THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE NYACKS and THE FRIENDS OF THE NYACKS announce the schedule for the 2010 fall season of THE JOHN SCOTT ARMCHAIR WALKING TOURS. This popular program, now in its fifteenth year, features slide presentations on local history, architecture and related cultural subjects. THE ARMCHAIR WALKING TOURS are dedicated to the memory of John Scott, Rockland County’s great historian. The programs are produced by Bob Goldberg.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE JOHN SCOTT ARMCHAIR WALKING TOURS – FALL, 2010
The opening September program, “A VIRTUAL WALKING TOUR THROUGH HISTORIC TAPPAN,” will be presented by Janet and Gil Galloway. The Galloways have resided in Tappan for over 44 years, and among their many other accomplishments, are professional videographers. They will escort us on a virtual walking tour of their historic village, including the sites of British spy John Andre’s trial, imprisonment, and hanging; the De Witt house, the oldest building in Rockland County and which was often used by General George Washington as his headquarters; the Tappan Dutch Reformed Church; the Yost Mobie House where the Orangetown Resolutions were adopted on July 4, 1774, and several other significant sites associated with the American Revolution.
The program will be presented first at the Nyack Center on Wednesday evening, Sept. 29 at 7:30 PM and will be repeated the following afternoon, Thursday, Sept. 30 at 2:00 PM< at the Congers Lake Community Center, in Congers Lake Park.
The October and second program in the series, “THE FIRST PEOPLES of NYACK and ROCKLAND COUNTY “ will be presented by Kevin Wright, curator at the Steuben House Museum of the Historical Society of Bergen County. He is a noted local historian and specialist of the lives and culture of native Americans of Rockland and Bergen Counties. Keven Wright is, also, the author of several books including a recently published book, “1609: A Country That Was Never Lost”. The program will describe the tribal life of the eastern Rockland and Bergen native Americans and their relationships with the newly arrived Europeans.
The program will be presented first at the Nyack Center on Wednesday evening, October 20th at 7:30 PM and will be repeated the following afternoon, Thursday, Oct. 21st at 2:00 PM at the Congers Lake Community Center in Congers Lake Park.
The December program, “READING, ‘RITING, AND ‘RITHMETIC IN EARLY ROCKLAND COUNTY,” will be presented by Doris Goldberg. Doris has been a secondary school teacher in Rockland County for over 20 years and recently retired as Adjunct Professor at Rockland Community College. Experience what it was like to be a student or teacher in early Rockland County beginning with the first school founded in Tappan in 1694. As you can imagine, there is a great contrast between school life in the “good old days” and school life today. The story of our early schools, students, teachers, curriculum, books, disciplinary measures, and means of transportation provides an interesting and amazing journey.
The program will be presented at the Nyack Center on Wednesday evening, December 1st at 7:30 PM and will be repeated the following afternoon, Thursday, December 2nd at 2:00 PM at the Congers Lake Community Center, in Congers Lake Park.
