, ings are designed to resemble Hudson Valley who is also Beacon’s co-historian, said on landmarks, such as the Beekman Arms in Dec. 4 that the Crossroads tract’s relevance Rhinebeck and Boscobel. lies not only in what may lie buried but in The developer said he will protect any what occurred there. “The battle lines have graves, although he maintains that the been drawn,” she told town officials. “Please actual military burial ground lies some help protect the Fishkill Supply Depot.” miles northeast and that claims to the contrary are a “scam.” A map shows the extent of the Fishkill Supply Depot, its core areas and the boundary, in blue, of the land designated in the National Register of Historic Places. The developer’s view The Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot Broccoli portrays Continental Commons (FOFSD), a nonprofit historic preservation as “a groundbreaking new concept” that organization, has contested the project both “embraces and honors the historic nature in Fishkill Town Board and Planning Board of its surroundings and provides visitors a proceedings and in court, and neighbors and renewed perspective on the meaning of the other residents have objected on environmen- American Revolution.” tal and aesthetic grounds. His project website contends that oppo- In part, opponents question the plan’s nents disseminate “made-up facts” and that compatibility with the town’s 2009 compre- the parcel’s “archaeological potential has hensive plan, which directs town officials been exhausted” after numerous digs. to work with state and federal agencies The Continental Commons Facebook page to purchase or preserve the undeveloped refers to the FOFSD as “a radical and extrem- portions of the supply depot and “explore ist anti-development group.” Assorted online how these can best be used to commemo- postings likewise accuse FOFSD of being rate the activities that occurred on these “backed by secret donors” (in its most recent hallowed grounds, especially those lands tax filing, from 2018, the nonprofit reported where gravesites of former soldiers have receiving $20,000 in donations and spending been identified.” $15,000, mostly on legal fees) and utilizing They also point to empty retail space “scare tactics and biased evidence.” and vacant motel rooms along Route 9 and The developer argues that FOFSD consumers’ passion for internet shopping confuses his property with the 18th-century as negating any need for more malls. Rombout cemetery, on Route 52, known A 2007 dig at the site’s cemetery uncov- to contain graves of Revolutionary War ered eight graves, including one with a skull soldiers. “That’s the historic cemetery” or skeleton and coffin nails; three more buri- involved but “they made people think” old als were revealed in 2013. Artifacts from the references to one “at the base of the moun- 18th century have turned up, as well. tain” meant the Crossroads site, he said. The FOFSD sees this work as confirming Unmarked Revolutionary War graves also “that hundreds of America’s first veterans, could be scattered throughout Fishkill, he casualties of the War of Independence,” are added, because “the Fishkill Supply Depot buried elsewhere on the site in unmarked was huge. It wasn’t Domenic’s 10-acre land.” graves. “There is no known burial site of Broccoli suspects FOFSD members Revolutionary War soldiers that is larger.” “planted stuff” on his property. In 2012, In addition, the group says, the depot “is he said, his team examined the northern among the American Revolution’s most end of his site, away from the area of the important military logistics sites.” known burial ground. At a depth of 26 to 31 In 2017, citing the possibility that more inches, “we found anomalies that were simi- history remains hidden underground, the lar to graves”; he theorizes that unnamed FOFSD warned that “commercial develop- The boundary of the area on the National Register of Historic Places Hunter Research Inc. (2) ment will destroy unique ruins, dishonor (Continued on Page 7) highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current January 31, 2020 7

The plans include “a structure to honor a stable from the Fishkill Supply Depot.” A rendering shows the north end of the proposed Continental Commons development, with the hotel at left, a visitors' center at center and the existing gas station at right.

(Continued from Page 6) ity to use the property for development.” Political maneuvers sive plan and zoning laws. members of FOFSD created these to bolster The suit did not accuse Byster or anyone Local politics have complicated the debate. “This is something that should have claims that his property has the “largest else of criminal conduct; instead, it wanted On Dec. 4, the Fishkill Town Board held a already been in the works, but instead we’ve cemetery in the country” from the Revolu- a judge to bar them from entering the site public hearing on approvals for water and just been building and building,” she said. tionary War. without permission and to remove the sewer hookups for Continental Commons. Supervisor Albra said that “when you’ve Furthermore, Broccoli said, his land once supposedly planted bones. The town board scheduled a follow-up got the lawyers, you’ve got the engineers, and had billboards that could have left depres- According to the suit, Ian Bondy, whom hearing and vote on the water and sewer you’ve got the cash, you’ve got the power” in sions resembling burials. The FOFSD “made Broccoli hired to spy on the FOFSD, connections for Dec. 18. But when that day zoning and planning cases. “I’m going to flip people believe that they were graves, that recorded Byster’s “bone” comment during a arrived, it lacked a quorum, so then-Super- that so the citizens have the power…. We’ll these hundreds of anomalies are hundreds break in a 2015 Planning Board meeting. In visor Robert LaColla, a Republican who protect our water, history and environment.” of graves,” he said. “It’s a big scam and I’m a court affidavit, Bondy said that he joined had lost his seat in the November election, The Town Board plans to continue its not stopping until the truth is told.” the FOFSD using the name Alec Crosby moved the proceedings to Dec. 30 — the day discussion of a moratorium at its next meet- and even served on its board, recording before he would leave office and the board ing, on Wednesday, Feb. 5. The bones the group’s activities and compiling some would switch from Republican to Demo- Water issues have figured in the environ- The Continental Commons website links 75 hours of material for Broccoli. cratic control. mental concerns about the project. Critics to a video clip in which a narrator states that Byster said he remembers mentioning a Before the Dec. 30 meeting took place, have noted that Continental Commons is over FOFSD member Marty Byster “has admitted bone or bones on the occasion Bondy cites the incoming supervisor, Ozzy Albra, a the Fishkill aquifer, which supplies wells and that he and other members have buried bones but denies wrongdoing. “I didn’t plant Democrat, obtained an injunction from the the town with drinking water. But because on the Continental Commons property.” anything,” he said in an interview. Dutchess County Supreme Court to stop any it plans to connect to a town water district, On an accompanying audio recording, What did happen, he said, was that after action on Continental Commons. Continental Commons would not imperil Byster seems to ask another member: archaeological digs, he and other FOFSD When the newly constituted Fishkill the aquifer and its water and sewer lines “Were you there when we reburied bones members received permission, from a man Town Board met on Jan. 8, one of its fresh- would not be funded by taxpayers, accord- along the foundation that’s exposed?” The who was then Broccoli’s business partner, to men members, Louise Daniele, a Democrat, ing to draft legislation prepared for the Town narrator speculates that perhaps FOFSD close trenches left partly uncovered. Assisted proposed a moratorium on development, to Board’s aborted Dec. 30 consideration. members “want the bones to be discovered, by Boy Scouts, they completed the work in allow time to review the town’s comprehen- (Continued on Page 8) stopping any development, and forcing the 2010, in what was was hardly a secret under- value of the land down so they can force the taking, Byster said. “I backfilled a trench that landowner to sell it to them.” contained bones,” he said. “I did nothing but In 2017, GLD3 LLC sued Byster and his refill a trench.” purported, unidentified accomplices over Byster said he has spent nearly $30,000 the alleged bone-burying, asserting that defending himself against the lawsuit, their actions interfered with Broccoli’s “abil- which continues.

