Monday, October 01, 2012
Postscripts Index
THE ARNOLD-ANDRE AFFAIR
'How Hard Is My Fate': The Arnold-André Affair, 3
'Treason of the Blackest Dye': The Arnold-André Affair, 2
Ill Met by Moonlight: The Arnold-André Affair, 1
BIOGRAPHY
Louis A. Brennan: A Life in Full Color
As I Remember Him: An Appreciation of Lou Brennan
The Short, Tragic Life of Robert Fulton, 1: The North River Steamboat
The Short, Tragic Life of Robert Fulton, 2: Gone Too Soon
Walter W. Law: Founder and Laird of Briarcliff Manor
'I Invented the Automobile': The Bitter War over the Selden Patent, 1
'I Invented the Automobille': The Bitter War over the Selden Patent, 2
Richard Dudgeon, Forgotten American Inventor, 1
Richard Dudgeon, Forgotten American Inventor, 2
Peter Paul Schilovsky: Genius of the Gyrocar
Chester A. Smith and the Fight to Make Peekskill a City
Larger than Life: Remembering Lincoln Diamant
A Many-Talented Troubadour: Remembering Harry Chapin
A Harry Chapin Miscellany
Marinus Willett: Forgotten Savior of Peekskill
Marinus Willett: The Rest of the Story
The Peter Cooper Story, 1: The Lost Peekskill Years
The Peter Cooper Story, 2: A Man Ahead of His Time
CHRONICLES OF CROTON'S BOHEMIA
Charlie Pfaff's Cellar: Setting the Stage
Mabel Dodge: The Power of Money
Max Eastman: A Life of Paradoxes
Floyd Dell; A Respectable Radical
Jack Reed and Louise Bryant, 1: Star-Crossed Lovers
Jack Reed and Louise Bryant, 2: A Senatorial Inquisition
Jack Reed and Louise Bryant, 3: A Fatal Journey
Louis Bryant: Life Goes On
Eliena Krylenko: 'Glad to Have Lived'
The Bitter Fight for Women's Rights
Inez Milholland, 1: Beautiful Suffragist on a White Charger
Lillian Nordica, 1: Downeast Diva
Lillian Nrdica, 2: Unlucky in Love
Crystal Eastman, 1: Brains and Beauty
Crystal Eastman, 2: Taken Too Soon
Doris Atevens: Jailed for Freedom
Dudley Field Malone, 1: The Courage of His Convictions
Dudley Field Malone, 2: From Croton to Paris to Hollywood
The Mysterious Death of Actress Florence Deshon, 1
Florence Deshon, 2: Charlie Chaplin or Max?
Florence Deshon, 3: Suicide or Accident?
CROTON DAM AND AQUEDUCT
How Epidemics and Fires Led to the Building of the Old Croton Aqueduct
Days of Hope and Glory: When Croton Water Came to the City
The Old Croton Aqueduct: An Engineering Marvel
'No Irish Need Apply': The Clash of Cultures Along the Old Croton Aqueduct
CURRENT AFFAIRS
What the F*** Am I Doing Here?
A Voter's Guide to Reality in the Middle East, or What the Politicians Won't Tell You
The War Nobody Wanted
The President's Excess Baggage: Three Fallacies About the Middle East
Awakening from History: Iraq, the Dangerous Diversion
The Great Game Goes On
"Like Eating Soup with a Knife": Why the U.S. Cannot Win in Iraq"
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and the Big Fool Says to Push On"
The Anatomy of Terror 1: A Bloody Past
The Anatomy of Terror 2: A New Kind of War
The Improbable Country: Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq
Then, as Now--One Year Later
Then, as Now: The Grim Parallelism of Two Wars
DYCKMAN FAMILY HISTORY
The Boscobel Story, 1: The Short, Troubled Life of States Morris Dyckman
The Boscobel Story, 2: Dyckman Descendants and the Miraculous Salvation of Boscobel
In Search of Dennis Kennedy: A Genealogical Detective Story
Benjamin Dyckman: The Man and the House He Built
All the Brothers Were Valiant: One Man;s Family in the American Revolution
Garret Dykeman: The Loyalist Who Never Came Back
GAZETTEER
Naming the Land: What's Your Local Place Name I.Q.?
No Longer on the Map: Forgotten Place Names in Northwestern Westchester
What's in a Name? A Catalog of Indian Place Names
Of Rivers, Creeks and Brooks: A Catalog of Watercourses
Of Ponds and Lakes: A Catalog of Water Resources
HISTORY
The First Americans, 1: Asiatic Origins
The First Americans, 2: An Inevitable Clash of Cultures
Why We Do What We Do on Halloween
Armistice Day and the First Unknown Soldier
More Wars, More Unknowns
Who Wrote the Bugle Call Taps?
