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Mimi Kennedy hopes Mom’s legacy shows others that there is always hope

ctress Mimi Kennedy has had quite the career these past four decades. She toured the country in National Lampoon’s Comedy Tour, starred in the variety show 3 Girls 3, portrayed Abby O’Neil on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg, has written a memoir—and that is only just scratching the surface. For the past seven years, Kennedy has portrayed Marjorie Armstrong-Perugian, the strong voice of reason and AA sponsor to the dysfunctional mother/daughter duo Bonnie and Christy Plunkett, who are portrayed by Allison Janney and Anna Faris, respectively, on CBS’ critically acclaimed hit show Mom, which deals with the everyday issues of substance abuse and the steps to recovery. Growing up in Rochester, like most kids all Kennedy really wanted was some attention, which often resulted in her acting out, pretending, singing to or mimicking people who were around her. It’s safe to say that Kennedy received the attention she yearned for and ended right in the center of the Hollywood spotlight.

“I did the National Lampoon Comedy Tour with my friends Jim Steinman, Meatloaf and my husband Larry Dilg,” Kennedy said. “We toured the college circuit and many of them were in New York. I think we were out on Long Island and Oswego. There were a lot of places, and I’m from Rochester so it was like home.” The National Lampoon Comedy Tour that Kennedy was part of originally starred comedians Jim Belushi, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray, who had all gone on to do Saturday Night Live, a show that Kennedy was actually supposed to be on. “I remember watching the debut of Saturday Night Live in Oswego in a deserted student union and I had been picked to do that opening show with a parody of Helen Reddy’s ‘I Am Woman,’” Kennedy recalled. “The parody laws were different and at the last minute they didn’t let me have the music so that part was recast. I remember thinking with my heart sinking that the fame train just left and I was supposed to be on it. But it was still

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From left: Anna Faris as Christy, Allison Janney as Bonnie and Mimi Kennedy as Marjorie. (Photo by Robert Voets/Warner Bros. Entertainment) fun riding around in a van [during the comedy tour] and that led to 3 Girls 3 with Ellen Foley, who was in on the Lampoon Tour with me, and Debbie Allen. I loved doing that. It was just overnight stardom and we were Hollywood girls with Bob Mackie gowns and Emmy Award-winning orchestrations. It was great.” Fast forward to many years later, Mom, which is one of the many brain children of television writer and producer Chuck Lorre, had a role for a veteran AA sponsor that needed casting. After being unimpressed with the prior readings they’d had, someone recommended Kennedy for the role. She got a phone call soon after.

“They did some readings and I heard that one of the people in the room said that Mimi Kennedy would give us a better reading than anything we’ve heard,” Kennedy said. “So they called me up and said to show up at the table read and I did. I’ve worked with Chuck on Dharma & Greg, and Eddie Gorodetsky and Chuck Lorre had both been writers on Dharma & Greg and they knew me and they said, ‘This is going to work.’ So I did that as a guest star. I did a few other [episodes] as a guest star and they asked if I’d like to be a regular and we made a deal. I was very happy because

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From left: Beth Hall as Wendy, Jaime Pressly as Jill, Anna Faris as Christy and Mimi Kennedy as Marjorie (Photo by Robert Voets/Warner Bros. Entertainment)

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Peter Onorati plays Wayne, Marjorie’s love interest.

Allison Janney as Bonnie and Mimi Kennedy as Marjorie

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MIMI KENNEDY from page 3A I loved Anna Faris and Allison Janney and I just thought that this was great. I also loved what it was saying. I’m all for the 12-step program.” This season on Mom, Christy returns to school to pursue her dream of becoming a lawyer while Bonnie attempts to have a healthy romantic relationship with her new husband, Adam, who is portrayed by William Fichtner. So what is in store for Marjorie this season? “Marjorie has a little bit of a love interest this season; a little flirtation,” Kennedy said. “She’s been a widow for a year and she removes her wedding

ring from Victor. Peter Onorati, who is a friend of mine—we were in a show called Joe’s Life together for a year, he played my brother-in-law—he comes on [this season]. Last season, you saw me in Canada at a 12-step convention and somebody off camera throws a snowball at me and I say, ‘Oh, Wayne! You devil!’ Well, Peter Onorati shows up as Wayne.” With a hilarious cast that includes Janney, Faris, Kristen Johnston, Jaime Pressly and Beth Hall, Kennedy said it’s some of the best times that she’s ever had acting. “My old acting teachers used to tell

