Rockland County, NY (8/20/2022)

Saturday, August 20, 2022 (continued)

We continued south along the Hudson Valley to stop in Tomkins Cove at the house of another of Tamiko's brothers, Philip.

View from Philip's house over the Hudson River

Tamiko and her brother, Philip (KSS)

Entrance gate (1908, by H K Bush-Brown) to Stony Point
Battlefield State Historic Site (opened 1902)
with a one-lane bridge beyond the gate

Picnic Shelter

View of the Hudson River from the picnic shelter at
Stony Point that is a promontory jutting out into the river

Stone Viewing Platform at the northern crest of Stony Point

Stony Point Lighthouse (1826, by Thomas Phillips)
was the first and oldest lighthouse on the Hudson River,
built after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which
resulted in a surge of commercial navigation on the river

There is a living history military camp on summer weekends
with both British and American uniformed re-enactors

During the American Revolutionary War, in May 1779, the British captured Stony Point to block the King's Ferry crossing below and disrupt General George Washington's Continental Army, then located in the Hudson Highlands. The British under Sir Henry Clinton constructed an earthen fortress. Two months later, General Washungton ordered Brigadier General "Mad Anthony" Wayne to launch a midnight charge with bayonets fixed and muskets unloaded. Wayne had three columns of Light Infantry approach the point from different directions. Within an hour the Americans had "captured the flag" and the surprised British troops had surrendered.

Station IV (Jesus Meets His Mother)
of the Stations of The Cross
at Marian Shrine in Stony Point, NY

Station XIV (Jesus Buried in the Tomb)
of the Stations of The Cross

Part of Rosary Way with life-sized statues (1954, by
Enrico Arrighini of Pietrasanta, Italy) 
representing the original 15 Mysteries of the Rosary

The first of the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary

The backlit 48' tall Rosary Madonna (1959,
by Martin Lumen Winter) was blessed by
Pope John XXIII; it originally stood at
Good Counsel College in White Plains, NY,
then was donated to Marian Shrine in 1977

Rosary Madonna (taken from
RoadsideAmerica.com)

Hope Monument (2018, by Beverly Paddleford)
"Jesus radiates love and mercy to all women who have
lost a child through abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth,
illness or accident" (need I say more?!)

Mary Help of Christians Chapel (2007)

49 Conger Avenue, Haverstraw, NY; this house may have
inspired Edward Hopper's painting The House by the Railroad

This view is closer to the angle of the painting, 
and a railroad track is across the street

The House by the Railroad (1925, by Edward Hopper)