New York’s Hudson River is one of our country’s most important rivers. Before European settlers came, Native Americans lived along its banks for thousands of years. Later, it played a big part in the development of New York, New England, and even the Midwest. More recently, it also was a major player in the creation of the Clean Water Act in the 1970s. The Hudson River has many stories to tell, and its 315-mile length is beautiful its entire way, from its beginnings in the Adirondacks to its end New York Bay.

Nowadays, people travel by car or by plane the majority of the time, so most don’t get a chance to travel by boat up and down this incredible river. If doing so sounds interesting to you, you’ll be happy to know that it is possible to take a cruise on this river today. American Cruise Lines offers seven-day fall foliage cruises in October that start and finish in New York City; Participants visit several Hudson River towns along the way. Read on to learn more.

As you can see, this is a wonderful way to experience the Hudson. Even if you know this area well, traveling by boat is special. Book your journey with American Cruise Lines today!

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New Orleans is one of the top 15 cities with the highest costs for commuting to work, according to a new study.

People spend $3,637 a year to commute to and from work in the metro area, the study says. That’s $624, or 20.7% more than they spent in 2021, according to the study.

The study found that commuting costs are rising across the US, with Americans spending an average of $2,914 this year compared to $2,157 in 2021 – a 35% increase.

The top 5 costliest cities to commute in are New York City ($4,040/yr.); Rochester, N.Y. ($3,984/yr.); Albany, New York ($3,946/yr.); Jacksonville, Fla. ($3,933/yr.); and Orlando, Fla. ($3,922/yr.).

The study looked at gas prices, commute mileage, auto insurance costs, and wear and tear costs for Americans who drive to work.

The largest contributor to rising costs is rising gas prices, with American commuters estimated to be spending 58% more this year, the study said.

To see the full study, click here.

(NEXSTAR) – Amid rising mortgage rates and fears of a recession, the once-torrid real estate market has cooled dramatically in some US cities.

According to a study from Redfin, the top three and five of the top 10 are all located in California.

San Jose, California, where the median sale price is $1,560,000, cooled the fastest from February 2022 to May 2022. Sacramento, California ($610,000); Oakland, California ($1,070,000); Seattle ($850,000); Stockton, Calif. ($576,000); Boise ($550,000); Denver ($612,000); San Diego ($875,000); Tacoma, Washington ($575,000); and San Francisco ($1,620,000) round out the top 10, respectively.

In Sacramento for example, the median price fell nearly 25%, year over year.

Part of the reason for Northern California’s prominence on the list is that high median sale prices combined with mortgage rates spiking to nearly 6% in spring have simply priced many out of the market.

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“Would-be buyers are shying away because they simply have less money, both for down payments and monthly payments,” San Francisco Redfin agent Joanna Rose said. “More than helped the buyers I see in San Francisco are tech workers, and many of them have seen their employers’ stock prices tumble over the past few months – in a lot of cases, that has cost people six figures. Then there’s inflation: people are paying way more for things like groceries and gas, so they don’t have as much in their monthly budget. On top of that, monthly payments are a lot higher than they used to be, even if prices are slightly down, because of increased rates.”

The study also found that several cities targeted by remote workers looking for a change in lifestyle during the pandemic – Sacramento, Boise, Tacoma, Austin (16th place) and Phoenix (17th place), for example – have seen their attraction wane after demand- driven prices soared above what many could, or now want, to afford.

In contrast, the cooling markets slowest all have median home prices under $600,000, and are mostly located in the Midwest or Northeast.

Albany, New York, where the median sale price was $289,000, was number one, followed by El Paso, Texas ($238,000); Bridgeport, Connecticut ($570,000); Lake County, Illinois ($324,400); Rochester, N.Y. ($212,100); New Brunswick, NJ ($465,000); Cincinnati, Ohio ($265,000); Akron, Ohio ($200,000); New Haven, Connecticut ($310,000); and Virginia Beach, Virginia ($325,000).

The real estate slowdown now has home builders bracing for tougher times, according to a survey obtained by MarketWatch from John Burns Real Estate Consulting.

“Scary times,” one Nashville-based home builder said. “Hoard cash and hang on for the ride!”