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me, ‘Do all the work and then leave it all behind,’” Kennedy explained. “When you’re actually pretending to be someone else, you don’t want the work to show; you just want it to flow. Allison and Anna do that to a T. There’s no mistake on why Allison has an Academy award. She’s incredibly gifted and so is Anna. Anna is so funny and so bright, but it’s easy work because as long as we know our lines, pretty much the situations flow from character and now we know our characters, so I just enjoy it. I can compare it to being a little girl where you have school and then you go home and play dolls. That’s the fun part of the day and I feel like I’m playing dolls.” And with a hilarious cast come hilarious moments including one moment that involved Janney’s character that Kennedy will never forget. “My favorite of all time was when Allison’s character Bonnie came over for some advice from Marjorie and I was watching man-on-man porn,” Kennedy laughed. “She said something like ‘too many balls’ and I said, ‘That’s actually the name of this one.’ They had just changed that line and it was a surprise to Allison. She didn’t know that’s what I was going to say and we just got laughing so hard. It was hysterical. And I look back and I think ‘Wow. We’ve become a little bit more of a family-friendly show.’” So how does Kennedy hope to see Marjorie grow as Mom continues on? “I just like the fact that Marjorie obviously learns how to take care of herself after a long use of physical and mental abuse and now she takes care of herself and she’s aging pretty well,” Kennedy said. “There’s a lot ahead of her. She has the energy to nurture other people’s recovery to love. I really like that. Plus, it’s just so damn funny. People don’t realize that in 22 minutes it’s almost like you’re doing haiku. You know how you can remember a haiku poem better than

you can remember Milton’s Paradise Lost? Well that’s how this is. As long as Marjorie keeps her sense of humor intact, I just look forward to whatever they have me doing. It’s all wonderful and again because it’s about recovery, there is always hope.” When Kennedy isn’t filming the show, she is involved with charitable organizations such as Homeboy Industries in downtown Los Angeles. “It was started by Father Greg Boyle, who has become a friend, and his motto is ‘Nothing stops a bullet like a job’ and I have seen Homeboy Industries grow into an amazing operation,” Kennedy explained. “They have a bakery. They have a beautiful community center with art therapy and they do great work. It’s like recovery for an entire population and community. This is making strong political and artistic leaders in the community of downtown LA. I support almost anybody who asks if I can do that. Of course, cancer recovery and hope centers, but I must say that Homeboy Industries has a place in my heart and the rest of it a lot of times is political. If I see somebody that is on Martin Luther King’s nonviolence spectrum in their approach to global or national politics, I’m all in.” In the end, Kennedy said that she hopes Mom is remembered for years to come for its hilarity and its strong female cast. “There is a way to a recovery no matter what your addiction is, whether it’s food, shopping, booze or drugs,” Kennedy said. “We show that there’s really a good way to do it in community and it always gives you hope that your life could change as long as you work hard on yourself and you take it one day at a time. That’s what I want them to remember.” Catch Mom on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on CBS.

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Get to know the cast of CBS’ hit show Mom BY ANTHONY MURRAY

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Whether they’re eating at their popular hangout spot Burgundy Bistro or are attending one of their weekly Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, Bonnie and Christy Plunkett, along with their friends Marjorie, Wendy, Jill and Tammy, are always there to listen and help each other through all their problems. And let’s face it, there are a lot of problems that these women have to sort through. Meet the cast of Mom.

Bonnie Plunkett

(Played by Allison Janney)

Bonnie Plunkett

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Bonnie began drinking at the age of 15 and was in the foster care system since she was four. After being bounced around from house to house, she ran off with her boyfriend Alvin and became pregnant with Christy. From then on, Bonnie tried her best to raise Christy, who ended up raising herself. When Christy was a child, Bonnie would do drugs, get drunk and occasionally commit felonies, sometimes taking Christy along. Having gotten sober, Bonnie reconnected with Christy after they had been estranged for years. Despite their troubles, they always support each other.

Christy Plunkett (Played by Anna Faris)

Christy Plunkett

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Christy is a single mother who is also a recovering alcoholic and still struggles with addiction. A former stripper, Christy had a rocky road with both her children, Violet, who is estranged from her, and Roscoe, who lives with his dad. After trying to iron out the rough edges in her relationship with Bonnie, she manages to form a trustful relationship with her and they attend AA meetings together. While being a part-time waitress, Christy decided that she wanted to study law and now attends law school.

Wendy Harris (Played by Beth Hall)

Wendy Harris

(Photo by Monty Brinton/CBS)

Wendy is also a member of the local AA group, is often subdued and is prone to constant crying. She is a registered nurse and a member of Mensa—the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. She has a hard time with her friends, who don’t really listen to her when she speaks. In season 3, Wendy is revealed to be both bisexual/pansexual and attracted to Bonnie.

Marjorie Armstrong-Perugian (Played by Mimi Kennedy) Marjorie is Christy and Bonnie’s AA sponsor who also happens to have a house full of cats. Even though she is the voice of reason to all of her friends, she had problems with alcohol and drugs in the past, spent some time in prison, and is a mother to a son with whom she had no relationship or contact with, until Christy convinced him to reconnect with Marjorie following her cancer diagnosis. Through Christy, Marjorie meets Victor Perugian, Christy’s former landlord, whom she weds and then cares for after his

Marjorie Armstrong-Perugian (Photo by Monty Brinton/CBS)

stroke. When Victor dies, her vulnerability starts to show and the women do their best to help Marjorie cope with being widowed once again.

Jill Kendall

(Played by Jaime Pressly) Jill is a wealthy socialite and also an alcoholic. Christy first met her at an AA meeting and decided to sponsor her. However, Jill suffered several relapses before becoming sober. Her mother had struggled with depression and alcoholism before committing suicide when Jill was a teenager. Although she might be clueless about a lot of things, she is shown to genuinely care about her friends and use her experiences to help them with their own problems, despite being vain and obsessed with how her peers view her.

