CHRONICLE ON THE ROAD: STONECROP GARDENS

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Chronicle on the Road: Stonecrop Gardens.

7/28/2024 MICHAEL BALTER

Just a few miles east of Cold Spring, these formerly private gardens are open to the public several days each week during the warm season.

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It’s been quite a week in Croton-on-Hudson, full of strife and debate over the Board of Trustee’s housing policies. So we are hoping that this coming week, which should be free of meetings by our major decision-making bodies, might be a little more calm. To start things off on the right footing, we present the second installment of this occasional feature, “Chronicle on the Road” (readers will recall that early this month we visited the Thomas Cole house in Catskill.)

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SPECIAL REQUESTS; SOME ITEMS FROM THE 1976 CROTON HARMON H.S. YEARBOOK

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Have been deluged with requests for very specific items from the 1976 Croton Harmon High School Yearbook Scans; here you go, thanks to an enterprising elve. Enjoy. Click on the images below.

FROM THE MAILBOX: ALEXANDER HAIG AND THE HUDSON INSTITUTE

Welcome to The New Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship---in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

A reader writes: My late Uncle, who lived near the old Hudson Institute location, claims that Alexander Haig was an occasional visitor there in the early 80's.  Can you verify any of that?

Response: All that has been found so far is this---click on the 1982 image from the Press Republican--which details the Hudson Institute relationship... 

1925--CAPTAIN KIDD'S TREASURE AGAIN AND CROTON'S MONEY HILL

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CLICK ON THE IMAGE FROM THE 1925 NEWTOWN GRAPHIC ABOUT CAPTAIN KIDD AND CROTON'S MONEY HILL.

YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY SOME POSTS ABOUT some of our favorite vintage movie pirates:

--ERROL FLYNN, CAPTAIN BLOOD; more here and of course...

--DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, 1926, IN THE BLACK PIRATE; see more from our friends at EFSP, by clicking here.

AND

--MORE RECENTLY, JOHNNY DEPP, (please no Amber Heard commentary), PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, courtesy of our friends at EFSP; more here

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