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...Play School) centers all its activities in work, teaches arithmetic, geography et al. in the school store and school post office, as well as by field trips throughout Manhattan. Fortnight ago came news of another Progressive school, young and bold, in many respects unique in the U. S. Croton-on-Hudson. N. Y. is a quiet village near Harmon, where New York Central trains exchange steam for electricity. The sprawling, bridge-playing, gin-drinking suburbs of New York have not yet entangled it. In Croton, seven years ago, settled Economist Stuart Chase, his wife Margaret Hatfield, Elizabeth Moos, a former...
...Robert Imandt as shop director, the pupils worked at weaving, metal, wood and leather work, drawing and painting. Elizabeth Moos taught Rhythmics and directed academic work: social sciences, then arithmetic and writing, after these reading and so on. The parents met regularly, joined in school activities. The village of Croton watched a bit suspiciously the hatless, overalled, unrepressed children, dashing down to look at local industries, asking grown-up questions. The Croton truant officer was perplexed, too. Once he offered to help round up Hessian Hills truants, along with those from the public schools. He was told that was unnecessary...
Edward Birdsall of Yorktown Heights, N. Y. was a small boy in short pants in 1892. He wandered about his father's farm on Croton Lake and did the things that boys do. He picked up a small box turtle, carved his initials, E. B. 1892 on the shell and let it go. On July 15, 1931, Edward Birdsall, farmer, was mowing hay on his farm at Croton Lake when a turtle crossed the swath. He picked it up and saw the initials E. B. 1892 on its shell. His old friend had returned, no larger, no quicker...
...Supreme Court to enlarge the city's water supply by tapping the distant Delaware River. At present the city pipes most of its water 100 mi. down from the Ashokan (130-billion-gal.) and the Schoharie (20-billion-gal.) reservoirs in the Catskill mountains. Other big reservoirs (Croton, Kensico) nearer the city supplement this supply. Four years ago the city administration authorized a $275,000,000 program whereby the headwaters of the Delaware, all within New York State, would contribute materially to the municipal supply through an 80-mi. aqueduct. New Jersey hustled into the Supreme Court with a demand...
About 1900, New York City submerged Katonah under the waters of the Croton Reservoir. The village built up on another site. The tombstones in the village cemetery were abandoned and were taken up by the owner of this newspaper, at that time, to be used for composing stones. When the plant was moved to Mount Kisco, 18 years ago, the stones came with it. They were not discovered until Jan. 5, 1931, when I discovered one which had accidentally been turned up. They make ideal stones for composing...