Jill Kendall

(Photo by Monty Brinton/CBS)

Tammy Diffendorf (Played by Kristen Johnston)

Tammy is an ex-con who was Bonnie’s foster sister for a short time in their teens. They reconnect when Bonnie comes across her while visiting a women’s prison. Once she was released from prison, Tammy joined the group’s AA meetings. After temporarily living in Bonnie and Christy’s apartment, she moves in with Marjorie. When she returns to her old foster home where she lived with Bonnie, it is revealed that her father killed her mother and she went into the system after that. Tammy currently works as a handywoman doing Tammy Diffendorf odd jobs. (Photo by Robert Voets/CBS)

Adam Janikowski

(Played by William Fichtner)

Adam is married to Bonnie and is a wheelchair-bound ex-stuntman. Bonnie and Adam met over the phone after he dialed the wrong number by accident. When Adam and Bonnie agreed to meet to go on their first date, Adam stood Bonnie up because of his own insecurities about being in a wheelchair. He is supportive of Bonnie’s recovery, though does not always fully understand it. In season 6, Adam uses his life savings to open a bar called AJ’s Barrelworks.

Adam Janikowski

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William Fichtner: Buffalo’s Favorite Son BY DAVE GIL DE RUBIO

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haracter actors are the blue collar performers of the acting world. While leads get all the glory, it’s the character actor that can sometimes toil in obscurity, but if they work enough, they can be known to viewers as a recognizable face whose name isn’t readily apparent. So it goes with William Fichtner. The Buffalo native and Farmingdale College alum is currently playing Adam Janikowski, a wheelchair-bound ex-stuntman married to Allison Janney’s Bonnie Plunkett on the CBS hit sitcom Mom. What started out as a guest shot turned into a recurring role that’s going into Fichtner’s fourth season. “I went on Mom four years ago,” Fichtner recalled. “I was supposed to do a little guest episode arc and the show reached out to me. They said they were really liking it and I said I was really liking it too. This is my fourth full-time year here. It’s been quite a ride.” Fichtner’s career to this point has found him appearing in numerous big budget films ranging from Heat,

From left: William Fichtner as Adam and Allison Janney as Bonnie (Photo by Bill Inoshita/CBS)

Contact and Black Hawk Down to The Dark Knight, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as being a series regular in Fox’s Prison Break and HBO’s Entourage. For the journey he’s traveled so far, the rabid Buffalo sports fan had all intentions of going into the criminal justice field. Acting wasn’t even on his radar. That is, until he was invited to tag along with a friend to go see a live theater production.

“When I was at Farmingdale College, I went with a good friend of mine to see a play in New York. I was working on my lovely criminal justice degree and could care less about anything to do with theater—ever,” he said. “I went to see this Broadway show called I Love My Wife at the Music Box Theater. I’ll never forget it. I was absolutely mesmerized and thought it was the most magical thing I ever saw in my whole life. I still remember the

people in the cast. James Naughton and an actor who passed away years ago named Lenny Baker. I actually ran into James Naughton when I was doing a play in Williamstown. He was there and I had a chance to meet him. It was a powerful thing.” And while Fichtner earned his associate’s degree in criminal justice at Farmingdale and notched his bachelor’s degree in the same major at SUNY Brockport, an improv class he took to fulfill an arts requirement helped lure him down a creative path. “I had a teacher named Sally Rubin and she was the improv teacher. I loved her and the class was a lot of fun. I’d never done anything like this in my entire life. A month and a half into the semester, Sally talked to me after class and said, ‘I don’t say this often. I watch you out there and I really think you should do this.’ It was so out of the blue for me to hear that,” he recalled. “I took some of the acting classes there, still not really thinking about shifting gears and going in a different direction. When I came close to graduation at the

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BOOK FEATURE

The Two Perspectives Of World War II New book goes in-depth with a Holocaust trauma

BY JOSEPH WOLKIN

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he liberators of Nazi death camps didn’t know what they were about to see as they began the liberation process. The prisoners, many of whom were barely alive, had no clue who these people were. Had the war ended? Where were these people from? Where would they go next? These questions and plenty of other important ones are answered in a new book by Bernice Lerner, the daughter of Ruth Mermelstein (née Rachel Genuth), a survivor of the most brutal days of the Holocaust. Genuth and her sister Elizabeth did everything they could to survive, leaning on each other’s strength as they each had multiple close calls with death throughout their journey from Sighet, Transylvania to Auschwitz, and then to Belsen by foot in the last year of the war. All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, throws readers right into the trenches. In the 280-page book, Lerner, a senior scholar at Boston University’s Center for Character and Social Responsibility, walks readers through the difficult life of her mother, adding a personal touch to her life in Sighet before and during the war. The author details the post-war struggles once Berger-Belsen was liberated, led by British Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, a man who spearheaded efforts through the Royal Army Medical Corps, combining both sides of the late stages of World War II. Lerner discusses the journey of writing this incredibly-detailed book, how she combined the paths of Hughes and her mother, who now lives on Long Island, as well as much more. What inspired you to write this book now? Because of the 75th anniversary of the liberation, there’s been a lot of buzz in talking about it. This is a book that’s important for the historical record. It discusses two human beings, one who was famous in certain circles

