Lexington is a Catskill mountain town. |
The town was named for
Robert Livingston, who began a noted New York political
dynasty (see Clermont). |
Maybrook earned its sobriquet
"Gateway to the East" because it was the home of one of the
largest rail yards on the East Coast. When railroad operations
ceased in 1974, Yellow Freight took up some of the slack by setting
up trucking operations on part of the old railroad yards. That business,
too, has declined and Maybrook has in recent years become more of a
bedroom community. |
When I saw this sign in McGraw, I wondered why a town would celebrate a college that existed for only a decade over a century ago. New York Central was one of the few colleges that accepted blacks and women as students and, even more unusual, employed a black man and two women on the faculty. There was also an Underground Railroad station on the campus. |
Morris is located in central New York's Leatherstocking Country. |
Naples, in the southern Finger Lakes region, lies in a mountainous area known as the Switzerland of America. This is a wine-producing area and, not surprisingly, grape pie is a local specialty. The now-abandoned building to the right of the picture was the office of a motel designed in the mode of a Swiss chalet. I stayed there one night in the late 1980s, where I watched the Lloyd Bentsen-Dan Quayle "you're no Jack Kennedy" debate. |