The Ferryman – Published by the Dobbs Ferry Historical Society TABLE OF CONTENTS 1980, December 5 Local Churches Aid Quake Victims From Province Avellino… Italian Hilltowns 1980, Fall Slides For Public School Evaluators The Ravekes-Storms Papers Donated Photo Exhibit At Mercy College 'Art In The Prison' Talk By Ed Margin On November 21 1980, July/August Frances Neill, Message From The President Grants Totaling $7,760 Awarded To Society By Three Sources Society Seeks Permanent Charter 1981, Winter 65 Years Of 'D.F. Register' To Be Microfilmed For Public Use Archaeology On The Hudson Genealogy Queries: Seek Information On Lawrence, McClelland, Others H.S. Stained Glass Windows: Society Makes Recommendation Mr. Dobbs Comes To Town Society's Gala: Throng Enjoys Dining, Wining, Tour & Music (1/17/81) Photos Wanted: Stonemasons, Gardeners, Wine Makers At Work 1982, Fall If You'd Like To Touch The Pages Of History…Volunteer. Grants Keep Us Going Business Memberships Support Storefront History Theatre Guided Architectural Walking Tour Explores The Era Of The Great Estates (10/17/82) Storefront History Theatre 1982, March Bad News…….Good News Grants To The Society ….1981-82 Christine Roraback, Archives Research Archibes Document1 1 1983, Spring Programs For Members And The Public News On Microfilm Oral History In The Classroom Community-Conscious Congratulations To The Resolute Hook And Ladder Company on its 100th Anniversary Of Service To The Village of DF Lincoln Rothschild (1902-1983) Searching For Roots And Other Research Requests Collecting Consultants 1984, January Public Programs Historical Society 1984 Gala Preservation Cinema Public Support Archives Research 1984, October Archaeology By Chance: Can You 'Dig It'? CCJP Interns Summer '84 1985, February President's Gavel Changes Hands: Joanne Kavanagh Elected President Attic Auction And Appraisal Day June 1 To Benefit The Historical Society Projects In Progress: Documenting Glass, Theatre And History In Dobbs Ferry 1985, September "Life Of A River Village" To Be Re-Printed Two Dobbs Ferry Sites Received Markers As 60 Historical Spots Were Noted By County Kind Words And Donations Ecco "Stucco & Stones" ! Ecco L'Italia! NY Foundation For The Arts Artist-In-Residence Planned By Dobbs Ferry Consortium Historical Society Annual Meeting Set Sunday, September 29th, From 3 To 5 pm 1986, March Storefront History Theatre Cooperative Artist-in-Residency Links Art, History And Architecture Celebrate Lady Liberty - April 15, 1986 Fasnella's Views Of Dobbs Ferry Now Available To All: Special March Offer For Members On Full-Color Lithograph Document1 2 1986, October Historical Society Annual Meeting (10/8/86) A Note Of Gratitude To The 1985-86 Trustees Of The Historical Society 'Storefront History Theatre' Project Receives Support From Local Business Members & From The Westchester Arts Fund … Oral History Staff Development Course Offered For Area Teachers In March '87 1988, July Oral History Workshops Mark Community Heritage Year Dobbs Ferry Post Office Nominated To National Register Frances Neill, Restoration On Main Street Tema Harnik, Now Playing On Your VCR! An Oral History Workshop Kathleen Modrowski, Update On Early Indian Site 1988, March Catherine and Modrowski Walter and Modrowski, Pre-History A 'The Landing' - An Important Archaeological Site Yesterday's News: a chronicle of 1888 : The Blizzard of '88, How RR Station Location Came To Be, Dobbs Ferry description & its name Kathleen Modrowski, Photo Archives Project Evelyn Fitzgerald, Stained Glass 1989, Winter History At Our Door Step: A Future For The Society At The Aqueduct Overseer's Macintosh HD:Users:marydonovan:Desktop:FerrymanIndex,1980-2015.docxHouse 1990, February Kathleen Modrowski, Wickers Creek Archeological Site Placed on County Inventory of