The LEGENDS Issue, No. 19 launching columbus day weekend

A CONVERSATION WITH Ray Turner

Interview By MICHAEL MUNDY Photographed by JOSE ALVARADO

In the small town of Hancock, where the Delaware River cuts through the trees and the air smells like wood smoke, Ray Turner lives a life that doesn’t beg for attention. Engineer by trade, craftsman by choice, and fisherman by instinct, he pulled eels from the river for four decades with the same quiet persistence that marks everything he does. Now retired, Turner straddles the line between a life of action and a life of contemplation, with equal parts tradition and reflection.

  • How One New York Paleobotanist Discovered The Oldest Trees In The World

    Dr. Charles Van Straeten is a paleobotanist at the New York State Museum, and in 2018, he and his team made a remarkable discovery right here in our region: a 385-million-year-old forest, the oldest in the world. By Eddie Brannan | Photo: Noah Kalina

  • CHECKING IN WITH THE SPIRITS

    The Shanley Hotel in Napanoch, NY is a mid-19th century building that serves as a home for the supernatural first and a hotel second. Here, ghost hunting is more than a spooky pastime—it’s a way of life. By Sarah Lyons | Photo: Clay Banks

  • Road Trip

    BARRYVILLE, NY As the sun sets, you walk across the bridge from New York to Pennsylvania, looking for “a red staircase” that leads to a dive bar everyone references with a knowing smile. You think about Polanski movies. — Andree Ljutica

  • Flavor

    Food scholar, interpreter and educator, Lavada Nahon weaves together the shared lives of early Americans one historic hearth at a time. — Janet Mercel

  • Gimme Shelter

    Ricky Boscarino found his house in 1988. He took one look at the abandoned hunting cabin and told the realtor this would be where he would spend the rest of his life. — Barbara de Vries

  • Free Range

    A grove of willows grows around the pond. Their branches bend to the breeze, brush the pollen-dusted surface, touch the deep green algae underneath. A man with gray stubble wades into the still water wearing steel-toed boots. — Marino Bubba

meet your maker

FULL SPEED AHEAD: FORREST “FROSTY” MYERS

If you’ve ever stood at the southwest corner of Houston and Broadway and looked up, you’ve seen it: an art installation titled The Wall. On a blue rectangle eight stories tall and as wide as the building, there’s an array of 42 aluminum boxes, 8” high x 4” wide x 5’ long, painted green and nested onto channel irons to make T shapes. The aluminum stem of each “T” sticks out like a gnomon, the perpendicular bar that casts the shadow on a sundial. Forrest “Frosty” Myers built The Wall back in 1973. Half a century later, it remains, securing a permanent place for his legacy as the “Gateway to Soho” for New Yorkers and visitors alike.

BY HOVEY BROCK | PHOTO: MICHAEL MUNDY

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Andree Lijutica, Barbara de Vries, Eddie Brannan, Hovey Brock, Marino Bubba, Sarah Lyons

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS

Adrianna Newell, Barbara de Vries, Clay Banks, Jose Alvarado, Mikala Gallo, Noah Kalina, Peter Crosby, Stephan Schacher

 

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