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NONE THE PALISADES NEWS-LETTER 10964 JUNE 1998 NUMBER 162 ^9ssv^sw^sw^sss^ssss^^sw^sss^^ss& The Nyack Farmer s Market One of our area's best kept secrets n Thursday, June 18th they ate, and i the Nyack Farmers' became more I Market will open its aware and sen­ I second season with sitive to agricul­ festivities beginning tural issues. I at 10:00 AM. Most know from the Opeople in Palisades, however, sad goodbyes never even knew that the first on our closing year existed! But it was there, day in October attracting a small crowd of shop­ that I am not pers in the beginning and by the alone in feeling end of the season it was full of excited about hundreds of "regulars." As the our June open­ Market's co-developer and man­ ing. ager, I was there every Thursday, When my husband and I Opening Day Ribbon Cutting, 1997. Carol chatting with s decided, two Baxter, County Executive Scott Vandeerof, Assembly member Sam Coleman, Chamber shoppers who years ago, to would of Commerce Executive Director Lorie move our Reynolds, President Steve Kelly, Nyack remark that . family out of Mayor TerriHecker, Assembly Member Alex they genuine­ , Manhattan, we Gromack, and Orangetown Town Supervisor ly loved their learned about Thorn Kleiner. Thursday ritual Palisades and fell of buying in love. As we City Green Markets. So we were fruits and became adjusted to perplexed that we were now clos­ vegetables our new environ­ er to the farms but had limited that were ment, the one area access to their produce. picked the after­ that always disap­ Confident that there was a need, noon before, felt pointed us was food. I set out to open a farmers' mar­ happy shopping out­ As I spoke to other ket. side, liked running into friends, people, I would hear the same Through contacts, I met and felt their market purchases complaint: that fresh produce Miriam Haas who, coincidentaUy, were special. And by getting to was hard to come by. While liv­ was also attempting to open a know the vendors who grew or ing in Manhattan, for the last market in Rockland County. She made the food they bought, peo twelve years, I was a faithful, had developed the Ossining pie felt connected to the food weekly shopper at the plentiful

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Market in Westchester eight years and environmentally educational, lemonade, and children got to ago. Nyack was very interested for young and old alike. Last year stuff old clothes with and the Chamber of Commerce children planted seeds, got straw at our first of the Nyacks graciously became friendly with fifty slippery night- annual Harvest our sponsor. We garnered "seed" crawlers, learned how to com­ Festival. Live money from Assembly members post, and took a closer look at music has Sam Coleman and Alex how wool rugs are a true agricul­ played on Gromack, and from the First tural product, beginning with many occa­ Union Bank. And the rest, as what the sheep ate. Every week, sions. We also they say, is history. at 10:00 AM, there was a story hosted a hour for children and sometimes Nyack Library a craft, like Book sale. This making leaf year we will sched­ rubbings, ule more of the same. decoupage or You can be sure that something potato stamps. will be happening at 10:00 AM. During So now the cat is out of the September's bag. Thursday is Market day in New York Nyack, rain or shine. From Harvest for New Palisades, we're only 9 minutes York Kids Week, north, located in the center of the market was Nyack, at Main Street and Cedar, buzzing with in the Municipal parking lot next 300 second to the Helen Hayes Theater. graders from We're open 8:30 AM-2:30 PM, Shoppers at High Meadow Flower 7arm, Nyack Farmer's Market. the Nyack June through October. Come up school district, and take a look at our abundant Last year we opened the mar­ and throughout the year we have variety of fruits and vegetables, ket with seven vendors; this year welcomed dozens of nursery and selection of field flowers and giant we open with fourteen. Returning elementary school trips to the sunflowers, smoked trout, tofu are: The Orchards of Concklin, market. I also went to Tappan spreads, lemon bars, and berry Andryshak Farm, High Meadow Zee Elementary and spoke with pies, cheese, wine and crusty sour­ Flower Farm, Jenny Brook Trout children about agriculture and dough bread. And while you're Farm, Conklin Apiaries, Local how food gets to our tables. A there, see if you can find the Tofu, The Pie Kitchen, Dot's number of Senior Citizen Centers Queen Bee in our resident bee Delights, and the Rock Hill made trips to the market and hive! Bakehouse. Among the newcom­ many families made "market (We are looking for artisans ers will be organic produce from day" an outing by combining it who specialize in natural crafts to D'Attolico Farm, bedding plants with a ride on the Nyack Trolley. do presentations, musicians to and orchids from Blumen Garten Through the WIC program, a perform at the market and envi­ Greenhouse, wine from Warwich division of the New York State ronmental organizations to table. Valley Winery, and mozzarella Agriculture and Markets, Food Please call Carol Baxter at the cheese, butter, yogurt and ice Nutrition Program, 350 eligible Chamber of Commerce, 353-2221, cream from Joseph Popovitch. families and senior citizens if you would like to be a part of Our goal is also to comple­ received free coupons to pur­ the market or need further infor­ ment this weekly celebration of chase fresh produce. At our first mation.) local foods with events that are annual Corn Roast, we gave out entertaining and agriculturally 200 ears of hot roasted corn and by Carol Baxter Plotkin