Historical Places Tema Harnik, Dobbs Ferry in the Era of the Old Croton Aqueduct: 1835-1850 Bill Blanck, Village Depression Year 1933 is Documented on Video Tape Caroline Kravath, Historical Society Sponsors Little White Church Cemetery Restoration Project Study Virginia Barton, Storms Family Members Identified’ Bill Blanck, World War II Dobbs Ferry Subject of Ferryman Special Edition Bill Blanck, Flying Over Dobbs Ferry to Record 1991 Vlillage for Archives and for the Ashford Avenue Project Document1 3 1991, June Bill Blanck, The Environs of Ashford Avenue--Then and Now Tema Harnik, Aqueduct Photograph and Slide Exhibit Will Open This August in Dobbs Ferry Library Kathleen Modrowski, FOWCAS Adopts Wickers Creek, Initiative Sponsored by League of Women Voters Mayzette Edholm Stover, 1924-1948 Village Memories--The Winemaker, History in the Dump, and The Gatehouse Ghost 1992, January Henry Walter, Clara Mead, "A Gracious Lady of the Old School" Barbara Pearce, Clara Mead Leaves 12 Elm Street to Society Henry Walter, Repair and Maintenance Endowment Fund Needed 1992, June Mead House Needs "A Lot of Work"--And Money 130 Attend 1992 Historical Society Gala 1992, December Clara Mead Eggnog Party December 13 Sylvia Brownshield, Repairs Strengthen the Mead House Bill, Hank Blanck, Walter, Dobbs Ferry in World War II:1942--The First Year of Sacrifice Annual Irving Celebration Sponsored by Historical Society and Zion Church presents ‘The Changing Face of St. Nicholas’ on December 6 1993, April Matching Grant to Make Mead House a History Center Needs $2,438 to Reach $10,000 Goal Dobbs Ferry's Italian-American Heritage Will be Celebrated at Society's Poetry Reading… Reasonable Cost Modification of Mead House Can Provide for Society’s Needs – Smith Report 1993, June Henry Walter, Dobbs Ferry Women Organize Hudson River Equal Franchise Society in 1909 for the Right to Vote 1993, September Henry Walter, New York Lags in Giving Women the Vote; War Aids Suffrage Movement; 1917 Dobbs Voters Favor Suffrage by 56 Votes Mead House Progress State Gets Collections Policy Document1 4 1993, November Community Hospital Observes its Centennial at a Gala Evening on December 4 Jean Fritz, Dobbs Ferry, The Beginning Thank You, Filomena Riccardi! Frances Tahnee Neill, Margarita Gallo Muller Video Delights Two Groups Mildred Persinger, Quilts at the Mead House 1994, March Society Authorizes Funds for Archival Storage and Office Space in its New Home at the Mead House Society Opposes Indeck Gas Line for Both Aqueduct and Broadway Jean Fritz, The Story of Dobbs Ferry--Part Two; The Two Dobbs Ferrys: to 1765 Community Hospital: The Past 40 Years, The Future 1994, May Spring Gala Set for May 7; 50-year remembrance of World War II is Gala Theme Jean Fritz, The Story of Dobbs Ferry--Part Three; War Comes to Dobbs Ferry 1994, July Jean Fritz, The Story of Dobbs Ferry--Part Four; The Hudson River in '76 Carpentry Work Completed Hank Walter, Dobbs Ferry Hospital: The Beginning 1995, January Hank Walter, The Story of James Jennings McComb--Part 1, The Estherwood Connection George Speyer Bequeaths $8,500 to Society Trustee Emerita Filomena Ricciardi Dies at 92 1995, April Members Are Enthralled by Valentine Program Photos Bill Blanck, Village Thankful for German Surrender May 7, 1945: Addorisio's Letter from Buchenwald Shocks Residents 1995, September Special issue with photos and biographies of Dobbs Ferry servicemen & women Exuberant Rejoicing, Parades, Auto Caravans, Street Dancing and Prayer Marked Dobbs' V-J Day by Bill Blanck and Hank Walter How Dobbs Participated in World War II Pocohontas to be Part of History Talk by Jean Fritz Document1 5 1995, November Arnold's Treachery, The March to Yorktown, Revolution Ends, Tories Leave, Ferry Continues till 1944 by Jean Fritz Mead House Dedication