The Van Wyck Homestead Photo by L.S. Armstrong The developer has posted signs on his parcel accusing the Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot of “tampering.” Photo by L.S. Armstrong 8 January 31, 2020 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org

term as supervisor, and Azem “Ozzy” Albra, Feb. 5 meeting. If adopted, a building Rolling Hills May Hit Bumps who won the seat, campaigned on a prom- freeze would give officials time to revise the ise he would stop Rolling Hills. town’s 2009 comprehensive plan, he said. Development would tap Hills would attend South Avenue Elementary, Board Member Raymond Raiche also lost “All projects that are not shovel-ready,” according to Superintendent Matt Landahl. his race for re-election to Louise Daniele, including Rolling Hills, “would be affected” into Beacon water, schools The project’s two parcels are part of the who in her first meeting called for a devel- by the freeze, Albra said. “Projects that have By Jeff Simms Rombout Water District, which Beacon opment moratorium. been approved would be allowed to proceed.” allows to buy up to 500,000 gallons of water The other members of the board are Ori Beacon remains under a building freeze olling Hills, a 30-building, 463-unit per day from its system. The Rombout Brachfeld, who was re-elected, Jacqueline of its own, its second in two years, that multi-use complex proposed for 57 district currently uses about half that Bardini and, as of the Jan. 8 meeting, Kenya expires on March 3. On Jan. 27, the City R mostly wooded acres about a mile amount, officials said. Gadsden, a former Beacon school board Council discussed extending it into early outside of Beacon, remains under review The project would also include 24,000 member who ran unsuccessfully in the fall June while consultants continue repairs by the Town of Fishkill but faces a new set square feet of retail space just north of the for Dutchess County clerk. She was appointed to a network of drinking-water wells just of hurdles as officials consider a building Hudson View Park apartment complex and to complete the term of Doug McHoul, who beyond the city line. The council must hold moratorium and changes to zoning laws. the Mount Gulian Historic Site. resigned in December. a public hearing (scheduled for Feb. 18) and The site would draw its water from Beacon However, in the past month, the makeup Albra said on Wednesday (Jan. 29) that ask the city and Dutchess County planning and also sits inside the Beacon City School of the five-member Fishkill board has he expects the board to discuss a six- to boards to review the plan before it can vote. District. Younger children living at Rolling changed. Bob LaColla lost his bid for a third nine-month building moratorium at its

Board in April ruled the project would “not ing that Continental Commons “will not (from Page 7) Fishkill have a significant adverse impact on the result in any significant adverse impact on Chazen Companies, Broccoli’s consul- land,” the FOFSD asked a court to over- archaeological or historic resources” or the tants, estimate Continental Commons would turn the decision. It accused the Planning natural environment. consume 18,211 gallons of water daily. Its Board of favoring the developer and cited The project “will undoubtedly result in sewage would be channeled into the Beacon a 2015 meeting at which board Chairper- changes to the aesthetic or scenic quality of treatment system since the Town of Fishkill son Mary Hendricks said, “I’m not afraid the area,” it acknowledged. But farming and contracts with Beacon for sewage services. of some ‘hysterical’ society.” development had already altered the site Broccoli has sued Albra in state Supreme The FOFSD also expressed concerns that The Continental Commons logo and its “archaeological potential,” it said. Court over the scuttled Dec. 30 water and Hendricks in 2017 had used her personal Furthermore, its members found the sewer connection hearing and Town Board email to share information from an archae- November, a state judge prohibited Broccoli project to be “consistent with the character vote. “He went and stopped my approvals,” ological consulting firm that was later from “disturbing the ground in any way” as of the neighborhood” — Route 9’s commer- Broccoli said on Thursday (Jan. 30). hired by the Planning Board, keeping the the litigation proceeds. cial sector. If anything is “inconsistent The Friends of the Fishkill Supply Depot documents out of the public record. Undeterred, on Dec. 12, the Planning with the neighborhood,” it said, it is the also have gone to court. After the Planning The group won a preliminary round: In Board reaffirmed its April decision, declar- 18th-century Van Wyck farmhouse.

The Philipstown Garden Club and The Putnam Highlands Audubon Society NOTICE Presents Audubon Report - SURVIVAL BY DEGREES Will Be Received By: Changes to the environment and climate are reﬂected in current bird populations. INVITATION TO BID HALDANE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Sealed Proposals for the: Administration Office CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS 15 Craigside Drive HALDANE HIGH SCHOOL AND MAIN BUILDING Cold Spring, NY 10516

Proposals must be received on or before 3:00 PM local time on February 13th, 2020 and must be in accordance with the requirements of the Bidding Documents to receive consideration. Bids will be opened and read aloud at that time. Bidding Documents, including drawings and specifications, will be available beginning onJanuary 16th, 2020 at the offices of: FULLER AND D’ANGELO, P.C. ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS 45 KNOLLWOOD ROAD – SUITE 401 Feb ELMSFORD, NY 10523 Proposals must be submitted on the Form provided by the Architect with all blanks 9 Black and White Warbler Photo by Kyle Bardwell appropriately filled in. They must be submitted in sealed envelopes bearing on the outside the name and address of the bidder and title of the Project as noted above. All bid prices shall be filled in, both in words and figures. Signatures shall be in ink and in longhand. Proposals which are incomplete, conditional or obscure may be rejected as informal. We have time to help if we get to work today! Additional copies of the Proposal Form will be furnished by the Architect upon request.

No oral or telephonic proposals or modifications of proposals will be considered. Desmond Fish Public Library, Garrison, NY 10524 Bidding documents, on CD, in PDF format, will be available, at no cost, to all prospective 2:00 - 4:00 PM bidders. The CD’s will be available at Fuller and D’Angelo, P.C., 45 Knollwood Road, Suite 401, Free to members and the public Elmsford, NY 10523; telephone number 914.592.4444. A $15.00 shipping fee will be required Snow date February 16 @ 2:00 PM for CD’s requested to be mailed. Hannah Waters - Senior Associate Editor for Climate Change at Audubon, will A Pre-Bid Meeting for Prospective Bidders will be held on January 27th, 2020. The meeting will share the ﬁndings of this 2019 report: start promptly at 3:30PM. All bidders will assemble at the Administration Office, 15 Craigside Drive, Cold Spring, NY 10516. Survival By Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink BONDS: Kyle Bardwell - is a published author and recognized photographer. This part of A bid bond is required for this project. The Owner will also require, prior to the execution of the the workshop is interactive using computers. A few laptops are available at the Contract, a Performance Bond and a Labor and Material Payment Bond library, or you can bring your own, or just come & listen. We will learn how to identify birds in our zip code that are at a risk, advocate for birds, & design garden LUMP SUM BIDS: habitats that are for the birds and use native plants. Two bids will be received for: Contract #1: General Construction FULLER AND D’ANGELO, P.C. Contract #2: Site Construction ARCHITECT AND PLANNERS If y love birds and gardening, y have to a end work op! ou For more information contactou Karen Ertltt 845-424-3343this sh highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current January 31, 2020 9

NEWS BRIEFS Seeger Collection Wins Grammy Named as best historical album musical compilation produced to A mark what would have been folk singer Pete Seeger’s 100th birthday won a Grammy on Jan. 26. Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, a six-CD collection with 137 The report points out the high level of biodiversity in the Hudson River. Fishkill Creek, tracks that was released in May, won for which connects to the river, is seen here near Madam Brett Park. Photo by J.Simms best historical album. Seeger himself won three Grammy Awards: for Best Tradi- a 1970 state law that authorized munici- tional Folk Album in 1996 (Pete) and 2009 (from Page 1) Inventory palities to create conservation advisory (At 89) and for Best Musical Album for advised the city’s volunteer Conservation committees. But as technology advanced Children (Tomorrow’s Children) in 2010. Advisory Committee while it prepared the and provided more detailed maps and data, The subjects of the other nominated inventory. “We’re trying to get communities the inventories have become more complex. albums in the category were Kankyo not to react to every project that comes their In 2014, Heady co-authored a guidebook, Ongaku, the Woodstock festival, Bobbie way, but to be proactive, instead, by think- Creating a Natural Resource Inventory. Since Gentry and Vladimir Horowitz. ing ‘What is our vision for this community?’ ” then, 18 towns, cities and counties in the estu- One section of the NRI describes the ary region, which stretches from Brooklyn topography and geology of Beacon; another to Schenectady, have completed NRIs, with Airbnb Releases indexes wildlife habitat, which around eight more underway. But with 261 munici- Rental Figures Dennings Point and much of the city’s east- palities in the region, participation is still low. ern border is considered “high value.” In Ulster County, the Town of Wawars- Dutchess, Putnam hosts earned Another chapter catalogues natural scenic ing, a rural community with about 2,000 $12.1 million viewsheds, naming the Hudson River, Fishkill fewer people than Beacon, revised its irbnb said hosts in Dutchess and Creek and the Fishkill Ridge, which includes zoning laws last year after completing A Putnam counties earned more than Mount Beacon, as the most significant. A map an NRI and a supplementary Open Space $12.1 million from nearly 69,000 book- highlights the parks and other recreational Plan, said Town Supervisor Terry Houck, ings in 2019. areas where people can enjoy the views. to create an expanded agricultural district In Dutchess, hosts earned $10 million Each section includes “implications for and a Shawangunk Ridge protection plan. from 57,700 bookings, and in Putnam, decision-making,” which offers recom- The town also designated two “critical hosts earned $2.1 million from 10,900 mendations for policy-makers. In the case environmental areas” — the 8,000-acre bookings. In the seven-county region of scenic viewsheds, which both the City Cedar Swamp forest wetland and 3,000-acre that includes Orange, Rockland, Sullivan, Council and Planning Board have wrestled Catskill-Shawangunk Greenway Corridor. Ulster and Westchester counties, Ulster recently with protecting, it suggests expand- Doing so aligns with the goals of the state’s led the way with $31.9 million in revenue ing direct access to the Hudson and creating Climate Smart Communities program, from 184,600 bookings. walking and biking paths that connect the which provides grants of up to $100,000 for three scenic areas, while ensuring that pres- climate adaptation and assessment projects ervation remains a priority when reviewing for municipalities that develop the plans. Beacon to Form development plans. Beacon’s NRI brings the city closer to Drawing from Beacon’s comprehensive bronze certification in the Climate Smart Citizens’ Committee plan and water master plan, the NRI also program, which would increase its chances Needs volunteers for Main Street contains potential development build-out of receiving state grants, as well. initiative and water-supply maps. The Beacon report, which can be down- “This is essentially the best-known infor- loaded at highlandscurrent.org, concludes he Beacon City Council is looking for mation that we have available,” said Air with a handful of high-level recommenda- T residents and business owners to join Rhodes, a City Council member who was tions: consider climate change in decision- a citizens’ committee as part of an initia- part of the Conservation Advisory Committee making across all sectors, engage residents tive to address parking, traffic, transit and when it began drafting the report. “These are in the stewardship of natural resources and pedestrian challenges on Main Street. maps that we’ll be able to perfect and refine consider the impact of development on natu- Applications can be downloaded at over the years.” ral resources. Each is then broken down into bit.ly/beacon-application and emailed Natural resource inventories date to specific steps for city leaders to review. to [email protected].

