75 years ago in 1948, a huge fire destroyed the old Smithsonian Hall, a famous landmark near the Nyack docks. Its name harkens back to its more famous ancestor, the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, that opened in 1846, thanks to a generous donation by a British Scientist named James Smithson. In Nyack’s case, the […]
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