2 n an early spring morning Perri Gerard-Little and I ALICE went "Down the Hill" HAAGENSEN Ono find Alice Munro Haagensen, or "Mama," in her sunny flower filled rooms over­ looking the Hudson. On the tables, in the bookcases, on the walls, were the fruits of her A LEGEND decades-long labors to chronicle an interview by the history of Palisades. Notebooks, books, charts, pho­ Milbry Polk, tographs were neatly and entic­ ingly organized. On the table was IN HER Perri Gerard-Little, her own book, Palisades and Snedens Landing, our hamlet's Alice Haagensen's history book. OWN great grand-daughter, How did you come to Palisades? and Simon Gerard, "Cushman and I first came to her grandson Palisades in 1941. We had been TIME invited to tea by Dr. and Mrs. Bobbins. He was the Dean of the Whipple, at Columbia, urged my which was shared with the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. husband to begin a private prac­ kindergarten and hot lunch They had a beautiful house over­ tice so he could begin to pay off program. We put cages over the looking the river in Snedens the house. With his help we were books for protection. Landing. Later, when we needed able to buy the house. In an emotional meeting we a new place to stay, we were per­ all voted against joining the coun­ suaded by mutual friends to rent What was life like in ty library system but it happened the Robbin's home, as they sel­ anyway. The library became less dom used it. I thought the house Palisades then? personally owned by the village, was far too grand for us but the The children had lots of friends. but it worked out for the best. rent was only $85 a month. I was The school had two classrooms There weren't many houses on given a key so I could come and for eight grades. The parents Woods Road then. Cushman planted look around. I started in the took a great interest in the school. a line of hemlocks to mark our courtyard to find the door it We ran it. We had meetings and boundary. Marion Gray, the famous would open. There were fifteen fights about the hot lunches and lace expert, used to come and cut her doors; the key worked in the about the plays. We made all our Christmas trees in the Park. One year fourteenth door, the kitchen. We own decisions about school we noticed a tree missing. The next came to live in Palisades a month affairs and the library was year we saw a neighbor heading for before Pearl Harbor. completely run by volunteers. our trees with an axe. She told us. When the Robbins came to When I first came the library Marion said there was a nice stand of visit they stayed with us. After a had just stopped being a private Christmas trees! year or two they said they wanted charity of the Lawrence family. to sell us the house. We could Lydia Hyde had given part of the What about the parties? not afford it on Cushman's med­ Big House for its use. When she ical salary. But the Robbins want­ died the Library had to move. The Robbins house was a won­ ed us to have it so they sold it for We made it into a public library derful place to have parties. In much less than its real value. Dr. and moved it into the school, the summer we strung Japanese

3 lanterns along the terrace. We How did you become stationed here. During the later always had a New-Year's Eve interested in local years of the war all communica­ party with our friends the tions between the British and Nichols. He was the drama critic history? Americans came through our for the Times. We had lots of Oh,-that's easy.-When Alice and Blockhouse. This side was called interesting guests. Woodie Karen were seven and ten we Dobbs Ferry then too. I have a Guthrie and Will Geer came. went to the library the two times bill from a Sneden to the revolu­ Justin O'Brien, a Professor of a week it was open. Lydia Hyde tionary army for rowing soldiers French at Columbia and a leader invited me to be on the Board. I across the River. in the OSS, came to dinner in his asked what I had to do. She said, Now the Block House is uniform. Andre Girard, leader of "Nothing, we never have meet­ mostly gone. The NY Historical the French Resistance, came. ings." I soon found myself busy, Society excavated it and found Mrs. Tonetti gave wonderful however, when the Board had to artifacts, mostly buttons and tools parties at the waterfall, which was move the Library. I was packing made of wire. Some of the stones approached by a long path the books when I realized how were used by Angie Hyde to much history there build her house. was: maps, deeds, In the end only Isabelle notebooks, all col­ Savell wrote anything. Her pro­ lected by Mr. ject became a book on the Gilman, and almost Tonettis. I went ahead and wrote unknown. I've been the book we were planning by studying them ever myself. since. In the 1970's we How did you meet formed a committee to write a book. your husband? Each of us was to Cushman was from North take a chapter to Dakota. His family came to research and America from Norway in the Margaret Parton, 1850's. His father was a country doctor and he and Cushman used through the woods. She strung the journalist, was to write it. I to go on calls far out on the lanterns along the path. She had worked on the story about the prairie in a horse and buggy or a big fire and would cook dinner Blockhouse that was located near sleigh. Cushman did the accounts for everyone. Once she told a the houses of the Powells and Joe for his father's practice. Every guest, Mr. Colton, the absent Hyde. It was built during the year his father threw away more minded librarian of the Revolutionary War as a watch than half the bills University Club, to put the house over the I la©v>if& ,i, • J,I,..,>~ because people spaghetti on the fire. He Hudson. were too poor to dumped it all out on the fire. She Washington had */'*-, pay. Somehow his had to begin again. come to Tappan father managed to Mrs. Harkness gave wonder­ in 1780 to get it f f send him to ful parties. Her secretary rang us built. At that time Harvard Medical up one day to come to a party at Washington had School. 5:30.1 said it was too early and his famous dinner I'- Cushman would not be home. in the Big House '' During his residen­ She said well, the Bolshoi Ballet with Lafayette and cy at Yale he got was coming too. Cushman made Von Steuben. TB. Many of the interns got it it home! There was dancing on I have all sorts of accounts then. After he recovered he took the lawn and fireworks. written about the Blockhouse, a job as ship's doctor on a Dutch which was manned throughout boat called the Rindam. the War. One was by Private My father was a professor of Joseph Plumb Martin who was

