June 13, 2026
Tag: Yorkville
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Yorkville, a Night in the Old Country
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Yorkville, known today as the “Upper East Side” of New York City stretches from the East River to Third Avenue. From time-to-time every American neighborhood experiences growing-pains. History changes everything – even the way the “old-neighborhood” is remembered.
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January 11, 2024 3 Comments
In wartime, the Christmas cease-fire during World War I, is a good example of a strange happening between combatants. A less familiar event occurred in October 1864, when a Union cavalryman from Pennsylvania shot a Confederate captain from Alabama. One man died and was buried 175 miles from home, the other went home and wrote a letter to his victim’s widow.