at Fourth Annual Eggnog Party Sacred Heart Celebrates 100 Years of Church Building 1996, March Second Church of the Sacred Heart Dedicated a Century Ago Reginald A. Marra Dies—Served on Tinian When Enola Gay Bombed Hiroshima During and After the Blizzards of 1888 and 1947 in Dobbs Ferry Society Receives Letters from World War II Servicemen to Dobbs Teacher L. Doris Wood Diary May Provide Information About Dobbs Ferry Area in 1781 In Memoriam – Shirley B. Elbert Members Gather at the Mead House Dedication 1996, April Donation of Items Needed for June 1st Porch and Yard Sale "Dr. Dobbs" and Eighteenth Century Medicine at Dobbs Ferry Historical Society's April 27 Gala In Memoriam--Catherine Thornton, Ellen Thornton Sacred Heart Church Through Two World Wars 1996, September September 27th Annual Meeting Will Feature Video History of Mayor Nanna's Tenure During Baby Boom Businesses to Contribute to a Successful Gala The Society Participates in Four Events Church Renovation, Youth Ministry, Jewish Outreach, and Latin were Hallmarks of Msgr.Green's and Msgr. McManus' Tenures 1996, December Sacred Heart Today: Involvement In Memoriam--Dr. Joseph Gelsi, Cathleen R. Polgreen Mayor Nanna Video Draws Big Crowd to Annual Meeting Emergency Mead House Repairs of Roof and Steam Boiler Cost Society $11,300. Members' Help Needed Republicans Swept Dobbs Ferry in 1896 Presidential Election The Berthier Journal: When the French and American Armies Joined in the Dobbs Ferry Area Document1 6 1997, February The Chain at West Point that kept the States United In Memoriam--Raymond Willsea and Demarest Romaine CHAINING THE HUDSON by Lincoln Diamani Reviewed by Jean Fritz Greenburgh Hebrew Center--The First Twenty-five Years by Dr. Arthur David And Joseph Shriro Dobbs Ferry Documented in Detail by Berthier in 1781 by Mavis Cain Stories of the Revolution, Including the Ladies, will be told at Mead House On February 23. 1997, April Greenburgh Hebrew Center Celebrates Jubilee by Rabbi Barry Kenter Jean Fritz, News Spotlighted 100 Years Ago Mavis Cain, Berthier Pinpoints the Location of French and American Armies in the Dobbs Ferry Area in 1781 Immigration, "Remember the Ladies", Were Society's Winter Programs In Memoriam – Mae Pepper by Hank Walter 1997, September Happy Buyers at Auction Brave Threatening Weather History of the Oceana Building and Its Land by Hank Walter Architect Stephen Tilly Will Describe Oceana Building Restoration at September 26th Annual Meeting Society Begins Fund Appeal in Wake of Costly Emergency Repairs Clock Turned Back 100 Years at Gala Public Health was a Matter of Life and Death in Dobbs Ferry: The Early Years by Warren M. Gardner 1997, December Our Lady of Pompeii Celebrates 75 Years by Hank Walter Public Health in Dobbs Ferry--Village Purchases Odorless Cesspool Cleaner by Warren Gardner In Memoriam: John Ricciardi Bequeaths Society $10,000 in his Sister's Memory 1998, April Warren Gardner, Nineteenth Century Health Officer a Potent Influence in Dobbs Ferry Bill Blanck, Our Lady of Pompeii, in the War Years and Afterward--The Cancelled Dinner for Italian War Prisoners May 8th Gala to Feature History of Dobbs Ferry Police Nineteenth Century Health Officer a Potent Influence in Dobbs Ferryman by Warren Gardner Ogden Engine Company No. 1 is 100 Years Old Document1 7 1998, September Annual Meeting to Feature Ogden Fire Company The Peaceful Visit of The Rose Bill Blanck, Dobbs Ferry's Part in the 1898 Spanish American War Bill Blanck, In 1785 Residents Buy Large Tracts of Land Confiscated from Tory Philipse Dobbs Ferry's Part in the 1898 Spanish American War 1998, December "Friends of the Historical Society" Being Formed A Visit to the Direct Descendent of Frederick Philipse III by Mavis Cain 1999, April Jean Fritz, A Pioneer of Women's Liberation: Fanny