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and one who’s my mother. For my put yourself in someone’s shoes, I kept thinking about my grandmother’s side, I wanted to commemmother with young children, not orate some of the people who were being able protect them and being in her life and just vanished from the killed. Now, I’m a grandmother face of the earth—no record of them and I think about my mother’s and no knowledge of them. As far as grandmother. It was very painful Glyn Hughes, I originally started the project wanting to write his biography. and I didn’t want to go there. I tried to get into her head from her I wanted to figure out exactly how my mother survived, because she had fall- point-of-view and his head from his point-of-view. en unconscious at the end of the war What was your process like and I didn’t know the details of her in digging up information rescue. That led me to Glyn Hughes, who’s prominently associated with the on Glyn Hughes? I actually had to cut out a liberation at Bergen-Belsen. Who was lot about what I found out this man? What kind of character was about him. I became immersed he? What did he bring to the experiin his life. He rose from very ence? What did he come away with? poor circumstancHow did he go about his unbelievable, es, being a very sick unprecedented job? He became a kid, to being this war really close friend to survivors hero. I really dug for the rest of his life and a deep. The danger, champion of the State when you’re a biogof Israel. He should rapher, is going down be well-known as the primrose path. much as Oskar I went to England Schindler. I startWho was and saw his whole ed out to write this man? What kind life flash before a biography on me. I went to the him, went to of character was he? medical school England, met his What did he bring to where he went and daughter before I dug up his transhe died, spoke the experience? What scripts. I found out to his son and did he come away everything I could found everyone I with? How did he go about him, reading could who knew that he him and could about his unbelievable, everything wrote. The process tell me someunprecedented job. is like a detective, thing about him. searching for I had this idea —Bernice Lerner clues and trying that morphed to find what will into two lives from opposite ends of Europe, who are be of interest for a reader. What was your mother’s reactraveling during the last dramatic year tion when you told her you’re of the war from the east and the west, writing this book? arriving at the same place. I kept her in the loop every step of The fact that you combine these the way. I took my chances, in a two stories makes it unique way. I’m getting older and she’s getting among Holocaust-based books. But older. I’m very grateful that we’re both how difficult was it to write about alive to see this be officially published. your mother’s journey? What’s the biggest takeaway It was difficult and that’s why you want readers to get out of I thought about doing it for so this book? many years. It was hard in different The humanity, seeing the stages of my life when you take a leap stranger and seeing a person from the moral imagination and try to

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Bernice Lerner’s new book, All the Horrors of War, reveals the details of her mother, Rachel Genuth, and Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes during World War II. (Photo by Eli Katzoff) who came from a different background than you. The thing about Glyn Hughes is that he saw the horrors of war, but when he went into Bergen-Belsen, he was breaking down, crying. He was a doctor at heart, and he really saw the suffering of human beings. Something happened a couple of months after the liberation. He was done with his service, but he kept going back to the displaced persons camp in Bergen-Belsen, seeing how nutrition and care helped personalities shine. He could see the survivors’ little community in the displaced persons camp in Bergen-Belsen. It was a major turning point in his life. At his funeral, he asked the rabbi who was in Bergen-Belsen to say a prayer for the martyrs from Belsen. He saw himself as their liberator. It was so easy for the liberators to look at them [the survivors] as what they were reduced to. He was a humanitarian. Can we all aspire to be like that? All the Horrors of War will be available starting on April 14 on Amazon.com.

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ome March 1, New York State will say sayonara to plastic bags for good. In New York State, where more than 23 billion plastic bags are typically used each year, they cause harm to wildlife and hinder recycling efforts, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation. In an effort to protect the environment and reduce waste, the statewide ban aims to eliminate the single-use plastic bags that often end up stuck in trees and floating in waterways. In a couple of weeks, New Yorkers will be required to bring reusable bags for purchases at all retailers, not just grocery stores. And while some stores will now offer paper bags as an alternative, the state is urging residents to #BYOB (Bring Your Own Bag) when they shop. Besides, multi-use fabric bags are much more durable than single-use paper, and further help curtail waste, according to DEC officials. The clever shopping cart system, The Lotus Trolley Bag, is not only eco-friendly, it’s making the switch more convenient. The foldable and machine

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COLUMN Critical Issues Going Forward For Elmont Station There are still many questions regarding the MTA contract award to Judlau Construction Inc. for $65,077,339 to construct the Elmont Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) station. Total cost is suppose to be $105 million. What is the $40 million balance paying for? Costs will be further refined as the project progresses through completion of design and engineering, followed by change orders to this contract during construction, due to last minute changes in scope or unforeseen site conditions. Who will be responsible for additional costs? Will there be any costs to modify, upgrade or build new interlockings and signals along the main line? Will there be any costs for modification to the positive train control project? How will this project be integrated with main line third track, Jamaica capacity improvements and other nearby LIRR capital and routine maintenance projects? Is there a detailed project budget, force account (LIRR employees) plan, track outage plan and schedule to validate the cost and project completion schedule

