Talk:Larchmont, New York

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[edit] Emblem

As a resident of Larchmont, I have never seen that emblem. Is there a source for it?

I do not know the source, however I have seen this emblem on signs posted when entering the Village (I live in the unincorporated part). Note well the sign at the intersection of Myrtle Blvd., Murray Avenue, and Chatsworth Avenues, and also on the Boston Post Road when coming from New Rochelle.

Re Emblem: I believe your query relates to the "Neptune" portal sign. It was created c. 1940 by C. Paul Jennewien, a celebrated sculptor who lived in Larchmont for 53 years until his death in 1978. Among Jennewein's most important works are the large aluminum figures in the Dept. of Justice Building in D.C. According to Jennewein's son, the sculptor chose Neptune as his subject for the Larchmont signs "because Larchmont is a waterfront community and fishing was his favorite pastime." See Larchmont: Images of America, by Judith Doolin Spikes, Arcadia Publishing, copyright 2003.

[edit] Dillons

I was born and raised in Larchmont. Matt and Kevin Dillon are from the nieghboring village of Mamaroneck and have never lived in Larchmont.

Agreed. The Dillons did (and family still does) live in Mamaroneck, not Larchmont. Gsd97jks (talk) 17:53, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

The village of Larchmont and the village of Mamaroneck combine to form the town of Mamoroneck. It is an odd formulation. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.106.181.15 (talk) 11:02, 14 April 2007 (UTC).

Everything about the "Underground Railroad" needs documentation to weed out the errors. For example, Peter Jay Munro was the son of Henry Munro, a Church of England missionary at Philipsburgh Manor and , in 1765, the first rector of St. John's Church in Yonkers. See O'Callaghan, Documentary History of the State of New York, III, pp. 410-411, 949, et passim. If there is any documentation of his conversion to the Society of Friends, it should be posted. Also, the only evidence (as opposed to rumor) I have ever seen of "tunnels" connected to Munro's country house (now generally known as The Manor House, the name it was given when used as an inn in the late 19th century--is a c. 1860 map on which are drawn the large pipes that once connected the house and various outbuildings to an underground steam generator (for heating purposes). The "underground tunnel leading down to Long Island Sound that was part of the Underground Railroad" is a myth that in the early 20th century was connected to a different, less old house several blocks away. How it got disconnected from that house and reconnected to the Manor House I have never understood--but it HAS come to my attention that most of the people subscribing to the myth believe that the Underground Railroad was, literally, underground! --J.D. Spikes, Larchmont Village Historian