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BY SPECIAL REQUEST--a fascinating story from Croton back in the day: a boy scout, a revolver, a Patriot's Garden, and Judge Decker.
Originally published in THE EVENING WORLD on August 14, 1918, a New York City newspaper that existed from 1887 to 1931, this story even made the news upstate and in Brooklyn. Click on the images below...it is believed that the "Broadway" mentioned in the article referred to what was then the village's main thoroughfare on the riverfront, Riverside Ave. The late village historian, Dodie Pezanowski, believed that the garden featured was somewhere up on Finney Farm Road though that was just conjecture.
p.s. MARC CHESHIRE OF CROTON HISTORY & MYSTERIES SAYS: The author of the article, journalist and social reformer Sophie Irene Loeb, lived in Harmon and was among other things a friend of Harry Houdini. http://crotonhistory.org/2013/10/31/halloween-with-houdini-in-harmon/
BY SPECIAL REQUEST--a fascinating story from Croton back in the day: a boy scout, a revolver, a Patriot's Garden, and Judge Decker.
Originally published in THE EVENING WORLD on August 14, 1918, a New York City newspaper that existed from 1887 to 1931, this story even made the news upstate and in Brooklyn. Click on the images below...it is believed that the "Broadway" mentioned in the article referred to what was then the village's main thoroughfare on the riverfront, Riverside Ave. The late village historian, Dodie Pezanowski, believed that the garden featured was somewhere up on Finney Farm Road though that was just conjecture.
p.s. MARC CHESHIRE OF CROTON HISTORY & MYSTERIES SAYS: The author of the article, journalist and social reformer Sophie Irene Loeb, lived in Harmon and was among other things a friend of Harry Houdini. http://crotonhistory.org/2013/10/31/halloween-with-houdini-in-harmon/
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