The year after I graduated from UMass, I was an intern at the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nyack. Nyack is in Rockland County, on the Hudson River, and not too far from Manhattan. It was fun to go back and walk down memory lane. I have lots of sweet memories of my friends there, many of whom I am still in touch with. Yay!
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- Shadowcliff, the home of the Fellowship of Reconciliation for 60 years. It was recently sold to private owners. ? From Wikipedia: “Shadowcliff was built in 1921, and is a large Classical Revival style masonry dwelling. The 44-room residence features three porticoes, Palladian windows, and has a clay tile roof. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.”
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- With the dazzlingly hilarious Tony Hewitt (RIP) and the also very funny Alan Shavit-Lonstein, Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1990
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- At 21 years old – the beginning of adulthood! – I was keeping my eyes open for bargain housewares and clothes. I went to the three thrift stores in Nyack every Friday on my lunch hour, to get first pick of what had come in that week before the tourists came for the weekend.
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- This is the most elegant YMCA I have ever seen!
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- Confusingly, when the Tappan Zee Bridge was rebuilt, it was renamed for former NY Governor Mario Cuomo. I was already attached to the name Tappan Zee, and then I read what it meant, and I am even more attached to it! From Wikipedia: “The Tappan Zee derives its name from the Tappan Native American sub-tribe of the Delaware/Lenni Lenape, and the Dutch word zee, meaning a sea.” From Nyack Beach State Park
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- The new Bridge left and center, an old part of the Tappan Zee Bridge to the right.