Garrison Villard, of Dobbs Ferry Dobbs Ferry Historical Society and Sons of American Revolution Agree to Correct Hank Walter, Washington Headquarter’s Monument 1999, September Memories of John Nanna at September 24 Annual Meeting Henry Villard, German Immigrant, Civil War Newsman, Financier, Railroad Builder and Dobbs Ferry Resident by Hank Walter Help Wanted!! Donations Needed to Defray Maintenance Expenditures 1999, December A Holiday Double Bill—First the Clara Mead Eggnog Party And Afterwards The Washington Irving Holiday Celebration at Zion Church The Life and Times of 1900 as Seen by the Dobbs Ferry Register Dobbs Ferry 1933- First in Series of Programs Planned for Membership Garden Club of Dobbs Ferry Donates $4,500 for Society's Lawn Improvement 2000 - May Strawberry Festival on June 10th Irish Program Provides Spell-binding Evening Proposed site of Great Hunger Memorial Historian Dennis Maika tells of Slavery in Dobbs Ferry Area Ireland 150 Years Ago Document1 8 2000 - December 1852 Map of Village Given to Society by the SAR; Correction of Monument Described No Fights, No Recounts, No Chads in Trustee Election by Members by Bill Blanck A Village Vote Recount and the Presidential Crisis by Bill Blanck Bill McHenry, a Friend and Contributer to Dobbs Ferry Historical Archives, Dies 1894 Washington Rochambeau Monument Will be Corrected by the Sons of the American Revolution Annual Clara Mead Eggnog Party Villard Family at Thorwood by Hank Walter 2001 - April History of Community Hospital (1993) will be presented at Historical Society’s Gala Rochambeau Monument, 1894, corrected in 2000 by Bill Blanck Old Croton Aqueduct to Connect with Greenway-sponsored Trails Bill McHenry Obit. Died 4/1/2000 2001 - September Why The Trolley Didn't Stop Here by Helen Kirkpatrick New Bronze Plaque Correcting the Washington-Rochambeau Monument Dedicated at July 4th Ceremony by Bill Blanck and Hank Walter Immigrants to be the Topic at Annual Meeting A Thank You for Sister Roselle by Mavis Cain 2001 - December In Memoriam--Cecil Jack, Trustee War Comes to Dobbs Ferry—1776--1941--2001 by Bill Blanck What Rrochambeau's Officers Thought About Us by Jean Fritz Immigrants to be Topic at Annual Meeting on September 28 at Our Lady of Pompeii Hall by Hank Walter 2002 - April Historical Society Gala - Tina Marziale, Tony Castello, and Charlie Baiano Honored The Great Spaghetti Dinner That Never Was in 1944 by Brian Wright Food Was Scarce for American Prisoners of War in WW II Founded in 1833 Zion Episcopal Church has Historic Roots by Richard McKeon Document1 9 2002 - September September 11, 2002—A Day of Prayer and Remembrance by Bill Blanck Dobbs Ferry in 2000: A Centennial Portrait by Mary Donovan 20th Century Photos to be Featured at Annual Meeting on September 27 at Our Lady of Pompeii Zion Rings in the 20th Century by Richard McKeon 2002 - December 11th Annual “Clara’s Party” set for December 13th Growing Up in Dobbs Ferry by Andrea Fritz Founders of Dobbs Ferry by Jean Fritz 2003 - April Annual Gala to be Celebrated on May 30th: Hudson Historian to Speak - Col. James Johnson Spring In-Gathering Story of Dobbs Ferry Library, 1899-2003 by Bill Blanck Dobbs Ferry: the Beginnings by Jean Fritz 2003 - September Village Photographer Nick Fanelli’s Ground Zero Photos to be Featured at the Sept 19th Annual Meeting Spring Gala a Resounding Success Contributions Welcome for New Pathway for the Disabled at the Mead House Dobbs Ferry Union Free School, 1857-1897 by Mary Donovan Mary Donovan, President of DFHS Since 2002 by Jean Fritz "The Unbrella Lady", Jean Fritz by Bill Blanck 2003 - December Oldest House in Dobbs Ferry by Denise Wilson Story of the Library (cont.) by Bill Blanck Photos from Ground Zero Featured at Annual Meeting 2004 - May Jean Fritz to be Honored at Spring