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October 27, 2004 : 41 S. Water St. Peekskill: Abraham Lincoln stopped here on the way to his inauguration and gave a 138-word speech attended by 1,000 people, approximately a third of the population of Peekskill at the time. [5]
Peekskill is a city in northwestern Westchester County, New York, United States, 35 miles (56 km) north of New York City. Established as a village in 1816, it was incorporated as a city in 1940. It lies on a bay along the east side of the Hudson River, across from Jones Point in Rockland County.
Congress again proclaimed October as Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month for 1990 (Pub. L. 101–460) and 1993/1994 (Pub. L. 103–309). Within the authority of the Executive Branch , the President of the United States has also issued a proclamation in 1989 [ 3 ] and 1990 [ 4 ] by George H. W. Bush , in 1993 [ 5 ] by Bill Clinton , and ...
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Sep. 5—Get a taste of Italy this weekend with the Felittese Association. The Felittese Italian Festival returns to Old Forge on Friday from 5 to 10 p.m., Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m. and Sunday ...
New York Renaissance Faire: New York: Tuxedo; permanent The fictional Town of Sterling in late 16th-century Elizabethan England: 1977 20 stages; 65 acres [22] (08a) August–September (6 weekends) 140k (2010) [23] Ren Faire–NY: Northern California Renaissance Faire: California: Hollister: Village of Willingtown, Derbyshire; mid-1600s: 2004 ...
Borea credits the concept to the hugely successful Italian festival held every Labor Day weekend in Scranton, Penn., where crowds measure 100,000 to 150,000. ... who traveled to New York City to ...
Many families from the town of Brusciano, Italy migrated to East Harlem bringing with their tradition of the yearly Dance of the Giglio festival in honor of Anthony of Padua. [1] The Giglio (" lily " in Italian) is an 80-foot-tall, three-ton statue which is carried and danced through the streets of East Harlem by over 100 members of the society.