CROTON IN THE NEWS: YO LA TENGO, IRA KAPLAN

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JOURNAL NEWS: YO LA TENGO'S GOT IT DOWN

HIGHLIGHTS:
--Kaplan grew up in Croton-on-Hudson's Red Hill neighborhood — where his parents, Marilyn and Abraham Kaplan, moved from Queens when he was 2 — until he went to Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers.
--He does remember the teenage ritual of waiting around in Croton to hitch a ride home. "I suspect people don't do that any more. But back then it was like a taxi stand," Kaplan says. "There were so many kids down there waiting for a ride up the hill. And because Lee Hays [who sang bass in The Weavers with Pete Seeger] lived at the top of hill, you never knew who might pick you up. So getting a ride from Arlo Guthrie one day was a big thrill."

READ MORE HERE http://www.lohud.com/story/entertainment/2014/12/01/yo-la-tengo-founder-croton/19619507/

AND SINCE LEE HAYS IS MENTIONED, YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-look-back-crotons-lee-hays.html