Week of March 6

March 4, 1876 – 150 YEARS AGO

Rockland County Journal

AROUND HOME

  ☞  Horace G. Knapp is about to deliver, at Tappan, a lecture entitled “Tappantown, Its Local Legends, and Its Revolutionary Reminiscences.” Date of lecture will be given hereafter.

  ☞  A horse fell down flat, on Burd Street, last Tuesday, but got up quicker than you can say, “Jack Robinson.” We believe the shafts of the sleigh to which the horse was attached were broken.

  ☞  At the A. M. E. Zion Church, Nyack, on Sunday, at 2 P.M., Sunday-school, and at 3.30 P.M. an address will be delivered by Rt. Rev. J. J. Clinton, Bishop. At 7.30 P.M., preaching by the Bishop. All are invited.

  ☞  The Sabbath-school connected with the M.E. Church, at Rockland Lake, will hold their anniversary, in the church, next Wednesday evening, if the weather proves favorable; if not, on the first fair evening following.

  ☞  At an annual meeting of the teachers and officers of the Nyack Reformed Sabbath-school, held last Friday night, the present officers were re-elected for the ensuing year. The Annual Report showed the school to be in a flourishing condition, with a membership of over 320.

  ☞  During the remarkable revival in the Presbyterian Church, at Blauveltville, of which Rev. Mr. Evans is pastor, over sixty persons have made a profession of their faith and been added to the Church. Many of these are heads of families. The good work is still proceeding.

March 6, 1926 – 100 YEARS AGO

Rockland County Times

NYACK WOMAN’S NOVEL TO BE RELEASED SOON

[Image: Book dust jacket (first edition) for Winifred Van Duzer’s The Good Bad Girl, 1926.]

        More than two score newspapers in cities everywhere in the United States, will begin this month the publication of “The Good Bad Girl,” a serial novel of New York life, which is the work of Winifred VanDuzer.

        Mrs. VanDuzer’s novel will be published as a serial, and the unfolding of its colorful plot in daily installments will make it a feature of the newspapers in which it will appear for nearly a year.

        It tells the story of a girl who comes to New York from a small community with the determination to win recognition as an artist. She has beauty and talent but neither reputation nor influential friends, and in the course of her hard journey upward to success meets every adventure which can befall a young woman without protectors who attempts to make her way in a metropolis.

        The descriptions of New York studio life, and the easy-going artists and their associates which give it its color and danger make vivid reading as the plot of “The Good Bad Girl” develops.

        Mrs. VanDuzer writes with firsthand knowledge because as a newspaper woman long associated with the Hearst organization of newspapers, she has had close touch with the people and manner of life her serial describes.

THREAD RESULTS IN MIRACULOUS RETURN OF EYESIGHT

        Mrs. Margaret King of Stony Point has been blind in her right eye for eleven years and during this time has consulted eye specialists in various localities in trying to bring back her complete sight; but the restoration or vision in the woman’s right eye seemed impossible. Recently when Mrs. King was engaged in trimming coats for the Spiewak coat factory, a thread was accidentally blown into her sightless eye. The woman was annoyed by the presence of the foreign body in her eye for two weeks and went to Dr. Hirsch to have it extracted. Upon the removal of the thread, Mrs. King found to her joy that her sight was completely restored.

BARGE SINKS

        The barge, Anna A. Brophy, owned by James Brophy of Front Street and captained by John Feeney of West Broad Street, sank at 48^th Street Dock in the North River about 6:30 Thursday morning.

        The tow, of which the barge was a part, loaded with brick from the Garner Brick Company left Peck’s dock about nine o’clock Wednesday night. The cargo of 300,000 brick sunk with the barge.

March 6, 1976 – 50 YEARS AGO

Our Town

“CHRONICLES” HAS LOCAL TIE-IN

     Thomas F.X. Casey of Garnerville wears many hats, serving as chairman of the Rockland County Bicentennial Commission, Town of Haverstraw historian, and social studies coordinator for North Rockland schools.

        But one of his most fascinating duties has been serving on an advisory committee for “The Adams Chronicles,” broadcast on WNET-TV Channel 13.

        The 13-week Bicentennial series has been dramatizing the lives of America’s historic Adamses, a family that produced two U.S. Presidents - John Adams and John Quincy Adams; an Ambassador to Great Britain, Charles Francis Adams; and the president of the Union Pacific Railroad during the Civil War, Charles Adams.

        As one of an 11-member committee of metropolitan area educators, librarians and museum curators, Casey helped review the series for historical accuracy.

        Each episode of “The Adams Chronicles” is shown three times a week - Tuesdays at 9 p.m., Thursdays at noon, and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Casey’s special projects were episodes 8 and 9, which will be broadcast over the next two weeks.

        As chairman of the county’s Bicentennial Commission, he is aware of the recent criticism of the commercialization of the nation’s 200th birthday. But he said, “I’m also afraid there’s too much emphasis on overkill against the commercial aspects, while not enough is being given the plus side of the nation’s observance.”

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