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Vol. XI, No. XVIII
Westchester’s Most Influential Community Newspaper
Thursday, September 1, 2016
“Aging Artifact or
Necessary Energy Source?”
By Scott Silberberg, Page 5
Cover Photo by Scott Silberberg
Yonkers Mayor Spano
Organizes Hudson River
Waterfront Alliance to Oppose
Proposed Anchorage Points
Page 2
Our Changing
Interactions
By John McMullen, Page 7
Greg Wyatt,
One of America’s
Greatest Sculptors
By Joseph P. Griffith, Page 8
W W W.W E S T C H E S T E R G U A R D I A N . C O M
Getaway to God’s
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By Lee Daniels, Page 14
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THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN
Thursday, september 1, 2016
ENVIRONMENT
Yonkers Mayor Spano Organizes Hudson River Waterfront Alliance to Oppose Proposed Anchorage Points
On Monday, August 22, 2016,
Yonkers Mayor Spano met with elected
officials from Westchester County riverfront communities to create the Hudson
River Waterfront Alliance. The group
seeks to organize opposition the Coast
Guard’s proposal to codify 10 anchorage points along the Hudson Riverfront.
The Alliance launched a “Ban
the Barges” social media advocacy
campaign urging residents, community
and business leaders to support their
efforts to stop the proposal, which can
be viewed at: Facebook (facebook.
com/banthebarges) and Twitter (@
banthebarges) including a change.org
petition (www.yonkersny.gov/bargepetition) directed to the U.S. Coast Guard,
visitors can gather to live, work and play
– not become a parking lot for potentially volatile substances.”
“The Town of Cortlandt has
invested millions of dollars to acquire
land on the river and to construct lovely
parks and docks from our rowing association and for kayaks. We do not want
our vistas destroyed or our investments
affected by this ill-conceived plan,”
said Linda Puglisi, Supervisor, Town
of Cortlandt. “We pledge to continue to
fight this anchor proposal with our other
communities along the Hudson River
and with our State and Federal elected
officials.”
The group is taking steps to obtain
a preliminary legal opinion from outside
are typically for short duration due to
adverse weather, tides and crew fatigue.
Wary local officials are concerned
that the proposal would “be focused
on opening up the Hudson River to the
new oil market due to a recent lifting of
an oil export trade ban. The proposal
affecting Westchester County includes a
Yonkers Extension Anchorage Ground
extending to Dobbs Ferry that would
cover approximately 715 acres for up
to 16 vessels and provide a vessel swing
radius of approximately 1,200 feet for
each vessel. Current anchorages in the
Hudson River in Yonkers can already
accommodate up to nine vessels. The
Montrose Point Anchorage Ground
would cover approximately 127 acres
for up to three vessels and provide a
vessel swing radius of approximately
1,400 feet for each vessel.”
The United States Coast Guard
is taking public comments on the
proposed anchorages until September
7. For more information on the Hudson
River Waterfront Alliance, visit www.
yonkersny.gov/banthebarges.
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Hudson Riverfront communities stand together in opposition to US Coast Guard
anchorage extension proposal. Photo courtesy of the City of Yonkers, NY
urging the regulatory agency of the
Hudson River to prohibit the anchorage
plan.
“Yonkers, like so many of the river
communities in Westchester County,
is in the midst of a long-term effort to
revitalize its waterfront; restore and
enhance its parks; and replace closed
industrial facilities with new mixed-use
residential, commercial and recreational
developments,” said Mayor Spano.
“The shores of the Hudson River should
be a place where our residents and
maritime counsel to assess their legal
and appeal options, should the proposal
be adopted and will explore possible
Environmental Justice implications
as well as additional strategies for
opposition.
Maritime officials maintain that the
ruling seeks simply to codify historic use
of safe anchorage points in the identified communities and that “commercial
vessels do not make money if they are not
moving,” asserting that anchorage points
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Table of Contents
Environment............................................... 2
Government............................................... 4
Cover Story................................................ 5
Comments on Congress............................. 6
Community Voice...................................... 6
Creative Disruption.................................... 7
Art............................................................... 8
Education................................................. 10
Music........................................................ 10
Eye on Theatre......................................... 12
Regional Theatre...................................... 13
Travel........................................................ 14
Local Lore................................................ 15
Calendar................................................... 16
International Film.................................... 17
Mary at the Movies.................................. 17
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GOVERNMENT
Lowey Urges Mylan to Lower Costs of Life-Saving EpiPens
AUGUST 24th WASHINGTON,
DC – Congresswoman Nita Lowey
(D-Westchester/Rockland),
the
senior Democrat on the House
Appropriations Committee, yesterday
sent a letter to Mylan Chief Executive
Officer Heather Bresch, expressing
concern over the skyrocketing cost of
EpiPens.
“According to various news
accounts, the price of EpiPen has
increased 400% since 2007. Such a
dramatic increase in the cost of livesaving medication is of tremendous
concern,” wrote Lowey. “Food
allergies, which often require immediate medical intervention, affect
an estimated 15 million Americans,
including one in every 13 children.”
Access to EpiPens remains as
critical now as ever, particularly ahead
of a new school year. In the letter,
Lowey appealed directly to CEO
Bresch urging Mylan to take immediate steps to lower the cost of these
life-saving devices.
Lowey Announces $235,734 Grant for Dobbs Ferry Fire Department
Grant to enhance safety and readiness of first responders in Westchester
AUGUST 19th WASHINGTON,
DC – Congresswoman Nita M.
Lowey
(Westchester/Rockland),
the Ranking Member on the House
Appropriations Committee, today
announced a $235,734 Department
of Homeland Security Assistance
to Firefighters Grant awarded to the
Dobbs Ferry Fire Department.
“It is vital that local first
responders have the equipment
they need to respond swiftly and
decisively to emergencies,” said
Congresswoman Nita Lowey. “This
grant will provide critical resources
to the Dobbs Ferry Fire Department
so they can continue to keep our communities, neighborhoods, and families
safe. I am pleased that the Department
of Homeland Security is addressing
this need in Westchester, and I will
continue fighting to ensure that federal
resources are invested in the Lower
Hudson Valley.”
Dobbs Ferry Fire Chief Gerard
McIlvain said the federal money will
be used to buy 30 new air packs for
the firefighters to replace old packs
that have become outdated. “We are
thankful to get this federal money. It
saves our local taxpayers the high cost
of having to replace the air packs all at
once,” said Chief McIlvain.
The Assistance to Firefighters
Grant (AFG) Program is a Federal
Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) program awarding grants
directly to fire departments, non-affiliated Emergency Medical Services
(EMS) organizations, and state fire
training academies to enhance their
Murphy: Major Traffickers Still Poisoning Our Streets
Chair of Heroin Task Force Renews Call for Passage of Major Trafficker Legislation
“We need stiffer penalties for
major drug traffickers to make sure
they’re not back out on the streets
pushing their poison to our kids and
neighbors,” said NY State Senator
Terrence Murphy via press release, in
response to the seizure of 65 pounds
of heroin with a street value of $2.3
million, from a home at 4 Sassi Drive,
Croton-on-Hudson on Thursday,
August 25th. “New York needs to send
a message to the major dealers that
they will be put away for a long time.”
Murphy renewed his call for the
passage of legislation he authored that
would allow for stiffer penalties for
major traffickers. Under Murphy’s
proposal, which passed the Senate
earlier this year, anyone selling a controlled substance valued at $25,000 or
greater would be eligible to be prosecuted as a major trafficker. In this
instance, the $2.3 million value of the
drugs seized in Croton would more
than qualify the accused to be charged
with a Class A-1 felony and face a
minimum of fifteen years in prison.
“Having chaired the Senate’s Task
Force on Heroin and Opioid Abuse, as
well as serving on Governor Cuomo’s
Task Force, we know it will take a
multi-pronged approached to address
ability to protect the health and safety
of the public. The AFG program is an
important component of strengthening
the United States’ overall level of preparedness and ability to respond to fire
and related hazards. Since Fiscal Year
2001, it has provided approximately
$6.4 billion in grants to first-responder
organizations to obtain much needed
equipment, emergency vehicles, and
training.
this terrible epidemic,” Murphy
explained. “This was a recommendation of the Senate’s Task Force and
today’s news only further justifies it.
There is no place in our community
for major drug dealers and I only hope
the individuals arrested in Croton
receive the maximum time in jail.” S.4177 passed the Senate by a
vote of 44-14 but was not taken up by
the Assembly.
Senator Murphy Awards Grants to Local Municipalities and Organizations
NY State Senator Terrence
Murphy has recently announced
awards to several communities and
organizations in his district.
Drug Crisis in Our Back Yard
received $5000 to support their efforts
to help raise awareness concerning the
dangers of drugs and drug addiction.
The check was presented to c Carol
Christiansen at the “Shed the Meds”
program in Jefferson Village. Ms.
Christiansen, who lost her son to drug
addiction, received a 2016 Women
of Distinction Award in June from
Senator Murphy in recognition of her
volunteer and community work.
“Medicines that languish in
cabinets are highly susceptible to
theft, misuse and abuse. Rates of
Senator Terrence Murphy, holding microphone, presents a $500,000 check
to Mt. Pleasant Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi in support of the downtown
revitalization. Photo Courtesy of Senator Murphy’s office.
prescription drug use in the U.S. are Town Supervisor Michael Grace.
alarmingly high, as are the number of “Shed the Meds’ is a safe and conveaccidental poisonings and overdoses nient way to dispose of expired and
die to these drugs,” said Yorktown unused household drugs. The program
also helps to reduce the amount of
medications entering the environment
and threatening our water supply.” “Senator
Murphy’s
‘Shed
the Meds’ program is an essential
element needed to stem the abuse of
illegal drugs,” said Yorktown Town
Councilman Ed Lachterman. “Not
only do these medications form the
habits that build up to the abuses of
other drugs such as heroin, but our
youth struggle with peer pressure to
take these drugs from the home and
abuse them. One of the most dangerous of these abuses is what is called
a pharm party. This is where these
specific drugs are thrown into a bowl
and kids just take them at random. The
results of these pharm parties can be
deadly. We must continue to get these
meds disposed of properly for the sake
of our children.”
“When we founded YAH a year
ago, our mission was to increase
public awareness about dangerous
drugs, including prescription medications,” noted Yorktown Councilman
and YAH founder Tom Diana. “We
need to recognize that there is a drug
crisis and we need to be more proactive as a society to find solutions to
stop it. Even the President knows
there is a problem infesting our
neighborhoods.” “If anybody wants proof there
is a problem, come visit our courtroom,” said the Honorable Salvatore
Continued on page 15
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Thursday, september 1, 2016
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cover story
Indian Point: Aging Artifact or Necessary Energy Source?
