Under Exposed by Shel Haber
Christmas Trees In an effort to promote American fresh-cut Christmas trees and counter the rise in sales of mostly imported artificial trees, the real- tree group decided to impose a fee on itself to fund a promotional campaign. The National Christmas Tree Association said in a statement, It will not increase the price consumers pay for their Christmas trees. ABC News explained... Read More
How Steve Jobs made The Nyack Villager Possible, by Shel Haber
Scattered around our office are eight Macintosh computers, all chugging along to produce the words, photos, e-mails and bookkeeping that make publishing The Nyack Villager possible. Our Macs range from a 15-year old Quadra to some hi-tech Imacs and two powerful MacPros. We bought our first Macintosh in 1985—the famous 512K. A year later we added the new Mac SE. Both were... Read More
My Little Brown Wagon by Shel Haber
I have always been proud of the fact I helped win WW2 with the aid of my little brown wagon. Back then, we all learned about WW2 from baritone voices on the radio. The radio voices came into our home night after night and informed us of the fall of Poland, the invasion of France and the nightly bombing of London. But we were at peace and our favorite programs on the radio were... Read More
Consider Martius by Shel Haber
Jan, my wife and the editor of The Nyack Villager, was born in March. So was my mother, my brother and my son-in-law—as was Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, Harriet Tubman, Houdini and Dr. Seuss. Read More Read More
Under Exposed by Shel Haber
A Snow Job Judging by the way my fellow motorists handle their cars in traffic, I guess forty five percent of them are drunk, on drugs, texting their chums or some combination of all three. Another sixteen percent must be paying attention to the distracting noises on their car radio. Read More Read More
