I started using the new Beta version of Google Alerts to notify me when a blog or news article appears for a keyword. I intend to renew my harmonica blogs and maybe find some more interesting content here than I’ve had for a while.

The picture on the left is from a blog that has a daily image of my home town, Nyack (one of the key words that I set alerts for).

I lived on Catherine Street in Nyack in the middle 1950s and behind the house was a creek that ran under all of the shops on Main Street for about 1/2 a mile. The creek runs underground through these large tunnels all the way to the Hudson River. Much later I saw the engineering drawings for these tunnels and they were signed by Peter Lawrence Graham, my Grandfather, who was the Rockland County Engineer back in the early 1900s.

When I was about 5 years old, I went all the way down and back with some older boys who had a flashlight. It was very dark and very scary.

If you get a chance click on Nyack Daily Snapshot. I know all the places that are in the blog and I even recognize some of the people.