4 Medieval History. I grew up in born we moved to a tiny pent­ called Death Avenue because the Madison, Wisconsin, and house on East 62nd street with a train running along it had killed Princeton, New Jersey. After col­ large terrace. Cushman built a so many people. When we saw lege I went to the Sorbonne in sleeping porch, a dining terrace, the train it was crawling down Paris. After that I worked in New and a sitting area with chairs and the tracks witha man walking in York and saved all my front warning people money so I could go with a large bell. We took back again. I asked my Yi**%" a boat from downtown mother to join me on ftW Manhattan going around the trip. We sailed on the end to Long Island the Rindam, and Sound. The next morning Cushman was the ship's V. we woke up in Fall River. doctor. He saw me Then we took a train and come aboard and told a horse drawn stage to our the purser he wanted home in Waquoit. My me at his table. Fifteen father had built it in 1900 days later we became and the entire family still engaged. My mother summers up there. knew Cushman, and loved him, from being How has Palisades together on our first voyage on the Rindam. changed in the last But my father was 57 years? doubtful about me Well, physically it has not marrying a man with changed so much. But in no money, no job, and recover­ those days we really ing from TB! He felt better thought we were running when he received a letter from our own village. It was the famous Dr. Hugh Young at Map of Palisades, much smaller and we all Johns Hopkins saying Cushman I89L Rom Alice knew each other better. Haagensen's book, was one of the finest young men a hammock and a The ferry was still running in Palisades & he had ever met. sandbox for the the first years we were here. I Snedens Landing, once rode on it. We watched it After we married Cushman published in 1986. baby. The view was still needed some rest before glorious. The one get washed away in the jumping back into the grueling drawback was we had to wash the Hurricane of 1944. hospital routine, so we went to soot off our faces every morning. Some years we had a lot of Europe for a year. We could live snow on Woods Road. We would more cheaply there then, on Do you remember the have to walk and break the path. After the blizzard of '47 we had about $80 a month. We took the sinking of the Titanic? last crossing of the Eindam. It four or five feet of snow and the Oh yes. I was about 12 then. We was 1928, and she was about to children decided to give a party. were living in Madison, and peo­ be broken up. We spent some All the children coming broke ple were talking about it. I time in Paris and ended up in the path through the snow. remember seeing the plans of the Florence. It was a wonderful year. ship. When we came back to New What is next for you? Transportation was different York Cushman got a fellowship Some time ago I wrote a continu­ in those days. Every spring we to study cancer at the Memorial ation of my book, about traveled from Madison to Cape Hospital. I worked at the YMCA Palisades in the 20th century, and Cod. We went by train, a 36 publications department. We I hope that with Alice's help I hour trip to New York, then by always lived in unusual places can bring it up to date. carriage to the docks. I remem­ because Cushman insisted on ber crossing 10th Avenue. It was sleeping outside. When Alice was