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 FIRST GRADE — In 2004 Marley  THIRD GRADE — Jennifer Windel’s class visited Vassar  TWELFTH GRADE —Erin Ledwith, a Haldane senior who attends Chefalo (left) was a Haldane Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie for a look at a the Pines Bridge program in Yorktown Heights, was honored at the Elementary School first grader in robotic surgery system used by Dr. Ryan Swan, a hepatobiliary school board meeting on Jan. 22 as a Student of Distinction. She Catherine Scrocca’s class. This month, surgeon and father of two Haldane students. The da Vinci received a certificate and medal and an ovation from administrators, Chefalo began her first student robot allows surgeons to perform delicate operations through teachers, family and friends who packed the meeting room. Ledwith teaching assignment alongside her a few incisions. Swan and his wife, Gina, moved to Cold Spring is shown with Superintendent Philip Benante (left) and her parents, former teacher, in the same classroom. three years ago from Charlotte, North Carolina. Noreen and Woody. Photos provided JILLIAN PRANSKY DEEP LISTENING

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By Alison Rooney Meeropol says her parents were support- ive of her making the film, though her vy Meeropol never met Roy Cohn, but father (who also lives in Cold Spring) asked: he played an important role in her life. “Do you really want to spend all this time I The Cold Spring filmmaker is a thinking about this horrible person? Why granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosen- don’t you have some fun?” berg, who were executed as traitors in 1953 Her father and his brother, who were Roy Cohn Photo by Peter Manso after being convicted of relaying details of adopted following the death of their the atomic bomb to the Soviets. parents, are central figures in the docu- Cohn became famous as the tenacious mentary. (It is dedicated to her mother, — and often unscrupulous — 23-year-old Ann, who died in May.) Although records federal prosecutor of the Rosenbergs. He from the Soviet Union years later showed cemented his reputation the following that Julius Rosenberg had been a spy, the year as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy brothers for years have fought to clear during the U.S. senator’s infamous hear- their mother’s name. ings to identify and investigate suspected After spending several years delving communists. into Cohn’s background, motivations and Meeropol examined her family’s story in how his influence is felt today, Ivy Meero- her 2004 documentary, Heir to an Execu- pol says she still considers Cohn to be the tion. Her most recent film, Bully. Coward. embodiment of the three words from the Victim., focuses on Cohn. Distributed by quilt: bully, coward and victim. HBO Documentary Films, it premiered at the New York Film Festival in Septem- ber and will be shown in Garrison at a sold-out Depot Docs screening on Feb. 7. It will also be screened at the Jacob Burns When we walked up to Center in Pleasantville on March 28 and the quilt my feeling was, will premiere on HBO in June. “I knew who Roy Cohn was from a young ‘Oh good, the bastard,’ The AIDS Quilt panel created for Roy Cohn UNT Digital Library age, but vaguely — he was a bad guy who had something to do with my grandparents then, ‘Oh, the poor guy.’ being executed,” Meeropol recalls. I wanted to capture that Two experiences as an adult heightened her interest in Cohn and the ramifications same conflicting feeling of his life and influence. The first, which ~Ivy Meeropol she documents in Bully. Coward. Victim., in this film. and which gave the film its title, occurred when she and her father, Michael Meeropol, “I know it’s controversial, but to me visited a display in 1987 in Washington, D.C., anyone who cannot be themselves, and of the 40,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial live life as they wish to — any gay person, Quilt. Incredibly, the first panel they spotted anyone forced to hide and suppress them- was one with Cohn’s name sewn in, along selves because of societal judgments — is a with the three-word description. victim,” she says. “It doesn’t mean I forgive Meeropol recalls mixed feelings. Cohn’s him. He certainly suffered because of that. homosexuality was revealed to the public Not to psychoanalyze, but that suffering following his diagnosis with AIDS, although turned him into a monster, but anyone he denied having the disease. He died in 1986 who dies of AIDS is a victim.” at age 59, five weeks after being disbarred for As Tony Kushner, the playwright who defrauding a client. depicted Cohn in Angels in America, says “When we walked up to the quilt,” in Meeropol’s film, “You can dislike the Meeropol says, “my feeling was, ‘Oh good, man, expose him as a monster, but there’s Ivy Meeropol with her father, Mike, at a screening of her documentaty last fall at the the bastard,’ then, ‘Oh, the poor guy.’ I nothing gained or learned by just present- Woodstock Film Festival Photo by Laura Revercomb wanted to capture that same conflicting ing him that way.” feeling in this film.” (Continued on Page 14) 12 January 31, 2020 The Highlands Current highlandscurrent.org THE WEEK AHEAD Edited by Pamela Doan ([email protected]) For a complete listing of events, see highlandscurrent.org/calendar.

