3. My Dad's church
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Yonkers’ best known tavern in 1813 was the Indian Queen Inn on the corner of what is now South Br...
2. The Settlement of Yonkers
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Philipse Manor Hall. Yonkers’ oldest building, built by one of the richest families in colonial Ame...
1. Yonkers: City of Gracious living
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On the shores of the Hudson ...
I began my journey in the Nodine Hill section of Yonkers, NY (at the corner of William and Oliver).
When I was about five we moved to Elliot Avenue and I went to kindergarten at PS#3. Followed by three years in ...
I began my journey in the Nodine Hill section of Yonkers, NY (at the corner of William and Oliver).
When I was about five we moved to Elliot Avenue and I went to kindergarten at PS#3. Followed by three years in ...
Early Easter Eggs - Part VI
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Memories of St. Peters ...
For some reason, unbeknownst to me in childhood, we were required to listen to a long Palm Sunday Epistle - without moving a muscle.
One year, when I was ten I believe, I felt sick during the aforementioned Epistle. ...
For some reason, unbeknownst to me in childhood, we were required to listen to a long Palm Sunday Epistle - without moving a muscle.
One year, when I was ten I believe, I felt sick during the aforementioned Epistle. ...
Punishment Part V
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Monsignor Kelly was very angry that I had eaten meat on a Friday. He told me I was going to go to Hell. I couldn't understand why God would send me to Hell for obeying my mother. Then I remembered the martyrs who died rather than sin. But disobeyi...
The Confessional - Part III
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Second only to The Ruler, on my Catholic dread list, was The Confessional Booth.
In order to receive communion on Sunday morning I had to: confess my sins on Saturday afternoon, make a good act of contrition, do my penance - and then fast from di...
In order to receive communion on Sunday morning I had to: confess my sins on Saturday afternoon, make a good act of contrition, do my penance - and then fast from di...
The Brooklyn Years - Part II
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I first met The Ruler when I was six.
I whispered something to the girl sitting at the desk next to me. Sister took me in the cloakroom, exposed my bare bottom, and applied The Ruler. I can still remember the sting and the terror I felt.
The sam...
I whispered something to the girl sitting at the desk next to me. Sister took me in the cloakroom, exposed my bare bottom, and applied The Ruler. I can still remember the sting and the terror I felt.
The sam...
The Brooklyn Years - Part I
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Grades one through three: Living in an orthodox Jewish neighborhood in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Attending St. John the Baptist parochial school. On Saturdays I made nickels by lighting the gas stoves. I never asked for anything. But t...
on the subject of complaining
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Maya Angelou on the subject of complaining:
Angelou says that when "whiners" would come into her grandmother's store in Arkansas, she would go through a routine that would begin by quietly beckoning Maya to come closer.
Then she would bait the "...
Angelou says that when "whiners" would come into her grandmother's store in Arkansas, she would go through a routine that would begin by quietly beckoning Maya to come closer.
Then she would bait the "...
No philosophy can justify this kind of cruelty
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Excerpt: Editorial N.Y. Times
Standing, Stretching, Turning Around
The goal of the California Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act — Proposition 2 on the state’s November ballot — sounds extremely modest. It would ban the confinement of animals...
Standing, Stretching, Turning Around
The goal of the California Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act — Proposition 2 on the state’s November ballot — sounds extremely modest. It would ban the confinement of animals...