The monthly survey found that a quarter of builders across 84 markets are reducing prices as demand falters, while others are forced to cancel projects after buyers back out of contracts.

“Someone turned out the lights on our sales in June!” one builder in Atlanta told survey-takers.

The greatest rate of cancellations was in Texas, followed by the Southwest and Northern California.

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From this week’s episode of the Announcer Schedules Podcast, mike gill other Phil de Montmollin welcome ESPN Radio play-by-play extraordinaire Marc Kestecher to discuss a career that has taken him from Albany, New York to Cleveland to become the national radio voice of the NBA Finals.

Marc gives us details on what it was like to call the recently concluded NBA title series between won by Golden State over Boston. In addition to Kestecher’s play-by-play duties, he is also the lead studio host for the MLB World Series on ESPN Radio.

He also works the studio for the College Football Playoff Semifinals and National Championship game. And, Kestecher has also served as a reporter for ESPN Radio’s coverage of major events such as the Super Bowl and US Open Championship.

Plus, Kestecher reflects on his bringing up in Albany, his time at Syracuse University, his first big breaks in business, and much more in a captivating conversation.

For previous interviews, check out last week’s “Announcer Schedules Podcast” discussion with Rick Allen of NBC Sports, or the previous week’s discussion with Kevin Kugler of Fox Sports. You can also check out the flagship Sports Media Watch podcast interview with Lindsay Czarniak. Plus, the George Ofman “Tell Me A Story I Don’t Know” podcast features interviews with sports media professionals every week.

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Obituary of Marion Esther Whittemore
Marion Esther Mitchell Whittemore was born on December 7, 1924, in Cambridge, New York to Anthony Mitchell and Florence Estelle Sheldon. She grew up in West Pawlet, Vermont and attended and graduated from Granville High School in 1942. Her family moved to Connecticut for jobs during World War II and she worked for a period of time at Scoville Manufacturing in Waterbury, Connecticut helping to produce war munitions . She attended Albany Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Albany, New York, graduating as a Registered Nurse in 1947. During that time, she met her future Husband Ralph. Ralph worked as a bus driver for the Red Line Bus Company that Marion used to commute from school in Albany to her home in Waterbury. They fell in love and after she graduated, they decided to leave Connecticut and drove cross country to Reno, Nevada where they were married on February 28, 1948. Their stay was shortened by the death of her Father-in-Law back in Hartford Connecticut . They moved back to Connecticut and Marion began working as a registered nurse in the emergency room at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. Their son Lee was born in 1952 and their daughter Lynn in 1954. Shortly after her birth, they decided to move out of the city to a more rural setting and bought a home in Collinsville, Connecticut. They raised their children and lived there for the next 25 years. In 1978, Ralph retired from Pratt & Whitney Aircraft after 30 years and Marion retired early at the same time so they enjoy their retirement together. They sold their Connecticut home and moved to Pawlet, Vermont to their chalet on the hill and began to live there full time. They stayed there until 2003, when they decided to move to California to be closer to Lynn in the sunny climate of Southern California. Ralph passed in 2005 and Marion decided to stay in California. She stayed fairly healthy well into her 90s. Because of Lynn’s caregiving, she was very cognizant and physically active right up until the last 3 weeks of her life. She passed peacefully in her sleep on June 18, 2022 with her daughter Lynn by her side comforting her.
She was preceded in death by her Husband Ralph, Parents Anthony and Florence Mitchell, an older Brother Howard and his Wife Frances, and her younger Brother Floyd and a Stepson Robert Whittemore. She is survived by her Son Lee and Wife Anisa, her Daughter Lynn, Step Daughter Patricia Marr, Grandchildren Katherine Lee Mininger and Husband Joshua, Great Grandchildren Jackson, Elliott, Levi and Claire, Grandson Derek Whittemore and Wife Michelle, Great grandchildren Thea, Judah and Adelaide, Grandson Ian and Wife Ally, Great grandchildren Emily and Zoe, Granddaughter Elise and her Fiancé Layne, a Sister in law Ruth Mitchell, Nephews Floyd Jr, Mark, Phillip and niece Patricia, step Granddaughter Kendra, Husband Chase, step Great Grandsons Maverick and Colt.
Marion was a very loving and devoted Wife and Mother, a hard working compassionate nurse and a true friend to many people in her life. She and Ralph traveled to many places and could boast of friends from around the world. Many people came to visit them in their home in Vermont and were always made to feel welcome. At home with Lynn, she would take daily walks around the park and easily made friends with her neighbors. One of Marion’s early favorite sayings was, “never rest until good is better and better is best.” A silence breaker was, “now back at the ranch”, and if it was taking a while too long to get ready to go somewhere, she would joke about “moving like a herd of turtles”. Marion will be greatly missed and we rejoice in the fact that she is together with loved ones again. We are so grateful for the years that she was in all of our lives. Rest In Peace Marion.
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Families found both kites and sand-sculpting equipment at Onset Beach on Saturday in a reimagined Family Beach Day that combined two previous events: Kite Festival and Sandcastle Day.

