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Tappan Zee High School Students Present On Local History
They participated in the Historical Society of Rockland's first ever High School Local History Conference
The Historical Society of Rockland hosted its first ever High School Local History Conference Tuesday at the Comfort Inn in Nanuet.
The conference featured guest speakers, including a keynote address from local author Linda Zimmermann. About 50 students attended in total from Clarkstown High School North, Clarkstown High School South, Nanuet High School, Pearl River High School, Albertus Magnus High School, Ramapo High School, North Rockland High School, Spring Valley High School, Suffern High School and Tappan Zee High School.
The students from each school gave presentations on local history from their own parts of Rockland.
The group from Tappan Zee was made up of Ellie Kitman, Jaclyn Wecht, August Brennan, Matthew Pollack, Brianna Yee and Robert Ruggiero.
They talked about Old ’76 House, where British spy John Andre was held captive and during the Revolutionary War after he was discovered with plans on how to capture West Point that were drawn up by Benedict Arnold. They also talked about the Piermont Pier, Rockland Psychiatric Center and the Nike Missile Base in Piermont, which was put in during the Cold War.