Crossroads of Rockland History

Broadcast originally aired 11/16/13 Brian Jennings, Nyack Library’s local history librarian, and Joe Barbieri, project consultant, joined Clare Sheridan to discuss the Nyack Library’s long-term and comprehensive project to digitize images, newspapers, and sound recordings. Learn about the Nyack Library’s partnerships with area organizations to make this digitization happen, including its work with...

Interview with Retired Justice Alfred Weiner to discuss the history of the Rockland County Courthouse and the history of the Judiciary.   Originally aired October 21, 2013.  Former Justice Alfred J. Weiner joins Clare Sheridan for an informative and interesting program on the history of the Rockland County Courthouse and the Rockland County Judiciary. Justice Weiner was a Justice of the New York S...

Interview originally aired on Monday, September 16th on www. WRCR.com and WRCR 1300AM. Interview with Scott Elder, descendent of Private Joseph Elder about the Elder Family's efforts to document life and service of Private Elder. Private Elder was a Minute Man, he was in the Militia, a member of the Line Troops and also was a member of the Levies. "Crossroads of Rockland History" ai...

Interview of Mary Beth Keane author of "Fever" (Scribner).  Keane is a Pearl River resident and author.   Interview originally aired August 19, 2013 on www. WRCR.com.   Do you know who was described as one of the most dangerous women in America at the turn of the twentieth century? It was Mary Mallon, better known as “Typhoid Mary. ” This is one of the most fascinating in modern medical...

Broadcast originally aired June, 2013. Rockland County has a strong connection to the event that brought avant-garde art to New York in 1913 - The Armory Show. Clare Sheridan interviews Marilyn Kushner about the the importance of the Armory show and the roles that Rocklanders played in organizing the original Armory exhibition. Marilyn Kushner, PhD is co-curator of the exhibition at the New York H...

Broadcast originally aired May 20, 2013. 100th Anniversary of the Group Camps in Harriman State Park.  Sue Scher joined Clare Sheridan to talk about the Historical Society of Rockland County's (HSRC) exhibition commemorating the centennial milestone.  Sue Scher is professor emerita of Social Work, Ramapo College and has curated this exhibition at the HSRC. Ms. Scher's valuable insights a...

Broadcast originally aired April, 2013. Dr. Marion Jacobson, ethnomusicologist and author of  Squeeze This, The Cultural History of the Accordion in America  (University of Illinois Press, 2012)  joins Clare Sheridan for a discussion about her new book  and more (recorded April 15, 2013).   This radio program will be a prelude to The Historical Society’s special live musical presentation entitled:...

Original Interview aired 3/18/13. Schack Industries settled on Pascack Road in the Clarkstown section of Spring Valley in 1899. This successful architectural, ornamental metal and glass business did not just happen, it was made through technical innovation, service and quality. www. RocklandHistory.org Howard Schack is former intelligence officer specializing in anti-terrorism and an award winning...

The broadcast originally aired on January 21, 2013 on 1300AM WRCR Radio Rockland. www. WRCR.com At one time, Rockland County was home to several different airports and numerous smaller airstrips. Clare Sheridan interviewed Adam Raines and Richard “Mac” MacVicar, two lifelong aviation enthusiasts, who recently wrote a book about the airports of Rockland County.  "Crossroads of Rockland History...

First aired 12/17/12 Episode featured the new graphic novel, Sailor Twain or The Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel. Set on a steamboat on the Hudson River in 1887, this new book uses painstakingly detailed drawings to tell a suspenseful and heartbreaking story. Mark Siegel, the book's author and illustrator, joined Clare Sheridan for a lively discussion. Prior to publishing this NY Times B...

Originally aired October 15, 2012. Did you know that October is Rockland History Month? To celebrate, the HSRC presented the self-guided Historic Homes & Landmark Tour in the Village of Haverstraw. Clare Sheridan's guests involved in this self-guided walking tour included Nelson Diaz, a local artist, historic preservationist, and the owner of one of the homes on the 2012 tour. Also interv...

Broadcast originally aired September 17, 2012 Clare Sheridan's interview of Kerwin McCarthy, the curator of an exhibition about the Centennial of Letchworth Village which was on display at The Historical Society of Rockland County in 2012. The Exhibition presented the facility as seen through the eyes of noted photographer Margaret Bourke-White. The broadcast originally aired on September 17,...

Broadcast originally aired July 16, 2012. The history of beer is a fascinating story. Nina Nazionale, co-curator of the exhibition "Beer Here: Brewing New York’s History" at the New-York Historical Society talked with Clare Sheridan about how brewing was affected by the opening of the Erie Canal, immigration, the invention of the bottle cap, and New York breweries' great need for ic...

Clare Sheridan interviewed Nelson Page, operator of The Lafayette Theater in Suffern, NY. Page is a film history enthusiast. Topic includes the restoration of this landmark theater and Rockland County’s role in the early days of motion pictures. Original Broadcast date: May 21, 2012. May is National Preservation Month and The 2012 theme is "Discover America's Hidden Gems." One of Ro...

Clare Sheridan interviews Winston Perry and Carol Weiss. Broadcast originally aired on 4/16/12. Winston C. Perry, Jr. is the historian for the village of Upper Nyack and the president of the Historical Society of the Nyacks. A lifetime resident of Rockland County, Mr. Perry is a descendant of the Blauvelts, Tallmans, Harings and other early European settlers as well as some more recent Irish immig...

Broadcast Originally aired February 20, 2012. Mary Cardenas, historian of the Town of Orangetown, joined Clare Sheridan to talk about the newly released Arcadia book Images of America: Orangetown, to which she was a key contributor. Settled by Dutch farmers and entrepreneurs in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Orangetown was a site of key action during the Revolutionary War. British and C...

Broadcast originally aired on January 16, 2012 Episode featured the new exhibition at the New York Historical Society in Manhattan. This exhibition entitled REVOLUTION: The Atlantic World Reborn explores the enormous transformations in the world’s politics and culture between the 1763 triumph of the British Empire in the Seven Years  War and the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Responding to growing pu...