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Happy St. Patrick%27s Day! May your corned beef and cabbage taste especially good this year. Of course, St. Paddy%27s means Spring is right around the corner. The warmish weather seems to be pushing us in that direction as well. More ... One of the great pleasures of this column is that I have the opportunity to introduce large numbers of people to wonderful artists with whom they may not be familiar. More ... Anna Jordan left County Mayo, Ireland for America in 1929 when she was 24 years old. She was one of five children in the household and worked the family farm from sun up till sundown every day of the week. They raised chickens, sheep and cows, and made money from selling eggs, milk and vegetables. A More ... My staff and I will host a "Passport Fair" at the Far Rockaway Post Office, 1836 Mott Avenue on Saturday, March 25, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. More ... Art is inherent in the performance of any individual act. It is the way in which a person interprets information. It is the style in which you practice your profession as in "the ART and science of homeopathy" or the way in which you live your life as in "the art of living". More ... In the early days at Rockaway Beach, swimming tanks were built to cater to bathers who did not like to "dunk" in the waves at the beach. A few bathhouses had tanks inside their premises and offered "hot" fresh saltwater baths. Several hotels installed small swimming tanks in buildings close to the h More ... 20 Years Ago... Artist%27s rendering of the new Waldbaum%27s shopping center at Beach 113 Street and Beach Channel Drive shows larger stores for shoppers. The new Waldbaum%27s, according to Robert Levine, architect, will be one-third larger than the present store and will More ... I went to see "The Pink Panther" expecting the worst: A trashy copy of the classic Peter Sellers-Blake Edwards comedy, which started the lucrative %2760%27s franchise. Although Steve Martin is a comic genius in his own right, I anticipated that his interpretation of Seller%27s bumbling Inspector Clo More ... A few years ago, students from the Department of Geology at Hunter College came out to the beach. They looked at rocks that wash up on the beaches of Breezy Point, Staten Island and Sandy Hook, NJ. More ... The moments after a car accident are bad enough without factoring in all of the surrounding details that arise. It is only a matter of time before the inevitable questions surface. More ... This past summer, walking on the beach,I ran into an old friend. "What are you up to?"I said,to him, making the usual small talk, and he said he was working on a project to help an elderly Holocaust survivor, living in Brooklyn, publish her memoirs. "It%27s a really powerful story," he said. "The wo More ... |
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