By Scott Silberberg
and Long Island, and the energy that
ConEd purchases from the facility is
a drop in the bucket for the New York
Independent System Operator (ISO).
“The plants go down unexpectedly all
the time”, says Ms. Elie. “However,
you never notice the difference when
you flip your light switch.”
Cliff Weathers, the Communications Director at the environmental
organization Riverkeeper, believes that
Entergy spreads misinformation by
claiming that Indian Point supplies
over 20% of the energy to the New
York City area. “There is really no
proof of that other than Entergy saying
that”, says Mr. Weathers. The nuclear
industry repeatedly claims that the frequency of brownouts and blackouts
will increase if Indian Point is shut
down, yet this assumes that energy
generated at the facility is always transmitted through the same route.
The ISO reports that Indian Point
produced 11.5% of the total electric
energy produced in New York in 2015;
this statistic, though, does not indicate
where the energy is transmitted in-state.
The problem is not so much the amount
of energy produced at the facility but
how energy is transmitted throughout the state and the efficiencies of the
energy infrastructure. “We can reliably
keep the lights on if we close Indian
Point”, says Mr. Weathers, citing reports
from the ISO as well as Synapse – a
research and consulting firm.
Just this month Governor Andrew
Cuomo introduced his Clean Energy
Standard, which seeks to promote
low-carbon intensive energy in order
to achieve the goal of 50% renewables
by 2030. Although Governor Cuomo
has been a proponent of closing down
Indian Point since 2007, he has nevertheless included in the new energy
design nuclear power. But to what
extent is nuclear “clean”?
“Indian Point generates an
enormous amount of around-the-clock
electricity while at the same time
emitting no greenhouse gases”, says
Nappi. Although it produces carbonfree electricity on-site, Indian Point
does emit greenhouse gases through
its need for uranium extraction, enrichment and transportation. “There is a
whole process that is highly carbon
intensive”, says Ms. Elie. “Uranium
mining all over this world causes huge
misery usually to very poor people who
live around the mine.”
Nuclear waste and byproducts of
fission also contradict the Governor’s
claim of ‘clean’ nuclear power. “There
are two spent fuel pools [at Indian
Point]. We’re going to have to have
this radiation stored there for centuries”, says Mr. Weathers. “That [Indian
Point] is an area that is contaminated.
That is not clean.”
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The Indian Point
Energy Center located in
Buchanan, NY is a hotly
contentious subject in
domestic energy policy. The corporation that owns and runs Indian Point,
Entergy, applied for license renewals
for Indian Point reactors 2 and 3 back
in 2007. The licenses for reactors 2 and
3 expired in 2013 and 2015, respectively, and the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has yet to decide
on the fate of the plants. Because
Entergy applied for renewed licenses
more than five years before the expiration dates, Indian Point will remain
operational until a decision has been
reached.
Indian Point was constructed in
1962 and operated one pressurized water
reactor that ultimately was decommissioned in 1974 due to its failure to meet
regulatory standards. Indian Point units
2 and 3 were built in 1974 and 1976,
respectively, and continue to generate at
a capacity of just over 2000 megawatts
of electrical power.
One of the main arguments for
relicensing the plants revolves around
the issue of reliability and meeting the
energy demands of New Yorkers. Many
of those who support Indian Point
indicate that there is not enough energy
from or investment in alternative or
renewable resources to compensate
for the massive loss of energy if the
reactors shut down. “Indian Point is
online virtually 24/7”, says Entergy
spokesman Jerry Nappi. “Over the last
ten years both units have been online
more than 93% of the time on average.
Most other power sources are online
50% or 60% at best.” The chairman
of the New York Affordable Reliable
Electricity Alliance (NY AREA), of
which Entergy is a member, reinforces
the notion that solar, wind and hydroelectric simply cannot offset the loss of
energy from Indian Point. “There is no
way to make up the 2000 megawatts…
there’s nowhere to get it from”, says
Chairman Jerry Kremer.
Anti-nuclear activists like Marilyn
Elie of the Indian Point Safe Energy
Coalition offer a different perspective.
Ms. Elie notes that there is a 15,000
MW surplus of electricity capacity
in the lower Hudson Valley, NYC
nuclear power plant located so close to
New York City. The Governor’s contradiction of supporting nuclear power
as part of the Clean Energy Standard
while simultaneously advocating for
the shut-down of Indian Point can
be summarized in Mr. Kauffman’s
comment: “we are confident that over
time we will be able to replace Indian
Point, when it comes to that, with clean
alternative resources.”
The debate over whether or not
to relicense Indian Point contains
arguments from a host of different professions, organizations and companies.
For Entergy, Indian Point is still an
“economically viable” facility and has
a number of positive public benefits.
Those who support relicensing stake
the claim that the electricity generated
at Indian Point keeps electrical bills
lower and supports the Westchester
economy by keeping people employed.
Opponents to relicensing point to
a number of negative consequences for
keeping the plant open. Mr. Weathers
points to the ecological degradation of the
Hudson River due to the facility’s leaking
pipes and contaminated water – recent
tests have found levels of the radioactive
hydrogen isotope tritium in ground-water
monitoring wells on their property.*
Ms. Elie talks about the issue of
radioactive nuclear waste. The most
frightening aspect about renewing
Indian Point’s licenses is “the fact that
the facility will be generating waste for
another 20 years and posing a threat to
twenty million people”, says Ms, Elie.
“Nuclear power is immoral because we
are passing on a toxic legacy to future
generations.”
Whether you are for or against
relicensing Indian Point and keeping
nuclear energy thirty-five miles north
of Manhattan, the most important part
about the NRC’s licensing protocol is
constant public dialogue. Indian Point
affects all of our lives in the metropolitan area – we would be wise to talk
about the issues and the concerns that
we all face.
* Editor’s Note: Entergy reported that
a failed sump pump caused tritium
contaminated water spillage, detected
in water monitoring wells on their
property, but “there was no health or
safety consequence to the public.”
NRC spokesperson Neil Sheehan
stated the tritium leak, (a radioactive
isotope of hydrogen), posed no hazard
to the Hudson River since “the dilution
would render it undetectable,” as
reported by CNN on February 6, 2016.
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Thursday, september 1, 2016
COMMENTS ON CONGRESS
The Media’s Responsibility to Our Democracy
As one observer said, the media
is drawn to “superficiality, sensationalism, scandal, and sleaze.”
They’re all too happy to seize on
small points of contention and fan
them into major points of discord.
They make building a consensus
- the key task of the democratic
process - much harder.
The field has been moving in this
direction over decades, and there’s a
reason for it: all these changes have
been well received by the public.
They draw viewers, readers and
clicks. And they’ve encouraged consumers to pay attention only to the
sources that reflect and broadcast
their own viewpoint.
I don’t want to be a fogey here.
Yes, I grew up in the days of Edward
R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite,
and I still think they were solid journalists, but what I miss is not the
voice-of-authority-from-on-high
that’s so often associated with them.
Instead, what I too often find lacking
now is the spirit that drove the profession in those days. I think the
news media had a sense of responsibility to make representative
democracy function. Journalists
imbued their work with a palpable
sense that they were involved in a
public service.
There are still really excellent journalists out there who are
doing their best to serve both their
profession and the country. Every
day they struggle to make sense of
enormously complex events. What
they understand - and what I wish
more of their colleagues believed
- is that democracy demands journalism that improves its workings.
Properly done, journalism can
bridge differences, help consensus
emerge, improve the knowledge and
judgment of voters, and sharpen the
performance of public officials and
government as a whole.
In the end, the democratic
process is about overcoming
disagreement. This is virtually
impossible without a solid base of
information and analysis.
Governing well is immensely
difficult, and good journalism can
keep government open and honest which serves not just the voters, but
politicians who are trying to resolve
the problems facing the country.
Journalists can and should be watchdogs, keeping a watchful eye on
politicians - what they do, what they
say...and what they don’t do or say.
They should serve not just the elites,
but the underdogs and have-nots in
society.
The independence of our press
was hard to win, and it’s vital that
we sustain it. People must have
sources they can rely on in order to
make our system work. Our democracy needs well-informed citizens
making decisions based on facts
about both policies and politicians.
This means that the model of
the journalist that seems to be going
out of fashion - reporters who were
reasonably objective, independent
of outside groups, and even independent of their company’s owners
- is actually crucial to representative government. Curious, skeptical
journalists who point out inconsistencies, draw attention to mistakes,
call out misleading statements, and
identify outright lies serve a larger
purpose: they provide citizens what
they need to know in order to be a
good citizen, and public officials
what they need in order to do their
work well.
An Increase Is Not Warranted
the people, circumventing our City
Charter rule of law. Of perhaps
more interest is “how” he is able to
pull this off; like a number of past
Administrations, the City Council
currently has attorneys as members
and not so long ago, the minority
party actually ran a Council
Member, an attorney, in opposition to our current Mayor. He was
resoundingly defeated and a few
years later, a member of a different bar association, James O’Toole,
raised this issue and received 37%
of the electorate votes.
I was a strong advocate of
Noam and the City Council not too
long ago. These were the salad days
of my early senior years, before
I actually researched how we are
governed. I took it a step further
when I noticed that three of the most
prevailing issues I was wrestling
with when writing for this paper,
the local blog and in community
meetings; were all associated with
one major department in New York
State. The Department of State in
Albany is directly involved with City
Charters, Comprehensive Plans, and
in the contractual arrangements
involved in the turnover of the New
Rochelle Armory. At present, they
will also be our “oversight” agency
in Waterfront Development.
In fact, this Department of
State does nothing resembling
control and monitoring. They
prepare state municipalities in the
use of language, format, and broad
delivery mandates. Sadly, they do
more; they nurture those municipalities who recognize that, without
consequences, they can pretty much
do what they want. New Rochelle
continues to take advantage of the
State’s absence of proper oversight. If you contact the Department
of State, they will tell you that
Election Day is the first Tuesday in
November. That, to them is the time
where unhappy citizens can elect a
new ruling body in New Rochelle,
to effect change.
By Lee H. Hamilton
August 17th, 2016
Politicians spend a
good bit of their time
complaining about the
media. But why should they have all
the fun?
I’m going to join in, though I
tend to get upset about different
things than most sitting politicians
do. You see, I don’t actually mind
when journalists - whether in print,
on television or online - treat what
politicians say with skepticism. That
means they’re doing their jobs.
But this doesn’t happen nearly
as much these days as it should.