Gala Remembering One Soldier by Mary Donovan History of Storm Farmhouse, Part II by Denise Wilson Gabriele Grunebaum, former trustee, dies at the age of 93 by Mavis Cain Document1 10 2004 - September Annual Meeting of the Historical Society Features Speech by David McCullough History of the Storm House, Part III by Denise Wilson When Broadway Sent Its Stars to Main Street by Mavis Cain 2004 - December The House at 12 Elm Street by Mary Donovan Pvt. Flohr's Time in Rochambeau's Army by Hank Walter 2005 - May Historical Society Gala Honors Unsung Heroes:Bill Cassella, Goldie Gernivivo, Gail Malara 2005 - September Historical Society Gets New Fence "Unsung Heroes" Applauded at Gala Private Flohr's Time in Rochambeau's Army, Part II by Hank Walter 2005 - November Annual Clara Mead Egg Nog Party and Zion's Washington Irving Celebration to be Held Sunday, December 11th The Odell Farmers and their Farmhouse by Georgette Hedberg 2006 - May The Browns-- The President and First Lady of Dobbs Ferry by Bill Blanck L. Doris Wood: Educator, Correspondent & Friend by Meg Lauer 2006 - Sept Old Engine Company No. 1 by Teresa Walsh Historical Society Revieves Artifact - Plaque from Dobbs Ferry Railroad Station 2006 - December August 1781: The March to Freedom "You are Cordially Invited…" 1840 Odell Farmhouse and Barn: George W. Odell & Esther Emma Burfield, Part II by Georgette Hedberg Document1 11 2007 - Spring The Dobbs Ferry Hospital- A century of Caring by Mary Donovan Ogden Engine Company No. 1 (Part 2: 1960 to Present Day) by Teresa Walsh 2007 - Fall Private Flohr's Time in Rochambeau's Army (Part III) Translated by Gabriele H. Gtunebaum by Hank Walter The Road to Freedom Day in Dobbs Ferry Annual Meeting Program Features Bannerman Island 2007 - Winter Help Save the Mead House Dobbs Ferry's Sea Plane Base by Herbert Donovan The Move to Springhurst by Mary Donovan 2008 - Spring We Proudly Introduce: The Dobbs Ferry Historical Society Historic Plaque Program The History of Resolute Hook and Ladder by Neil Sweeting The Little Red House- A Reverie by Larry Blizard A Soldier's Tale: Private Flohr's Diary Part IV by Hank Walter Dobbs Ferry Encampment, July 4 to August 19, 1781 by Richard Borkow 2008 - Fall Annual Meeting Features Italian Community in Dobbs Ferry (9/23/08) The Mead House - Big Changes Over The Summer Road to Freedom Day - August 17th, 2008 Francesco Ricciardi, "Maaestro Francesco" by Mary Donovan Fixing Your Old Photographs by Gerry Mooney 2008 - Winter A Walk Through Time with Alice Denike by Larry Blizard Tracing the History of Your Home The Fred Staats Fund for Emergency Repairs Private Flohr's Time in Rochambeau's Army, Part V by Hank Walter Salvatore Primeggia Featured in Our Lecture Series Document1 12 2009 - Spring Henry Hudson (c.1565-1611) Robert Fulton (1765-1815) Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635) Spring Lecture Series Dobbs Ferry's Return to the Hudson Quadricentennial Celebration 2009 – Fall We are proud to announce: General George Washington has arrived in Dobbs Ferry George Washington at “Head Quarters, Dobbs Ferry”, July 4 to August 19, 1781 How Gaby Grunebaum at Age 91, Reached Back Through the Centuries to her Compatriot Private Georg Daniel Flohr by Mavis Cain “The Slipping By of the Years”: Words from 100 Years Ago in the 1909 Dobbs Ferry Register Dobbs Ferry’s Return to the Hudson Quadricentennial Summer Celebrations 2009 - Winter Keeping the Mead House Alive for Community Archives and Events Local Artist Joanna Rock Created Special Wallpaper for the Mead House Parlor A Tribute to Rebecca Browning Rankin by Mary Donovan The "Nathan Hale" House by Madeline Byrne Main Street Mystery: Still Unsolved! by Larry Blizard Historical Happenings: Interview with Pulitzer Prize Winner David Hackett Fischer 2010 - Spring The