A Short History of Memorial Day
'Twas the Day After Christmas: The Battle at Trenton
General Washington Educates the British: The Battle at Princeton
The Postscripts Roll of Honor: 156 Who Voted Against the Iraq War
Ghosts of Christmas Past: Exploring the Origins of the Holiday
Guns of the American Revolution: Setting the Record Straight
Those Were the Days, 1: Requiem for the Post Roads
Those Were the Days, 2: Homage to the Concord
Those Were the Days, 3: A Toast to Taverns
THE INDIAN WARS
Far from Home: The Lenape Indians Trail of Tears
The Rivers Ran Red: Gov. Kieft's Holocaust
The Lenape: Westchester's First Inhabitants
The Lenape Series Bibliography
LITERARY LORE
The Book Club Wars, 1: Growing Pains
The Book Club Wars, 2: Depression, War and Peace
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Is the Children's Classic Really an Allegory?
A Murder in Peekskill: A Literary Detective Story
Who Wrote "The Night Before Christmas"? 1
Who Wrote "The Night Before Christmas"? 2
Did They Really Say That? Quotations and Misquotations
LOWER HUDSON VALLEY
Railroad Pioneers, 1: The Hudson Valley
The Short, Tragic Life of Robert Fulton, 1: The North River Steamboat
The Short, Tragic Life of Robert Fulton, 2: Gone Too Soon
Solving the Riddle of Anthony's Nose
The Bridge Nobody Wanted
A Death at the Bear Mountain Bridge
State Prison or State Park: Preserving the Hudson's Far Shore
Marinus Willett: Forgotten Savior of Peekskill
First to Fight, First to Die: The Beau Geste of Edmond Genet
Rediscovering Henry Hudson's Half Moon
Lest We Forget: An Album of Remembrance
The Trouble I've Seen: The Nils Andersen Story
Queen of the Hudson: A History of Hudson River Sloops
The Golden Age of Hudson Valley Brickmaking
When Sing Sing Was a 'Model' Prison
Solving the Riddle of Anthony's Nose
The Two Journeys of Abraham Lincoln
Toqueville's Democracy in America: Solving a Mystery and Exposing a Fraud
Thank You, Henry Hudson: America's Debt to the Dutch
Remembering the First Provisional Regiment: They Guarded New York City's Water Supply
MOVIE TRIVIA
'Rosebud' and the Enigma of Citizen Kane
'Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn''
Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain'
'Play It Again, Sam'
THE NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT . . . SERIES
Thank You, Jimmy Cannon
Nobody Asked Me, But . . . Column Dates:
2004: (4/01), (4/08), (5/06), (7/22), (9/30), (10/07).
(10/14), (10/28), (11/04), (11/11), (12/02), (12/16)
2005: (1/27), (2/03), (2/17), (3/10), (3/17), (4/14), (4/28), (5/19), (5/26), (6/09), (7/07), (7/28), (8/04), (8/18), (8/25), (9/01), (9/08), (9/15), (9/29), (10/06), (10/13), (10/20), (10/27), (11/10), (11/17), 12/06), (12/20)
2006: (4/06), (5/11), (6/15), (7/13), (7/20), (7/27), (8/03), (9/07), (9/14), (9/21), (9/28), (10/05), (10/12), (10/19), (10/26), (11/02), (11/09), (11/16), (11/30), (12/07), (12/21)
2007: (1:03), (1/11), (1/18)
OP-ED
The Frightening Bush Legacy
Will 2012 Be "the Elephants' Graveyard" of American Politics?
High Jinks in the Arrogant World of High Finance
Iran: Imminent Threat or Paper Tiger?
Who's the War Party Now? 25 Ingredients for a Republican Disaster
Three Words that Shook the World
I Am the American Veteran, Remember Me?
A Tale of Two Cities
Shame on Us
The View from Hubbert's Peak
PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS
Mr. President: 'We Don't Have a Dog in This Fight."
Mr. President: It's Time to Stop Meddling in the Middle East
Mr. President: It's Time to Acknowledge the Harsh Truths about Afghanistan
QUOTABLE QUOTES
Dogs, Dogs, Wonderful Dogs!