The media today is less objective,
more ideological, and much showier
than it once was. What you see can
be eye-catching - both the graphics
and the personalities - but it is also
brash and relentlessly self-promoting. A lot of journalists don’t just
want to report the news, they want
to be players and affect policy. They
see politics as a blood sport, often
exaggerating the differences among
players.
COMMUNITY VOICE
By Warren Gross
On September 12
a public hearing will be
held in the City Council
Chambers in City Hall,
New Rochelle. Four items are up
for review. The most important is a
proposal to immediately grant salary
increases to the Ceremonial Mayor
and members of the City Council.
These are all part-time positions;
and while legitimate arguments can
and will be made from a business
perspective, the overarching principle that should compel a NO, comes
from more substantial imperatives.
These are a moral imperative and a
compelling ethical rationale.
For approximately a decade
I have argued in the print media,
on blogs, and by voice, in the City
Council Chambers that the City
Administration was not governed
in accordance with Article X of its
th
own City Charter. New Rochelle is
mandated to be a “weak mayoral
governance, complemented by a
City Manager and 6 District City
Council Members. This has not been
the case for over a decade. Noam
Bramson has served as a “strong
mayor”; he has an office, staff, and
raises funds through “Friends of
Noam Bramson”, a well-attended
dinner in which he speaks from the
podium stating he seeks funding for
his Agenda for New Rochelle. He
has no formal agenda; the agenda
he cites should be the City Council’s
Agenda. New Rochelle has reiterated on at least two occasions over
the past few decades that it preferred
to be governed by a City Manager
who would serve under the direction
of the City Council.
The question remains “why”
our Mayor and, in fairness, his predecessor, have flaunted the will of
This is quite an ideal, especially
in this age of economic turmoil
within the media universe. But I
don’t think it’s too much to hope that
as the profession sorts out its future,
it takes seriously its leadership role
in advancing the public good, and
doesn’t sacrifice its part in making
representative democracy work
properly.
Lee Hamilton is a Senior Advisor
for the Indiana University Center
on Representative Government; a
Distinguished Scholar, IU School
of Global and International Studies;
and a Professor of Practice, IU
School of Public and Environmental
Affairs. He was a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives for
34 years.
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That simply passes the buck.
We can look at issues around
Comprehensive Plans and certainly
the Armory, to strengthen the need
for New York State’s Departments
to take on a strong auditing function
around control and monitoring. This
Department is not alone in passing
along their responsibilities to the
electorate.
Actually, September 12th is the
time to begin change. The proposal
to be rewarded stands on shifting
sands. There are performance
reasons to be sure; supportive voices
in Council have ranged from the
simplistic “other cities are giving
increases” to the sublimate: annual
raises based on the CPI or Cost of
Living. I can only guess how the
staff and employees of the Queen
City feel about this one.
Look in the mirror, stand up for
the rule of law. It all begins at home.
This is our home.
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bots performed the John Travolta
/ Samuel Jackson “Pulp Fiction”
diner routine) on an educational
MOO, Diversity University. Another
professor built a neuroscience lab
and taught a course on the effects of
various things on the brain – including simulations on the impact of
alcohol and narcotics on the brain;
activities that could not be done in a
physical lab.
To even participate in MOOs,
the users had to not only learn the
MOO commands but understand
basic Internet commands – for
instance, to get to Lambda (which is
still in existence – I am “johnmac”
there) one had to use a “telnet” or
“terminal” program and “telnet
lambda.moo,mud.org 8888”. There
was both required knowledge and a
good deal of imagination necessary
to be a MOOer.
Once the graphic WWW
arrived, virtual worlds such as
“Second Life” appeared. Graphic
“avatars” replaced characters and,
since most people now understand
web addresses, the worlds were
accessible to many more people.
Second Life (www.secondlife.
com -- I am “johnmacTheBard”
there) provides great opportunities
for innovation as well as commerce
CREATIVE DISRUPTION
Our Changing Interactions
By John F. McMullen
It’s funny how,
in our constantly
changing
world,
apparently unrelated
conversations seem to come together
and reflect the sometimes unrecognized impacts all around us that
technology has brought. Just a few
days ago, I was speaking to a contemporary about some of the work
that she and her husband have been
doing with a very bright young boy
of seven, the son of mutual friends.
The boy is into science, nature,
computer games and building things
and, while the woman admires his
brilliance and quest for knowledge,
she is somewhat incredulous that
he doesn’t have to read for instruction with his projects; “he can just
watch videos” – and she does not
seem comfortable with this turn of
events at all; “Do you think that this
is a positive change?”
I would have expected this gut
reaction from her – she is a non-user
of computers (not a “rare user” or
“an e-mail only user” or a “Google
only user” – but a NEVER user) still,
I was surprised when her husband, a
PhD and a long term engineer with
IBM, said “perhaps, this is the way
it will be; that reading will more or
less disappear.” Wow! That thought
hit me like a ton of bricks. I could
not imagine not reading (I had just
read a complete mysteries series, 19
books in all, by one author in a little
under three weeks – 18 of them on
a Kindle).
I was drawn back to a discussion that I had over 20 years before
with a reporter for the Poughkeepsie
Journal. This was in the period when
“text-based Virtual Reality” communities were in vogue and tens
of thousands of Internet users were
on-line at any one time in virtual
places with names like “Lambda
MOO,” “Media MOO,” “BioMoo,”
and “Diversity University.” To be
active in these communities required
the same “suspension of disbelief”
that one associates with science
fiction. The user had to believe that
he / she was actually in a “place”
with other people (who were physically located in the next building,
city, state, or country – it mattered
not.) Activities were performed
together, friendships were built,
trusts were exchanged and relations
formed (I knew two women from the
US who agreed to marry men from
Europe before they ever met the men
physically; as far as I know, the marriages worked out).
Anyway, the discussion with the
reporter, Dennis Kipp, took place
around the time that the World Wide
Web with its graphical user interface
was coming into vogue and there
was talk of graphic virtual worlds
supplanting the text-based ones. He
hoped that this would not happen as
the text-based ones required imagination, the same type of imagination
that is required when reading a novel
– the user (or reader) immersed him
/ herself in the world, whether it be
in Lambda or a Stephen King novel.
He saw graphic communities as
analogous to television, still media
entertainment – but different – and
we both agreed that, had television
completely replaced reading, the
world be worse for it. Dennis went
so far as to say that he thought that
“text-based virtual worlds could
save writing.”
I thought the same thing when
confronted with the thought that
videos could replace reading – we
would lose the imagination capability that reading brought to each of
us.
As so often happens, the timing
of my conversation with my friend
was coincidental with another occurrence that directed my thoughts in a
similar vein. On Sunday evening,
September twenty-first, my guest on
my Radio Show (www.blogtalkradio.com/johmac13/2016/08/21/
weekly-johnmac-radio-show)
was Julian Dibbell, presently a
Chicago-based attorney, but in
December, 1993, a columnist for the
Village Voice. Julian was both the
author of a famous front-cover Voice
column, “Rape in Cyberspace”
(http://www.juliandibbell.com/
texts/bungle_vv.html), dealing
with the social and intellectual
adjustments that we must make
in adapting to a virtual word and
a book, “My Tiny Life,” which
dealt with the attraction of these
text-based worlds and the possible
addiction that could suck a user in to
the detriment of physical life.
Obviously, in a world where
the inhabitants are not in the same
physical location, there could not be
a “rape” in the sense that we know
the term – and that was the point
of the column. One character had,
through the use of a software tool,
made it appear that a female character was performing lewd acts in a
public area on Lambda MOO. When
the woman behind that character
found out about what had been done
with her character, she was mortified and complained to the system
administrators (called “wizards”),
asking for some action to be taken.
As there were no rules in
place about behavior, a discussion
followed. Although the woman
repeatedly said, she felt “violated,”
no physical touches had occurred
– rather what was done, no matter
how crude, was a form of speech
and shouldn’t speech be free in
cyberspace? After much discussion, one wizard took the bull by
the horns and banished the offender
from the world.
At a panel discussion at NYU
Law School on the subject of this
incident and the issues raised by it,
co-founder of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation and former Grateful
Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow
opined “We have to learn to live in
a world where the flesh becomes
word” – and we are still trying to get
this right!
Some background – MOOs were
an outgrowth of “MUDs,” “Multiple
User Dungeons” which, in turn were
an outgrowth of the role playing
game “Dungeons and Dragons.”
Lambda MOO was developed at
Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center
(“Xerox PARC”), both as a laboratory for on line community and
as a way to teach Object Oriented
Programming (MOO = Multiple
User Dungeon – Object Oriented).
In a MOO, the user, once he / she
had learned the commands, could,
take on a description, and build a
home and other interesting things
– for example, while an adjunct
professor at Marist College, I had
students build a “Virtual Marist”
(including a “Palace Diner” where
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Our Changing Interactions
Continued from page 7
– there are beaches, night clubs with
dancing, businesses, universities,
and historical fantasies there. Yet,
it seems to me that it is somewhat
closer to physical reality than a
text-based world – although, it, like
Lambda MOO, requires the acceptance of “Same Time Different
Place” connectivity, a mental leap
in itself.
When Barbara McMullen
was Dean of Online Learning at
Monroe College, her students
built even more complex things
than my Marist students had built
(ex. Moving Merry-Go-Round, a
hayride (with horse and explanation of things along the route) and
a dance hall with music) but these
items were clearly visible to the
user and, while extremely innovative, required little imagination (in
comparison to the Palace Diner at
Marist) on the users’ part.
Now, with the advent of 3D VR
tools, there is another step closer in
cyberspace to the physical world
as we see it. Yet it is different from
physical reality and we are still
attempting to come up with appropriate rules for behavior, intellectual
property, and commerce. The world
is changing and it is up to us to keep
up with it.
Now back to the beginning and
my conversation with the woman
about videos replacing reading. It is
up to us to deal with these changes
— some steadfastly refuse to use
electronic books “I miss the feel
of a real book in my hand;” I see
that as rather silly since I can carry
hundreds of “real books” in the
Kindle in my pocket (and at considerably less cost). Yet we must, while
accepting change, fight to retain
those things of real value such as
reading and the imagination that it
builds in the reader.
Back in 2 weeks
I welcome comments on this piece to
[email protected]
John F. McMullen is a writer, poet,
college professor and radio host.
Links to other writings, Podcasts,
& Radio Broadcasts at www.
johnmac13.com, and his books are
available on Amazon.
