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Flashback Friday Archive 2021-22

2022-03-25 TWIR Image-Congers Bus Crash
3.25.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of March 25
March 25, 1972 – 50 YEARS AGO The Journal News Editorial A NIGHTMARE FOR ALL OF US        Somewhere in the back of every parent’s mind there’s a suppressed small cloud. It starts when toddlers first propel themselves out of sight and it never quite ends. That anxiety full blown to unbearable dimensions was a living thing...read more

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2022-03-18 TWIR Image-Suffragists
3.18.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of March 18
March 16, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal MRS. JULIA COLEMAN AT PIERMONT        This estimable and eloquent lady is to deliver a lecture in the Reformed Church, at Piermont, on Monday evening, March 25th, under the auspices of the Division of Sons and Daughters of Temperance. Her subject will be “Women and Temperance,”...read more

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2022-03-11 TWIR Image-Haring Homestead
3.11.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of March 11
March 7, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Messenger POETRY — SPEAK GENTLY TO THY WIFE Speak kindly, gently to thy wife, She knows enough of sorrow; Oh seek not from each petty ill, An angry word to borrow. For in her heart there’s treasured love; Oh, prize its golden worth; One gentle word, one smile of thine, Can ever call...read more

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2022-03-04 TWIR Image-Lafayette Avenue Suffern
3.04.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of March 4
March 1, 1922 – 100 YEARS AGO Nyack Evening Journal MISS TRAPHAGEN ASSERTS MEN ARE GOOD DESIGNERS — SAYS THEY ARE BETTER THAN WOMEN FOR THEY ARE MORE IMPERSONAL WITH WOMEN’S CLOTHES        “Men are better designers of women’s clothes than women because they are more impersonal, more concerned with the lines and swing of a...read more

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2022-02-18 TWIR Image-Mine Hole
2.18.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of February 18
February 17, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal SHOT BY ACCIDENT        While a negro, named Miller, was unhitching a team of horses at Sarvent & Garner’s livery stable, about 4 o’clock on Friday morning, the night watchman, Hubbell, crossed over to say something to him, and the side of his coat striking against...read more

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2022-02-11 TWIR Image-Pio DAngelo
2.11.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of February 11
February 10, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal Written for the Journal Flattery. King Canute once forbade the sea Across his royal feet to sweep: The courtiers said, so great was he Even he might command the deep. Ever some flattering tale they told, Lords, dukes, and princes, selfish all; In hope to gain the shower of gold, Zany, might from...read more

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2022-02-04 TWIR Image-Brickyard postcard
2.04.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of February 4
February 3, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal SALE OF A HAVERSTRAW BRICK YARD [Image: Postcard, View of the Brick Yards, Haverstraw, NY. Date unknown. Courtesy of the New City Library, via NYHeritage.]        There are other things beside building lots and farms actively changing hands in our county just now, and some things quite...read more

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2022-01-28 TWIR Image-Bergerfolk
1.28.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of January 28
January 27, 1922 – 100 YEARS AGO Nyack Evening Journal LONE NYACKER CROSSED THE ICE TO TARRYTOWN TODAY — SALESMAN L. HUNT PERFORMED THAT STUNT — SIXTH AVENUE MAN MADE JOURNEY ALONE IN ONE AND ONE HALF HOURS — SAID ICE WAS SIX INCHES THICK BUT SAW SEVERAL AIR HOLES ON TARRYTOWN SIDE        Crossing the...read more

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2022-01-21 TWIR Image-Skating on the Hudson
1.21.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of January 21
January 20, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME [NYACK] [Image: Skating on the Hudson, undated, from Eugene F. Perry’s photograph album, in the collection of Noel Haskell. Image appeared on the cover of South of the Mountains, Vol. 46, No. 1; January–March 2002.]      ☞ The extension of Broadway to Piermont will...read more

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2022-01-14 TWIR Image-Uris Building
1.14.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of January 14
January 13, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal DEATH OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN        Mrs. Daniel Haring, mother of Hon. James S. Haring, died at the residence of her son at Orangeburg, on Friday night of last week, at the remarkable age of ninety-eight years. Mrs. Haring was born into this world before this Republic...read more

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2022-01-07 TWIR Image-Nyack AME Zion
1.07.22:
Flashback Friday: Week of January 7
January 6, 1872 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AN INCENDIARY ATTEMPT [Image:  Saint Philips A.M.E. Zion Church, Burd Street, Nyack, 1969. Photo by Charlie White. Courtesy of the Nyack Library via NYHeritage.]        On Wednesday morning last, about 10 o’clock, one of the window sashes of the African Church on Burd street, in this village,...read more

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2021-12-31 TWIR Image-Secor and Holt
12.31.21:
Flashback Friday: Week of December 31
December 30, 1871 – 150 YEARS AGO Rockland County Journal AROUND HOME      ☞ Young lady, as you receive your gentlemen friends on New Year’s Day, think before you offer them the glass of wine; perhaps you may lay the foundation for a life of ruin and cast the bright hopes of a happy fireside.  ...read more

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