COMMUNITY FRI 7 Disco Bingo Night WED 5 COLD SPRING Wellness in Philipstown 6 p.m. Methodist Church COLD SPRING 216 Main St. 9 a.m. Philipstown Hub Girl Scout Troop 2032 will 5 Stone St. | coldspringnychamber.com host games and raffles, with The Cold Spring Chamber of bingo starting at 6:30 p.m. Commerce’s monthly breakfast Bring a paper product, such as meeting will include a panel on paper towels, to donate to the local health initiatives. Cost: $15 church and receive a free ticket ($20 door; members $10/$15) for a prize. Email gshoth2032@ gmail.com for information. FRI 7 Community Blood Drive SUN 9 COLD SPRING Valentine’s Day 2 – 8 p.m. North Highlands Fire Co. Craft Party 504 Fishkill Road | 800-933-2566 Hudson River EagleFest, Feb. 8 COLD SPRING nybloodcenter.org 1 – 2:30 p.m. Butterfield Library Walk-ins welcome. Bring handmade paper and textile scraps. from his book, The War Before Seiler, Grace Cuite and Nathaniel 10 Morris Ave. | 845-265-3040 photo ID. Eat well and drink Drop-in anytime. Children welcome. the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Ramos will perform. Free butterfieldlibrary.org/calendar fluids before you donate. Online registration required. Cost: Struggle for America’s Soul from All ages are welcome to make $30 ($27 members) for 5 valentines the Revolution to the Civil War, MON 3 unique gifts for someone special. SAT 8 in this event organized by groups Kindergarten Registration Register online. Hudson River EagleFest TALKS & TOURS that include the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County and the Mid- COLD SPRING GARRISON Haldane School (Room 116) SECOND SATURDAY 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Boscobel SAT 1 Hudson Antislavery History Project. Online registration required. Free 15 Craigside Drive | 845-265-9254 x122 SAT 8 1601 Route 9D | 914-762-2912 x110 Winter Wellness haldaneschool.org boscobel.org Workshop Black History SUN 9 To schedule an appointment, Celebrate the bald eagle COLD SPRING contact Jodi Champlin by phone Month Exhibit migration to the Hudson Valley 3 – 5 p.m. Magazzino Italian Art Survival by Degrees or jchamplin@haldaneschool. BEACON and watch them feed on fish in the 2700 Route 9 | 845-666-7202 GARRISON org. Children are welcome but not 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. Howland Public river from viewing sites set up by magazzino.art/events/upcoming 2 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library required to attend. Also, TUES Library the Putnam Highlands Audubon Jillian Pransky will lead a 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 4, WED 5, THURS 6, FRI 7. 313 Main St. | 845-831-1134 Society. Cost: pay what you wish mindfulness and slow-flow vinyasa desmondfishlibrary.org beaconlibrary.org workshop for deep relaxation. Members of the Philipstown TUES 4 Beacon resident Barbara SAT 8 Cost: $60 ($100 with props) Garden Club and the Putnam Kindergarten Registration McCaskill organized this exhibit Winter on the Farm Highlands Audubon Society will of artwork, political posters and GARRISON historic ephemera. It will be on WAPPINGERS FALLS SAT 8 discuss Audubon’s recent report on 9 – 11 a.m. & 1 – 3 p.m. Garrison School view through Feb. 27. See Page 15. 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Stony Kill Farm the state of birds, which shows 389 Estate Planning Seminar species on the brink of extinction. 1100 Route 9D | 845-424-3689 x221 79 Farmstead Lane | 845-831-3800 GARRISON The discussion will include how to gufs.org stonykill.org SAT 8 10:30 a.m. Desmond-Fish Library create habitat and food for birds in Registration will take place Helena Hernmarck Get a tour of the barn and take 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 your yard. Free outside the main office. See website a horsedrawn sleigh ride. There desmondfishlibrary.org for requirements. Also WED 5. BEACON will also be an open greenhouse, Attorney Michael Martin 1:30 p.m. Howland Cultural Center crafts, a campfire, snowshoe KIDS & FAMILY 477 Main St. | 845-431-4988 will cover the options available WED 5 rentals and a pancake brunch. hudsonvalleyyarntrail.com to protect your assets. SAT 1 Card Games Club Take Your Child to the The tapestry artist and weaver SAT 8 BEACON will discuss her decades-long career SUN 9 Community Valentines Library Day 3:30 – 5 p.m. Howland Public Library using wool, sourced from farmers The War Before the War COLD SPRING 313 Main St. | 845-831-1134 x101 BEACON in her native Sweden, that absorbs HYDE PARK Noon – 2 p.m. Butterfield Library beaconlibrary.org rather than reflects light to tell Noon – 4 p.m. NY Textile Lab 2 p.m. FDR Library (Wallace Center) 10 Morris Ave. | 845-265-3040 Do you play Magic, The stories. Cost: $15 ($20 door) 146 Main St. | newyorktextilelab.com 4079 Albany Post Road | 845-486-7770 butterfieldlibrary.org Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon or Create Valentine’s Day cards using fdrlibrary.org/events-calendar Enjoy Lego fun, crafts and snacks. other card games? The library will thickened, natural cochineal dye, Andrew Delbanco will read launch a new club for middle and high school students. Bring your SUN 2 own cards. RSVP requested. Email Storytime with [email protected]. Vern Kousky COLD SPRING FRI 7 10:15 a.m. Split Rock Books | 97 Main St. Pre-School Info Session 845-265-2080 | splitrockbks.com BEACON Kousky will read from his latest 9:15 & 10:15 a.m. picture book, Lawrence: The Beacon Hebrew Alliance Bunny Who Wanted to Be Naked. 331 Verplanck Ave. | 845-831-2012 beaconhebrewalliance.org SUN 2 Ilana Friedman, the Youth Showcase director of the Beacon Hebrew BEACON Alliance’s preschool program, 4 – 6 p.m. Towne Crier | 379 Main St. will answer questions and Pre-School Info Session, Feb. 7 845-855-1300 | townecrier.com lead a tour. Also MON 13. Abigale Lily, Isabella Duluk, Zen highlandscurrent.org The Highlands Current January 31, 2020 13

SAT 8 children’s novel, this musical interiors of Main Street businesses Barry Le Va follows a precocious young girl organized by the Cold Spring with psychokinetic powers who Chamber of Commerce and the BEACON takes on the evil headmistress Haldane Arts Alliance as part of 2 p.m. Dia Beacon | 3 Beekman St. of her school. Also SAT 8, SUN the chamber’s First Friday events. 845-440-0100 | diaart.org 9. Cost: $12 ($5 students) As part of the DiaTalks Series, curator James Meyer will SUN 9 interview the sculpture artist SAT 8 Erotic or Not? Sex in Art about his work and installation at Met in HD: Porgy and Bess PEEKSKILL Dia. Cost: $15 ($12 students and POUGHKEEPSIE 3 p.m. Hudson Valley MOCA seniors; free for children under 12, 1 p.m. Bardavon | 35 Market St. 1701 E. Main St. | 914-788-0100 members and Beacon residents) 845-473-2072 | bardavon.org hudsonvalleymoca.org The high-definition simulcast In this lecture, which is part of SAT 8 of the Gershwin’s masterpiece the ongoing Art History with a [In]Action Figures 8 stars bass-baritone Eric Owens Twist series, artist and art historian and soprano Angel Blue in the BEACON Tournées French Film Festival, Feb. 6 Marcy B. Freedman will discuss title roles from the Metropolitan sexual themes through history. 6 – 9 p.m. Clutter Gallery Opera House. Cost: $21 to $28 Cost: $20 ($10 members) 163 Main St. | 212-255-2505 THURS 6 Spring composers and improvisers shop.cluttermagazine.com/gallery Storm King School Singers in concert, with Kelly on keyboards and Rothenberg on clarinet and SUN 9 The gallery’s eighth installment GARRISON CIVIC of this annual show will feature producing nature sounds. Free Academy Awards 6 p.m. Desmond-Fish Library SAT 1 the art of the action figure, whose Viewing Party 472 Route 403 | 845-424-3020 Village Board heyday was the 1970s and 1980s. desmondfishlibrary.org SAT 8 BEACON COLD SPRING Through March 6. Students from the private 9 Horses 7 p.m. Story Screen Beacon school in Cornwall will perform BEACON 445 Main St. | storyscreenbeacon.com 7:30 p.m. Village Hall MUSIC under the direction of Gabriela 8 p.m. Howland Cultural Center Watch the Oscars with champagne, 85 Main St. | 845-265-3611 Mikova Johnson. Free 477 Main St. | 845-431-4988 photos on a red carpet, trivia rounds coldspringny.gov SAT 1 howlandculturalcenter.org and live commentary. Cost: $15 The board will review recommended updates Concert of Concertos FRI 7 The trio — mandolinist Joe to the village code. NEWBURGH Yarn Brent, violinist Sara Caswell VISUAL ART 4 p.m. Aquinas Hall and bassist Andrew Ryan — BEACON Mount Saint Mary College will celebrate the release of its SAT 1 MON 3 8:30 p.m. Towne Crier | 379 Main St. 845-913-7157 | newburghsymphony.org most recent album, Blood From Forum on Strategic Plan 845-855-1300 | townecrier.com African American Artists The Greater Newburgh a Stone. Cost: $20 ($25 door) The Americana-alt country band of the Hudson Valley COLD SPRING Symphony Orchestra will perform will perform. Cost: $25 ($30 door) BEACON 6 p.m. Haldane High School (Room 211) works by Mozart, Beethoven and SUN 9 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Howland Cultural Center 15 Craigside Drive | 845-265-9254 Prokofiev with three sopranos. 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mented approach, mirroring the revelation (from Page 11) Roy Cohn of the many strands of Cohn’s duplicitous Seeing Angels in America was the second life, including his connections to the mob; experience that provoked Meeropol to learn his hedonistic life over summers in Prov- more about Cohn. incetown, Massachusetts; and his decades- “My family and I were invited to see it, and long relationship with Donald Trump as his we were blown away,” she says. “Once I started personal lawyer. making documentaries, I always had 10 ideas “I wanted to move around in time, weav- popping around in my head. It was always in ing my family’s story in and out but never the mix, because I kept wondering, ‘Why has having it dominate,” Meeropol says. “We no one made a film about this guy?’ There was skipped the 1960s — Cohn spent a lot of a scripted narrative film, but no good in-depth time being indicted. I started calling it an documentary treatment. impressionistic biopic.” “I hoped someone else would do it, because While conducting research in Provinc- I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to revisit my etown, Meeropol connected with Peter family’s story — I had already done it with Manso, a journalist who had interviewed Heir. But Cohn’s so fascinating as a figure in Cohn at length and still had the tapes. “Until American history. He intersects with almost I found Manso and the tapes of Cohn talking every major movement and trend from 1945 about his life conversationally, I didn’t know through the mid-1980s, from the rise of I had a film,” she says. “Those are the kind of conservatism to the ’70s disco years.” things that are so exciting about making a She says she resisted the idea until the documentary: the hunt, the discovery.” election of President Trump. “I woke up the She is part of the film but says she decided morning after the election and thought ‘I early on that, unlike Heir, it was not about have to make this film,’ ” she recalls. “I had her journey. “It’s not like I’ve been haunted a such a unique perspective. I remember a by Roy Cohn, nor has my father, but it’s about group of my friends got together and asked using my family to understand the power and each other, ‘What are we all going to do now?’ recklessness that this man had, and its deep I decided that I would channel my rage and impact,” she says. “This is my dad’s story in fear” about the election. many ways. This film had to be about my Bully. Coward. Victim. is not a chrono- father helping the audience understand what logical narrative. Instead, it takes a frag- happened to him and his parents.”

