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Date Posted: 10:23:23 01/04/13 Fri
Author: Hysterical Historian
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Catherine St. Her legacy dies.

I see that the destruction of Catherine Street is making a fuss now. Not to be last bastion of nasty Newburghers but I've been around long enough to be dragged down to the point of throwing my hands up and waving the white flag of defeat when it comes to the battle of losing my hometown to bleeding heart liberals, newcomers and people who never had any roots here. The old regime in Newburgh is dead and nobody is listening to any of us who are breathing our last breath. Now they take one of Newburgh's little known legacies. Where is our official historian while all this is taking place? What is our Historical Society doing besides throwing self-serving parties? Where's Warren Cahill? Even the history of the Historical Society tells the story of its failure: It used to be on Clinton Street! Where's Clinton Street today? Anybody seen it?

Newburgh's real history reads like a medical journal of the history of cancer and lately it looks like "Stage 4" while the medical team takes the "wait and see" approach. Ultimately, the patient will die a cruel and brutal death. Newburgh's breathing the death rattle. Throw flowers.

Catherine Street, for anybody who might care to know, got its start when a lowly young lady of no particular means fell in love with a well to do gentleman who lived on Grand Street. Catherine lived on Liberty Street. Forbidden to associate with her upper class love, Catherine would travel at night through the woods that separated the two streets at that time to be with her secret lover. Their love for eachother was so strong that she made the undercover journey enough to wear a path through the woods. Years after the deaths of these two lovers, that path became what we call Catherine Street today.

So like everything else in Newburgh even love gets bashed with apathy and disrespect. It's become the the sad and sickly banner of the city and Catherine now gets trashed. With so much disrespect in this city it' no wonder it started down its own path of self-destruction and today there's no turning the clocks back.

The Historical Society should be taken to the town square and stoned to its death just the way it's stoned Newburgh to death. But wait, the town square is gone too! Maybe the Historical Society saw this coming and arranged for that destruction too.

My white flag is up. One of these days I'll join my predecessors under another headstone and you newcomers and pathetic apathetic bunch can build on my grave too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newburgh_(city),_New_York

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Re: Catherine St. Her legacy dies. -- Mrs. Merrie Widow-Waltz, 22:09:29 02/08/13 Fri