5 ^LIBRARY NEWS New Books Solve It @ The Library Terminal Tips NEW NON-FICTION TITLES Children of all ages are invited to We would like to inform our patrons that Beattie, Ann Finding Your Way Hometak e part in the library's summer they may now reserve their favorite Chopra, Deepa Healing the Heart reading program, Solve It @ The books, instructional videos, etc. from any DeAngelis, Barbara Passion Library. Participants may enjoy ANSER library. Hemingway, Lorian Walk on Water reading books of their choice with At PAC Terminal: McCourt, Malachy A Monk Swimming the added incentive of receiving a 1. Search by author, tide or subject until Sayer, Mandy Alice mysterious haunted house poster you find the book you want. Scully, Julia Outside Passage and adding colorful "sleuth" stick­ 2. At the screen where there is a descrip­ Sheeny, Gail Passages for Men Trillin, Calvin Family Man ers to it as their reading progresses. tion of the book or the screen that lists They may also add figures to our the libraries owning the book, enter S ADULT FICTION program display in the children's (Select) and press return. Brown, Dale The Tin Man room. It is a fun and non-competi­ 3. Enter barcode number from the back Coonts, Stephen Fortunes of War tive incentive to continue reading of your library card and press return. Kalpakian, Laura Caveat during vacation. A variety of 4. Enter the last four digits of your phone Lamb;Wally- I Know This Much Is Truetheme-relate d activities will be number and press return. Laughtonjane The Face on the Wall offered during the program. 5. Read message and verify that your tele­ McCorkleJill Final Vinyl Days & phone number is correct by entering Y Other Stories As school ends, the fun begins; so (Yes) or N (No) and press return. Oates, Joyce Carol My Heart Laid Bare stop by the library at that time to 6. Read the message and press return. Trollope, Joanna The Best of Friends Vine, Barbara The Chimney begin borrowing books and to sign Sweeper's Boy up for programs.

Palisades Free Library Book Club is look­ Tappan Zee Thrift Shop Summer Schedule ing for additional members. We meet The library appreciates all the donations Mon - Wed 3pm to 9pm once a week at 2:00PM on Thursdays. made on its behalf. Our profits are Thu 10am to-noon Friendly and informal. Some authors of based on a formula of contributions 3pm to 9pm books we've read are J. Updike, A. received and volunteer hours worked. Fri 3pm to 5pm Proulix, A. Trollope, M. Atwood. Call Anyone wishing to work at the shop for Sat 11pm to 5pm Nancy Hall at 359-6237 the library please call 359-0136. Closed Sundays June 21st thru Sept. 6th

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Dave and Diana Green, with their Photographs by Erin White, who the American Dance College children Dakota and Savannah, lives on Century Road in Festival Association in March, are moving in July to Charlotte, Palisades, were shown at the New 1998 at the University of North Carolina. Diana, who grew City Library in a special exhibit Maryland at College Park. Her up in Palisades, worked with the from April 21 to May 30. Erin is a future plans include graduate 10964 staff for several years senior at Rockland Country Day school and choreography. before she became too busy School in Congers. teaching. She has also served as a NET NEWS: A new web site, trustee of the Rockland Center for Denise Warner, another Palisades www.scorecard.org, will give the Arts. Dave will continue his resident, is a senior dance major information about polluters in graphic arts work in North at Allentown College. In 1997 she your area when you type in your Carolina and Diana will continue choreographed a show called zip code. to teach. Unusual Suspects, presented at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Festival of

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Palisades Strawberry Festival The Palisades Presbyterian Church holds its annual Strawberry Festival on Saturday, June 13 from 2:00 until 6:00 PM, rain or shine. This popular community-wide event will again be held on the lawn of the manse at 124 Washington Spring Road. Strawberries, shortcake, ice cream, One hundred members and friends of the con­ balloons, and much more. Old fashioned gregation will be traveling to Broadway's New fun for all! Amsterdam Theatre on Thursday night, June 18 A Busy Month for to see The Lion King. the Palisades "This is not just a fun Presbyterian Church event," says Rev. Chase. A trip to the Broadway "The play contains sig­ production of Walt nificant cross-cultural Disney's The Lion King elements and important highHghts a busy ecological lessons pre­ month for the sented in an innovative Palisades Presbyterian artistic manner. The Church. On Pentecost combination of pup­ Sunday, May 31, sever­ *. *»-» petry and human per­ al young people who Palisades Presbyterian Church. September 6,1919 formance used in the have completed the production is deeply church's communicants program will join the symbolic of our responsibility to be co-creators church. This year's is the largest communicants with God." class in the nineties. The month concludes on June 30 at 7:30 PM A special worship service will be held on Sunday, with casting for the church's fall production of June 7 at 11 AM which will use dramatic themes, Thornton Wilder's Oujufpwn directed by musical styles, choreography and puppetry tech­ Palisades resident anc lurch member, Cass niques based on The Lion King. Children will play Ludington. Auditionsj je held in the Parish a central role in performing The Little Sparrow's House at the churcr Great Idea, an allegory set in the skies over a Rehearsals will beg SeptemDelrWttE|jrerj!or- parched African landscape. The story, symbolic of mances in late Oc™*^ the importance of sharing, was written by Rev. Robert Chase, the church's pastor. The service will take place under a tent in the church's backyard.