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By Alison Rooney “The idea of my collection was to put on an exhibit where parents could explain to their oncerned that black history is being kids who everyone was,” McCaskill recalls. lost, Barbara McCaskill has over the To assemble her exhibits, McCaskill says C years built a collection of clippings, she make lots of phone calls and visits to posters, photographs and other memo- persuade people to lend their material, but rabilia. Every so often the Beacon resi- nothing seems unfamiliar because phone dent asks others — she describes herself calls and visits are also what she does as as “persuasive” — to borrow parts of their part of her volunteer work. Items for the collections and puts together an exhibit. display “come in little by little — I’m still That time has come again. Her most working on some people,” she says, with a recent effort opens on Saturday, Feb. 8, at smile. “I want to highlight not just famous the Howland Public Library in Beacon, with people but people who have done things in a reception from 1 to 3:30 p.m. The display the Beacon community.” The local honor roll includes people such will continue through March 1. Barbara McCaskill, with one of the binders from her collection. Photo by A. Rooney McCaskill, 75 (or, as she says, “nearly as community activist Leatice Morgan, who 76!”), mounted her first exhibit at the ran two foster homes and whose name can library in 2011, two years after she joined be found on a street sign running off South McCaskill grew up in Kingstree, South but closed in 2007. “It’s very missed now,” the Southern Dutchess chapter of the Avenue. “She knew all of the politicians in Carolina. Her two older sisters attended McCaskill says. National Association for the Advancement Albany,” McCaskill says. “Whatever it took South Carolina State. “I was the third in McCaskill is an active volunteer. “I’ve of Colored People (NAACP). She timed it to to keep her program going, she did it.” line,” she says. “There was no such thing always liked to be a part of community orga- coincide with Black History Month, which (Morgan died in 2005 at age 91.) as financial aid, so I said to my dad, ‘I can nizations,” she says. “They do a good job takes place each February. Sometimes the memorabilia comes from travel instead. I can go to New York, because letting people know where they can get hope.” The following year, McCaskill returned to unlikely sources. In the 1980s, McDonald’s it’s too much money pressure on you guys.’ One of the goals of the NAACP’s South- the library but also created a display at the gave out “Faces of Black History” tray sheets “My father said he would send me to New ern Dutchess chapter, which is inactive but Rombout Middle School. A librarian there that highlighted prominent African-Amer- York, to my grandmother’s. It was 1963, hoping to reorganize, was to get people had created a questionnaire for students to ican inventors such as Madam C.J. Walker the year that our president [Kennedy] was registered to vote. At events such as “the research famous black Americans, but most (1867-1919), who lived in Westchester County killed, and I thought, ‘Now I will find my Strawberry Festival, the corn one, the pump- of them were contemporary figures that the and whose line of hair products for African own little fortune.’ kin — we’d always have a table there and children would have heard of. American women made her a millionaire. “But that didn’t happen and, like every- most of the time I was the one sitting at it,” thing else, I stopped dreaming of it. I landed McCaskill says. The organization also had a nice little waitress job in White Plains and programs for the homeless and veterans. that’s where I met my first husband.” She also is active in the Hudson branch of McCaskill and her husband discov- the Les Souers Amiables Civic Club, which ered Beacon when their son’s gospel choir presents college scholarships and was orga- performed in the city. “It reminded me of nized locally in 1948. the small town I grew up in,” she says. After Anyone interested in either organization the family moved to Beacon, she initially can contact McCaskill at 845-831-4882. She commuted to a job in West Nyack. Frus- doesn’t do the internet but relies on other, seat- trated with the drive, she opened a daycare of-the-pants methods. “When I get involved,” for infants through 12-year-olds. she says, “you’re going to hear about it!” It was during that period when she began to look into how she could get more involved The Howland Public Library is located with her new community. A member of the at 313 Main St., Beacon. The exhibit can be City Council, Eleanor Thompson, asked viewed during library hours, which are 9:30 McCaskill if she’d be willing to run the a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday afterschool program at the Martin Luther and Friday; 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday King Jr. Center on South Avenue. and Thursday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Satur- Madam C.J. Walker put herself in the driver's seat The center later added senior services day; and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

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he work on the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, like any historic T structure, is never finished. “We are always in a process of fixing,” explains Craig Wolf, the board president for the nonprofit HCC, which moved into its home on Main Street after the library moved out in 1976. The building, which was the first in Beacon to be added to the National Register of Historic Places and has been described as Norwegian Gothic in style, was designed as a library in Some of the damage at the entrance 1872 by Richard Morris Hunt at the bequest to the Howland Cultural Center that its of his brother-in-law, Joseph Howland, a Civil board hopes to have repaired. War general and former state treasurer. Photo by A. Rooney After the library decamped a century later, it took three years to organize an techniques because we effort to convert the building into a cultural don’t want to throw center. That work has continued during the some 2-by-4s on it,” he 40 years since, including an overhaul years says. “In some cases, ago of the slate roof, which was “hugely we’re not sure how expensive — we’re hoping it will last a very much deterioration long time,” Wolf says. exists until contractors The Howland Cultural Center Photo by Jeff Simms In earlier days, he says, HCC received a good start tearing it apart.” Craig Wolf deal of support from the Beacon Community The HCC has sched- Development Agency because it was on the because they were cheaper to install.” The summer,” he says. The geothermal needed uled its second gala for May 14 and is hoping historic register and also in a census tract contractor replaced the floor in certain upgrading; because the main pump had for another fundraising success. “So much defined as lower income. Community devel- spots where it was worn down, then sanded failed, and the technology has advanced, [work] needs to be done,” Wolf says. “We’re opment is now overseen by the Dutchess and stained it to match the original, before the board decided to redo the entire system. building our shopping list.” County Department of Planning, and the finishing it with coats of polyurethane. The list includes window rehabilitation, center relies more heavily on state grants and The portico replacement of some brickwork, other private fundraising. (It held its first gala last The heat The rehabilitation of the building’s front woodwork around the building and “minor year and raised about $21,000.) The gas-fired heating system was replaced portico and central façade (the front doors projects hither and yon: some look like Along with its fundraising, the HCC with twin furnaces. “It’s much more effi- and everything above them) remains on maintenance, some bigger money,” Wolf board has set aside funds over the years to cient,” Wolf says. “We’ve seen a drop in the hold until warmer weather returns. says. “When we get into projects it’s hard take care of the building and pushed ahead bills for the past couple of years.” “There’s a considerable amount of dete- to talk about how much they would cost with four major projects. rioration in some of the wood,” Wolf says. because we haven’t had a professional or The geothermal “We’ve done temporary repairs, but we specialist in preservation do the research. The floor “This building is quite remarkable in that want to do it well and right and restore But obviously we’re looking at the upper six The building’s 147-year-old floor was we have two ways to heat it: gas and geother- some missing features. We’re likely to use figures and beyond in the coming years.” restored. “We had to work with a contrac- mal,” Wolf says. Installed a decade ago, the epoxy consolidation, a process of injecting a The building will celebrate its 150th anni- tor called Strictly Hardwood, even though geothermal system “involved drilling five compound into the wood which hardens up, versary in 2022, which will be linchpin for a our floor is soft wood,” Wolf says. “In the water wells in the side yard,” he says. It and you shape it. It’s a cross between wood campaign. But for now, Wolf says, “people old days, when forests were younger and provides not only heat but air conditioning. and plastic, so it’s solid and unlikely to rot. who have contributed can be pleased with harvesting was newer, they’d cut long pieces, “The building had been hard to use in the “We’re using skilled and time-consuming how much got done for good value.”