Last Lord of The Manor Colonel Frederick Philipse III by Mary Donovan The Biegens of Dobbs Ferry A Familiy Album by Larry Blizard 2010 - Fall Dobbs Ferry Hotels from the Past by Larry Blizard A Tribute to Paul Fix by Larry Blizard 2010 - Winter A Land Sale Bonanza: Dividing up Frederick Philipse's Confiscated Property by Mary Donovan 10 Reasons to Join or Renew Membership in the Dobbs Ferry Historical Society "That Terrible Evening in 1905" by Garrett Glaser Document1 13 2011 - Spring Isabella Niven Wilder For Thornton Wilder's Mom: ‘Our Town’ Was Dobbs Ferry by Larry Blizzard The Corner Drug Store by Terry Schwartz & Howard Pobiner The 1970s Village’s Early Folk History Sits in the Library by Nancy Delmerico 2011 - Fall Teddy Roosevelt In Dobbs Ferry by Larry Blizard Meet Some Young Heroes: Our Volunteers Villard Hill: Birth Of A Neighborhood by Madeline Byrne 2012 - Summer Father & Son, The Two Mike Todds Fanny Garrison Villard Civil Rights Champion at The Dawn of the 20th Century by Jean Fritz Treasures In The Attic - The Photographic Gems Found In Our Archives by Robin Costello 2012 - Fall Up, Up, And Away In Dobbs Ferry With Movie Legends Lawrence Oliver & Vivien Leigh by Larry Blizard On the Street Where You Live by Madeline Byrne Dr. John Cochran Physician, Surgeon, and Hero Of The American Revolution by Mary Donovan If These Walls Could Speak… 72 Colonial Avenue by Jim Luckett 2012 - Winter The Case Of The Missing Truck by Ellen Klein The Hughsons Of Dobbs Ferry by Larry Blizzard A Testimonial from Forkland Lane Our Debt of Gratitude to the Dobbs Ferry Garden Club On the Street Where You Live – Mohigan Park Avenue by Madeline Byrne The Historical Society is Proud to Present Jay Doolin Spikes and Anne Marie Leone’s New Book: Dobbs Ferry Then & Now Document1 14 2013 – Spring The Little White Church Cemetery: A Virtual Walk Through the Past By Alan Steinfeld James Bremner: Keeper of the Aqueduct By Alan Steinfeld A Tree is Planted in Memory of Larry Klein A New Development in Town? A History of Chauncey On the Street Where You Live: Belden Ave. by Yelena Krasnozhen 2013 - Fall The Rededication of the Little White Church Cemetary on Ashford The Mystery Of Morton Paters Pond by Madeline Byrne, Alan Steinfeld The Choicest Suburb Of New York by Robin Costello On The Street Where You Live… Robert Green Ingersoll 2014 - Spring Captain William Henry Dobbs : Pilot of the Continental Army by Charles E Dobbs The Judson Family Photo Album by William Newman The First Rhode Island Regiment by Richard Borkow Mary Sudman Donovan Day proclaimed in Dobbs Ferry and Westchester Country Trustee Maria Harris Honored as community activist 2014 - Fall Dobbs Ferry Historical Society to receive Cabrini of Westchester's Centennial Award by Judith Doolin Spikes Special Issue Celebrating St. Frances Xavier Cabrini and the institution she founded In Dobbs Ferry by Judith Doolin Spikes Annual Meeting feature Niall Cain speaking on “From Philipsburg to Dobbs Ferry: How Zoning Forms our Communities 2014 – Winter 145 Palisade by Mary Donovan and Charles Geard Oxford Market and Westchester Pigeon Club by Peggie & Larry Blizard Italian-American Project A recent gift: Baby Crib from Home of Dr. & Mrs. Harold Storms Road to Freedom Walk, 2014 2015 - Spring Portrait of a young officer by Ian Connett Henry C Klein views "better Dobbs Ferry"; presents Master Plan Summer Kitchen Open to Visitors The Street that never was : Dock Street by Madeline Byrne & Alan Steinfeld Document1 15 2015 – Fall Fowl play in Dobbs Ferry by Madeline Byrne, Alan Steinfeld Establishing Historic Landmarks and Districts in Dobbs Ferry by Sonya Terjanian Henry Villard's Folly by Mildred Persinger The Belden behind Belden Avenue by Julia Unger Grapes & Olives: A Celebration of Italians in Dobbs Ferry Document1 16