7 On January 21 Alice Gerard talked about her new book, Adventures from the Vast, as one of the Palisades library afterschool programs for children. The young audience seemed so interested in local history that at the end of the program she asked how many would like to join a History Club. Almost everyone there signed up. A month later, on February 21, the group met on a Saturday afternoon at the library and then walked to the Palisades Cemetery to explore one aspect of the past. The children were joined by some interested par­ ents and neighbors, many of whom had never visited the cemetery before. It is a fascinating place, with some sandstone tombstones dating to the early 18th century. Molly Sneden's old tombstone has been replaced by a modern granite slab, but Jonathan Lawrence's weather- beaten slab is still there, as well as many others with familiar names in Palisades history: Nicholas Gesner, Winthrop Gilman, Jesse Trenchard, Laura Ebmeyer, and Mildred Rippey. One tombstone belonging to a little Cisco girl, way back in the corner, was brought here from Skunk Hollow a few years ago. The children explored, looked for the oldest tombstones, and made a few rubbings. The second history club meet­ ing, on March 28, was a journey of exploration down what may have been the original road from the river to the top of the hill. A small group of five adults and five children met at the Palisades Church at 2:00 on a warm Saturday afternoon; two more people joined later. This was a complicated trip to arrange because we needed permission for the group to pass through the backyards of seven dif­ ferent properties on its way down to the river. Sam Gerard has been researching the possibility that the first road ran along the north side of the stream which runs straight down the ravine behind a number of the houses on Washington Spring Road, instead of making S turns as it does today. He explained to the group that there were several reasons for believing this: firstly, in early times people always found that the easiest route across rough country and over steep inclines was to follow the rivers and streams that had cut through them. These waterways had already created the gentlest natural slopes through such areas. There is also documen­ tary evidence suggesting that the present Washington Spring Road was made during the Revolutionary War. In a letter to George Washington, General Anthony Wayne recom­ mended building a blockhouse and a cannon emplacement (redoubt) to protect Sneden's Landing against the British. He also proposed putting militia troops to work improving the road to the ferry for ease of transporting heavy military equipment. The layout of the SOUTH ORANGETOWN SCHOOL NEWS present winding road is the logical way to effect this NEW SUPERINTENDENT APPOINTED improvement. A map included with General Welcome to the new Superintendent, Ms. Wayne's letter showed the existing 1780 road going Eileen Gress. Ms. Gress, who will assume the straight up the hill from the Hudson, presumably position on July 1, comes to South alongside the stream. Orangetown from Darien, Connecticut, where Further indirect evidence is found in two early she has been superintendent for the past five maps that show the partitioning of Robert Sneden's years. She has also served as assistant superin­ estate after his death in 1766. Of the 120 acres along tendent and superintendent of the the river, his widow, Mollie, and eldest son, Dennis, Westborough Public Schools in Massachusetts retained about 20 acres north of the road to the and superintendent of the East Haven (CT) river. The remaining 100 acres, south of the road, Public Schools. A native New Yorker, Ms. was divided among the remaining five Sneden broth­ Gress began her education career as a junior high and high school math teacher. ers. Two maps dated 1822 and 1837 show this divid­ ing line which coincides with the location of the Ms. Gress is currently pursuing her doc­ torate in Educational Administration at the stream, and which therefore must show the position University of Connecticut. She also holds a of the pre-revolutionary road. Masters in Curriculum degree from the More evidence is given by Winthrop Gilman, University of Rochester, and a Bachelor of the well known 19th century Palisades historian. He Science degree in Mathematics from Brooklyn states that in the mid 1800's local tradition held that College. the original road to the river followed along the Upon her appointment, Ms. Gress was north side of the stream. quoted as saying ". . .1 look forward to coming The History Club made their way down the hill to South Orangetown. It is a community of along the north side of the stream through brush wonderful people who are truly committed to and briars, looking for clues which would show the providing their children with the best educa­ most likely location of the old road. They stopped at tion possible." We look forward to seeing her the historic Washington Spring, half way down the in our District as well. The community was hill, not for a drink, but for frog watching. Farther invited to welcome her at a reception on along, the location of the blockhouse on top of the Wednesday May 27 at Tappan Zee High steep hill to the north was pointed out. Then, fol­ School. lowing the stream to a hill direcdy above the old SCHOOL BUDGET AND SCHOOL ferry landing, they stopped to explore the site of the BOARD VOTE RESULTS Revolutionary War redoubt which is said to have The South Orangetown School Budget for mounted two cannon. Below the redoubt, at the academic year 1998-1998 was approved by base of the slope was seen the remains of a bridge voters on May 19, by a vote of 1,226 to 1,064. foundation where the early wagon road probably In the Board of Education election, how­ crossed the stream to the south for a brief stretch to ever, Palisadian Gerry Miras lost her seat to avoid an impassable defile on the north. Cee Guarino of Tappan by only 67 votes out At the river shore, some 200 yards north of the of the 2,255 cast for the Palisades seat. In the present dock the group saw a huge rock pile that 40 years since the Gentleman's Agreement has probably marks the location of the ferry dock at the been in place, Palisades is the only hamlet that time of the Revolution. Then, to show that historical has lost its representation on the Board of field work is not just a lot of tough trekking, history Education. club members young and old enjoyed lemonade and We know that the community joins the snacks at the river's edge (as can be seen in the staff of 10964 in extending our heartfelt above photo). thanks and appreciation to Gerry for her 15 years of hard work and dedication to our chil­ by Sam & Alice Gerard dren. We wish her well.