© 2016 John F. McMullen
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Thursday, september 1, 2016
ART
Greg Wyatt, One of America’s Greatest Sculptors
By Joseph P. Griffith
The home and
studio of the 19thcentury Hudson River
School artist Jasper
F. Cropsey, and the NewingtonCropsey Foundation Gallery of Art,
are together one of the hidden treasures of Westchester County. Like
a matreshka, a Russian nesting doll,
there is another treasure hidden within
the site in Hastings-on-Hudson, inaccessible to the general public but
turning out work that is not only
visible but highly influential.
“Soul of the Arts” work in progress
Greg Wyatt and Thomas Moran
sculpture
The Academy of Art is a studio
and teaching facility where young
sculptors learn from one of America’s
masters, Greg Wyatt. His work has
been exhibited at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, museums and public
spaces around the world, including Arlington National Cemetery,
the Department of State, the U.S.
Capitol, West Point, Gramercy Park
and numerous sites in Europe. His
most famous work is probably the
Peace Fountain outside the Cathedral
Church of St. John the Divine in
Manhattan. Nearby, his “Scholar’s
Lion” is found on the campus of
Columbia University.
Wyatt, who works mainly in
bronze, has been compared with
sculptors like Frederick Hart, who
created the “Three Soldiers” statues
at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in
Washington, D.C. Stanley Wells, a
Shakespearean scholar and chairman
of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
in Stratford-upon-Avon, England,
where some of Wyatt’s work depicts
the Bard’s plays, has said, “I compare
Wyatt to Rodin. He’s that good.”
The 40-foot-high Peace Fountain,
created in 14 months, marked the
200th anniversary of the Episcopal
Diocese of New York in 1985. It
represents the conflict between good
and evil, with the Archangel Michael
embracing one of nine giraffes (said to
be the most peaceful of creatures) after
his defeat of Satan. A lion lies down
with a lamb amid the gaze of the sun
and moon.
Models of Wyatt’s work sit all
around the academy studio, including one of the dancer Mikhail
Baryshnikov, versions of which exist
in Italy, Paris and other places. A small
model of the Peace Fountain stands on
a pedestal in the garden. It will soon be
relocated alongside the finished work,
so visitors can compare them.
“The American 19th-century
genius Augustus Saint-Gaudens formulated the whole notion that ‘From
model to monument you must insert
the midsize,’” Wyatt said. “This in
effect is the midsize.”
Wyatt, 67, is a native of Grand
View-on-Hudson, south of Nyack,
went to kindergarten in Hastings
and now lives on the Upper West
Side. His father, William Stanley
Wyatt, a painter and fine arts professor at Columbia University and City
College, instilled in him an artistic sensibility. Greg Wyatt earned a master’s
degree in ceramic arts from Columbia
Teachers College and a doctorate in
art education. He also studied classical sculpture at the National Academy
of Design’s School of Fine Arts. He
came to create the Academy of Art
in the late 1970s at the invitation of
Barbara Newington, Jasper Cropsey’s
great-granddaughter.
Wyatt’s work, based on the philosophy of “spiritual realism,” has
been influenced by myth, fantasy and
classicism, not only artistic but also
literary, inspired by wide readings of
great books and poetry. “Sculpting
is not just a process but a philosophy,” he said. “Like scientists, we are
explorers.”
His influences have included
writings by the Renaissance artists
Leonardo da Vinci, Benvenuto
Cellini and Giorgio Vasari, anatomy
books and the works of Cervantes,
Shakespeare and Dante. Works he
admires include the Venus de Milo,
the Winged Victory of Samothrace,
art created under the Medici and the
unfinished works of Michelangelo.
The Mayan architecture he encountered on travels through Mexico also
Baryshnikov sculpture
inspired him.
“There’s no such thing to depend
on that every time we have an idea that
it’s valid,” he said. ‘Sometimes it’s
only a fragment of an idea, sometimes
it’s a feeling. But you externalize it
and you create these thumbnail-size
three-dimensional sketches. Most
aren’t worthwhile but at least they’re
on the table for evaluation. One or
two might emerge that I could test; the
other ones are never going to see the
light of day.”
The process moves through the
client’s design, engineers’ recommendations about practicality and safety,
and financing. “All that was developed in ancient Greece and Rome and
reinvented in the Renaissance,” said
Wyatt. “As you go along the flexible
materials are replaced by permanent
ones.”
Upon entering the studio, the
visitor is struck by a huge work in
progress, called “Soul of the Arts,”
envisioning the transformation of
Beatrice, Dante’s unrequited love
and inspiration. It is being created
for the Brookgreen Gardens sculpture garden and wildlife preserve in
South Carolina. The model is one-half
to two-thirds the size of the finished
work, which will be 18 to 25 feet high
and 12 to 14 feet wide and deep.
The models are created with
Plastalina, a modeling clay that retains
its malleable shape and does not
harden. Unlike the “hands-off” policy
in most museums, he encourages
visitors to touch the works. “Touching
is part of sculpting,” he said.
The works are transported to
foundries near where they will be
located – in New York they are cast
Continued on page 9
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ART
Greg Wyatt, One of America’s Greatest Sculptors
Continued from page 8
at the Modern Art Foundry in Long
Island City – cast using the lost-wax
process and finished with a bronze
patina.
Wyatt has been the sculptor-inresidence at St. John the Divine for
35 years. There the students are metropolitan-area high schoolers, while in
Hastings, they are advanced university students from around the world,
including Italy, Japan and China. They
also study at the Art Students League
in New York and other locations.
“There’s no better way to inspire
younger artists than having them in
the studio where all the professionalism takes place,” he said.
In 1972, Wyatt’s arm was severely
burned in an accident at a foundry on
School Street in Yonkers. As bronze
was being heated in a crucible at
about 2100 degrees F., it overheated
“Two Rivers,” Pisa, Italy. Photo
courtesy of the artist.
and blew up, burning his left arm
almost to the bone. Besides the safety
lesson learned, he said he was left
with a small, beautiful fragment of a
sculpture, which he has refused to sell
despite many offers.
Wyatt sees the academy as a continuation of the Hudson River School.
Locally, his sculpture “Gates of the
Hudson Arch,” commemorating the
school, can be seen at MacEachron
Waterfront Park in Hastings, a companion piece to one at Hook Mountain
in Nyack. The academy, opposite the
Hastings train station, is not open
to the public, but some of his work,
in the courtyard outside the studio,
can be glimpsed from outside the
fence. A sculpture there depicting the
painter Thomas Moran is headed for
a Hudson River School Artists Garden
he is creating at Boscobel in Garrison,
in conjunction with a congressional
Peace Fountain at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
Peace Fountain model
resolution honoring the school. His
website,
http://gregwyattsculpture.com/, includes a gallery of his
work.
One might think that an artist so
classically trained and influenced
might disdain the type of modernism found in places like New York’s
SoHo and Chelsea, but Wyatt said, “I
embrace all forms of sculpture. It’s
as simple as that. Some is better than
others. Individual taste comes into it
but I don’t see anything wrong with
that diversity in sculpture.”
Installation of “Two Rivers,” Pisa, Italy. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Photos by Joseph P. Griffith
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EDUCATION
MUSIC
Anthony Bambrola to Be Recommended for Appointment
as Principal, Davis Elementary School
AUGUST 1, 2016, NEW
ROCHELLE, NY –The City
School District of New Rochelle
Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian
G. Osborne announced today that
he will recommend the appointment
of Anthony Bambrola as principal
of George M. Davis Elementary
School to the Board of Education at
the Board’s August 2, 2016 Special
Meeting. The decision to put forth Mr.
Bambrola was made after a thorough
interview process that began with a
pool of eighty candidates.
“Mr. Bambrola has demonstrated
that he has the qualities and capabilities to be a strong school leader,” said
Dr. Osborne on the district’s decision
to make the recommendation of
appointment. “After having discussions regarding best instructional
practices, maintaining and building
the school’s vision, and educational
leadership practices, we are confident
that he will carry on the ‘best practices’
that have been firmly established.”
As Assistant Principal of George
M. Davis Elementary School since
August, 2015, Mr. Bambrola planned
and managed alongside former principal Mr. Michael Galland – now at
Columbus Elementary School.
His duties included staff development and evaluation; master planning;
conducting classroom observations
and walkthroughs; facilitating professional development; data analysis and
goal setting; program implementation
and management; and various operational duties.
Upon hearing the news Mr.
Bambrola said, “I am honored and
grateful to have the opportunity to
lead Davis School as Principal. We
have an amazingly talented staff, an
engaged and supportive parent body,
and students with infectious positive
energy. In leading our school, it is
my mission to inspire all members
of the school community – students,
staff, families and the greater community - towards the highest levels of
excellence.”
“Many thanks to the selection
committee made up of representatives
from all groups of the school community, and to the many parents and
staff members that gave input into the
process. Mr. Bambrola is well positioned to continue the momentum at
Davis,” concluded Dr. Osborne.
Mr.
Bambrola
received
his Advanced Certificate in
Administration and Supervision
from Hunter College, NY; Master of
Arts in Childhood Education Grades
1-6 from New York University;
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from
the University of Maryland; and an
Associate of Arts from Hudson Valley
Community College.
George M. Davis Elementary
School has approximately 750
students in grades K-5 and about 60
staff servicing the school. It is located
at 80 Iselin Drive, New Rochelle, NY,
10804.
The Sound of Jazz Fills the Air
By Joseph P. Griffith
The title of the
famous documentary
“Jazz on a Summer’s
Day” pretty much sums
up a feeling and a spirit unlike any
other, evoking a time and place that
seemed to exist for only a moment.
Almost all of the performers in that
film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival
are gone, but what remains is their
music, as timeless as it was ephemeral.
And so goes another summer,
leaving memories and music in its
wake. Westchester County is not
Newport or Greenwich Village or
Montreux, or any of the other places
where, to quote the title of Nat
Hentoff’s book, jazz is, but the music
is alive and well here.
Jazz Forum Arts (JFA) is a nonprofit organization that annually
produces concerts, including an
outdoor summer series and occasional
indoor shows throughout the year.
Mark Morganelli, a trumpeter, fluegelhornist and its executive director, is
preparing to take the next step, to
a club operating out of his home in
Tarrytown.
The club, called Jazz Forum, at
Continued on page 11
The New York Jazz Exchange in Dobbs Ferry
EDUCATION
Yonkers Mayor Spano Calls for Submissions
to Fill Board of Education Trustee Vacancy
AUGUST 16, 2016: YONKERS,
NY –Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano
announced today his call for submissions to fill a vacancy with the City’s
Board of Education, the official policy
making body of the School District.
