SO FUNNY, JEFF ALLEN, THE AMERICA I GREW UP IN--BY SPECIAL REQUEST

The America I Grew Up In looks a lot different than the America we have today.

HYSTERICAL DRY BAR COMEDY

To help you through these trying times.

FROM JEFF ALLEN: See it on YouTube here.

BY SPECIAL REQUEST---A CROTON CHRISTMAS CLUB---FIRST NATIONAL BANK, CROTON--1935

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A CROTON CHRISTMAS CLUB---FIRST NATIONAL BANK, CROTON.

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AND SEE WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE SAVED!

ROUTE 9A STUDY, WIDER LANES, TALLER BRIDGES, BETTER DRAINAGE

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Route 9A Study: Wider Lanes, Taller Bridges, Better Drainage
Robert Brum — December 28, 2023--Wider lanes, a breakdown lane, on-off ramps, new overpasses and improved drainage along Route 9A between Ossining and Briarcliff Manor are among the preliminary concepts in a $2 million study on modernizing the overburdened roadway.  MORE AT Route 9A Study: Wider Lanes, Taller Bridges, Better Drainage – River Journal Online – News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill

BY SPECIAL REQUEST---A LITTLE CROTON IN JANUARY 1962

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST---A LITTLE CROTON IN JANUARY1962.  Courtesy once again of the outstanding archives maintained by the volunteers of THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

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OBITUARY FOR FREDERIC AUGUSTUS STEVENSON

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1937

OBITUARY FOR CROTON'S FREDERIC AUGUSTUS STEVENSON

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NEWS 12--CLARKSTOWN EMERGENCY EXEC ORDER TARGETS NYC'S MIGRANT BUS REROUTING PLANS

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Clarkstown emergency executive order targets New York City's migrant bus rerouting plans--Dec 29, 2023, 4:49pmUpdated 7h ago
By: Emily Drooby

Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann issued an executive order on Friday that prevents charter bus companies and any chartered vehicle from making unannounced migrant drop-offs at any location within the Town of Clarkstown.  MORE AT Clarkstown emergency executive order targets New York City's migrant bus rerouting plans (news12.com)

NAOMI WOLF----I REMEMBER THE REAL CHRISTMAS

I Remember the Real Christmas---NAOMI WOLF

The thing is, I remember Christmas.

I mean, real Christmas.

I was born in 1962. Which means that by 1966 or 1967 or so…I was aware that something magical happened to the world, at least to our world in America, in the middle of Winter.

By the time I was in kindergarten, I had some names for what was happening all around me at these wonderful times, and I grasped the basic story outline.

All at once, it seemed, drab interiors — the grocery store, with its beige linoleum flooring and its sad walls; the institutional-green halls of my elementary school; the butcher’s shop window, which previously had only sausages and veal chops on bland display; the window of the hardware store, which had til then showcased just unremarkable containers of grout, and drill bits, and cans of paint — indeed, the intersections themselves, which before then could not have been less interesting — suddenly all erupted in a three-dimensional froth of sparkle and shine, joyous images, and radiant color.

Does anyone else remember the Christmas displays of the 1960s? Made of colored cardboard, and perhaps aluminum of some kind, or tin, and adorned with tinsel of all variations; these wall decorations, as I recall, unfolded; and could be taped or draped or hung.

And thus in a heartbeat, you had a giant smiling Santa — not scary, not ironic, not drunk; just Santa, with the red cheeks and the big grin and the fluffy white beard. You had waving fronds of yellow-golden tinsel, and of bright green tinsel, and you had red tinsel that was always the color of a candy apple or a fire truck. You had gigantic sleigh bells — two of them always, friendly and collegial, tied with a plaid bow; you had cutouts of red sleighs piled with gifts. The shop windows reveled in sparkly spray-paint that proclaimed “Merry Christmas!” Or the mottos spelled out: “PEACE ON EARTH.” MORE AT I Remember the Real Christmas ⋆ Brownstone Institute