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Clarkstown South Students Discuss 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.
The group from South consisted of Natasha Orlando-Figueiredo, Emma Dempsey, Amar Jhaver, Amaya Jhaver, Jun Hak Kim and Sofia Gujarro.
They presented on the Jacob Blauvelt House in New City, which the Historical Society of Rockland turned into a museum. The Blauvelts first arrived in Rockland in 1683. They also talked about the Dutch Gardens, Old Clarkstown Reformed Church Cemetery, Rockland County Courthouse and Rockland Lake, which they mentioned was home to a summer camp and ice block company.