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hese pictures of chil­

dren around the

world, taken by

Palisades resident

Gerry Miras, have

been exhibited at the

South Orangetown

Board of Education gallery, the

Palisades Library, and (some) at the Tappan Library.

The pictures come from

Turkey, China, Japan, Nepal,

Morocco, and India, all countries

Gerry has visited in the last six- teen years. She has made five trips to

China, the first in 1982 and the last

in 1996, and comments that many

changes have taken place during that

time. In 1990 she spent three weeks

in Turkey, traveling by bus from the

Russian border to the Bosphorous.

She comments that Japan, which she

visited in 1987, has a finished look

compared to China but that

children are very much loved

in both countries.

Gerry is particularly interested

in the way people live and work. She of the world it \ composes the picture in her mind mi ,:.:4' before she takes it and says that the 7~fT7 jT^B* kind of camera doesn't matter, it's all BE™ Mk

in the mind. She may take eight to

%.- *t; \\v. ten rolls of film on each trip, about 300 pictures, and cull them down to §*»" 140 pictures: ten may be of children.

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Gastronomie Frangaise Ritz Escoffier Oysters on the Half Shell with in Paris. While there, he developed a Daikon Wasabi Puree and Salmon fine appreciation and respect for "La Roe, or Jumbo Shrimp with Restaurant Technique," the critical culinary basis Crabmeat and Golden Osetra Caviar. from which all cuisine emanates. He Perhaps Cream of Mushroom Soup liUiiri'hii graduated with honors. From with Poached Oysters is more your HeCrescenzo Summer, who was brought up in style. Entrees range from Roast Free Review Japan, he has learned much of Asian Range Chicken with the most drip- cuisines. Her influence is felt most pingly delicious sauce and Portabella ou needn't go far afield if it delightfully in the serene, tranquil Risotto or, Baked Whole Bronzini is exceptional food you atmosphere. Airy and spacious yet with Capers and Brown Butter to want in an entirely esoteric somehow very intimate, this 75 seat Sauteed Loin of Veal with Shitake environment. Rarified it's restaurant satisfies almost all of my Mushrooms or Wild Boar Chops. true, but not so much that instincts for pleasure. Appetizers, soups and salads are you can't breathe. And, if The seasonal menus (which priced between $5.00 and $10.00, food is a joy to be shared change regularly) show off to perfec­ with entrees priced between $18.00 by all of the senses, then the 3B tion Tony's unique fusion of contem­ and $25.00. From start to finish, an YRestaurant in Nyack is, indeed, the porary French cuisine with a entirely mouth watering evening. For place to be. I walked in and a table Japanese/Asian twist. At a very rea­ those of you who get off on a good was found for me immediately by the sonable price (approximately wine, a thoughtful wine list well large plate glass windows which front $4.00 for soups and salads matched with the extensive menu is Main Street. The polished crystal to $10.00 for the Grilled available. glasses sparkled and the ice cubes Lamb Chops) the lunch And, when the fantastic food, tinkled with perfect pitch. The ice menu is served Wednesday impeccable wait staff and not too shot through with anticipatory light, through Sunday from 11 sweet desserts to die for are too throwing flashing prismatic rainbows AM to 3 PM and offers much, you can stretch your legs with on the cozy terra cotta colored walls. such specialties as Baked a stroll to the large fish tank which And I thought really, if it was a dif­ New Zealand Mussels fills part of one wall. ferent, hotter time of year, that clear with Wasabi Mayonnaise There swim exotic elec­ cold water would be gone just as or Grilled Portabella tric blues with fancy long soon as I had looked at it. White Mushrooms with anteater snouts and striped paneled wainscotting gleamed sofdy Yakidofu, Eggplant and clown fish which will really in the candlelight and the stiff white Zucchini, for mmmmmmmm make you laugh. tablecloths and napkins smelled ever starters. Any Startling darting so slightly — dryly — of starch. manner of deli­ zebra fish and tiny Made me think of my first true love riously filled itty-bitty little fish trailing and the secret satisfaction I got from crepes stuffed with Grilled names much too long for ironing his double stitched, tailored Vegetables or Spinach and Wild their size. Rest your eyes and your shirts. Well, the silverware was heavy Mushrooms; Boursin, Gruyere or mind. Treat your taste buds. Dare to and shiny, the weightiness alone fore­ Bleu Cheese. Perhaps Ostrich be delinquent and delight yourself ! told a fantastic meal to come. And Burgers or Pasta with Seared Tuna come it did. and Bok Choy would appeal to you. none Chef-proprietor Tony Gerson For lunch or Sunday Brunch, the Don't worry, all of you who love your has been honing his considerable menu is elegant and composed. pasta and more. Valdostana culinary skills for the past 18 years, I know that when I have heard Restaurant of Tappan is moving clos­ working his way through the ranks at people say to me "presentation is er to home. As of the first week of a number of restaurants in the metro­ everything," I get a slightly queasy June their new location, formerly politan area. Approximately 10 years sensation in the pit of my stomach, "Madrid," will be even easier to get ago he, with his half Japanese wife the implication being that the meal to and you will feel good being envi­ will be anything but enjoyable. Not ronmentally conscientious using less Summer and their then two year old <4 daughter April, sold every thing they only is the presentation at 3B a feast gas to get there and back. And, you owned — everything — to be able to for the eyes, but, the food itself is won't have the hassle of parking in go to France and study at Ecole de magnificent. Dinner could start with downtown Tappan!