Top Ten Notable Quotables of 2008
Bushspeak Roundup: The Final 20 Days
Bushspeak Update, Second Half of 2008
Bushspeak Update, First Half of 2008
Bushspeak Update, Second Half of 2007
Bushspeak Update, First Half of 2007
Three Little Words: George W. Bush's Infatuation with the Sound of His Favorite Phrase
The Weird World of Bushspeak The Prequel: Early Examples of Weird Bushspeak
TECHNICS
Railroad Pioneers, 1: The Hudson Valley
'I Invented the Automobile': The Bitter War over the Selden Patent, 1
'I Invented the Automobile': The Bitter War over the Selden Patent, 2
Richard Dudgeon, Forgotten American Inventor, 1
Richard Dudgeon, Forgotten American Inventor, 2
Peter Paul Schilovsky: Genius of the Gyrocar
The Peter Cooper Story, 1: The Lost Peekskill Years
The Peter Cooper Story, 2: A Man Ahead of His Time
Does Mourning Become the Electric?: The Rise of the Electric Automobile
Does Mourning Become the Electric? 2: The Fall and Resurrection of the Electric Automobile
The Preston Tucker Story, 1: Ordeal by Trial
The Preston Tucker Story, 2: Triumph and Tragedy
A Short History of the Air Rifle
Of Viruses, Worms and Spyware: The Dangerous Underworld of the Internet
Who Invented the Bowie Knife?
The View from Hubbert's Peak
THEATER LORE
Disinheriting the Wind: How Broadway and Hollywood Distorted History
Almost Famous: The Spelvins, the Plinges and the Smithees
THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Those Were the Days, 1: A Salute to the Hudson River Sloop
Those Were the Days, 2: Requiem for the Post Roads
Those Were the Days, 3: Homage to the Concord
Those Were the Days, 4: A Toast to Taverns
Those Were the Days, 5: A Serenade to Steamboats
Those Were the Days, 6: The Golden Age of Railroads
WALKING CLASSICS
Companions for the Trail: Walking Classics
A Spring Walk
Books for Walkers
Where the Forest Murmurs
Emerson at Yosemite
The Pleasure of Walking
THE WRITING CLINIC
Clear Writing: How to Achieve and Measure Readability
Come Blow Your Horn: Do-It-Yourself Book Promotion for Authors
Get the Word Out: Secrets of Successful News Releases
Your Slip Is Showing: Making Your Writing Look Professional
So You Want to Be a Writer? Frequently Asked Questions
The Work Habits of Highly Successful Writers
'How Hard Is My Fate': The Arnold-André Affair, 3
'Treason of the Blackest Dye': The Arnold-André Affair, 2
Ill Met by Moonlight: The Arnold-André Affair, 1
BIOGRAPHY
Louis A. Brennan: A Life in Full Color
As I Remember Him: An Appreciation of Lou Brennan
The Short, Tragic Life of Robert Fulton, 1: The North River Steamboat
The Short, Tragic Life of Robert Fulton, 2: Gone Too Soon
Walter W. Law: Founder and Laird of Briarcliff Manor
'I Invented the Automobile': The Bitter War over the Selden Patent, 1
'I Invented the Automobille': The Bitter War over the Selden Patent, 2
Richard Dudgeon, Forgotten American Inventor, 1
Richard Dudgeon, Forgotten American Inventor, 2
Peter Paul Schilovsky: Genius of the Gyrocar
Chester A. Smith and the Fight to Make Peekskill a City
Larger than Life: Remembering Lincoln Diamant
A Many-Talented Troubadour: Remembering Harry Chapin
A Harry Chapin Miscellany
Marinus Willett: Forgotten Savior of Peekskill
Marinus Willett: The Rest of the Story
The Peter Cooper Story, 1: The Lost Peekskill Years
The Peter Cooper Story, 2: A Man Ahead of His Time
CHRONICLES OF CROTON'S BOHEMIA
Charlie Pfaff's Cellar: Setting the Stage
Mabel Dodge: The Power of Money
Max Eastman: A Life of Paradoxes
Floyd Dell; A Respectable Radical
Jack Reed and Louise Bryant, 1: Star-Crossed Lovers
Jack Reed and Louise Bryant, 2: A Senatorial Inquisition
Jack Reed and Louise Bryant, 3: A Fatal Journey
Louis Bryant: Life Goes On
Eliena Krylenko: 'Glad to Have Lived'
The Bitter Fight for Women's Rights
Inez Milholland, 1: Beautiful Suffragist on a White Charger
Lillian Nordica, 1: Downeast Diva
Lillian Nrdica, 2: Unlucky in Love
Crystal Eastman, 1: Brains and Beauty
Crystal Eastman, 2: Taken Too Soon
Doris Atevens: Jailed for Freedom
Dudley Field Malone, 1: The Courage of His Convictions
Dudley Field Malone, 2: From Croton to Paris to Hollywood
The Mysterious Death of Actress Florence Deshon, 1
Florence Deshon, 2: Charlie Chaplin or Max?
