Maureen Morgan is a woman for whom the word “indomitable’ might have been invented. For example, in 1972 (which she terms “a fabulous year”), aged 40 and the mother of […] Read more »
Students in grades 6 through 12 submitted videos reenacting their favorite moment in Black history as part of Jones’ second annual Black History Month competition Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY) announced the […] Read more »
March is Women in History Month. The terms “women have broken barriers” or “shattered the glass ceiling” often describe women achievers and pioneers in various disciplines. Some of these women have overcome gender discrimination, violence, […] Read more »
The Ossining Board of Education recently honored the late Jean Lorraine Ackerman Boswell, a longtime Ossining teacher, with its annual Hester Bateman Spencer Hines Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award. The district […] Read more »
Over 100 of first grade students from W.L. Morse Elementary School traveled to Sleepy Hollow High School to get a glimpse at their future – and do something that will […] Read more »
The Historical Society Serving Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown has conferred landmark status on two 18th century sites: A milestone along the Albany Post Road in Sleepy Hollow and the home […] Read more »
All that’s left of a place where rock once lived is a pile of stones. The ramshackle backstreet building in Briarcliff Manor where radio stars like Howard Stern and Meg […] Read more »
Over the course of the late Ronnie Spector’s 60-year career, her travels took her from Harlem to London and beyond. On one August afternoon in 1980, the “Be My Baby” […] Read more »
Who created our beautiful River Towns, and laid the foundations of our communities? The answers to these questions can be heavily Euro-centric, but if so they overlook a crucial component […] Read more »
Look at all you’ll derive Out of being alive’ Margaret Lukavic was born on Jan. 13, 1917, in Perth Amboy, N. J. to parents born in Budapest, Hungary. At age […] Read more »