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Small, Good Things Even the language we’ve come to identify with the exotic celebrates a mundanity that is refreshing in the face of Instagram culture. Take tikka masala. As far as I The Spicy Bits can ascertain, the roots are “small bits By Joe Dizney or pieces” (tikka) and “spice or spicy” (masala), so let’s call it “spicy bits” for short. t always happens Its most recognized form, chicken tikka about now: arctic masala, is a dish of spiced, yogurt-mari- I air and snow on nated and roasted chicken pieces stewed in the ground send me a fragrant, tomato-inflected cream “curry” mentally globe-trot- (itself a vague term for a sauce of spices). ting to warmer climes Not even the chicken is a constant. Lamb, for culinary inspiration. seafood and vegetable permutations are I know, I know: comfort food is about carbo- spread over a large geographic area. hydrates, roasting, long, slow braises and On offer here is an “authentic” — at least in root vegetables. But sometimes escapism is my Hudson Valley kitchen — recipe for mush- in order, and even the blandest basic ingredi- room tikka masala. It is bits of mushrooms ents can be monumentally transformed — just and bell pepper flash-fried in ghee, which is as civilization was — by a little spice trading. clarified butter available in the Foodtown Dried seeds, pods, roots, berries and dairy isle, and briefly stewed in a curry of herbs are the alchemical ingredients that onion, garlic, ginger, cumin, coriander and have defined global cuisines since the dawn turmeric. The most exotic and identifiably of history. Exotic flavors and ingredients “Indian” ingredient — fenugreek leaves, or (peppers, cumin, cardamom, ginger and kasoori methi — is available at Saraswati turmeric) offer flavor and textural variety, Indian Market on Route 9 in Fishkill. 1. In a large saucepan, heat oil or aka the spice of life! Mushroom ghee to medium and add cumin As primitive as we might like to think Joe Dizney is a designer, art director seeds. Once they begin to sizzle, of early cultures, centuries of experimen- and unrepentant sensualist. When the Tikka Masala add chopped onion. Cook stirring tation have resulted in some heady and Cold Spring resident is not thinking about often until onions brown slightly. Add sophisticated cooking. Nowhere is this food, he is foraging for, cooking or eating Serves 4 ginger-garlic paste and stir for about more evident than the Indian sub-conti- it. He shares another spicy winter recipe on 45 seconds to a minute. Sprinkle nent, where many strains of cooking are the most recent episode of Beacon resident 4 tablespoons oil or ghee in the ground coriander, cumin and turmeric and chili powder. Add refined and cultivated but also humble, and chef Jennifer Clair’s podcast, Kitchen 2 teaspoons cumin seeds universal and available to the masses. Radio. See homecookingny.com/podcast. crushed tomatoes in puree. Bring to a 2 large yellow onions, chopped fine low boil then reduce heat to maintain a low simmer while you prepare the 3 tablespoons ginger-garlic paste mushrooms. Add hot water as needed (see note, below) to keep the sauce from thickening too 14.5-ounce can crushed much. tomatoes in sauce 2. Trim the mushroom stems a bit 1 teaspoon ground coriander leaving the caps whole, if possible. If WINTER FEB 17 – 18 too large, cut in halves or quarters. 1 teaspoon ground cumin Toss with the bell peppers and reserve ½ teaspoon turmeric powder in a large bowl. Whisk together the yogurt, peppers, turmeric and chili 4 tablespoons dried fenugreek Workshop powder. Add the spiced yogurt to the leaves (kasoori methi); optional mushrooms and peppers and work it 2 pounds large white button and/or all together gently with your hands. 10 – 3pm cremini mushrooms, wiped clean 3. Heat oil or ghee to medium-high 2 large green bell peppers, ¼” dice heat in a large skillet. When hot, add the mushrooms-pepper mix in one School’s out ½ teaspoon ground turmeric layer. Do this in batches so as to not 2 teaspoons medium-hot crowd the pan. Cook the mushrooms Make ART! chili powder until they start to brown. Don’t move Space is limited! them around too much or they won’t ¾ cup whole-milk Greek yogurt brown. Call early to register 2 to 3 tablespoons ghee 4. When all of the mushroom-bell ½-to-1 teaspoon medium-hot pepper mix is cooked, add it to the chili powder tomato sauce. Add salt to taste. Add fenugreek and cook over medium Salt Winter workshop for kids heat for 3 minutes. Stir in heavy ages K – 8th ¼ to ½ cup heavy cream (or coconut) cream and simmer February 17 and 18, 10am – 3pm. (or substitute coconut cream) for another 3 to 5 minutes. Serve $55 per day (Sign up for both over jasmine rice and garnish with days for $100 with coupon chopped cilantro. code. See website for details.)