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to coincide with the opening of the arena, less than 21 months away? Finishing positive train control will be the LIRR’s No. 1 priority in 2020. Completion of the $2.6 billion main line third track and the $11.2 billion East Side access to Grand Central Terminal will be the Nos. 2 and 3 priority until the end of 2022. How many other ongoing and new projects to be funded out of the $5.6 billion LIRR share of the $51 billion 2020-24 MTA’s five-year capital plan will be a higher priority than construction of the new Elmont station? They are all necessary to preserve existing assets and equipment to support the day to day safe, reliable service that riders count on. How will

the LIRR integrate all of this work into the upcoming 2020-22 master track outages and force account plans to support the agencies overall annual capital and maintenance programs? It remains a challenge for the LIRR to complete various capital improvements to support the Islanders Arena October 2021 opening with only 21 months to go. These include the east-bound south platform (serving the Hempstead branch) for the new Elmont station by that date. What about the overpass, elevators and west bound platform by end of 2022? When trains are canceled and combined due to problems in the East River tunnels and other locations, will service to the Elmont station be exempt? Station renderings do not show riders lined up waiting for electric shuttle buses for a one mile trip to the Islanders Belmont Park Arena. How long will it take to board and exit the buses to and from the arena? There does not appear to be any provisions for bus shelters or a canopy. What will the frequency of service be and how many buses can be accommodated at

the same time for boarding? What is the current status as to who is going to purchase, operate and maintain this new fleet of buses? Will they be in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act? Who will build a facility for maintenance, storage and powering up electric shuttle buses? What are the capacity of these electric buses? Industry standards vary on size to accommodate from 20 to 60 riders. Will investing $105 million for the new Elmont LIRR station be worth it? Time will tell when the first puck hits the ice. Larry Penner is a transportation historian, writer and advocate who previously worked 31 years for the United States Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration Region 2 New York office. This included the development, review, approval and oversight for billions in capital projects and programs for the MTA, NYC Transit, Long Island Rail Road, Metro North Rail Road MTA bus, along with 30 other transit agencies.

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ome buyers and sellers have plenty of reasons to look forward to the next few months of the market after a strong showing in November and December, reports suggest. The median price of homes that sold on the island for the months of November and December 2019 were higher than the median sales price of those months in 2018, according to statistics from the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island (MLSLI). The typical home in Nassau County sold for $534,500 last November and $538,000 last December. The previous year saw median sales prices in the county hit $525,000 in November and $515,000 in December. Overall, those numbers represent a 1.8 percent and a 4.5 percent increase for their respective months when compared to 2018, an encouraging sign for prospective sellers across the county and the capstone of a strong market all year round.

“From a year ago, there’s been nothing but steady increases in the median sales prices in Nassau and Suffolk,” MLSLI President Michael Scully said. “That’s been pretty steady since December of last year.” While the winter months are generally marked by fewer house sales than other seasons, Scully said the notion that the market goes away when it gets

cold out is something of a misnomer. “Historically, there’s a misconception that spring is the best time to sell your house,” Scully said. “But you can get steady fall and winter buyers. Anybody out now is a serious buyer.” On the buyer’s side of the equation, Scully noted friendly interest rates are giving people more of an incentive to purchase a home than they would have

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or African Americans living on Long Island, emancipation came in 1799 through New York state law. That law, however, was typical of the world-wide crusade against the peculiar institution. On Long Island, numerous citizens in places of influence supported both emancipation and the legendary Underground Railroad of the 18th and 19th century. Most prominent was Elias Hicks, who not only freed up to 191 slaves himself, but also helped to establish a safe houses throughout the northeast. Full emancipation came gradually. By 1827, the last child born into slavery had achieved freedom. Even before then, free blacks had access to the franchise. In 1821, black Long Islanders who owned even small amounts of property were eligible to register to vote. That, too, was consistent with the general description of democracy as it was once understood. An especially industrious figure from the postbellum Long Island was Henry Highland Garnett. The latter was born in New York City, and as a teenager, moved to Smithtown after his family’s property on Mulberry

