Schools
Albertus Magnus Students Present On Local History
They participated in the Historical Society of Rockland's first ever High School Local History Conference
The Historical Society of Rockland hosted its first ever High School Local History Conference Tuesday at the Comfort Inn in Nanuet.
The conference featured guest speakers, including a keynote address from local author Linda Zimmermann. About 50 students attended in total from Clarkstown High School North, Clarkstown High School South, Nanuet High School, Pearl River High School, Albertus Magnus High School, Ramapo High School, North Rockland High School, Spring Valley High School, Suffern High School and Tappan Zee High School.
The students from each school gave presentations on local history from their own parts of Rockland.
Since Albertus Magnus High School draws from all over, students in that group each talked about historical sites where they live. The Albertus students who gave the presentation were James Brooks, Sania Solon, Joseph Kelly, Christian Torres and Patrick Ward.
The topics they discussed included the Stony Point Battlefield, Stony Point Lighthouse and James A. Farley, one of the county’s first Irish politicians, all from Stony Point, Lucas Candies from Haverstraw, the Jacob Blauvelt House in New City, the Pearl River Train Station, an old schoolhouse in Nanuet and a house on Route 9W that was featured in a painting by Edward Hopper, which Alfred Hitchcock used as the inspiration for the look of the Bates Motel in his film “Psycho.”