“We have a good time,” Rodney Johnson, also known as “Rodney the Sandman,” said as he prepared piles of sand for his sculpture.

He spent hours recreating the shark from “Jaws,” with the shark’s head erupting out of the beach, sandy maw agape.

The day was put on by the Onset Beach Association. Volunteers helped sell kites, point families toward the nearby story walk and hand out sandcastle-making equipment.

North End resident Ned Shamon was the first kid to design his own kite at the event. Armed with plenty of markers and a blank kite, he got to work filling in shapes of purple, yellow and green across his soon-to-be-airborne creation.

His dad, also named Ned, said they heard about Family Beach Day in a Boston Globe article and decided to make the trip down to enjoy the day.

Some beachgoers came from even farther away to play in the sun and sand; the Murphy family drove three hours from their home in Albany, New York, to have fun in Onset on Saturday, father John Murphy said.

Four-year-old Isla Murphy designed her own kite too, covering it with her name and drawings of rainbows. Giggling with glee, she took her kite to the sky with help from her parents.

Along the sidewalk near the Onset Bay Center, families strolled by a temporary story walk. Posts anchored in the sand were adorned with pages from a picture book about shells, which inspired some to go looking for beach treasures.

Linda Milne took her family along the story walk, reading aloud while pointing to each line for her grandson, 2-year-old Oliver Jerome.

After learning about all the different kinds of shells on the beach, Milne said they would grab some buckets to find shells of their own along the sandy shore.

(NEXSTAR) – Amid rising mortgage rates and fears of a recession, the once-torrid real estate market has cooled dramatically in some US cities.

According to a study from Redfin, the top three and five of the top 10 are all located in California.

San Jose, California, where the median sale price is $1,560,000, cooled the fastest from February 2022 to May 2022. Sacramento, California ($610,000); Oakland, California ($1,070,000); Seattle ($850,000); Stockton, Calif. ($576,000); Boise ($550,000); Denver ($612,000); San Diego ($875,000); Tacoma, Washington ($575,000); and San Francisco ($1,620,000) round out the top 10, respectively.

In Sacramento for example, the median price fell nearly 25%, year over year.

Part of the reason for Northern California’s prominence on the list is that high median sale prices combined with mortgage rates spiking to nearly 6% in spring have simply priced many out of the market.

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“Would-be buyers are shying away because they simply have less money, both for down payments and monthly payments,” San Francisco Redfin agent Joanna Rose said. “More than helped the buyers I see in San Francisco are tech workers, and many of them have seen their employers’ stock prices tumble over the past few months – in a lot of cases, that has cost people six figures. Then there’s inflation: people are paying way more for things like groceries and gas, so they don’t have as much in their monthly budget. On top of that, monthly payments are a lot higher than they used to be, even if prices are slightly down, because of increased rates.”

The study also found that several cities targeted by remote workers looking for a change in lifestyle during the pandemic – Sacramento, Boise, Tacoma, Austin (16th place) and Phoenix (17th place), for example – have seen their attraction wane after demand- driven prices soared above what many could, or now want, to afford.

In contrast, the cooling markets slowest all have median home prices under $600,000, and are mostly located in the Midwest or Northeast.

Albany, New York, where the median sale price was $289,000, was number one, followed by El Paso, Texas ($238,000); Bridgeport, Connecticut ($570,000); Lake County, Illinois ($324,400); Rochester, N.Y. ($212,100); New Brunswick, NJ ($465,000); Cincinnati, Ohio ($265,000); Akron, Ohio ($200,000); New Haven, Connecticut ($310,000); and Virginia Beach, Virginia ($325,000).