The vacancy comes as Trustee Curtis
Kendrick submits his resignation after
relocating from the City of Yonkers.
“I want to extend my gratitude
and appreciation to Mr. Kendrick for
his years of service to the Board of
Education and who served our City
and our students with loyalty, professionalism and distinction,” added
Mayor Spano.
Mayor Spano added, “I encourage qualified and committed Yonkers
residents to apply for the new vacancy
with our Board of Education,” said.
“The Board of Ed is possibly the
most important board in the City as it
serves our schools, striving to provide
the best in quality education for our
children.”
Board of Education President
Rev. Steve Lopez said, “On behalf of
the Trustees, we would like to extend
a heartfelt thank you to former Trustee
Kendrick for his dedicated service to
the community championing education for Yonkers students. Providing
opportunities for quality instruction
and high expectation for students
and staff were foremost in his deliberations during his tenure. We wish
Mr. Kendrick the best in his future
endeavors.”
The Yonkers Thrives Executive
Committee will serve as a blue
ribbon panel and review all submissions. Once the Executive Committee
reviews all candidates, the team will
gather a list of qualified applicants and
provide it to Mayor Spano, who will
then appoint the new board member.
Interested applicants are encouraged to apply at www.yonkersny.gov.
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The Sound of Jazz Fills the Air
Continued from page 10
1 Dixon Lane, will open in the near
future. Morganelli has secured most
of the necessary zoning approvals and
is awaiting a county Board of Health
permit. “Realistically I’d like to open
in three or four months. It would be
great to open by Thanksgiving,” he
said.
He and his wife, Ellen Prior, lived
in Hastings-on-Hudson for 23 years
and decided, a year ago, to downsize
when their grown children moved out.
They found the commercial building,
built in 1910, which had previously
been the popular Breitenbach’s
Bakery, a Cablevision office and an
antiques store.
“We saw places that did not speak
to us,” he said. “This commercial
building did. I saw that I could have
a place on the ground floor to present
music.” The house has three bedrooms
and two bathrooms, plus the performance space, which will seat about
100. There is also a wraparound roof
deck for the staging of fund-raising
parties.
There will be a charcuterie serving
meats, cheeses, bread and desserts,
and the venue has a full liquor license.
Morganelli said he grew up making
wine in his grandfather’s basement
in Queens, and the club will serve
Italian wines “exclusively,” as well
as local beers like Elmsford’s Captain
Lawrence.
The club will operate Friday and
Saturday nights, with two sets, at 8
and 10. The performers have not yet
been selected but Morganelli said they
will be “headline groups.” Brazilian
groups will perform on Sundays
from 4 to 7 p.m. They might include
the trumpeter Claudio Roditi and the
singer Maucha Adnet.
The club has already had a
couple of test-drives, including an
Mark Morganelli at a Dobbs Ferry
concert
Mark Morganelli of Jazz Forum
Arts. Photo courtesy of the artist.
The New York Jazz Exchange in
Dobbs Ferry
85th-birthday celebration last fall for
the composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram, a JFA founding
board member, and a stop on the
RiverArts Music Tour in June. Last
month it hosted the organization’s fifth
annual Jazz Vocal Competition finale.
The summer music series as it
exists now started in Dobbs Ferry
in 2000, and became the model for
the other series in Ossining, Sleepy
Hollow and Tarrytown. The greatest
number of concerts in one summer
was 53 in 2008; this summer it presented 34. In August it presented a
concert on every weeknight.
The Dobbs Ferry series, at
Waterfront Park, sponsored by
NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital,
might have “Jazz on a Summer’s
Evening” as its title, with an aquatic
setting along the Hudson River to
rival Newport’s on Narragansett Bay.
Views of the river, the Palisades, the
Tappan Zee and George Washington
bridges and the setting sun make it
one of the nicest venues in the county.
In 2013, with extensive renovations under way at the park, the series
moved to a Mercy College athletic
field. In 2014 and 2015, it was staged
at the Estherwood mansion on the
Masters School campus, and with the
renovations complete, it returned to
Waterfront Park this year.
Morganelli has been producing and performing in concerts in
Westchester since the 1990s, at the
Kensico Dam, Sunnyside, Peekskill’s
Paramount Center, Purchase College
and other spots.
Between 1992 and 2013 he
produced 150 concerts including the
Manhattan Transfer at the Tarrytown
Music Hall and Milton Nascimento at
Lincoln Center. He has also produced
more than 60 CDs.
He started JFA and the Riverside
Park Arts Festival in Manhattan in
1985 and used that as the model
for the Westchester concerts. Dizzy
Gillespie and Wynton Marsalis were
other JFA founding members. The
artists have included Billy Taylor,
Lionel Hampton, Betty Carter, Gerry
Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry,
Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Thad
Jones and the Count Basie Orchestra.
Morganelli operated a loft club
called the Jazz Forum from 1979 to
1983 at Cooper Square in New York.
He has a background in the music of
Brazil, having played there and with
its musicians since 1980. One of his
most memorable gigs was playing
with the power samba group Pe De
Boi at Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. His
own group, the Jazz Forum All-Stars,
this summer played four concerts in
Tessa Souter Quartet in Dobbs Ferry
Sleepy Hollow.
Any jazz trumpeter worth his
chops must have had Miles Davis as
an influence. Morganelli claims him
as well and met him a couple of times.
He also cites the American Popular
Songbook. “I’m not a singer but I try
to learn the lyrics to songs to convey
the composer’s intent,” he said.
Although he loves both the trumpet
and fluegelhorn, he said he prefers the
latter, both for its mellower sound and
because it is more suited for Brazilian
music and ballads.
Jazz’s epitaph has been written
many times, but music, like fashion,
is cyclical, and he disputes the recurring idea that “jazz is dead.” “Since
the 1950s and the advent of rock-nroll it has not been as popular a music
form as it was in the ’30s and ’40s. It’s
rather a niche appeal, which can be
evidenced in recorded music sales of
about 2 to 3 percent. That said, people
that do like and support it are very passionate and knowledgeable.”
Other than the outdoor series,
Morganelli said, his only focus is
on the club. “I’ve been offered other
things, but I learned my lesson when I
spread myself too thin.”
At the end of the concert recorded
on his album “Last Date,” the alto
saxophonist, flutist and bass clarinetist Eric Dolphy said, “When you hear
music, after it’s over, it’s gone, in the
air. You can never capture it again.”
This summer’s music is gone, but the
sounds of warm Brazilian music and
jazz, hot and cool, will fill the air in
Tarrytown all winter long.
Photos by Joseph P. Griffith unless
otherwise noted. Jazz Forum Arts
http://jazzforumarts.org/
92nd Annual
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September 8 — September 11
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THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN
Thursday, september 1, 2016
EYE ON THEATRE
Mini-marvels
By John Simon
Although you may
not have given it much
thought, the one-act
play, or one-acter, is a
perfectly respectable dramatic genre,
worthy of critical attention; but first,
some theatrical history.
Drama has a history of shrinking. In olden days, it did not have
television and the Internet.
Still, to give value for your
money and time for the various
vendors, a long intermission was
called for, giving audience members
more time to indulge in gossip and
drinks that did not have to be chugalugged. But long intermissions could
annoy impatient people and so what
came about was today’s favorite: the
ninety-minute or so, give or take,
play, and no intermission, the format
still prevalent today.
Elizabeth Masucci and Frank Harts in AFTER THE WEDDING by Neil
LaBute, directed by Maria Mileaf, part of SUMMER SHORTS 2016, Series
A at 59E59 Theaters. Photo by Carol Rosegg
acts. Next thing, it did: five. The old
Greeks made quite a feast of it. But
after many years, life-styles changed
and people’s patience extended to
only four acts. Even that became too
lengthy and the three-act play began
its long reign. It seems like only
yesterday when the norm was threeacters with a couple of intermissions
of ten or fifteen minutes. That left
just enough for an evening of theatergoing, with the intermissions
allowing for drinks if there was a bar,
candy if there wasn’t. So everyone
was happy: the vendors and the
between-acts socializers, commerce
and congress.
But circumstances have changed
again. More and more, theatergoers
live in suburbs and need to catch
trains coming and going. But the
railways have no interest in accommodating theater’s needs, and their
schedules did not suit theater audiences. This brought about the two-act
play, still preferred by musicals for a
variety of reasons. Trains were easier
to catch and more time was left for
Now, if the ninety-minute oneacter proliferates, might one not
come up with an evening of three or
four short plays in that time-frame,
allowing for, among other things, a
few novice authors to test the waters,
and offering spectators greater
variety? And so the twenty- or thirtyminute one-acter became a popular
genre, of the sort now playing
at 59E59 Theaters in alternating
evenings with Series A and Series
B, collectively entitled “Summer
Shorts,” the former of whose series
I herewith review.
The first of three items is “THE
HELPERS,” by Ms. Cusi Cram
(great name!). Here we get, Nate, 40,
who encounters Jane Friedman, 60,
his former long-time psychotherapist, at a Citarella store, talking out
loud to her beloved dead cat, Bijou.
Nate upsettingly quit her fifteen
years ago. They agree to meet at a
park bench.
He is enthusiastic, she bristles
but does not leave. Things have
changed: she lost her father and,
more importantly, Bijou; his wife left
him and he recently lost his teaching
job. She is tough, and says things
like this about her father: ‘Went right
away. Massive heart attack., which
was wonderful. I mean it wasn’t
wonderful but you know what I
mean—he didn’t have a decline.
Aging isn’t that bad but declining
sucks.” He is softer, and says “I
guess I have realized how impossible
it is to help people . . . to help them
in a real way. Help them become a
better version of themselves . . . And
you did that for me—gave me something that made me more whole,
more—something.”
A charming play about two
troubled souls who find a late but
comforting renewed friendship,
with Jane even allowed to talk to
Bijou, only not loud but in public.
Maggie Burke and David Deblinger
do nicely by it under Jessi D. Hill’s
unfussy, straightforward direction.
The next item, “AFTER THE
WEDDING,” by Neil LaBute, is a
trickier affair. Two young persons,
labeled Him and Her, sit fairly far
apart in chairs downstage and talk
mostly to the audience, though they
sometimes interject to confirm or
disagree.
Maggie Burke and David Deblinger in THE HELPERS by Cusi Cram,
directed by Jessi D. Hill, part of SUMMER SHORTS 2016, Series A at 59E59
Theaters. Photo by Carol Rosegg
Sathya Sridharan, Nadine Malouf, and Patrick Cummings in THIS IS
HOW IT ENDS by A. Rey Pamatmat, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, part
of SUMMER SHORTS 2016, Series A at 59E59 Theaters. Photo by Carol
Rosegg
Thus Him claims to have been
married five years, but she affirms
six. “HIM: It doesn’t mean you don’t
love ‘em, if you forget a birthday
or a, a . . . you know . . . an anniversary . . . HER: I always get him
a little something to mark the day .
