Roasted bird with a side of specially flavored soft bread [which rules out matzoh] may have been the earliest precursor to Thanksgiving stuffing. Read more »
On Dec 4, 1619, the good ship Margaret made landfall on the banks of the James River. With the men gathered around him, the captain said, “We do ordain that this day... Read more »
The realest kind of reality TV was seen in Croton-on-Hudson a couple weeks ago. Broadcast on the Zoom channel, it was a Community Conversation on Diversity & Inclusion in our Schools, hosted by the Croton-Harmon school district in alliance with the NYU Steinhardt Center […] Read more »
This is the month kids look forward to, so they can put on masks and costumes to play pretend in public. I’m a sucker for the playfulness and general weirdness that haunts Halloween. If my […] Read more »
Zoom meetings. Zoom schooling. Zoom happy hours. Zoom blind dates. Zoom original plays. Zoom job interviews. Zoom religious services. Zoom fitness classes. Zoom funerals. Zoom weddings. Why not, we thought, a […] Read more »
Students Are Experiencing a New Kind of ‘Home’ Room We’re busy at work assembling the April 2020 edition of the combined River Journal/River Journal North. Not surprisingly, there is ample […] Read more »
This is the best of times to be on social media. This is the worst of times to be on social media. If that sounds Dickensian, why not? We’re all […] Read more »
Chuck Newman is virtually a household name in Peekskill. And for good reasons. One is that his family has been an integral part of the City’s business-and-social fabric for generations. […] Read more »
It’s fascinating how, in times of mutual duress, we self-select silos to inhabit. For the sake of simplicity — if over-generalization — let’s look at binary silos. For example, in […] Read more »
Yes, we suspect that was the first thing that popped into your head when you came across River Journal North for the first time: what is this? We hope this […] Read more »
