From the Director:

Life before automobiles may be hard to imagine, but there was a time when horsepower actually referred to the power of horses.

Strawtown Road was once a quiet place with no sounds louder than the shouts of children and the hooves of horses.

In the early years of the twentieth century, when this building housed the West Nyack Elementary School, neighborhood horses often paused in front to drink from a water trough built for their convenience.

Time passed.

Strawtown Road was paved and widened to accommodate automobile traffic.

The trough was covered over and almost forgotten - but not by everyone.

Bert Dahm attended the old school and remembered the spot where the trough had once stood. Last December he dug it up, and the craftsmen of Jamieson Stoneworks have restored it to full function.

We think it is a charming reminder of the past.

Come see it the next time you visit the library,

Rita Tavel Fogleman

Bert Dahm uncovers the horse trough.

The trough is fed from an underground stream.

Trustee Vinnie Cann, Director Rita Fogelman
and staff member, Vicki Ernst observe the opening. 

Trustee Lorette Adams and Bert Dahm 
happily call it a day.

  

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