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Chronicle profile: Joel and Jeanette Gingold. From Croton to Sydney and back again, a whirlwind romance goes nuclear.

Retired nuclear engineer Joel Gingold has lived in Croton for more than 80 years, his editor wife Jeanette nearly 60 years. They have long been active in village politics.

Michael Balter--May 05, 2024--THE CROTON CHRONICLE

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Joel Gingold moved to Croton with his family when he was about five years old. His father was an accountant, and his mother—after some years as a housewife—became a writer and a poet.

That was in the early 1940s. Croton was a different place back then. The building that today houses Temple Israel was a radical experimental school called Hessian Hills, and Joel attended both kindergarten and first grade there. (If he was politically indoctrinated, he does not remember.) You didn’t need a recreation card to swim at Silver Lake, and he and his friends would jump into the river there day or night. Joel had a paper route, back when newspapers were delivered by hand. And in those days, he says, pupils were afraid of the teachers, rather than the other way around. READ MORE AT Chronicle profile: Joel and Jeanette Gingold. From Croton to Sydney and back again, a whirlwind romance goes nuclear.