. . a card, at least. HIM: She usually
remembers—women are so good at
that type of thing—all the holidays
and shit . . . and that’s the annoying
thing. Her remembering so I look
like an idiot . . .”
The talk is about a variety of
things, freewheeling, often disjunctive sentence fragments, falterings,
digressions, stops and starts, which
is LaBute’s idea of how we talk, and
some of us actually do. It wouldn’t
be LaBute if much of it weren’t
about sex, some of it graphic.
It is a spottily amusing piece very
well acted by the beautiful Elizabeth
Manucci and the very well spoken
Frank Harts, worried about HER not
finding him handsome enough. It is
suitably directed by Maria Mileaf,
insofar as the characters never rise
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EYE ON THEATRE
Mini-marvels
Continued from page 12
from their chairs and never become
particularly agitated.
Now what about the third,
longest item, “THIS IS HOW IT
ENDS,” by A. Rey Panatmat, whom
I take to be Indian and a pest. This
is a pretentious piece of consummate drivel about the last day of
the Universe, not just our world,
and what some characters would do
about it: largely mad homosexual
sex. I can quite handily convey what
it is like by adducing the cast list.
Annie Christmas, F, the AntiChrist—no, for real, she’s cute and
totally the Anti-Christ, though she’d
be much happier eating popcorn in
Thursday, september 1, 2016
COMMUNITY
a Snuggie. Jake, 20s. an everyday
saint of the oversexed, maybe not
so bright, but totally earnest, awesomely gay variety. Death, F, a
horseperson of the Apocalypse, she’s
really good at her job. Pestilence,
M, a horseperson of the Apocalypse
–that whiny, tortured guy that you
kind of want to just wrap up and
mother even though you know he
should just grow a set. Famine, F,
a horseperson of the Apocalypse
–don’t touch her shit … but touch
her heart—she needs it. War, M,
a horseperson of the Apocalypse:
what a smelly surfer, hippie idiot: the
kind who thinks playing the ukelele
makes him ‘shweet.’
You can guess what drops from
so many horsepersons…
2016 Yorktown Grange Fair
Thursday September 8 –
Sunday, September 11th
The 2016 Yorktown Grange Fair
takes place Thursday, September 8 to
Sunday, September 11, featuring music,
games, contests and food; livestock, watermelon, pie eating, flower and produce
competitions and carnival rides. An
auction will take place after the official
closing on Sunday evening at 7 p. m.
REGIONAL THEATRE
The livestock show includes
draft horses and oxen from Rock
Hill Farm performing in the horse
ring on Saturday. On Sunday, Leona
Dushin and her Red Horse Troupe of
Morgan horses will perform a synchronized riding demonstration. The
fair will also host wool spinning demonstrations and audience participation
events with The Spinners in the livestock tent.
Musical entertainment will be
provided by C. B. Smith and the Lucky
Devils, Chain of Fools, Overhill
Shenanigans, the Justin Veatch All
Stars, Amanda Ayala, The Hey Baby
Band, Unfunded Mandate and Molly
Adele Brown. (Visit the entertainment
page for show times and details.)
The fair offers fun for the entire
family. Non-stage entertainment will
be provided by magicians, puppeteers, and a chainsaw carver– sure
to delight fair goers of all ages. And
don’t miss the Antique Tractor Parade
on Saturday at noon. The antique
tractors and engines remain on exhibit
throughout the fair.
For further information, visit the
website at: www. http://yorktowngrangefair.org.
Diana O’Neill
Million Dollar Quartet
Now Through Sept. 11th at Westchester Broadway Theatre
By Mary Keon
Catch the Westchester Broadway
Theatre’s rocking revival of MILLION
DOLLAR QUARTET, onstage now,
through September 11th, recreating the
day Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley unexpectedly turned up at Sun Records
studio in Memphis, TN.
Producer Sam Phillips, the
“Father of Rock and Roll,” recorded
their impromptu recording session,
dubbed “The Million Dollar Quartet,”
by local reporter Bob Johnson. The
recording features gospel songs and
some of the earliest Rock and Roll
hits, including: “Blue Suede Shoes,”
“Fever,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Who
Do You Love?,” “Great Balls of
Fire,” “Matchbox,” “Folsom Prison
Blues,” “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’
On,” and “Hound Dog.”
The Westchester Broadway
Theatre production stars Sky Seals
as Johnny Cash, Dominique Scott as
Jerry Lee Lewis, Ari McKay Wilford
as Elvis Presley, John Michael Presney
as Carl Perkins, Jason Loughlin as
Sam Phillips, Sam Weber as Jay
Perkins and Bligh Voth as the fictional
Dyanne, Presley’s girlfriend.
This wildly talented cast delivers
tour de force performances under
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The musical direction is by David
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Thursday, september 1, 2016
TRAVEL
Getaway to God’s Country
By Lee Daniels
Gordon Hight is
Renaissance man. He’s
been a teacher, coach
and headmaster over
the past two decades. Recently, HIght
has shifted his focus to interests he has
pursued for much longer. An accomplished writer, photographer, and film
producer, he is also a hunter, fly fisherman and fervent ecologist.
Hight works for three months
of the year as a guide for renowned
WorldCast Anglers, in Victor, Idaho.
Last weekend, I had the good fortune
to join him on a fly fishing trip along
the South Fork, which, along with the
North Fork and Henry’s Fork, flow
into the Snake River.
“My dad taught me how to throw
a fly rod when I was six,” he explained
as we drove to the landing where we
would launch Hight’s 16’ ClackaCraft
drift boat.
Traversing three diverse landscapes, rising in altitude from flat
farmland to plateau, then rolling
hillsides dotted with majestic stands
of lodgepole pine, blue spruce and
cottonwood, through a pass at Pine
Creek, to our destination, we reached
the boat ramp at Conant Valley.
“There’s something about the
color combinations out here that
really does it for me, that makes it
my favorite color palette,” Hight
explained as we drove.
He pointed out a bald eagle to our
right—one of five we saw that day-adding that the area contained one
of the country’s largest cottonwood
stands, which also made it one of the
most populous bald eagle habitats in
the lower 48 states.
On the river that day were also
pelicans, ospreys, heron, and swallows
which made their nests in the soaring
basalt cliff sides that soared to our left
and right.
Hight explained how larvae from
mayfly, stonefly, caddis, Mahogany
Dun flies and midges typically hatch
in current breaks above gravel or stone
bottoms in deeper areas of shallow
rivers, rising to the surface and attracting trout as they bob along, and that
the artificial flies we were casting
simulate these.
The object was to locate the areas
on a river where the most abundant
amount of fly “nymphs” congregate
to attract hungry trout.
“If trout were human, think of
them as resting in a La-Z Boy Chair
next to a conveyer belt of food,” Hight
explained.
As a fisher whose orientation with
fishing has always been trolling, drift
fishing or casting in the ocean, this
correspondent soon learned how intricate and subtle the art of fly fishing
is, and how much greater finesse it
requires than saltwater fishing.
View of Grand Teton range from Fred’s Mt., Targhee Ski & Summer Resort
Bella Morris, of Alta, WY and Ellie Dunn of Driggs, ID enjoy lunch in front
of a mural in Driggs
Gordon Hight holding a Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout
Hight gently walked me through
the basics of fly casting and fishing
techniques, and after a few hours of
practice, I felt like I was getting the
hang of it. I even got a nibble—a
“sip,” as Hight called it. It takes years
to master this art, though it was clear
to myself and my guide that I was
hooked on the magic of this unique
sport, and knew I would return to the
Snake and to Hight for another trip.
The highlight of the day came
when Hight hooked a beautiful 12”
Yellowstone Cutthroat trout, and I
was able to admire the fish’s beauty
for a few moments before Hight
released it.
Before leaving the area, I took
the chairlift at Grand Targhee Resort,
in nearby Alta, Wyoming, up to
Fred’s Mountain, at 6,800 feet elevation, and was rewarded with clear
views of five of the nine Teton peaks,
of which Grand Teton is the highest,
at a 13,720 elevation.
The Driggs/Victor/Alta area offer
spectacular ballooning, hiking, biking
and fishing recreation in the summer,
along with music and art festivals.
Executive Chef Steve Murphy of the
Three Peaks Dinner Table in Driggs
is Culinary Institute of Americatrained and offers up some great
cuisine. There are also several local
craft beers. And best of all, the locals
are just about the friendliest people I
have met anywhere in my travels.
As I stopped to chat one afternoon in Driggs with Bella Morris, of
Alta, WY and Ellie Dunn of Driggs,
ID, who were enjoying an al fresco
lunch in front of one of the town’s
colorful murals, I commented on how
impressed I was with the beauty of the
town.
“It certainly is a pretty scenic
place,” offered Dunn. And that is an
understatement.
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Thursday, september 1, 2016
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Of note: Gordon Hight’s photography:
FlyCasters Photography, http://flycasters.net/about/
and Orlando Sentinel. He is the winner
of the first-place prize in Non-Fiction in
the 2013 Porter Fleming Literary
TRAVEL
Getaway to God’s Country
Continued from page 14
If You Go
Getting there: Flights into Jackson
Hole, WY or Driggs, ID
Lodging: Teton Valley Cabins, 1
Mountain Vista Dr., Driggs, ID 83422,
208.354.8153, www.tetonvalleycabins.
com
Food: Three Peaks Dinner Table, 15
South Main St., Driggs, Idaho 83422,
Downhill mountain biking at Targhee Ski & Summer Resort
LOCAL LORE
Boom and Bust
Annals of Hudson River Valley Brickmaking:
By Robert Scott
Thanks to the fastgrowing
metropolis
at the mouth of the
Hudson, the brickmaking industry of the Hudson Valley
reached its peak during the first
decade of the 20th century. In 1905,
it manufactured an astonishing 1.2
billion bricks--nearly twelve percent
of all the bricks produced in the
United States in that year.
The nature of the processes in
brickmaking made it easy for workers
in the industry to learn from the craftsmen skilled in molding bricks or
building kilns. In a few seasons of work
in a brickyard, a bright and observant
young man with ambition and only
a little capital could become a brickmaker. The minimal requirements for
entry into the brickmaking industry
combined with the widely distributed
clay lands in the Hudson Valley led
to a chronic state of overproduction
of bricks and depressed prices in the
New York market.
