THOSE WHO SERVED   DEDICATED TO "THOSE WHO    SERVED" AT HOME AND ABROAD   FROM 1775-2008   MAY 2008 - SEPTEMBER 2008  RESEARCH - PETER OLEY  CURATOR - BARBARA SCIULLI

"One way to see Irvington at its best is to walk over to Memorial Park on the morning of a national holiday - on Memorial Day, for instance. The music of the high school band will be throbbing over on Main Street and soon the sound will be louder and nearer. The parade will turn into Dows Lane and the Police and Fire Departments in their blue uniforms will be marching, spread wide, in the lead. After them will be the War Veterans carrying the flag proudly. The the ministers of the four churches, the Girl scouts, the Boy Scouts and, at last, blasting away at March time, the ban din green and white uniforms turns in front of the marching column. Mothers and fathers stand on the grass enjoying the sight of their progeny marching by. Here, commuters to new York offices, whose week-day glimpses of Irvington are usually caught in the early morning or at dinner time, find happy companionship with their neighbors who work in the village. The whole view is so like a scene on the cover of a weekly American magazine, that everybody feels a bit self-conscious, but at the same time more than a little proud."|      Written by Carl Carmer in the 1950s      Irvington resident and noted author (1893-1976)