Comments on: Farewell, Millbrook Round Table

By: Al Walker, Long Island, NY

Al Walker, Long Island, NY — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:44:45 +0000

Chris:

Quite a column. I just discovered the literary demise of the Millbrook Round Table while looking it up on Internet as I fondly do about once a year. I just missed the Feb 2009 last issue and just discovered it a year later now. I have happy memories of summers and holidays at the home of my grandparents Perry and Mary Moore and cousin Gertrude in days long gone by. Great memories of the fine Sutherland family. I often picture the view looking down Franklin Avenue from the Library steps towards Tribute Gardens, seeing the sunset above the garden and basking in the light of Millbrook. The Round Table brought back those memories fondly. Instead of the Round Table on the Internet, I’ll just have to take the 110 mile trip in person next time.

By: Debi Barrett Miller

Debi Barrett Miller — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:37:06 +0000

I just started trying to find Hamilton Meserve and found you. This was great reading. I wanted to let Hamilton know that his mother was a friend of my Grandmother’s. Margaret would stay with my Grandmother when she was in Beverly Hills. My Grandmother’s name was Gertrude Gebelt (Gigi). My mom, dad and one sister visited Maggie at her apartment in New York in 1963. She was so gracious and nice to me (us). I just wanted to pass this on to Hamilton Meserve.

By: rodney silvernail

rodney silvernail — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:40:08 +0000

I was a millbrook graduate in 1997. and live in millbrook most of my life and sad the round table is gone.

By: Tom Sipos

Tom Sipos — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:49:56 +0000

I came across this article by accident and am very glad I did. It is with sadness that I lament the closing of the Taconic papers. At the same time there are MANY memories of the people and events that were associated with the papers. The day the mill burned in Pleasant Valley in 1994 stands out as one. Thanks for writing this piece Chris. Hello to Ham and Helen, Diane Zucker, Nancy Lutz, Stu Shinske..

By: Barbara Goodman

Barbara Goodman — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:15:15 +0000

I can still see the back office of the Hyde Park Townsman, where I worked for about a year in 1984. It did a damn good job for that town, and I tried to do one, too. I can remember particularly being proud of scooping the Poughkeepsie Journal (sorry, Stu — and, by the way, you might remember me as Barbara Horner). Mr. Meserve, you and your wife were lovely people to work for, although you didn’t have the boarding house when I was there and boy the salaries were low! I still remember Jim DeFelice and Ray Fashona. I still remember what I wrote — and in fact was looking for an old story of mine for someone at the FDR home when I stumbled upon this elegy. I thought good local papers like the Townsman and the Round Table would last.

By: Chris Shave, former Voice Ledger reporter

Chris Shave, former Voice Ledger reporter — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:12:27 +0000

Dear Chris,
Sorry to say that I’m late for the funeral as I wrote a letter to the editor and then chewed my finger nails waiting for the Poughkeepsie Journal to get around to publishing it.
It ran today and when I checked on-line for Ham and Helen I found your piece. It was a wonderfully written tribute my friend.

By: ALFRED JOHN SMITH

ALFRED JOHN SMITH — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:48:56 +0000

I find that newspapers don’t print the news, “they” make the news. You [newspapers] have no business because you let the “Wal-Mart Family” close every town’s business and put America out of work.

By: Orcutt

Orcutt — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:53:15 +0000

Thank you, Erin. It really is sad, but at the same time I feel that newspapers, and the reading public, didn’t do enough to change with the times. It’s all about interaction with your readers today, and finding ways to deliver personalized content. Anyway, I don’t know who you are, but thank you very much for the compliment and for taking the time to read my column. I hope you visit again soon.

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:45:48 +0000

Newspapers are disappearing every day without much fanfare. You delivered a beautiful and fitting eulogy for the Round Table.

By: Brian Maloney

Brian Maloney — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:49:58 +0000

Well done, Chris. We will all suffer for the loss of small town newspapers. Brian