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-JX8X- ronathan Lawrence Jr. is the only Continental Army veteran I whose remains are buried in the quiet Palisades Cemetery. I Nearly all of the monuments in the historic section where Jawrence is buried are made from either local sandstone A REPORT FROM REG: (Lawrence's is) or unfinished marble. They have varying degrees of THE ROUTE 9W BUS SHELTERS weather and atmospheric damage. The Lawrence stone has lost some of the inscription and it has fallen over. Since the publication of my article in the Since 1982 a volunteer group called P.L.O.T. (Palisades Lot April issue of 10964 the following has occurred regarding the bus stop shelters. Owners Tribute) has taken on the work of removing the intrusion On April 241 met -with Deputy of mature casual growth trees that have dislodged and broken many Supervisor Elliot Tozer, Irwin Cohen of monuments, and the mowing and other maintenance of the the County Highway Department, and grounds. Recently we were approached by activist/historian/author Michael Calise of the engineering firm of Alice Munro Haagensen asking if we might take on the project of Caruso and Horowitz, PC. The meeting replacing or restoring the Lawrence monument and carrying out a took place at the location of the shelters re-dedication in the future. We were pleased to accept the (9W and Oak Tree Road). responsibility. Mr. Cohen reaffirmed that the coun­ With the assistance of Trinity Church personnel in N.Y.C. we ty will do the site preparation and laying have located what may be the only restoration company skilled and of the concrete foundation slab, assisted experienced in monument restoration, and we have concluded that by Mr. Calise's firm, all of which will be restoration was much preferred over replacement with contempo­ paid for by the county. rary stone. The monument has been transported to the restoration On May 111 was told by Jimmy company and is being evaluated as this is being written. We expect Dean, Orangetown Highway the cost to be in the $2,000 to $2,500 range. The work will be done Superintendent, that the Red and Tan and a public re-dedication ceremony will take place later in this Bus Line (which will be paying for the county bicentennial year. Tentatively the Sunday before Veteran's lumber and materials other than the con­ Day in November. You are invited! crete slab) wants to locate the shelter serving south-bound buses a few feet to The ongoing work carried out by P.L.O.T. is financed solely by the south of the previous location to give contributions and we pretty much use all annual income as we go the buses a bit more space for stopping about routine tree removal and grounds care.We could really use for pickups (for safety reasons). Mr. Dean your financial support in carrying out the Jonathan Lawrence mon­ also told me that once the shelters have ument project, from restoration to ceremony. If you wish to help, been built the Town will maintain them. checks can be made to P.L.O.T. and mailed to P.L.O.T, P.O. Box 1, Also, if litter becomes a problem (which Palisades, N.Y. 10964. If you mark your check or envelope is likely) the Town will provide trash cans "Lawrence" the money will be earmarked for restoration only. This and pick up the trash twice a week. I could be the beginning of an ongoing project to rehabilitate this asked him to instruct the Town's snow lovely old cemetery. plow crews to avoid blocking the shelters with plowed snow. Submitted by Lee Sneden As previously reported, it is expected President of P.L.O.T. that each shelter will have a window on He can be reached at the side toward oncoming traffic. 914/368-0243 The bureaucracy moves very slowly, but I do believe we are making progress. or by mail to I will prepare another status report for P.O. Box 295, the next issue of 10964. Tallman, N.Y. 10982 by Reg Thayer