Street had been destroyed. Hicks himself worked to set the young Garnett up to work in a sawmill in Smithtown. Garnett eventually attended college and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. As with Hicks, he was involved in the underground railroad. Up until World War II, when millions of African Americans migrated from South to North in search of well-paying manufacturing jobs, the black community on the island was small, centered around a handful of neighborhoods. During World War I, Camp Upton in Brookhaven was the training base for the all-black 367th Regiment, a unit that later served with distinction on the Western Front. Several Long Islanders, including George Arnold Lynch and Roscoe C. Browne, served as fliers in the fighting group eventually immortalized as the Tuskegee Airmen. After World War II, black communities also extended to Hempstead, Roosevelt, and Elmont, among other The National Museum of African American History and Culture is located villages. Jim Brown, the Hall of Fame in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Richard Karchmer/National Museum of African running back for the Cleveland American History and Culture) Browns, was one of the most popular figures of his time. Brown’s mother high school, and starred on the football the Boston Red Sox to the New York worked as a domestic assistant in and lacrosse squads. After an AllYankees in 1921. The Nets—and pro Manhasset, where her son attended American career at Syracuse, Brown basketball on Long Island—were never was drafted by the team named for its the same. coach, Paul Brown. Away from the playing field, another Roosevelt, meanwhile, produced Roosevelt native, the comic Eddie Julius Erving, the legendary “Dr. J” of Murphy, brought life in his hometown the hardwood. Erving attended the to life in a series of skits. Murphy was a University of Massachusetts and later regular on Saturday Night Live. returned home to star for the New The place to be for black history on York Nets of the American Basketball Long Island is the African American Association (ABA). The Nets, led by Museum of Nassau County (AAMNC), Erving, won ABA title in 1974 and 1976. located originally in Hempstead, but With Erving as the marquee player, the now at its current building on 110 league became powerful enough to North Franklin St. The AAMNC is one force the dominant National Basketball of only two African American museums in the northeast. The museum, Association (NBA) into a merger. In October 1976, it all fell apart. The Nets, according to its directors, provides ND “programming that includes themed under Roy Boe’s ownership, were strapped enough for cash that the team exhibits that focus on historical figures and events, ‘hidden’ history sold Erving to the Philadelphia 76ers. and art.” Shades of Babe Ruth being sold from

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erry Seinfeld once claimed the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn was short for “Down Under Manhattan Bridge.” The ‘O,’ the comedian claimed, was added because folks did not want to live in a neighborhood simply called “Dumb.” In truth, there was a method to the name. The acronym came into use in the late 1970s, when artists began repopulating the former working class neighborhood. They hoped the unflattering name would keep developers at bay. That worked. Today, this neighborhood under the Brooklyn Bridge has only 1,139 residents. Concerning the name, Seinfeld took artistic license. DUMBO is short for “Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass.” There’s an ‘O’ in there after all. DUMBO is not desolate. Indeed, it is part of the hipster Brooklyn that has emerged in recent years. DUMBO is home to up to 500 high tech and creative firms, employing more than 10,000 people. That includes the corporate headquarters for the e-commerce retailer Etsy and the home furnishing store West Elm. Living in DUMBO costs money, but doing business there is affordable. This year, the City of New York, in partnership with New York University, installed an incubator in the neighborhood to support even more tech start-ups. DUMBO’s recent history took off in the 1990s when David Walentas and his company, Two Trees Management, purchased the property. Becoming a home for tech start-ups, it continued on the growth it first encountered in the late 1970s, namely as a home for art galleries. Current galleries include for-profit establishments as the Klompching Gallery, and such nonprofit galleries as the St. Ann’s Warehouse and the A.I.R. Gallery. Bookstores include the Melville House Bookstore on John Street and the Powerhouse Arena Bookstore on Adams Street, while eateries include Chef Jacques Torres’s chocolate factory, Grimaldi’s, the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory and The River Café. In addition, John Fluevog, a Canadian shoe designer, recently opened a store on Main Street. Celebrity fans of his art-deco inspired shoes include Kit Harington, Woody Harrelson and Beyoncé. The manufacturing prowess of the neighborhood was once represented by a Brillo Manufacturing plant. That building, alas, is being renovated as a condominium building. Both high tech and manufacturing workers need a break from their toils. DUMBO, once again, is the place to be. Clocking in at 7,800 square feet, The Cliffs is the largest outdoor bouldering gym in the country. Back on the manufacturing end, invitations for the 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama were printed by Precise Continental. With its access to both the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, DUMBO, in the late 19th century, was poised for economic growth. From 1904-57, the Jay Street Connecting Railroad ran through the

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waterfront. In time, the neighborhood was home to not only the Brillo plant, but also Benjamin Moore & Co., Arbuckle Brothers, J.W. Masury & Son, Robert Gair and E.W. Bliss. When the railroad shut down, DUMBO’s time appeared to be numbered. Symbolically enough, the railroad was disconnected the same year the Brooklyn Dodgers left town for Los Angeles. All of Brooklyn seemed to be in a funk. However, history’s wheels kept churning along. The combination of high property taxes on Long Island and exorbitant real estate prices in Manhattan made the Brooklyn waterfront a good bet for commercial and residential development. Today’s DUMBO includes an archway, which is a popular venue for film shoots, live music and art exhibitions.

The popular movie The Joker features Joaquin Phoenix running through the archway on his merry romps through the city. Remnants of the old DUMBO remain. The most prominent is Gleason’s Gym on Water Street, the oldest boxing gym in the city. Throughout the years, Gleason’s has moved its locations, from the Bronx to Manhattan to Brooklyn, but it remains the crown jewel of New York’s boxing history. Countless champions have called Gleason’s home, including Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Rocky Graziano, Jake LaMotta, Vito Antuofermo, Joey Giardello, Dick Tiger, Benny Parent, Roberto Duran, Ray Leonard, Sandy Sandler and Carmen Basilio. And that’s just for starters.

