Bulletin Board Oct. 2010
Buzz Baumgold, 1946-2010
Buzz Baumgold, born July 26,
1946, died on August 15. He lived
for his family: his wife of 41 years,
Mary Anne; his children, daughter
Rebecca Baumgold Prenner and
her husband Dr. Jonathan Prenner,
and son Joseph Nicholas Baumgold
and his wife Jennifer Baumgold;
his grandchildren, his great joys,
Sofia and Maxwell Prenner; and his
dogs. He was the fourth generation
of the Baumgold diamond business
that his son Nicholas continues. He
lived in Snedens Landing where he
was a legend on the tennis court.
He was captain of the Columbia
University tennis team, president of
Buzz Baumgold, Inc., and president
of the Snedens Landing Tennis
Association.
Awards for Danny
Lehrecke
On August 29th the film, Children of
Courage: Kids Living with Cancer,
received an Emmy Award in the category
of Outstanding Children’s Programming.
The film Coming Home was also recently
honored with the Edward R. Morrow
Award. Danny Lehrecke did the filming
for the first film and was director of
photography for the second film.
Stiltgrass: Scourge of
the Neighborhood
Japanese Stiltgrass (Microstegium
vimineum) has moved agressively into
Palisades in the last several years, coming
in on truckloads of fill where construction
or utility work is done. It’s an invasive
annual whose seeds are viable in the soil
for more than 5 years; it chokes out other
native species and lawn grasses, and it is
going to seed right about now! Though
it’s easy to pull, for best results the pulling
has to start before the seeds do, and can’t
stop at your property-line – seeds have no
respect for boundaries. Wherever you see
it, pull it (and, if it’s already seeding, bag
it!). For more info go to http://dnr.wi.gov/
invasives/fact/japanstgrass.htm.
Community Announcement
It appears that a resident of Palisades who has two addresses, a PO Box and a street address, does not get their
personal or land use notifications of zone changes because the Town Board’s Building and Zoning departments
only have the street address on file.
When these letters are delivered to our Post Office they are returned because, according to them, your official
address is the PO Box, which is not on file at these departments. In order to correct this, you must submit your PO
Box address to the building department and ask them to make it your “mailing address.”
Also, the Town has set up a Cable Committee to hear from Verizon and Cablevision users about issues they have
with their cable service. I can be contacted for both these issues at: ileenog@aol.com.
Eileen Larkin - (845) 359-6589
Food Heroes by
Georgia Pellegrini
Georgia, granddaughter of Frances
Pellegrini, is a graduate of the French
Culinary Institute in New York, and
has worked in two of New York’s most
esteemed restaurants—Gramercy Tavern
and Blue Hill at Stone Barns. Now she
has written a book titled Food Heroes,
introducing readers to the lively stories of
artisanal food devotees such as New York
mushroom forager Marion Burroughs,
French fig collector Francis Honore, fish
missionary Jon Rowley in Washington
State, and Ugo Buzzio in New York
City, one of the last makers of traditional
dry-cured sausages in the United States.
The book was published in September by
Stewart, Tabori and Chang and sells for
$24.95.
Palisades' Got Talent
Variety Show and Silent Auction to Benefit the Palisades Free Library
A night of fun, music and laughter featuring our own local talent; wine, cheese and appetizers; and auction offerings from area artists, crafts people and merchants.
Saturday, October 23, 7:30 to 10:30pm at the Palisades Community Center. For More Information, please visit www.palisadeslibrary.org. Save the date!
Palis-Agers to Meet October 14
The group will meet again in the Community Room of the Palisades Presbyterian Church at 1:30 on Thursday, October
14. We'll talk about inexpensive, quality foods to buy when you don't feel like cooking. Bring your own ideas and information. As usual, refreshments will be served.
Striped Bass from
the Sky
I live about 50 feet above the Hudson, and
twice recently striped bass have landed
on my lawn, apparently coming from the
sky. The first time Danny Lehrecke, my downstairs
tenant, had just stepped outside about 8:30
in the evening when he startled a bald
eagle flying above. The eagle dropped his
catch, a large striped bass, nearly hitting
Danny. Danny picked up the fish and
rushed inside to show his wife. But she
had just returned from a trip overseas and
was too exhausted to deal with the bass
— she told him to take it away.
Just then the fish wiggled a bit. Danny ran down the stone steps to the river below and returned the fish to the water, hoping he was in time. The fish opened its mouth, took a big swallow of water, and swam away. Two days later when I got up for breakfast I looked out the kitchen window and saw a fish lying on the lawn. It was another striped bass, about 12 inches long, and it was recently dead — there were no insects on it and it seemed quite fresh. I wrapped it and gave it to Danny, who I felt deserved it. It was well below the legal size, but we hadn’t been responsible for catching it, so it seemed OK to eat it.
The ospreys and the eagles have been having a fish war, which probably explains the presence of the striped bass. The ospreys perch on a dead tree near the water and dive for fish, quite successfully. The eagles hang around and try to steal the fish from the ospreys, although they also catch fish on their own.
When I told a neighbor about our striped bass he remarked that many people spend hours trying to catch striped bass, whereas for us they fall from the sky.
Alice Gerard