Less picturesque today, perhaps, Croton is, nevertheless, a pleasant little modern community with its happy homes, its fine schools, its train service, its churches and its contented people.

MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST HUDSON RIVER CONSERVATION SOCIETY MEETING The annual meeting of the Hudson River Conservation Society was held at the Dykeman-Cruger House ("Boscobel"), in Cruger Park, on June 21. During the meeting, Mr. Harvey Stevenson of Crotonon-Hudson, a newly elected director of the group, spoke on the history of "Boscobel" and praised the Westchester County Park Commission for its care of the building. He emphasized the value of this building as unique both because of the gracious beauty of the mansion and because, since its erection about 1795, it has not been altered. The society pledged support to the Westchester County Historical Society in efforts to preserve this house and offered to act as temporary custodian of any funds raised for such purpose. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken, president of Vassar College and chief speaker at the meeting said: "The deeper we go into the subject of conservation, the guiltier we must feel for our neglect of our heritage. American educators, particularly, are to blame for not having appreciated, until recently, the social significance of the scene around and before us. We are all alike responsible for the desecration we have allowed to occur .... we must preserve our ancient shrines .... we must conserve both natural and human resources."

COUNTY SOLDIERS' GRAVES LOCATED A project under the direction of Mr. Thomas F. Hammond, designed to locate the graves of Westchester County men who have served in the thirty-two wars of this country and undertaken as a joint project of the County and the W.P.A., is said to be nearing completion. Work on this project was started January 1, 1939 as the result of a plan conceived at the American Legion Convention at New York City in 1937.