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Digital Marketing Trends You Can’t Ignore In 2020 BY SAM WELLINGTON

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hen it comes to the world of business, the extremely fast-paced technology innovations of the past couple of decades have ushered in many changes. The previous 50 years have seen a bigger tech shift than the past millennium. Naturally, this has influenced all kinds of products, markets and services—spawning new ones in the process as well. For instance, the rise of the internet has given birth to the digital marketing industry, a kind of advertising that had previously not existed. Just like every other facet of the digital world, digital marketing trends change pretty quickly; keeping one’s finger on the pulse of this ever-changing industry is a constant challenge. And that’s why we’re going to celebrate the beginning of a new decade with a set of bold predictions regarding digital marketing in 2020. Personal Assistant Services Anyone who’s watched the (now positively ancient) sci-fi movies of the 20th century knows of the concept of AI assistants. But these days, virtual intelligence is far from science fiction—it’s expected to become reality in the coming decades. And rudimentary forms of this technology already exist, in the form of voice-controlled devices like Google Home and Amazon Alexa, altering everyday life in completely unforeseen ways. And while these aren’t exactly the sentient machines we imagine when we talk about AI, they’re definitely the beginning. Using nothing but your voice, you can tell these devices to inform you of the latest news or to play a song you like listening to. And as the capabilities of this technology expand, they’re starting to play a role in the world of online advertising as well. Indeed, one of the digital marketing trends we predict for the coming year is the increasing importance of voice searches for search engine optimization (SEO). Keeping this in mind, SEO experts would do well to watch the evolution of this technology closely. Oculus Right and Microsoft HoloLens The voice-activated assistants we’ve mentioned above represent some of the more obvious examples of digital marketing trends for the near future. However, there are technologies that are no less interesting and futuristic, crucial to the evolution of online advertising. The world where an ad in the local newspaper was enough to sell something is long gone—both service and product providers need to look towards the horizon of new ideas and trends. A good example of this is the currently expanding virtual reality (VR) technology. Many experts agree that VR will play a more significant role in the world of digital marketing as soon as 2020, and even more in the years to come. Mass-market VR products like the Oculus Right or the Microsoft HoloLens mean

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that more people have access to high-quality VR options than ever before. Digital marketers from all over the world will need to explore the options presented by VR in the near future. Much like AI voice assistants that we’ve talked about above, virtual reality will probably make fundamental paradigm shifts in the essential ways people consume online content, including advertising.

For example, one of their most famous tech projects is Waymo, Google’s company working on driverless car technology. And as Tesla and other car manufacturers look toward a driverless future, this has the potential to increase the market space for digital marketing as well. Once people stop driving cars themselves and just enjoy the ride, the amount of online content they’ll consume from built-in screens will greatly increase.

VR Browsing The days of simple browser surfing will change from 2020 and beyond, and the experience of online browsing for products and services will be far more interactive and visceral. For example, the online presence of a fancy restaurant may need to include a virtual reality tour of the premises; people will want to experience the interior atmosphere without even leaving their homes. On the other hand, someone going after a specific pair of boots may only need to strap on their virtual reality goggles and try a holographic version of them to see if they’re a good fit. Basically, the possibilities here are endless. The simple catalog of contemporary online stores will change quite drastically, and those that are first to embrace the changes will reap the largest benefits. If you think all of this sounds too far fetched, remember that Facebook purchased Oculus Rift’s home company a few years ago, already grasping its possibilities.

Chatbots Technologies required for the successful implementation of online chatbots have existed for a while, but up until a couple of years ago, they’ve been nothing more than crude gimmicks. But new advances in machine learning have enabled low-cost development and implementation of AI chatbots. This is one of the digital marketing trends that will transform online advertising in the coming decade, slowly coming into the mainstream. The level of natural interactivity chatbots have with human users is reaching unprecedented heights. These days, these bots can conduct more than the most basic conversation. That’s why most online brands are looking to implement even basic chatbot functionality in their websites and media campaigns.

Driverless Cars In the past few decades, Google’s image as the premier web searching solution has vastly expanded into other avenues as well. As you probably know, they’ve become even more famous as financiers and supporters of cutting-edge futuristic technologies. You can imagine that a giant whose largest revenue comes from online advertising will have quite a lot of influence on the development of digital marketing trends in 2020 as well.

As you might have gathered, some of the digital marketing trends we’ve mentioned above will not be immediately important to the world of digital marketing. However, all of them are likely to greatly influence online advertising in the short and long term, making them crucial to understand for industry experts. Sam Wellington is a digital marketing expert and freelance writer, most often discussing innovative future in regards to online advertising companies like Digital Dot NY. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling and immersing himself in new cultures.