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By Chip Rowe Plans were made to add a maternity ward Looking Back in Beacon to Highland Hospital. Editor’s note: Beacon was created in 1913 A jury deliberated for nine hours but from Matteawan and Fishkill Landing. deadlocked in the retrial of a lawsuit brought by a woman who demanded 200 Years Ago (January 1820) $10,000 from the city after she slipped on A Dutchess judge considered whether to a sidewalk and injured her back. She had jail the insolvent Nathan Ashby of Fishkill been awarded $2,500 but a state appeals Landing in light of a state law passed the court overturned the verdict. year before that “abolished imprisonment A county judge granted Nellie Dolson, 22, for debt in certain cases.” a divorce from her husband, William, 28, “on the identification of his signature on a 150 Years Ago (January 1870) Poughkeepsie hotel register” with a woman The county began grand jury selection who was not Mrs. Dolson. for an indictment of John Heroy, who was Sgt. Major Edward Corwin of Beacon met accused of stealing $175 in goods from John J. Pershing while photographing the George Sullivan’s store in Matteawan. general being introduced to the soprano The Matteawan Manufacturing Co. was Luisia Tetrazzini before a concert. turning out about 120 dozen hats a day. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Capitalists from Massachusetts visited to Animals noted in its annual report that Matteawan to prospect the water power for the number of flagrant abuses in Beacon the establishment of cotton mills and “are in had dropped dramatically in recent negotiation for certain preliminary privileges.” years. It also reported it had investigated 612 complaints, secured 32 convictions, 125 Years Ago (January 1895) humanely dispatched 89 horses and ordered On appeal, a state judge ruled Edward another 88 to be retired from the streets. Meredith to be sane. Meredith had been Frankie “The Bronx Spider” Jerome fought John Reed, the author of Ten Days That convicted of murder and sent to Sing Sing, in Beacon in 1920. Shook the World 75 Years Ago (January 1945) where he “declared that he had found Beacon police responded to a report that grave irregularities in the prison books.” two boys had drowned near “The Trees” In response, prison officials sent him to in a boxing match at the Wright-King Club New York from Beacon with a load of poul- swimming hole but discovered it was a the Asylum for the Criminally Insane at with knockdowns in the first, fifth, seventh try, fruits and vegetables, was caught in the misunderstanding. A woman had called Matteawan, saying he suffered from delu- and ninth rounds. [Jerome died in 1924 at ice near West Point. Trucks were sent to to say that when she asked two children sions. He had been released in 1894 and age 24 after being knocked out in a match.] Garrison but the ferry managers said their she found crying on Grove Street what immediately wrote a tell-all book. Harrison Ellison of 67 Tioronda Ave. was boats were too small to take them across. was the matter, one replied that “two boys arrested on suspicion of being John Reed, the The ferrymen also refused to use their boats on a sled went in the creek.” Police found 100 Years Ago (January 1920) author of Ten Days That Shook the World, a to carry the perishables back to Garrison. sled marks leading to the creek edge, but a John T. Smith of Beacon, who served five firsthand account of the Bolshevik Revolu- While repairing the floor of the Acad- priest located the boys in Groveville. terms in the Assembly representing south- tion, who had been indicted in Chicago for emy of Music, carpenters came upon the Priscilla Cavaccini of Cannon Street ern Dutchess County, died at his home. He “criminal anarchy.” Ellison told police he mummified remains of two cats, which escaped injury when she leaped from her also was president of the First National was not Reed but a former attendant at the they surmised must have run under the floor automobile as it skidded off Fishkill Avenue Bank of Beacon. Matteawan State Hospital who hadn’t been when it was being installed 50 years earlier. and dropped 25 feet to the tracks. Frank Shaw, 19, killed himself with two to Chicago in 15 years. After being held for In the first volleyball game of the season, The Beacon High school boys’ basket- shots to the chest while stretched over four days, Ellison was released when New the Poughkeepsie YMCA defeated the ball team, coached by Bill Hamm, defeated the Beacon grave of Romola Gerow, 15. (A York City detectives arrived with a photo of Beacon Tire Co., 15-8, 15-10, 15-9. Poughkeepsie, 38-27, for its eighth straight second newspaper account gave her name Reed, who was clearly not him. [In fact, Reed Charles Taylor of Beacon, treasurer of win after losing its first two. as Eva Taylor.) The Newburgh man was had fled to Moscow in 1919 and died there in the Colored World War Veterans Associa- A 25-year-old Beacon woman was apparently distraught because his sweet- October 1920.] The county district attorney tion, based in Newburgh, was accused of arrested for allegedly stabbing an assistant heart had died while he was serving in the said he had no idea why Illinois authorities, in embezzlement. chef at the Dutchess Hotel in the head after Army overseas. a telegram to the sheriff, identified Ellison as Louise Coldwell Post, formerly of Beacon, the two had an argument at a tavern and he Frankie “The Bronx Spider” Jerome won a Reed and asked that he be extradited. wrote a letter to the Beacon Herald about came to her home to continue it. decisive victory over Ray Lucas of Newburgh The steamer Poughkeepsie, enroute to her new home on the island of Java. 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Petty Officer 1st Class William Barrack, approved by the Planning Board — for a (from Page 19) Looking Back writing from Saipan Island to his niece, slope off South Avenue. Word arrived that Pvt. Robert Bennett, Angelina Thomaselli of Beacon, said he Four Beacon High School students — 20, of Cliff Street, had been killed in an was examining a life raft and noticed it Andrea Sramek, Janice Marinaccio, Chris auto crash in France. had been made by the New York Rubber Whittingham and Kerry Garo — while on Frank Bettina, an electrician’s mate Co. of Beacon. a class field trip to New York City, were in the Navy and brother of Beacon boxer The Beacon Lumber and Coal Co. was, browsing in a music store when a young Melio Bettina, was reported wounded in in December, supposed to receive three man asked for their advice on selecting a action in the Pacific theater. [Frank had carloads of coal, which was being rationed guitar. It turned out he was the margarine been aboard the USS Orestes when it was because of the war, but did not get them heir Michael James Brody Jr., 21. He said he sunk near the Philippines by a Japanese until New Year’s Day. By the time the next had budgeted $900, but since the instru- kamikaze bomber. After returning home, load arrived on Jan. 31, it said 65 custom- ment they suggested only cost $500, he gave he worked for Central Hudson for 35 years ers had been out of coal for a week or more. them each $100. [Brody, who announced before retiring and died in 2010 at age 91.] earlier that same month that he planned to A state judge upheld a new Beacon law 50 Years Ago (January 1970) give away his fortune because “money hasn’t that banned lawsuits against the city for The Beacon Area Chamber of Commerce made me satisfied,” killed himself in 1973.] injuries incurred from falls on sidewalks discussed changing its name to the South- unless a “notice of defective condition” had ern Dutchess Chamber of Commerce. When previously been filed with the City Coun- that proposal was defeated by a 7-6 vote, it cil. It asked a judge to dismiss a $35,000 went with the Beacon-Fishkill Area Cham- lawsuit by a man whose son had died after ber of Commerce. tripping into a window well. The Dutchess Ski Area at Mount Beacon The City Council approved what the hired four European instructors: Bernard mayor called “preliminary steps” for Herrou and Jean Pierre Chatollard of France improving Beacon’s water system, includ- and Pepi Dattendorfer and Tom Wuzrainer ing repairs to meters at the Melzingah and of Austria. It also hosted its first interna- Mount Beacon reservoirs and a new meter tional invitational giant slalom race with for the Cargill reservoir. a half-mile course that dropped 600 feet After the heaviest snowfall in a decade, through 26 gates. It was won by Gilbert Felli John Grosso, 63, a hatmaker who lived a of Austria in 56.516, followed by Wuzrainer. half mile from the nearest plowed road, was [Felli is today the executive director of the trapped in his home on Mountain Road for International Olympic Committee.] four days while suffering from pneumonia. Beacon Savings and Loan said it would It took a pair of state troopers and a tobog- merge with the First Federal Savings and gan to rescue him through waist-deep show Loan of Kingston to form Hudson Valley A brochure for the Dutchess Ski Area on a steep slope that even a city plow could Federal Savings and Loan. gondyline.com Two songs performed by Michael Brody not navigate. Jerome Williamson of the Beacon High were released by RCA School boys’ basketball team set a school record when he scored 39 points against HOWLAND CULTURAL CENTER Middletown, topping the 38 points 25 Years Ago (January 1995) recorded by Tony Komisar in 1954-55 and After seven years of walking laps each Lou Jackson in 1965-65. week at the Dutchess Mall in Fishkill, John The outgoing Republican administration Mara of Glenham hit the 9,000-mile mark. left a surprise for the incoming mayor and The Beacon city attorney said his office council, the mayor said: an unpaid, three- obtained four convictions for violations by month-old bill for $95,393 related to the landlords of the building code. Two land- design of a state-mandated secondary sewage lords were fined a total of $5,000, he said, treatment plant. The previous administration including one who had welded a fire escape Sat. Feb. 1 – 2:30 – 4:30 pm had said in 1969 it had a $60,000 surplus that shut to deter vandals. ART OPENING RECEPTION allowed it to lower taxes. The former Repub- Nick Donofrio, 50, the Beacon native African-American artists’ show lican mayor responded that the bill was credited with reviving IBM’s mainframe Sat. Feb. 8 – 8 pm * supposed to be included in the bond to build computer division, was promoted in a 9 HORSES in CONCERT the plant, not in the city budget. restructuring. Chamber jazz w/ mandolin, violin and bass A Green Haven Correctional Facility The Beacon High School cafeteria added Sat. Feb. 8 – 1:30 pm guard pleaded guilty to second-degree Domino’s pizza to its menu, selling 229 HELENA HERNMARCK, TAPESTRY ARTIST Tix: HudsonValleyYarnTrail.com/events manslaughter for stabbing his wife to death slices the first day from its standing order with a bread knife during an argument in of 40 pies. Tue. Feb. 11 – 7 pm OLD-TIMEY SOUTHERN FIDDLE TUNES the bedroom of their home on Lydia Drive. Nobody’s Fool, starring Paul Newman, JAM SESSION Engineering consultants told Beacon that Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith and Bruce String players, or just listeners, welcome the only source of water adequate for the Willis, with Beacon standing in for the Fri. Feb. 14 – 7 pm city’s long-term needs was the Hudson River. fictional city of North Bath, opened at HUDSON VALLEY POETS The Beacon school superintendent theaters. Featured: Bob Phelps + open mic recommended the district build a new high The Beacon City Council approved an Sun. Feb. 16 – 4 pm school because of overcrowding. agreement to provide fire protection for PIANIST ZOLTAN FEJERVARI At the request of a group of high school the Downstate Correctional Facility for Howland Chamber Music Circle www.howlandmusic.org students, the district declared Jan. 15 as an $12,000 annually. annual school holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Beacon native and former longtime Wed. Feb. 19 – 7 pm * JOAN HENRY and band, SPIRITED Luther King Jr.’s birthday. More than 150 Notre Dame basketball coach Digger Phelps Tribal Harmony concert series students gathered at the school to honor King. claimed during an interview with the AND MORE The city received a $3.8 million federal Poughkeepsie Journal that he planned to Fri. Feb. 21 – Thom Joyce’s Open Mic urban-renewal grant to build low-income run for president in 2004. “I want to coach Sat. 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Howard Broad (1953-2020) by interment at Cold Spring Cemetery. Howard Ira Broad, 67, a resident of Garri- son for the past 33 years, died in Somers Decatur Myers (1947-2019) on Jan. 26, 2020, of complications from Decatur Reed Myers, 72, of Peekskill, Alzheimer’s disease. He was the longtime died on Dec. 13, 2019, at his home. Myers owner of Country Clocks in Cold Spring. was a longtime newspaper deliveryman in Broad was born in Coral Gables, Florida, the Highlands. on Jan. 8, 1953, and raised in the Bronx, where he attended Howard Taft High School. Other Recent Deaths In an interview with The Current in 2011, Broad said he went to work at age 16 and Philipstown was employed as a draftsman with Bell Nicholas Fish, 61 Telephone before enrolling in the Bulova Charles Moore, 74 Watch and Clock School in 1983. “They Mary O’Rourke, 89 only teach watchmaking now,” he said. Karen Viilu, 73 “There is a great need for people who can Beacon fix watches,” he said. He said he didn’t see Luis Arzola, 81 relying on cell phones to keep track of time Daisy Bowen, 91 as a threat. “There will always be people Edward Cooper, 58 who will want a nice watch.” Barbara Cruver, 83 Broad opened Country Clocks at 142 Main Maggie Cruz, 51 St. in the late 1980s and operated it for three Barbara Delahay, 79 decades until his retirement in 2018. Thomas Egan, 64 Asked in 2011 to identify his oldest time- Bettie Geysen, 88 piece, he pointed to an English Lantern Jean Kalbfus, 54 clock from 1690, “the first domestic clock Ed Link, 89 offered.” He was, however, unable to iden- Mary Mazzacone, 93 tify his favorite. “It’s hard to say. It’s like Denver Mendoza, newborn saying, ‘Who’s your favorite child?’ ” Rick Monroe Jr., 70 Broad is survived by his spouse of 41 Helen Moraitis, 79 years, Winfried Dohle, and his extended Patti Schnetzler, 73 families, the Dohles, Rautenbachs, Lohm- Shirley Way, 90 anns and Rasches. A funeral service was held today (Jan. 31) at For obituaries, see Clinton Funeral Home in Cold Spring, followed highlandscurrent.org/obits.

