GettyOn June 23, 2020, I sent an email to Marianne B. Leese, the senior historian of the Historical Society of Rockland County.I had what I hoped was an easy question to answer.Who the hell was Jackie Jones?Two days earlier, on the longest day of the year, I had ridden a bicycle over the newly opened bike path on Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge from my home in southern Westchester County.After passing through Nyack and up to Haverstraw, I'd climbed up to Harriman State Park and rode nearly all the way to the top of a local peak. On foot, I'd climbed up to the top of a creaking old fire tower at the summit.The view from on top of Jackie Jones Mountain was spectacular. Courtesy Tony Ortega The year before, I'd noticed that an Arkansas man named Doug Melton, whose hobby is ascending county summits, had done an analysis of LIDAR data (laser ranging) and determined that for years the wrong peak had been designated the highest point in Rockland County.With his analysis, Melton