Between 1870 and 1900, overproduction forced a steady reduction
in the price of bricks from $8.25 to
$4.25 a thousand. This trend was
reversed in the 1904 season, which
opened with bricks priced at $7.00
a thousand and closed with bricks
selling for $8.50. High prices continued in 1905; by the end of that year,
some bricks were selling at $12.00.
The high prices of 1905 were
caused by a combination of circumstances. To obtain higher market
prices at the start of building construction in New York City in the
spring, Hudson Valley brickmakers
usually closed their brickmaking
season with their storage sheds full of
bricks waiting to be shipped with the
breakup of the ice clogging the river.
An unexpected surge in building
activity in the city and lower brick
production because of depressed
prices resulted in a 25 percent smaller
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Big Hole Bagel & Bistro, 285 N Main
St., Driggs, ID 83422, 208.354.2245
Activities:
WorldCast
Anglers,
38 West Center St., Victor, ID
83455,
208.787.0062,
https://
w w w. w o r l d c a s t a n g l e r s . c o m /
guide_services/wyoming/fly-fishingjackson-hole-snake-river/, GoFish@
WorldCastAnglers.com
Teton GeoTourism Center, 60 S. Main
St., Driggs, ID 83422, 208.354.2609,
http://www.tetongeotourism.us/
teton-geotourism-center, [email protected]
The Teton Valley Museum, 1409
N Highway 33, Driggs, ID 83422,
208.354.6000, tetonvalleymuseum@
silverstar.com
Grand Targhee Ski & Summer Resort
& Bike Park, 3300 Ski Hill Rd.,
Alta, WY 83414, 307.353.2300, 800.
TARGHEE, http://www.grandtarghee.
com/, [email protected]
Grand Teton Brewing, 430 Old Jackson
Hwy, Victor, ID 83455, 888.899.1656,
grandtetonbrewing.com
Lee Daniels, a former reporter for
the Journal News and Reuters, is Arts
writer for the Westchester Guardian.
His work has appeared in the Danbury
News-Times, Litchfield County Times,
Competition, author of a new book,
Poems from the Edge (New Freedom,
PA: Eber & Wein Publishers, 2016),
and an M.F.A. candidate at the School
of Letters of the University of the South.
HUDSON VALLEY HISTORY
Upcoming Croton Friends of
History Events
Thursday, September 8th,
2016 @ 7PM: Light at the End of
the Tunnel – Building the Second
Avenue Subway Presented by Croton
resident Thomas Peyton who spent
45 years in the tunnel construction
industry.
Thursday, September 15th,
2016 @ 7PM: My World War II
Memories Thursday –Presented
by long-time Croton resident Mano
Orel, who will discuss his experiences
during World War II as a Jewish
member of the Greek Resistance.
Thursday, October 6th, 2016
@ 7PM: The Mystery of Money
Island: Tales of Captain Kidd’s
Treasure, Ghosts, Witches and
Indian Graves on Croton Point –
Marc Cheshire, Croton Friends of
History board member and author of
the blog Croton History & Mysteries,
will tell the tales of this fabled place
and why it sadly no longer exists.
GOVERNMENT
carryover of bricks in brickyards at
the end of 1904. To add to brickmakers’ problems, the Hudson froze over
that winter two weeks earlier than
usual. This made for a shortage of
bricks at the start of the 1905 building
season. The scarcity was made more
acute because planned building
activity in 1905 was three times the
level of the previous year. For brickmakers, 1905 was a banner year.
Higher prices caused by the
shortfall of bricks prompted overproduction again. During 1906, brick
prices in New York City plunged
from $10.00 a thousand to around
$6.00. This translated into a price of
about $5.00 a thousand at the brickyards. To make matters worse s had
consolidated to keep brick prices up,
attempts of Hudson Valley brickmakers to do this were unsuccessful.
Good times for the Valley’s brickmakers would not return until after
the end of World War I.
Old-fashioned Methods
Over the years, accelerated
growth in the city brought with it a
need for housing, business offices,
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Murphy Awards Grants
Continued from page 4
A. Longonia, Yorktown Town Justice.
“The problem starts in our medicine
cabinets. Kids start there and move
onto bigger, more deadly forms of
drugs. Programs like ‘Shed the Meds’
help reduce the volume of drugs that
are available to sell or abuse.”
In a statement, Susan Salomone,
Executive Director and co-founder
of Drug Crisis in Our Backyard said,
“Drug Crisis in our Backyard is she
happy to support Senator Murphy in
helping people dispose of medication
that is no longer needed or expired.
Too often young people search their
parents or grandparents medicine
cabinets for unused opiates and begin
their lifelong addiction.” On August 25th, Senator Terrence
Murphy attended the 2016 Mount
Pleasant Day Street Fair and Car Show
where he `presented Mt. Pleasant
Town Supervisor Carl Fulgenzi with
a check for $500,000 to support
the downtown revitalization of the
Hawthorne business district, noting
that when he was “a councilman in
Yorktown, the number one issue was
economic development. I am here to
let you know I am committed to the
revitalization of the downtown Mount
Pleasant business district. This project
will mean more jobs and improved
quality of life for everyone.”
“This grant will help give the
downtown area a new look that will
benefit our residents and business
owners,” said Carl Fulgenzi, Mt.
Pleasant Town Supervisor, who
accepted the check on behalf of
Mt. Pleasant residents and thanked
Murphy for his support over the past
year.
A $5000 grant was made to the
Hendrick Hudson Free Library in
Montrose, to help the library expand
their Children’s Room and refurbish
their puppet theater and $2,500 was
awarded to the Croton Free Library to
purchase a 3-D printer.
The State Senator also helped
to secure a $150,000 grant to
the Cortlandt Department of
Environmental Services that will be
used to buy two emergency generators
for the Highway Department’s offices
at 167 Roa Hook Road and 140 8th
Street.
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LOCAL LORE
Annals of Hudson River Valley Brickmaking
Continued from page 15
factories, retail establishments and
public works--all of which required
bricks and other building materials.
Responding to increased demand,
Hudson Valley brickmakers expanded
their operations. Yet very little of their
stepped-up production was achieved
through changes in technology.
Brickmaking remained highly labor
intensive.
Digging the clay was still done
by hand. Old-fashioned drying yards,
hacks--the low-roofed drying sheds-and individually-built scove kilns
dominated brickmaking in the Hudson
Valley. Despite mechanization with
automatic molding machines, there
was no way to avoid handling the
individual bricks on the drying yards,
in the hacks and in the building of the
kiln from the bricks to be burned.
Because clays everywhere in
the Hudson Valley were virtually
the same and methods of production
varied little, no competitive advantage
could be achieved by attempting to
produce a higher quality product.
Nor could any advantage be
gained through price cutting. Profit
margins were already minuscule; the
market price of bricks in New York
City was only slightly above their cost
of manufacture and transportation.
For brickmakers, profitability lay
in their ability to increase both productivity and transportation efficiency
and to find ways to cut costs.
Wood, the traditional fuel in brickmaking, had become prohibitively
expensive and scarce in the Hudson
Valley. A cord of wood averaged
more than five dollars, although elsewhere in the country the same cord
of wood cost less than two dollars.
Brickmakers sought alternative fuels.
Bituminous (soft) coal and refined
fuel oil or residual oils displaced wood
as a source of heat.
Sailing vessels--sloops and
schooners--were used traditionally
to transport bricks to New York City
until the end of the 19th century. A
sloop or schooner could carry about
75,000 bricks. These were stowed
below deck to maintain the vessel’s
stability when tacking. Loading bricks
in a vessel’s hold was slow, tedious
and expensive.
John B. Rose, a brick
maker of Haverstraw, is
credited with devising
and demonstrating
a money-saving
technique by
loading bricks
on the decks
of
sailing
vessels.
Sloops and
schooners
gave way to
open-decked
scows
or
barges designed
by Rose for easy
deck loading.
Twenty or thirty
of these behemoths,
each with a capacity of
300,000 to 350,000 bricks,
were often linked together and towed
by a single tugboat. As many as ten
million bricks could arrive in New
York City in a single tow, making it a
buyer’s market.
Bricks were still moved from the
kiln area to the barges on wheelbarrows. When a barge was empty, it
would ride in the water about five or six
feet higher than the dock. This meant
“A Poor Man’s Business”
that
t h e
worker had to
push the heavily loaded wheelbarrow up a steep plank. To assist him, a
rope was attached to the front of the
wheelbarrow and pulled by a helper
on the deck of the barge. It was not
uncommon for the man wheeling the
barrow to slip and find himself and his
barrowload of bricks in the river.
Pioneering brickmaker James
Wood, who had conceived the process
of adding anthracite coal dust to brick
clay to shorten burning times and
save fuel, called brickmaking “a
poor man’s business” that required
little capital to get started.
Clay lands in the Hudson
Valley were rarely owned by
early brickmakers. Instead,
following the English tradition, they were usually leased
for an annual fee or on shares.
At a time when bricks were
sold for less than six dollars a
thousand, as much as one dollar
a thousand bricks produced was
paid to the owners of the leased
lands.
A few early brickmakers,
however, perceived that the key to real
wealth lay in the acquisition and ownership of clay lands. Some were even
fortunate enough to have inherited
such lands long before their potential
for brickmaking had been recognized.
Editor’s Note: Robert Scott continues his discussion of the economics
of brickmaking in the early Twentieth
Century in the September 15 issue of
The Westchester Guardian.
when coping with anxiety, chronic
pain, recovery from surgery and other
health conditions.
Westchester
Children’s
Association, the Westchester Bank
and the Westchester Knicks have
announced the formation of a new
group, Westchester Companies for
Kids (WC4K). Its goal is to engage
the business sector with the WCA’s
mission to improve the lives of
Westchester’s young people by
shaping policies and programs to meet
their needs, and by keeping their wellbeing at the top of the public agenda.
On Sundays, September 4th and
11th you can take your little cubs to a
pack chat at the Wolf Conservation
Center in South Salem. This is a great
introduction to wolves for families
with young children where you can
learn about the mythology surrounding wolves and visit with Ambassador
wolves Atka, Alawa, Zephyr and
others. This event is suitable for all
ages, but reservations are required
so call 914-753-2373 for more
information.
Falling on to the fun fact list …
Did you know that the lovely little
Union Church of Pocantico Hills is
home to a stained glass window that
is the last work of art by renowned
artist Henri Matisse and nine windows
created by Marc Chagall. These
glorious windows are on display for
visitors, call 914-332-6659 for more
information, the tours are subject to
congregation activities.
