In the autumn of 1940, Edward W. Henry was 76 years old. And that’s when the Hastings resident caused a stir in the village by trying to register for the draft. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed the Selective Training and Service Act into law […]
Inviting 700 people to celebrate Thanksgiving at the Hastings High School gym and preparing food for several hundred more homeless people in Yonkers sounds like it’d be chaotic, but decades of experience keeps the chaos in check.