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The New York Adventure Club is set to host a virtual journey through Inwood s history before industrialization. (Shutterstock / Susan Natoli)
INWOOD, NY Almost all of the small Dutch family farms and rural beauty that defined Inwood hundreds of years ago are gone, but the New York Adventure Club wants to virtually bring you back in time to see what the neighborhood used to look like. The Secrets of Inwood, Prehistoric NYC Neighborhood will take place Friday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m., and you can sign up for the virtual event for $10 here.
Don Rice, president of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance Board and local historian, will lead the virtual event.
How a Zen Buddhist Monk and Hospital Chaplain Spends His Sundays
To care for Covid-19 patients and their families, Seigan Ed Glassing reserves one day of the week to care for himself.
Seigan Ed Glassing walks regularly through Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan.Credit.Karsten Moran for The New York Times
By Ted Alcorn
Jan. 1, 2021
Even for someone accustomed to facing death, like Seigan Ed Glassing, who serves on the palliative care team at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, 2020 was a brutal year.
Ordained as a monk at Dai Bosatsu Zendo, a monastery in the Catskills, Mr. Glassing also studied in Japan and helped direct a temple in New York City, where he met his husband, Andrew Lagomarsino. But restless with a life that felt cloistered, he found reconnection as an interfaith chaplain. Now he ministers to the grieving and dying “of all faiths, no faiths, and everything in between.”
Bibliofiles: Reading about walking more insightful than expected
Rebecca Solnit, Will Nixon, others extoll benefits of a good jaunt
Donna Liquori
FacebookTwitterEmail The Pocket Guide to Woodstock by Will Nixon and Michael Perkins.Provided, willnixon.com
Walking and reading are two activities that have taken off during the pandemic. However, I don’t recommend doing both at the same time; I’ve done that on my way home from the library and it didn’t end well.
You’d think a column about walking in the dead of winter would be bad timing, but exploring in the winter has its merits. And even if you’ve decided to keep your walks close to home, there’s a genre steadily growing in the publishing world that extols walking one’s neighborhood or town because there really is plenty to see.
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An image of an Orb-Weaver spider making its way through Inwood Hill ParkF. (Image credit: Luke Kelly)
INWOOD, NY It is only fitting, right? Scary-looking spiders appear in Inwood at the end of a 2020 year with an unimaginable number of dark turns.
Luke Kelly, an Inwood resident, walking through Inwood Hill Park came across quite the surprise when he noticed an orange spider making its way through the fall leaves.
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Kelly told Patch he found the spider on the path closest to Shorakkopoch Rock.
However, as uninviting as the exquisitely icky spider looks, it isn t actually particularly rare or dangerous at all.