Florence Deshon, 3: Suicide or Accident?
CROTON DAM AND AQUEDUCT
How Epidemics and Fires Led to the Building of the Old Croton Aqueduct
Days of Hope and Glory: When Croton Water Came to the City
The Old Croton Aqueduct: An Engineering Marvel
'No Irish Need Apply': The Clash of Cultures Along the Old Croton Aqueduct
CURRENT AFFAIRS
What the F*** Am I Doing Here?
A Voter's Guide to Reality in the Middle East, or What the Politicians Won't Tell You
The War Nobody Wanted
The President's Excess Baggage: Three Fallacies About the Middle East
Awakening from History: Iraq, the Dangerous Diversion
The Great Game Goes On
"Like Eating Soup with a Knife": Why the U.S. Cannot Win in Iraq"
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and the Big Fool Says to Push On"
The Anatomy of Terror 1: A Bloody Past
The Anatomy of Terror 2: A New Kind of War
The Improbable Country: Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq
Then, as Now--One Year Later
Then, as Now: The Grim Parallelism of Two Wars
DYCKMAN FAMILY HISTORY
The Boscobel Story, 1: The Short, Troubled Life of States Morris Dyckman
The Boscobel Story, 2: Dyckman Descendants and the Miraculous Salvation of Boscobel
In Search of Dennis Kennedy: A Genealogical Detective Story
Benjamin Dyckman: The Man and the House He Built
All the Brothers Were Valiant: One Man;s Family in the American Revolution
Garret Dykeman: The Loyalist Who Never Came Back
GAZETTEER
Naming the Land: What's Your Local Place Name I.Q.?
No Longer on the Map: Forgotten Place Names in Northwestern Westchester
What's in a Name? A Catalog of Indian Place Names
Of Rivers, Creeks and Brooks: A Catalog of Watercourses
Of Ponds and Lakes: A Catalog of Water Resources
HISTORY
The First Americans, 1: Asiatic Origins
The First Americans, 2: An Inevitable Clash of Cultures
Why We Do What We Do on Halloween
Armistice Day and the First Unknown Soldier
More Wars, More Unknowns
Who Wrote the Bugle Call Taps?
A Short History of Memorial Day
'Twas the Day After Christmas: The Battle at Trenton
General Washington Educates the British: The Battle at Princeton
The Postscripts Roll of Honor: 156 Who Voted Against the Iraq War
Ghosts of Christmas Past: Exploring the Origins of the Holiday
Guns of the American Revolution: Setting the Record Straight
Those Were the Days, 1: Requiem for the Post Roads
Those Were the Days, 2: Homage to the Concord
Those Were the Days, 3: A Toast to Taverns
THE INDIAN WARS
Far from Home: The Lenape Indians Trail of Tears
The Rivers Ran Red: Gov. Kieft's Holocaust
The Lenape: Westchester's First Inhabitants
The Lenape Series Bibliography
LITERARY LORE
The Book Club Wars, 1: Growing Pains
The Book Club Wars, 2: Depression, War and Peace
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Is the Children's Classic Really an Allegory?
A Murder in Peekskill: A Literary Detective Story
Who Wrote "The Night Before Christmas"? 1
Who Wrote "The Night Before Christmas"? 2
Did They Really Say That? Quotations and Misquotations
LOWER HUDSON VALLEY
Railroad Pioneers, 1: The Hudson Valley
The Short, Tragic Life of Robert Fulton, 1: The North River Steamboat
The Short, Tragic Life of Robert Fulton, 2: Gone Too Soon
Solving the Riddle of Anthony's Nose
The Bridge Nobody Wanted
A Death at the Bear Mountain Bridge
State Prison or State Park: Preserving the Hudson's Far Shore
Marinus Willett: Forgotten Savior of Peekskill
First to Fight, First to Die: The Beau Geste of Edmond Genet
Rediscovering Henry Hudson's Half Moon
Lest We Forget: An Album of Remembrance
The Trouble I've Seen: The Nils Andersen Story
Queen of the Hudson: A History of Hudson River Sloops
The Golden Age of Hudson Valley Brickmaking
When Sing Sing Was a 'Model' Prison
Solving the Riddle of Anthony's Nose
The Two Journeys of Abraham Lincoln
Toqueville's Democracy in America: Solving a Mystery and Exposing a Fraud
Thank You, Henry Hudson: America's Debt to the Dutch
Remembering the First Provisional Regiment: They Guarded New York City's Water Supply
MOVIE TRIVIA
'Rosebud' and the Enigma of Citizen Kane
'Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn''
Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain'
'Play It Again, Sam'
THE NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT . . . SERIES
Thank You, Jimmy Cannon
Nobody Asked Me, But . . . Column Dates:
2004: (4/01), (4/08), (5/06), (7/22), (9/30), (10/07).