13 ROCKLAP CEfTER FOR THE ARTS The center welcomes its new School Director, Randee Smith Nguyen, who began in February. Ms. Nguyen founded the Playwrights Horizons Theatre School in 1987 with Artistic Director, Andre Bishop. She has spent 17 years developing and producing Irlews new work on Theatre Row, and has developed the­ atre school programs for the two-leading develop­ joceLyN decre/ceNzo mental theatres - Playwrights Horizons and The Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she is also a play­ wright member. This year the Center will be sponsoring its first Advanced Student Exhibit which opens June 6 and runs through June 20. Gallery hours are: Monday - Friday 10 AM - 4 PM and Saturday and Sunday from 1 PM - 4 PM. Admission is free. The Summer Semester begins July 6 and runs through August 14. Classes range from beginning and advanced levels in Painting, Ceramics, Writing, Glass Bead Making, Computer Art and The Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY Photography. There are all day programs for chil­ (914)-358-0774, $1.00 suggested donation dren ages 6-9 and 9 - 13 on Mondays and Fridays. Galley Hours: Thursday through Sunday, Call (914) 358-0877 for our free brochure. 12-5 PM. or by appt. June 6-28: No Holds Barred; National Exhibit of Prisoners Art June 12: Friday 7:00 PM * Readings, Writings and Rhetoric II, Jocelyn For those of us interested in fresh air and art, we are DeCrescenzo very fortunate that the Art Students League of NYC July 4-26: Jordan, Journegan and El Ayube has opened a branch right here in Rockland County. Exhibition/ 3 Collage Artists In 1995, the League received generous gifts of prop­ July 9, 23,30, August 6-August 13: erty and funding from the family of the late artist Jazz in the Garden Concert Series and League instructor Vaclav Vytlacil for the estab­ August 1-23: Curator's Choice; lishment of the Art Students League's School of reception/opening August 1 Painting and Sculpture. Located at 241 Kings August 29-September 27: Fifth National Highway in historic Sparkill, NY, this program is Juried Show "Small Matters of Great operated by the Art Students League of New York Importance," Curator:Paula Madawick, City. Ric Del Rossi instructs Painting Outdoors from Juror: Vivien Raynor May 1-June 30. Daniel Dickerson instructs Painting September 12: Bi-Annual Garden Walk Fundraiser Outdoors from July 1-August 31. Kenneth Mclndoe September 18, Friday 7:00 PM: * Readings, also teaches Painting Outdoors from September 1- Writings and Rhetoric m, Jocelyn DeCrescenzo November 30. Rhoda Sherbell instructs Outdoor October 3-October 25: Contemporary Works Sculpture from June 1-August 28. For more infor­ by Paul Bochner and Tony Oursler mation call (914)-359-1263. Ask for artist and Life Drawing Workshops Continues Tuesday instructor Andy Lukach who is the director of the at 7:30 PM. Sparkill branch and he will be glad to give you more details. *This reading is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program. In Rockland County, these funds are administered by the Arts Council of Rockland under the Community Cultural Grants Program

14 MUSICAL MOTES Karen Irjoughtqn Possessing a seriously sweet voice, master of the beat Palisadian John Ballesteros and bis group Bapidru INTERIORS continue to beguile audiences. With musicians who are simply the best of the best, this ensemble features the astonishingly beautiful, soulful voice of singer Miche Braden. Leaving you in a swoon like a 41 N. Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960 914-358-0133 Victorian lady whose stays are laced too tight, Miche will take your breath away. John also plays with two members of this group — pianist/arranger Aziza Miller and upright bassist Peter Dowdall — at Miriams (358-1249) on alternate Thursdays. For pri­ Gene Buser vate bookings or updates on where you can hear this LICENSED MASSAGE THERAPIST group, call John Ballesteros, Sound, Sealed, Swedish • Shiatsu • Medical Delivered at 398-1328. For a different kind of Jazz, a wailing, deep down 914-359-1949 dirty, funky rag-tag funeral New Orleans kind of experience, check out the superlative saxophonist Erik Lawrence who invites special guests to sit in with him at the Coven Cafe in Nyack on every 2nd- 4th Thursday of the month. The cover is only $5.00 and the pleasure is immeasurable. (Just make sure you wear clothes that don't matter as the cigarette smoke might get to you!). Call the Coven at 358-9829 for more information. Or E-mail Eric at [email protected]. Erik will also be playing at Bella's Cafe on May 22 at 8:00 PM. He has also booked the Rockland Jazz and Blues Society Summer Jazz Festival for Sunday August 22 when he will be play­ ing with name artists and area musicians. Erik will be gigging in Central Park with the well known poet Frank Messina on June 13 th and 14th. This appear­ ance is part of a huge "beat" poetry marathon. Be there or be square baby and bring your sunglasses! Flutist Jacquelyn Drechsler is in the process of organizing a concert/extravaganza for the near future at Carnegie Recital Hall. For more information you may call her at 359-3112.

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