Thursday, July 4 at 2 pm - A Holiday Salute to George M. Cohan on July 4
A HOLIDAY SALUTE TO GEORGE M. COHAN with the BAE Jazz and Dixieland Band and vocalist Cathy Gale featuring jazz and Dixieland favorites at a FREE concert in Van Cortlandt Park at Rockwood Drive Circle, near Mosholu Avenue and Broadway on Thursday, July 4 at 2 pm in celebration of Independence Day.
Seating is provided but the audience is urged to bring folding chairs.
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St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site 897 South Columbus Avenue, Mt. Vernon, NY
914-667-4116 www.nps.gov/sapa
Special free Programs in July 2013
Thursday, July 4, starting at 10:30 AM
Independence Day Celebration
A traditional July 4th celebration featuring music, talks, refreshments, reading of the Declaration of Independence, and tolling of the historic St. Paul's church bell - 13 times. Keynote speaker is Professor Lisa Keller of SUNY Purchase.
Friday, July 5, 3 PM
Church Tower Walk
It was back in 1963. A historic and tumultuous year for those living in USA:
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered “I Have a Dream” speech and the ZIP code was first introduced.
USPS was founded in 1775 and postal carriers had to rely on hand sorting based on local addresses. Correspondence went through 10 postal workers before it arrived as your local mail. By the 1940s, the Post Office realized its sorting system was not serving the country properly.
Focal Point Gallery Exhibition. Anyone is interested in exhibiting has to by Wednesday.
The next exhibition opens Friday July 5th with an opening reception 7pm-10pm
The exhibition will stay up till the end of the month.
There is still time to get your art work in.
Focal Point Gallery
321 City Island Avenue
Bronx, NY 10464
If you are an artist and would like to take part in this exhibition, please call Ron Terner at 718 885-1403. All work has to be ready to hang.
There is a $20 hanging fee for each piece and a 30% commission taken from the price.
Flash flood warnings are now in effect until this afternoon...
FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
QUEENS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
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NEW YORK (MANHATTAN) COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...
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Starting July 1, children in China will have to visit their elderly parents on a regular basis, or at least stay in touch. It's the law!!!
This new law aims to improve the well-being of the elderly. This amended Law of Protection of Rights and Interests of the Aged makes it illegal for people to neglect all spiritual needs of the elderly.
It's already a legal requirement for sons and daughters to see to their parents' physical needs.
However, a new clause says that family members who do not live with their parents should visit or "greet them" frequently.
The West is burning as Death Valley sets a 130 degree heat record. Meanwhile, a dangerous and fast-moving wildfire just north of Phoenix has claimed the lives of 19 elite firefighters, who were dispatched there to stop it.
Prescott, Arizona Fire officials and U.S. Wildland Fire Aviation Service lost contact with the firefighters as fire spread to Yarnell, Arizona, where it burned over structures.
Approximately 250 firefighters were fighting the blaze, but that number is expected to double today.
Fought in Gettysburg from July 1-3, 1863. This year, visitors have gathered to reaffirm the principles that demanded the terrible sacrifices Union and Confederate soldiers made 150 years ago.
NYC's Gay Pride Parade may be over, but the celebrations continue Sunday at a giant dance party on the water. The entire event features a performance by Cher.
While rainbow flags were displayed on the streets of Manhattan, gay couples celebrate a wonderful week in the LGBT community.
Grand marshal was 84-year-old Edith Windsor, the woman at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision granting gay couples federal marriage benefits.