Word: cronins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JOHN CRONIN AND ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. In Search of the Beauty And Mystery of Home...
Since the plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. went down on July 16, observations about the Kennedys have mainly connected the family with calamity and grief. But the environmental work of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his partner, John Cronin, remind one that the Kennedys are more lastingly characterized by public service. In May I went out with Kennedy and Cronin on New York's revitalized Hudson River, a fluid monument to the devotion so many Kennedys have felt for the country...
What we will see on the river, John Cronin tells me, is the past, present and future--"what we have been fighting against and fighting for." The against comes first. On a late-spring morning full of sunshine and blue water, we push off in a 26-ft. sportfishing boat used by Cronin's watchdog group, Riverkeeper Inc., to patrol the Hudson. Heading north, about 40 miles north of Manhattan, we see the Lovett Power Station on the west bank. The old, dark, brick coal-, gas- and oil-burning tangle of structures looks like a giant outdoor furnace. Beside...
...Cronin's, a large bar that once occupied the site that now houses the Holyoke Center, loomed large in the memories of many '49ers. The bar was especially popular after football games, when fans would crowd the Square's watering holes...
Snook also remembers Cronin's, saying that it was a place that many students learned to drink for the first time...