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And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself; A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And
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laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose; He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight— “Happy
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Christmas to all, and to all a good night!” The Poet of Christmas Eve, a Life of Clement Clarke Moore, 1779-1863 by Samuel White Patterson. New York, Morehouse-Gorham Co., 1956. See the book here . ↩ See this page on the Dale Cemetery website . ↩
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(Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Christmas Clement C. Moore Published December 24, 2013 December 24, 2017
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Ice Boating on the Hudson River, N.Y. Post card by the Hugh C. Leighton Co., circa 1910. As a follow-up to our recent post, Winter on the Hudson River , here’s a postcard showing an ice boat in action on the river, circa 1910. This image is part of
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the Waterways Post Card Collection at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College (CUNY), New York—a collection of “historically significant cultural heritage materials documenting the waterways of New York state.” Here are
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links to this collection, which is part of a much larger treasure-trove of New York-related documents and images: The Waterways Post Card Collection The New York Heritage Digital Collections Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link
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new window) LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Hugh C. Leighton Co. Post card Published December 27, 2013
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Below is issue 2 of Theodore J. Cornu’s extraordinary hand-drawn, hand-lettered, self-published journal, Hudson Valley Echoes . To see issue 1 click here . Issues 3 to 4 are coming soon . . . When the publication opens you can click on the pages and
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enlarge them. The embedded viewer uses Flash, so if you don’t see it below because your device doesn’t support Flash, you can click here to see images of all the pages. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in
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Like Loading... Related Tagged Lenape Native Americans Theorore Cornu Published December 29, 2013 December 29, 2013
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One of the many miniature New York landmark replicas at the New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show is this rustic version of Van Cortlandt Manor—made entirely of plant parts such as twigs, bark, and leaves. The show runs until January 12 and
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if you’ve never been it’s a great trip for all ages. See details here . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new
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An aerial photograph, taken by a Manhattan map-making firm June 11, 1924, near Croton Point, purports to document two submarines (possibly rumrunners), each about 250 feet long and 600 feet apart, below the surface. A recently published book,
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Smugglers, Bootleggers and Scofflaws: Prohibition and New York City by Ellen NicKenzie Lawson, contains an amazing 1924 aerial photo, purporting to show rum-smuggling submarines in the Hudson River near Croton Point. The photo appears in the chapter
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“Rum Row”—the name of the smuggling area of the Atlantic coast from Nantucket to New York City and New Jersey. Lawson writes, “News of a submarine being used on Rum Row appears to have some substance to it. One smuggler testified in court that he saw
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a submarine emerge on the Row with a German captain and a French crew. Newspapers in 1924 reported that submarines were smuggling liquor to New Jersey and Cape Cod. An aerial photo, taken by a commercial Manhattan map-making firm that same year,
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suggested submarines were thirty miles up the Hudson River near Croton Point. (German submarines were kept out of the river during World War I by a steel net strung low across the bottom of the Narrows.) The photo purported to document two submarines
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below the surface of the Hudson River, each 250 feet long and 600 feet apart. The aerial firm sent the photograph to the U.S. Navy, which had no submarines in the area, and the startling image was given to Coast Guard Intelligence and filed away.”
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Here’s a link to the book on Amazon, which includes the Rum Row chapter. Thanks to the New York History Blog, which alerted us to this book with their recent review . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in
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Croton Landing from plate 44 of the County Atlas Of Westchester New York , published by J.B. Beers & Co., 1872. Here is a detailed map of what Croton looked like in 1872. Known then as Croton Landing, the village consisted mainly of houses and
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businesses along what we know today as Grand Street, Brook Street, and Riverside Avenue. If you look at the top left side you can see that Riverside Avenue got its name because it did once run right along the side of the Hudson River. That area to
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the right of the railroad tracks was filled in long ago, altering the original banks of the river. The pond-like area at the bottom left between the tracks and Riverside was also filled in. Other interesting features include: The brook along Brook
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Street, now covered over. 1 In the top right the label “Friends Ch.” is the Quaker Meeting House which was located at the intersection of Grand Street and Mt. Airy. 2 The house labeled “Mrs. Barton” in the triangular area bounded by Old Post North,