La Stazione is an Italian restaurant and former train station in the
village of New Paltz in Ulster County, New York. The building was the
first of two railroad stations constructed in the town of New Paltz, and
it is the only former Wallkill Valley Railroad station standing at its
original location. Built in 1870, it burned down in 1907 and was rebuilt
later that year (pictured). The rise of the automobile caused the
railroad to end passenger service in 1937; by 1959 the station was
completely closed and sold off. It was then used by a variety of
businesses and organizations, including a public-access television
station. Freight service along the Wallkill Valley line continued until
1977, when the corridor was shut to regular rail traffic. The building
was in such a state of disrepair by the 1980s that it was almost
demolished, and the nearby tracks were torn up and sold for scrap by
1984. However, the station avoided demolition and was renovated in 1988,
becoming a restaurant in 1999. The adjacent rail corridor was also
rehabilitated, and opened as a public walkway, the Wallkill Valley Rail
Trail. La Stazione was expanded in 2003 and served as the setting for a
scene in a 2008 mob film.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Stazione>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1587:
Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed at Fotheringhay Castle for
her involvement in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Elizabeth I
of England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots>
1855:
A series of mysteriously hoof-like marks known as the Devil's
Footprints appeared in the snow in Devon, England, and continued
throughout the countryside for over 100 miles (160 km).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Footprints>
1879:
Enraged by a controversial umpiring decision, cricket
spectators rioted and attacked the England cricket team during a match
in Sydney, Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Riot_of_1879>
1968:
Local police in Orangeburg, South Carolina, fired into a crowd
of people who were protesting segregation, killing three and injuring
twenty-seven others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangeburg_massacre>
1979:
Denis Sassou Nguesso was chosen as the new President of the
Republic of the Congo after Joachim Yhombi-Opango was forced from power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Sassou_Nguesso>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nunatak:
A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that is surrounded by glacial
ice but is not covered by ice; a peak protruding from the surface ice
sheet.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nunatak>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.
--John Ruskin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Ruskin>