(10/14), (10/28), (11/04), (11/11), (12/02), (12/16)
2005: (1/27), (2/03), (2/17), (3/10), (3/17), (4/14), (4/28), (5/19), (5/26), (6/09), (7/07), (7/28), (8/04), (8/18), (8/25), (9/01), (9/08), (9/15), (9/29), (10/06), (10/13), (10/20), (10/27), (11/10), (11/17), 12/06), (12/20)
2006: (4/06), (5/11), (6/15), (7/13), (7/20), (7/27), (8/03), (9/07), (9/14), (9/21), (9/28), (10/05), (10/12), (10/19), (10/26), (11/02), (11/09), (11/16), (11/30), (12/07), (12/21)
2007: (1:03), (1/11), (1/18)
OP-ED
The Frightening Bush Legacy
Will 2012 Be "the Elephants' Graveyard" of American Politics?
High Jinks in the Arrogant World of High Finance
Iran: Imminent Threat or Paper Tiger?
Who's the War Party Now? 25 Ingredients for a Republican Disaster
Three Words that Shook the World
I Am the American Veteran, Remember Me?
A Tale of Two Cities
Shame on Us
The View from Hubbert's Peak
PRESIDENTIAL LETTERS
Mr. President: 'We Don't Have a Dog in This Fight."
Mr. President: It's Time to Stop Meddling in the Middle East
Mr. President: It's Time to Acknowledge the Harsh Truths about Afghanistan
QUOTABLE QUOTES
Dogs, Dogs, Wonderful Dogs!
Top Ten Notable Quotables of 2008
Bushspeak Roundup: The Final 20 Days
Bushspeak Update, Second Half of 2008
Bushspeak Update, First Half of 2008
Bushspeak Update, Second Half of 2007
Bushspeak Update, First Half of 2007
Three Little Words: George W. Bush's Infatuation with the Sound of His Favorite Phrase
The Weird World of Bushspeak The Prequel: Early Examples of Weird Bushspeak
TECHNICS
Railroad Pioneers, 1: The Hudson Valley
'I Invented the Automobile': The Bitter War over the Selden Patent, 1
'I Invented the Automobile': The Bitter War over the Selden Patent, 2
Richard Dudgeon, Forgotten American Inventor, 1
Richard Dudgeon, Forgotten American Inventor, 2
Peter Paul Schilovsky: Genius of the Gyrocar
The Peter Cooper Story, 1: The Lost Peekskill Years
The Peter Cooper Story, 2: A Man Ahead of His Time
Does Mourning Become the Electric?: The Rise of the Electric Automobile
Does Mourning Become the Electric? 2: The Fall and Resurrection of the Electric Automobile
The Preston Tucker Story, 1: Ordeal by Trial
The Preston Tucker Story, 2: Triumph and Tragedy
A Short History of the Air Rifle
Of Viruses, Worms and Spyware: The Dangerous Underworld of the Internet
Who Invented the Bowie Knife?
The View from Hubbert's Peak
THEATER LORE
Disinheriting the Wind: How Broadway and Hollywood Distorted History
Almost Famous: The Spelvins, the Plinges and the Smithees
THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Those Were the Days, 1: A Salute to the Hudson River Sloop
Those Were the Days, 2: Requiem for the Post Roads
Those Were the Days, 3: Homage to the Concord
Those Were the Days, 4: A Toast to Taverns
Those Were the Days, 5: A Serenade to Steamboats
Those Were the Days, 6: The Golden Age of Railroads
WALKING CLASSICS
Companions for the Trail: Walking Classics
A Spring Walk
Books for Walkers
Where the Forest Murmurs
Emerson at Yosemite
The Pleasure of Walking
THE WRITING CLINIC
Clear Writing: How to Achieve and Measure Readability
Come Blow Your Horn: Do-It-Yourself Book Promotion for Authors
Get the Word Out: Secrets of Successful News Releases
Your Slip Is Showing: Making Your Writing Look Professional
So You Want to Be a Writer? Frequently Asked Questions
The Work Habits of Highly Successful Writers
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