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The real estate slowdown now has home builders bracing for tougher times, according to a survey obtained by MarketWatch from John Burns Real Estate Consulting.

“Scary times,” one Nashville-based home builder said. “Hoard cash and hang on for the ride!”

The monthly survey found that a quarter of builders across 84 markets are reducing prices as demand falters, while others are forced to cancel projects after buyers back out of contracts.

“Someone turned out the lights on our sales in June!” one builder in Atlanta told survey-takers.

The greatest rate of cancellations was in Texas, followed by the Southwest and Northern California.

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(NEXSTAR) — Amid rising mortgage rates and fears of a recession, the once-torrid real estate market has cooled dramatically in some US cities.

According to a study from Redfin, the top three and five of the top 10 are all located in California.

San Jose, California, where the median sale price is $1,560,000, cooled the fastest from February 2022 to May 2022. Sacramento, California ($610,000); Oakland, California ($1,070,000); Seattle ($850,000); Stockton, Calif. ($576,000); Boise ($550,000); Denver ($612,000); San Diego ($875,000); Tacoma, Washington ($575,000) and San Francisco ($1,620,000) round out the top 10.

In Sacramento for example, the median price fell nearly 25%, year over year.

Part of the reason for Northern California’s prominence on the list is that high median sale prices combined with mortgage rates spiking to nearly 6% in spring have simply priced many out of the market.

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“Would-be buyers are shying away because they simply have less money, both for down payments and monthly payments,” San Francisco Redfin agent Joanna Rose said. “More than helped the buyers I see in San Francisco are tech workers, and many of them have seen their employers’ stock prices tumble over the past few months – in a lot of cases, that has cost people six figures.”

Then there’s inflation.

“People are paying way more for things like groceries and gas, so they don’t have as much in their monthly budget,” Rose said. “On top of that, monthly payments are a lot higher than they used to be, even if prices are slightly down, because of increased rates.”

The study also found that several cities targeted by remote workers looking for a change in lifestyle during the pandemic – Sacramento, Boise, Tacoma, Austin (16th place) and Phoenix (17th place) – have seen their attraction wane after demand-driven prices soared above what many could, or now want, to afford.

In contrast, the cooling markets slowest all have median home prices under $600,000 and are mostly located in the Midwest or Northeast.

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Albany, New York, where the median sale price was $289,000, was number one, followed by El Paso, Texas ($238,000); Bridgeport, Connecticut ($570,000); Lake County, Illinois ($324,400); Rochester, N.Y. ($212,100); New Brunswick, NJ ($465,000); Cincinnati, Ohio ($265,000); Akron, Ohio ($200,000); New Haven, Connecticut ($310,000); and Virginia Beach, Virginia ($325,000).

The real estate slowdown now has home builders bracing for tougher times, according to a survey obtained by MarketWatch from John Burns Real Estate Consulting.

“Scary times,” one Nashville-based home builder said. “Hoard cash and hang on for the ride!”

The monthly survey found that a quarter of builders across 84 markets are reducing prices as demand falters, while others are forced to cancel projects after buyers back out of contracts.

“Someone turned out the lights on our sales in June!” one builder in Atlanta told survey-takers.

The greatest rate of cancellations was in Texas, followed by the Southwest and Northern California.

Edmonia Lewis thought she had found her place. It was the 1860s in Ohio, and she had enrolled in Oberlin College, an institution with a reputation for progressive thinking that welcomed women and marginalized groups—both traditionally shunned by higher education.

Lewis, who was of Black and Native American descent, struggled with discrimination relating to her gender and ethnicity. Oberlin promised a respite from it. Instead, her time at college became the most trying period of her life. Whatever philosophies Oberlin’s administrators espoused had little to do with the racism that flowed through the country and down through the school’s hallways.

Two white students accused Lewis of slipping drugs into their drinks. When that matter was settled, she was then abducted and beaten in an apparent retaliation for the alleged poisoning. After Lewis recovered, more tumult followed: She was accused of stealing art supplies and prevented from registering to complete her final semester.

