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Stony Point

American  

noun

  1. a village in SE New York, on the Hudson: site of a strategic fort in the Revolutionary War.


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Another is Camp Bullowa in Stony Point, where a local official has inquired as to whether the town could purchase it and maintain it for scouting and other recreation.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 2, 2021

Among the many highlights of John Cage: A Mycological Foray are William Gedney’s candid photographs of Cage on a foraging expedition in the woods around Stony Point in 1967.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2020

But it opened at Brancato’s Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, N.Y., in 2000 and has been traveling to regional theaters ever since.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2017

Richards, who taught literature and drama, abandoned her husband for another faculty member, the composer David Tudor; together with Cage and others, they soon established the fabled commune the Land in Stony Point, New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2015

One of your best generals hath come over to us, and you have won but two victories in nearly three years—Paulus Hook and Stony Point.

From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Madison, Lucy Foster

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