A Stroll in Time Down Purchase Street
As a girl I was interested in the history of Rye, my hometown, and have remained so as an adult living upstate in Ithaca. A few years ago, looking forward to my 50th Rye High School reunion, I decided to do some reading and then revisit Rye, walking the five-block-long main street of my youth.
Beyond Rye
Colorado Revisited
When thousands of people descend on Denver for the Democratic National Convention in late August, millions of others around the world will be introduced to the Mile High City through television coverage. They will see a very modern metropolis that has undergone dramatic changes since we moved from the city in 1966, including a doubling of its population to 2.6 million.
Where the Strange and Unexpected Is Just Around the Corner
Borneo, the third largest island in the world, was known well into the 19th century as a place where headhunters dwelled, impenetrable jungles were filled with apes resembling human beings — orangutangs — and pirates made a living by robbing and killing swashbuckling traders.
Eight Teens on a Mission
The first week of summer vacation, eight Rye teens flew to Honduras, not for the beaches, but for the benefit of others. While on Roatan Island, off the mainland, J. P. Barrett, Nick DeSantis, Liza Partington, Julie Rohde, Amy Shanks, Meredith Siefert, Molly Smalt and Luke Stevens stayed at a Christian compound, worked at an orphanage, painted classrooms and fixed windows at a school, built a ceiling at a clinic, attended services at the Church of God, and bonded.
Top Notch Biking in Vermont
Those of us who bike regularly around Westchester County are used to being forced off the road by wide trucks, booby-trapped by the broken glass, nails and potholes that line the “bike lanes” of local roads, and being yelled at or ignored by drivers who cut us off when passing.
To Hell with Dying
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” is how Dylan Thomas put it. “Do not go gentle into that good night.”
Gigi Shanes-Hernandez of Rye, diagnosed in May with pancreatic cancer, is practicing what Thomas preached.
Morsels on Rye
Weddings
Births
Engagements
Galas
ToYour Health
Good News for People with Hip or Knee Problems
Today, we want to stay as active as we can for as long as we can. But, a price we pay for living longer is that our joints don’t last as long as those of prior generations.
Upcoming Greenwich Hospital Programs
TOPS
The Nurse Is In
Infant/Child CPR Training
Summer Workout Safety Tips
Rye’s Summer Reading Frenzy
Last month, this column featured a Rye teenager purchasing “New Dawn”, one of the hugely popular books in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga. Since then, the fourth Saga book, “Breaking Dawn”, has come out, and another teenager was the first person in Rye to pony up for it — in extremely appropriate circumstances.
Rye Rec Send Campers in New Directions
At Rye Rec Camp78, there were plenty of fun and games, but a number of campers participated in some new programs.