The trials would make—not break—her. Learning the craft of sculpting, creating work, and expressing herself through sculpture became her life’s work. Rather than be cowed by the prejudices of the era, Lewis shaped her own identity in clay and marble, moving beyond her tumultuous experience to become one of the most renowned sculptors of the 19th century.

Lewis’s medallion of Boston resident George Scott Winslow. /HeritageImages/GettyImages

Edmonia was the middle name of May Lewis, who was born in 1844 near Albany, New York. A lack of record-keeping—and Lewis being an unreliable narrator of her own life—makes it hard to make conclusive statements, but it’s widely believed she was born to a Black father and a mother who was part Chippewa.

After her parents died (the cause is unknown), she was raised by her aunts and cared for by a half-brother who had the financial means to give her a good education. She wound up at Oberlin, where the promise of a quality education was marred by her experiences. After she was accused of poisoning two white students, prominent attorney (and Oberlin graduate) John Mercer Langston agreed to defend her on the charges and garnered an acquittal due to a lack of evidence. The beating she received by unknown assailants while awaiting her arraignment was said to have been so severe, her kidnappers had left her for dead. The continued accusations of theft led Lewis to leave Oberlin; it was clear the situation was only going to get worse.

She traveled to Boston to continue her study of art and sculpture, where noted sculptor Edward Brackett spotted her innate talent and offered to train her. While in Boston, Lewis crafted medallions of noted abolitionists, learning what she could despite not being able to afford the anatomy classes that were typically open to white male sculptors. She used Brackett’s bust of John Brown as a model for the medallions she sold.

Her ultimate goal was to head to Rome—the hub of some of the best sculpting work being done at the time—to pursue work in the neoclassical movement, which saw artists embracing the approach of the iconic Greek and Roman sculptors. Lewis was able to accomplish that when copies of her bust of abolitionist and Civil War Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (a white officer who led a Black regiment and died during the war) sold at a price high enough to pay her travel expenses.

In Rome, Lewis found opportunity and mentorship, but also had to tread carefully. While many sculptors had a team of assistants to help when carving stone, they avoided them, afraid critics might assign too much credit or charge the work wasn’t hers. But she couldn’t escape all scrutiny: People criticized her decision to live in a commune with other American (and white) sculptors. Author Henry James (The Turn of the Screw) observed that Lewis’s skin color, not her talent, “was the pleading agent of her fame.”

Indeed, many portraits of Lewis in the media focused on how unusual it was to have a Black woman sculptor on the scene. The condescending portrayal annoyed her—Lewis said she had moved to Rome to avoid such misguided scrutiny. “I was practically driven to Rome,” she told one reporter, “in order to obtain the opportunities for art-culture, and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.”

It’s possible Lewis grew so disenchanted with such mischaracterizations that she began to toy with her own biography, sometimes claiming she first became interested in sculpture when she saw a Benjamin Franklin statue in Boston and decided it would be fun to make a “stone man” herself . Other times, she claimed she grew up fishing and living off the land. If people wanted to assume Lewis was uneducated or naïve, then she appeared willing to provide fodder for it.

But even a cursory look at Lewis’s efforts revealed they were informed by talent, drive, and an incredibly personal ambition. One of her key pieces during this period was Forever Free, which depicts a Black enslaved man holding his arm aloft, broken shackles dangling from his wrist. Busts of Abraham Lincoln and Henry Wordsworth Longfellow followed. Lewis, a converted Catholic, also produced pieces with religious resonance, including busts of Jesus Christ and Madonna and child.

In time, Lewis’s work spoke loudly enough for her that few could dismiss it. In Rome, she was visited by Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant. One piece could earn her thousands of dollars—a hefty sum in the 19th century.

But Lewis’s defining work would come when she returned to the United States in time for the country’s centennial.

‘The Death of Cleopatra’ caused a stir. / Anna Moneymaker/GettyImages

Lewis had admirers in the States, and would often travel back to arrange for sales of her pieces. For the 1876 centennial in Philadelphia, she debuted The Death of Cleopatra. It was, aesthetically, a triumph—a 3000-pound study that commanded the eye. Like most good art, it was also celebrated and vilified in equal measure.

The Death of Cleopatra depicts the Egyptian queen in the moments following her demise, one naked breast exposed from her clothing. Critics charged that it was morbid and tasteless; others considered it a highlight of the centennial’s art exhibition.

