‘Dear Tarrytown’ documents stories about community
Tony Albert Cypress, who has worked as a bus monitor, maintenance worker, and cafeteria worker, is a familiar face to
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For one day this month, Irvington will relive one of the most extraordinary chapters in its history — when the oldest building in the village, the Odell Tavern, briefly served as New York State’s capitol.
The story behind Irvington’s “Capitol for a Day” celebration begins with a desperate escape.
After the devastating Battle of Brooklyn, Gen. George Washington and the Continental Army began retreating north as British forces closed in. Members of New York’s Committee of Safety — the state’s temporary revolutionary government — also headed north from New York City. Their journey brought them to the Odell Tavern, in what is now Irvington, where they conducted official business before continuing their flight.
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