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Answers will be published next week. See highlandscurrent.org/puzzle for interactive sudoku. 24 January 31, 2020 For mail delivery, see highlandscurrent.org/delivery SPORTS Follow us at twitter.com/hcurrentsports VARSITY ROUNDUP Boys’ Basketball Diba scored 13 against Bronxville and Beacon (6-11) picked up a victory Cervone added 14 in the Leffell game. on Wednesday in Montrose, beat- “We’re starting to shoot better,” ing Hendrick Hudson, 59-48, behind said Virgadamo. “We’re finding better 22 points from Quazir Hayes. Adrian balance on offense, and our defense is Davis added eight for the Bulldogs. coming around. We’re starting to put “It was an excellent game,” said it all together.” Coach Scott Timpano. “We always have The Blue Devils hosted Putnam great battles with Hendrick Hudson. Valley (2-10) on Jan. 30 and will take Ian Bautista [who had four points and on Edgemont (2-11) on Saturday at 2 more than 10 rebounds] played the p.m. and Dobbs Ferry (11-5) on Monday hardest we’ve seen him go. It was a at 6:15 p.m. They are currently the No. 2 much-needed win.” seed of five teams in Class C for Section The Bulldogs led by double digits 1, behind Hamilton (13-2). but the Sailors (4-11) made a run in the second half to cut the lead to two Girls’ Basketball points with four minutes to play before Haldane dropped a 55-39 decision at Enita Rodriguez led the Bulldogs against Hendrick Hudson with 13 points. home to undefeated Briarcliff on Jan. Photo by S. Pearlman Beacon regained control. Beacon plays Red Hook on Satur- 23 to even their record at 7-7. Senior day (Feb. 1) at Dutchess Community Bela Monteleone scored 28 points, Liv Beacon Girls Fall to Powerhouse College, travels to Peekskill on Feb. 4 Monteleone grabbed 10 rebounds and and closes its regular season on Feb. 6, Molly Siegel had eight boards. Tough to stop Hendrick Hudson and its star hosting Lourdes (8-5). The Bulldogs are The Blue Devils are scheduled to fighting for a playoff spot; sports writer travel to Pleasantville (8-7) on Satur- By Skip Pearlman and we knew No. 5 [Grace Moretti, who Kevin Delaney Jr.’s site at kdjblog.com day and will host Putnam Valley (11-3) scored 18 points] is a good shooter, so that puts them at No. 21 of 29 Class A teams on Monday at 6 p.m. he Beacon High School girls’ basket- was our plan. Do I think we executed it in Section 1, but only the top 20 teams ball team had a few bright moments well? Not really. We gave them too many qualify. Boys’ Swimming in its 58-30 loss on Wednesday (Jan. T opportunities on the offensive boards.” Haldane easily won three games Beacon, which finished its season 29) to top-ranked Hendrick Hudson, but it Dahl said that “when you play a strong this week to improve to 11-3, defeating on Jan. 21 at 9-4, will host the eight- wasn’t enough to slow the Sailors or their team like that, you’ve got to do the little things Yonkers Montessori Academy, 72-47; team league championships on Satur- star, Caitlin Weimar, who will play for right, including break their press. We made Bronxville, 51-31; and The Leffell day with squads from Poughkeepsie, Marist College in the fall. some poor decisions there. And we didn’t put School, 68-32, which was Coach Joe Lourdes, Peekskill/Hendrick Hudson/ “We had a game plan coming in, but the ball in the basket — that’s been something Virgadamo’s 150th win. Croton, Eastchester, Tappan Zee, obviously Caitlin Weimar [who scored 23 that’s been plaguing us all season.” Senior Matt Champlin led the Blue Woodlands and Nyack traveling to the points] is a phenomenal player,” said Coach Devils in scoring in all three games, high school pool. Christina Dahl. “Our goal was to stop her, (Continued on Page 21) with 24 against Yonkers, 14 against Bronxville and 16 in the Leffell game. Bowling Freshman Matteo Cervone had a The Beacon boys’ and girls’ squads each lost to John Jay, 7-0, on Jan. 28. Crunching the Numbers career-best 16 against Yonkers, Mame Sports writer Kevin Devaney of 65 points per game, is ranked Jr. loves to crunch numbers No. 10 among the section’s 25 and recently analyzed varsity top-scoring teams; the Blue Devils high school basketball data for are No. 11 in defense — i.e., the Section 1 (which includes teams fewest points allowed per game — from the Highlands) for his at 46.6. (Beacon is not among the website at KDJBlog.com. top 25 in either category.) By tracking the winning Among the girls’ teams, Lourdes percentage of teams’ opponents, (12-2) had the toughest schedule he calculated that the Mount of 70 schools through Jan. 30, Vernon boys (9-8) had, through with Haldane (7-7) at No. 21 and Jan. 30, the toughest schedule Beacon (6-11) at No. 47. Neither of any of the 75 teams in the Highlands team was in the top section, with Putnam Valley (2-11) 25 in points scored per game, at No. 3, Beacon (6-11) at No. 11 but Beacon was No. 19 in fewest and Haldane (11-3) — which has points allowed (44.7). New won half of its games by 25 points Rochelle scored the most points or more — at No. 67. per game (67.6) and Hendrick Hudson allowed the least (34.1). Haldane, which scores an average Haldane’s Dan Santos drives around a Bronxville defender. Photo by Amy Kubik