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Dec 12, 2024 | 
riverjournalonline.com | Marc Ferris
Spectators in the auditorium at the EF International Language School on the hill above Tarrytown erupted when a group of seven South Korean students danced and lip-synced to the song Gangnam Style, a viral hit in 2012.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
riverjournalonline.com | Marc Ferris
When Gerhard Schmitt took over at the Kolping Society’s 50-acre religious retreat in Montrose, he heard that the property’s previous inhabitant, Louis Perlman, exerted enough power and influence to turn the train tracks away from the river and bypass his waterfront estate. That cannot be true. Perlman bought the lot in 1915, long after the iron horse steamed up the Hudson to Albany in 1851, spewing coal dust and cutting through onetime lots of private property seized by eminent domain.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
riverjournalonline.com | Marc Ferris
When Gerhard Schmitt took over at the Kolping Society’s 50-acre religious retreat in Montrose, he heard that the property’s previous inhabitant, Louis Perlman, exerted enough power and influence to turn […] Read more » Jessie Spellmann-Mignone lives in Mount Kisco, but spends so much time in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow that “I might as well live there,” she said.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
highlandscurrent.org | Marc Ferris
Bistro opens in former Max’s on Main spaceIn the back of Lyonshare Public House, which whitewashed the former Max’s on Main space, a cabinet grand piano occupies the spot where four high-top tables once stood. Bud Schmeling says he is happy to forgo revenue and fulfill his aesthetic goals. “Live music will be more mellow than, say, Dogwood, like trios, a jazz brunch and singer-songwriters,” he says. In consultation with DJ friends, he’s curating 10 playlists.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
highlandscurrent.org | Marc Ferris
Beacon memorial opened in 1924 after close voteDuring World War II, 1,704 Beacon residents, about 14 percent of the population, served in the Armed Forces. At least 67 men died, and many survivors suffered physical and mental disabilities. Now, Vietnam vets are the old-timers at the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts inside the Veterans Memorial Building at the intersection of Main and Teller. This year marks the structure’s centennial.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
highlandscurrent.org | Marc Ferris
Howland Cultural Center to host first Nerd NiteNerds of Beacon, unite. Marjorie Lewit, a film and theater director who works behind the scenes on a reality television show, will present the inaugural iteration of Nerd Nite at the Howland Cultural Center on Friday (Nov. 15).
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
highlandscurrent.org | Marc Ferris
Beacon writer reimagines Aesop’sIf he excelled on the high school certification exams in his native Australia, Matt Eddy planned to become a lawyer. With middling results, he would pursue journalism. A real screw-up might lead to an acting career. Somehow, Eddy worked all three gigs. After a short stint as a reporter, he graduated from law school and flexed his thespian muscles in court as a criminal defense attorney.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
highlandscurrent.org | Marc Ferris
An artist restores one of Beacon’s oldest structuresA home on South Avenue in Beacon, built around 1756, has a special place in the history of American thought. Alexander Hamilton slept there during his honeymoon, although it was located elsewhere, on what is today a parking lot. Inside the home, Hamilton wrote letters hashing out political positions developed in the Federalist Papers, which provided a conceptual framework for the Constitution, says its longtime owner, Yuan Lee.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
highlandscurrent.org | Marc Ferris
Did Nellie Seaman kill her husband? Robin Lucas’s new 25-minute video, The Abraham Seaman Tragedy 1907, unfolds with a pitch-perfect flow of images. The moment in Lucas’s narration when she mentions Lewis Ebert and his home, a shot of the house and his mustachioed face hits hard on the beat. “Ebert was one of the wealthiest men in town, but owned perhaps the scummiest tenement,” Lucas says.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
highlandscurrent.org | Marc Ferris
Amy Wilson spills on her spellsIn a third-floor window overlooking the KuBe Art Center’s north parking lot, a pentangle beckons the flock. Ascending the stairs brings visitors closer to the faint odor of burning spell candles at Other Worldly Waxes, where a sign with a broom-riding enchantress is bolted above the door of the Beacon shop. Proprietor Amy Wilson says she is proud to be a witch. “I’m out of the broom closet,” she says.
