Looking Back at Milan’s History ~
…through the lens of the Milan Community Association Newsletter started in November 1968…Local author Bonnie Wood of Keeping NY History Alive supplements the original MCA Newsletters with “Reader’s Notes”.
Milan Community Association Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 11 September 1969
Can You Identify The Location? See the Milan Quiz section below.
Reader’s Notes~
New Officers
These officers were elected 50 years ago in September 1970 and were scheduled to take office in January 1970.
- Chairman- Helen Hermans
- Vice Chairman- Colin Thorley
- Secretary- Joan Artz
- Treasurer- Clara Losee
- Directors- 3 years- Barbara Thompson, Carl Sardaro, Theodore Fredricksen
Milan Community Members
- Teachers are listed in the article “Red Hook School Board Meeting”.
- Candidates for Town Office are listed in “Election Line-Up”.
- Staff members and contributors – MCA Newsletter are listed on p. 4.
Milan Quiz
Ossie Stippa’s sketch features the American Buttonball or Sycamore tree located on Cokertown Road east of Salisbury Road in Milan.
In Tribute to the Sycamore Tree
These historic images of the Sycamore Tree in various locales include a woodcut of “Zaccheus in the Sycamore Tree”, a Biblical reference to Zaccheus attempting to catch a glimpse of Jesus.
Images: (clockwise)
First image:
“Autumn. Gigantic sycamores. An ox team crossing the ford.Owl Creek, Ohio.”;
Artist: George Harvey; Etcher: W. J. Bennett;
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection;
“The New York Public Library“;
Second Image:
“Tomb of a Muslim saint at Minyeh. Shaded by an ancient sycamore-tree.
It is on the north side of the town, near to the spot where boats are generally moored.”;
Wood-Engraver: Harley; Artist: Harry Fenn (1838-1911);
Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt;
“From The New York Public Library”
Third Image:
“Sycamore, Verdugo Park, Los Angeles, California”;
Photographers: Daniel Berry Austin and Adam Dove;
1900-02; Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy;
“The New York Public Library“;
Fourth Image:
“Zaccheus in the Sycamore Tree”; German Old Master Prints;
Printmaker: Urs Graf (approximate dates 1485-1527);
woodcut-approximate date 1509;
“The New York Public Library”
Sonata in Hollywood
The Sycamore by C. F. MacIntyre
Stilly in the mystical
shadow of the sycamore,
give yourself unto the spell-
give, and go, and come no more.
Where the shadows and the stars
rise and fall on the deep breast
of the water, nothing mars
plots to slip and sink and rest.
To the image of the leaves
on the blackness of the stream,
to the little wind that grieves,
give yourself and dream your dream.
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