The Pound Ridge Recreation
Department is holding a free fishing
event on Saturday, September 10th
from 4 to 6pm, can’t wait to hear all
the “big catches” from this one…
Stone Barns’ annual Harvest Fest
is set for October 1st 10am to 3pm on
Bedford Road in Pocantino Hills.
Happy Labor Day to the best
readers in the world, hope your
picnics, BBQ’s, and family & friend
gatherings are a blast, see you in
September…
CALENDAR
News & Notes From Northern Westchester
By Mark Jeffers
We attended a wonderful family wedding
recently which was
grand with marvelous
music, fantastic food, daring dancing
and tons of fun. Made me a bit worried
though as I have three daughter
weddings in my future, so I better
get writing this week’s “Elopement”
edition of “News & Notes.”
Lifting Up Westchester will hold
their 10th Anniversary of “Golf FORE
the Homeless,” on Friday, September
23rd at the Hudson Hills Golf Course
in Ossining. Come celebrate with
them and enjoy a great day of golf,
you’ll be helping to raise money to
provide services for homeless men,
women and children.
Westchester County will once
again hold a blood drive in partnership with the New York Blood Center
and Volunteer New York, as part
of the county’s “9/11 Day: Serve +
Remember” activities. The blood
drive is open to all county employees
and members of the public and will
take place Friday, September 9, from
9am to 4pm at the Westchester County
Center in White Plains.
Hudson Valley Grape Jam
is a music festival to benefit the
Westchester Medical Center/Maria
Fareri Children’s Hospital, and
members of the Westchester Medical
Center Health Network. It will be held
on Saturday and Sunday September 3
& 4 at Palaia Winery and Vineyards
in Highland Mills, and is expected
to draw a large crowd of music
lovers over two days on Labor Day
Weekend. Vendors of all kinds will
be on the grounds both Saturday and
Sunday, as well as entertainment for
kids such as a bouncy slide and wagon
rides thru the vineyard.
The 92nd annual Yorktown Grange
Fair is set for September 8-11, and no,
I was not at the first one! The Fair will
feature local craft displays, a fun fair
midway and delicious food, enjoy…
It’s time to lace up your sneakers, if
I could find mine, and get ready for the
annual Katonah Village Improvement
Society’s 5K Road Race on Saturday
September 10th, rain or shine.
I’m feeling better just mentioning
this…join Reiki Practitioner Andrea
Deierlein on September 7th from 5 to
6pm at the Somers Library for a conversation about the relaxing power of
Reiki, which helps restore the body,
clear the mind, and refresh the spirit.
Reiki is a natural healing practice that
originated in Japan. People use Reiki
for relaxation, stress reduction, and
symptom relief to improve overall
health and well-being, for example
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international film
Alexandria Celebrates Youssra
The 32nd Alexandria Film Festival Pays Tribute to the Egyptian Star
By Sherif Awad
The 32nd Alexandria
Film
Festival
for
Mediterranean
Countries returns this
month and features
more than 100 international, Arab
and Egyptian films. Opening and
closing programs will take place at
Bibliotheca Alexandrina while screenings will be at Green Plaza cinema and
at cultural venues across Alexandria.
The festival, headed by film critic
Al-Amir Abaza, will celebrate the
60th anniversary of the nationalization of the Suez Canal and triumph
over the tripartite aggression. This
year, the festival’s theme is “Cinema
and Resistance” with a selection of
films that deal with resistance and
the quest for freedom and independence. On opening night, there will
be a special presentation of THE
BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966) by
Gillo Pontecorvo, a film classic that
was commissioned by the Algerian
government to show the Algerian
revolution from both sides.
The popular Egyptian star,
Youssra, will lead the festival’s tribute
in recognition of her astonishing
career in TV and film. Other opening
night honorees will include: Egyptian
veteran actor Youssef Shaaban,
Egyptian director Mohamed Rady,
Scene from THE BATTLE OF
ALGIERS
Actress Angélique Cavallari
Egyptian director of Photography
Samir Farag, and Egyptian producer
Mohsen Allam El-Deen. Several
Arab artists will also be given
tributes: Syrian director Abdullatif
Abdulhamid, Syrian actor Ghassan
Massoud, Algerian director Merzak
Allouache, Tunisian director Rachid
Ferchiou and Moroccan director,
Hakim Bel Abbes. The festival will
publish a book about the late director
Mohamed Khan, a frequent contributor to Egypt Today.
The jury of the main
Mediterranean Competition for Long
Narratives will include Greek actress
Maria Tzobanaki. The competition
Actress Youssra
will feature twelve films, including
CHROME (Albania) focusing on the
love affair between a beautiful teacher
and her student; YOU CARRY ME
(Croatia) which interweaves the
stories of three Croatian women; THE
PARK (France) a romantic, yet surreal
story of two adolescents’ first date;
and NIGHTLIFE, about the attempted
assassination of a lawyer (Slovenia).
The jury of the short Mediterranean
Competition will include FrenchItalian actress Angélique Cavalieri
and Egyptian director Hala Khalil.
The festival also features four Arab
competitions: Nour El-Sherif for
Arab Long narratives with a jury
headed by Egyptian veteran actor
Ezzat El-Alayli; Arab Documentary
Competition with a jury headed by
Actress Fatma Nasser
Khaled Al-Zedgaly (Oman) and an
Arab Short Competition with a jury
headed by Egyptian director Hany
Lasheen.
The Arab documentary competition includes IF YOU MEANT TO
KILL ME. Director Widad Shafakoj
tackles the stories of Jordanian women
threatened with honor killings who
can only be saved if they seek protection from authorities via voluntary
imprisonment. From Syria, MORTAL
AND DISPERSING by Najdat Ismail
Anzour takes place in a Syrian region
dominated by ISIS where Thoraya
is trying to maintain her balance as a
teacher and mother in the face of the
extremist’s ideology. However, she
faces a dilemma when the Emir of the
group decides he wants to marry her
daughter, Noor.
The Egyptian film, ROUGE,
will also be screened in the festival.
Tunisian-born and now Cairo-based
actress, Fatma Nasser, stars as a hairdresser who falls in love with a young
man although she has only a few days
to live.
MARY AT THE MOVIES
Movie Reviews by Mary Keon
MOVIE REVIEW: FLORENCE
FOSTER JENKINS
Florence Foster Jenkins was a
wealthy Manhattan socialite during
the 1940s who hosted frequents arts
programs for members of her clubs,
including the Verdi Club, dedicated to
performing Italian opera in English.
She frequently presented productions,
called tableaux vivant, –recreations of
famous scenes from art and history
where she was invariably, center
stage, wearing ostentatious costumes.
Jenkins also sang in public with
great enthusiasm, blissfully unaware
that she could not sing at all, despite
the best efforts of a voice coach from
the Met, thanks to her manager/companion and staff, who could not bring
themselves to tell her the truth.
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
stars Meryl Streep, in the title role,
recreating Jenkins’ famously off-key
public performances to hilarious
effect. Jenkins publically performed
some of Opera’s most demanding
arias, including Queen of the Night’s
aria ‘Der Hölle Rache,’ from The
Magic Flute and The Bell Song, by
Delibes –minefields for even the most
accomplished coloraturas. She was
undaunted.
Hugh Grant plays St. Clair
Bayfield, an undistinguished British
actor and her companion of 36 years.
It is not clear whether Jenkins’ first
Hugh Grant as St Clair Bayfield
and Meryl Streep as Florence Foster
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marriage had ever been legally dissolved. Bayfield seems to have had
a loving relationship with Jenkins
and went to great lengths to see that
her feelings were not hurt by stinging
reviews. However, his elaborate
efforts to stage-manage her life were
destroyed when Jenkins cut a record
on her own and booked a recital at
Carnegie Hall that was attended by
the NY Post reviewer and hundreds of
drunken military personnel.
Bayfield, a founding member of
Actor’s Equity, later married Kathleen
Weatherly. He lived into his 90’s and
was a Larchmont resident for many
years, until his death in 1967.
Though a comic figure on stage,
Jenkins seems to have been a kind
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MARY AT THE MOVIES
Movie Reviews
Continued from page 17
person, and was a benefactor of
conductor Arturo Toscanini. Streep
makes her endearing, enabling the
audience to understand why Jenkins’
close circle of friends went to such
great lengths to spare her feelings.
Expect yet another Academy Award
nomination for Streep – this was a
very challenging role, executed with
her customary brilliance. Grant plays
Bayfield with great charm. Simon
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Movie Reviews
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of August 19th*
Hard to say what the problem is
here. I suspect it is the script, written
by Keith Clarke and John Ridley, that
does not supply enough foundation
for Ben-Hur and Messala’s eventual
reconciliation. Directed by Timur
Bekmambetov, the film is exciting at
times and enjoyable overall.
The actors are well-cast and
deliver strong performances. Huston,
though lacking Heston’s charisma,
is believable as Ben Hur, doing
yeoman’s work as a galley slave and
he pulls off a truly terrifying chariot
race, masterfully. Despite the religious theme, the film does not deliver
the profoundly moving experience
of lives transformed by an encounter
with Christ: the whole is not greater
than the sum of the parts.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 b sequences
of violence and disturbing images.
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the Nazi’s were relentless in their
determination to crush it. By 1941
only a handful remained to support
Anthropoid.
Operating under orders from
the Czech government in exile, their
mission, code named Operation
Anthropoid, was to execute SS
Obergruppenführer
Reinhard
Heydrich., the third highest
ranking Nazi in the German High
Command and the most hated man in
Czechoslovakia.
Heydrick conducted a reign of
terror in Germany, where he orchestrated the “Final Solution” as well as
the “Night of Long Knives,” before he
was appointed Deputy Reich Protector
of Bohemia and Moravia (now the
Czech Republic) in September, 1941.
He systematically eliminated all organized opposition to the Third Reich.
All principal actors give outstanding, nuanced, individual performances
and deliver a powerful cinematic
experience as an ensemble, under
the direction of Sean Ellis, who also
co-wrote the excellent screenplay
with Anthony Frewin. The film stars
Cillian Murphy (Josef Gabčík), Jamie
Dornan (Jan Kubiš), Harry Lloyd,
Toby Jones, Charlotte Le Bon and Bill
Milner.
Anthropoid is an important,
though hard to watch film, as the
strike team grapples with their mortality knowing they have everything
to live for and pays a fitting tribute to
the sacrifice these patriots made in the
effort to liberate their country. Don’t
miss this one.
MPAA Rating: R for violence and
some disturbing images.
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the true story of seven young patriots,
living abroad, who parachuted into the
Czech countryside in December of
1941 to liberate their country.
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