For Lewis, it was a feeling of vindication. At the exhibition, she saw other works rejected by the committee. When Cleopatra was unboxed, she froze. “I scarcely breathed,” she said. ”I felt as though I was nothing. They opened the box, looked at the work, talked together a moment, and then I heard the order given to place it in such a position.”

After her success at the centennial, Lewis continued to create and travel, drawing inspiration from her locales. She moved to Paris in 1896, and then to London in 1891. She remained there until her death from kidney disease in 1907.

While heralded in life, Lewis’s death seemed to quiet her supporters. Her grave was unmarked, and many of her works were lost. Those that surfaced were sometimes found to have been neglected. In 2003, Sotheby’s auctioned off Night, a sculpture of two slumbering infants said to have been heavily stained with nicotine. The Baltimore Museum of Art purchased it for $130,720.

In 2015, Lewis’s bust of Jesus was discovered in a cupboard in Scotland. It had once belonged to John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, the 3rd Marquess of Bute, who was an admirer of Lewis’s around the time she sculpted the piece in 1870. (Crichton-Stuart was Catholic and a staunch advocate for women’s rights, which likely led to his support.) The bust remained in private hands until just a few years ago, where its discovery helped lead to renewed interest in Lewis and her work.

Incredibly, the death of Cleopatra had a far more ignoble fate. After it was exhibited at the centennial, Lewis couldn’t afford to ship the massive piece back to Rome and had to leave it behind. Without being in the care of an art lover or collector, the sculpture wound up in a saloon, then was later used as a marker for a horse’s grave at racetrack, where graffiti was covered up by common house paint. Lewis biographer Marilyn Richardson eventually tracked the piece down in a suburban shopping mall’s storage room; after its rescue, the sculpture was eventually sent to the Smithsonian.

This year has also seen the release of an Edmonia Lewis postage stamp as part of the USPS Black Heritage Stamp series in concert with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Whether more of her work is discovered or not, it seems the world is no longer likely to forget the contributions of Edmonia Lewis.

Andrew “Andy” J.Van Abs

Canaan, NH — Andrew John Van Abs, 75, of Canaan, NH died peacefully at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center on July 4th, 2022 with his loving wife, Susan, by his side.

Born in Albany, New York on January 1, 1947, Andy was the son of Charlotte Mae (Bell) and Arno (Van) Willhelm Van Abs. Andy was not the first New Year Baby in Albany and always felt guilty about that because his parents could have used the prizes offered. As a result, Andy was more than punctual at arriving to appointments throughout his life.

Andy was predeceased by his parents, Char and Van. In addition to his wife of 22 years, he leaves his sisters, Barbara Mirus (Jeffrey) and Carol Crowell (J Douglas); brothers, Daniel Van Abs (Janet) and William Van Abs (Susan); Nieces, Katherine, Mara, and Anne; and Nephews, Christopher, Peter, Matthew, and Thomas. He also leaves behind his furry children, Duke, Kallie, Cole, Jake, and Valentina.

Growing up in Chester, Virginia, Andy developed a love of learning, the outdoors and spending time on the water. These developed further into a love of reading, swimming, and sailing. His family spent summer vacations on Burden Lake and Indian Lake in New York. Andy, even as a child, was curious to find solutions to problems. Andy also achieved the highest honor of Eagle Scout from the Boy Scouts of America.

Andy graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1970 with a BSEE. He was the Chief Engineer of the Campus Radio Station, a member of the Theater Club, and did the work/Study program.

As an engineer, Andy could figure out any problem and provide a viable solution. He was extremely good at understanding complex technologies and explaining them to just about any non-technical person. He held various positions throughout his career at notable companies such as IBM, Interleaf, Camex, BEA Systems, and Dell Computer.

Friends and family are invited to a Celebration of Life on Sunday, July 24, at 2:00 pm at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 5 Summer Street, Hanover, NH 03755.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the KEG Animal Rescue, 125 Birdsong Ln, Lexington, TN 38351 or via PayPal at [email protected]

To leave a message of remembrance or condolence, please visit the online guestbook at www.rickerfuneralhome.com.

Published by Valley News on Jul. 16, 2022.

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