Finding an 80-year-old Memorial to a Boy Scout, Chiseled Along the Suffern-Bear Mountain Trail Gordon Wren, Director of the Rockland County Fire and Emergency Services, sent me the following story. I’ve never seen this memorial, but when the snow clears out,...
Did you think there was only one treasure legend in Harriman State Park? (I did.) Looking for the source of the name “Letterrock Mountain”, I found an intriguing article in the New York Times from 1934. It started this way: “Musty legends, yellowed...
Not on the Map For the weekend, at least, a kind of summer visited downstate New York. Saturday dawned cloudless and crystalline, with just enough of a chill to make you wonder if you’d need a sweatshirt on the trails. But by the time we got to Harriman and...
Some time ago I wrote about looking for a plane that went down in Harriman State Park in 1974. It was Northwest Airlines flight 6231 from New York, chartered by the Baltimore Colts. The plane, with three crew members, was heading to Buffalo, New York, to pick up the...
Roger Temple’s been missing since June 19. One day after he was last seen, a strange text message was sent from Roger’s phone to his girlfriend, apologizing for the dead battery on his phone. He hasn’t been heard from since. Temple is 44, an avid...
A plane crash in San Francisco this week was similar to a plane crash in Harriman State Park forest forty years ago. I couldn’t find much information about Northwest Airlines Flight 6231 online, until I found the AAR75-13. Then I decided to go find the plane...