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“You’re entering God’s country.” So said former New York Mets great John Franco, when talking about driving across the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to his adopted hometown of Staten Island. Or was he talking about taking the bridge from that island to his real hometown, Brooklyn, USA? It doesn’t matter. Both boroughs represent God’s country. And what connects them both is that same bridge. The construction of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge was completed in 1964. It was an historic event, connecting the formerly sleepy Staten Island to the New York metropolis. The bridge is named after Giovanni da Verrazzano, a 16th-century Italian explorer who was the first European to scout the Eastern seaboard, sailing there from France in 1524. For years, Henry Hudson, of Hudson River fame, was considered the first explorer to achieve that goal. But as Verrazzano’s fame grew, the latter, who died under mysterious conditions in 1528, was credited with this monumental discovery. Construction on the bridge began in 1958, the culmination of a project that was first floated during the Roaring ’20s. In 1926, with the city flush with money, engineers began proposing a bridge to link Staten Island with the rest of the city. For decades, the idea followed a rocky road. The 1929 stock market crash hurled the nation into a depression, throwing cold water on many construction plans. In 1934, the War Department opposed the new bridge, with generals maintaining that increased traffic would hamper traveling conditions in time of war. By 1936, the idea of a tunnel rather than a bridge was being considered. The city’s popular mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, supported such a plan. However, residents of Bay Ridge opposed a tunnel. LaGuardia, ever the in-touch politician, dropped his support and it was back to the drawing board for a bridge. After World War II, the country was booming again. The bridge idea was revived. In 1955, Gov. W. Averell Harriman signed a spending bill,

A scene by The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge from the movie Saturday Night Fever. providing funds not just for a “Narrows Bridge,” but also the Throgs Neck Bridge connecting Queens and the Bronx and a second level to the George Washington Bridge. As important was the contribution of Robert Moses, the Verrazano– Narrows Bridge legendary chairman of the Triborough 5-cent 1964 issue U.S. stamp Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA) (Image source: U.S. Postal who re-configured Service; National postwar New Postal Museum York. In 1947, via Wikimedia) Moses sought and received permission from the War Department for bridge construction. This was Moses’s baby, now. The man played hardball, warning Mayor Robert Wagner in a 1958 letter that if the latter abandoned the Seventh Avenue, Bay Ridge approach to the bridge, then the entire project would be dropped. In 1959, groundbreaking took place. In November 1964, the

bridge was open for business. Right away, the bridge was popular. In the first two months, traffic totaled 1.86 million vehicles, a number higher than expected. That meant added revenue. Still, there were complications. Starting the bridge in the Seventh Avenue section neighborhood resulted in the dislocation of 7,500 unsuspecting residents, continuing a dismal postwar trend of uprooting working-class and middle-class residents for the sake of bridge and highway construction, the most dramatic being the Cross Bronx Expressway. Also controversial was the name. Verrazzano is spelled with two ‘z’s. The bridge only came with one ‘z.’ Little Staten Island was set for a growth in population. Not everyone liked it. Locals referred to it as the “guinea gangplank,” noticing the large number of Italian-Americans who left South Brooklyn for the more rustic reaches of Staten Island. Media outlets omitted references to Verrazzano, opting to identify the structure as the Narrows Bridge, or the Brooklyn– Staten Island Bridge. Lobbying by the Italian Historical Society of America rectified the latter omission. The bridge remains a marvel of the modern world. With its completion, it surpassed San Francisco’s Golden

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Kim Coates (left) and William Fichtner in a scene from Cold Brook

WILLIAM FICHTNER from page 8A end of senior year, my then-girlfriend gave me a paperback book called How To Be a Working Actor. I read that book about 10 times throughout the summer after I graduated. I took the police exam that summer in Buffalo. I couldn’t get it out of my mind, so I wrote to the Academy of Dramatic Arts and signed up for a regional audition in Syracuse. I was nervous as anybody could ever be. I got a letter two or three years later that said I’d been accepted to the Academy of Dramatic Arts. I grew up with my mom and four sisters and I went to my mom and told her that I was going to do this and go to

New York.” Fichtner sold his truck to pay for school, headed down to New York and lived with an aunt in Astoria, waited tables and worked on his craft. “I did what everybody does who wants to do this did—you threw yourself into it,” Fichtner explained. “It’s a bit different than it even is now. That was before the age of information and everybody looking for their 15 minutes of fame. I just wanted to be good. I attribute that to being a Buffalo trait. Don’t put the cart before the horse. Go get good and see what happens.” The hard work paid off for Fichtner who also got to fulfill a dream by being the director, co-writer, producer and

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lead of Cold Brook, a 2019 independent film that was a decade-plus in the making, a love letter to his hometown of Buffalo and a chance to work on a film with two of his best friends—actors Kim Coates and Cain DeVore. “This was something that was written for a couple of best friends by a couple of best friends,” Fichtner explained. “It’s the trust Cain and Bill put in each other to take this journey, not knowing if we could really do this, get through it all and never give up.” Shot on location in Buffalo and other western New York locales, the film featured roles filled by a lot of local talent who weren’t necessarily

actors. This project not only proved to be the highlight of Fichtner’s time in the movie industry up to this point, but further deepened the love he has for his hometown. “I’ve said it a million times. You can take me out of Buffalo, but you can’t take the Buffalo out of me. I love my hometown. They’re super supportive—I love it,” Fichtner said with a grin. “All cities have a name for them—the Windy City, the Queen City. Buffalo is the City of Good Neighbors. I could not have made my film without what that expression means. The people in Buffalo stepped up to the plate for me and came out to help us when we really needed it.”

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Getting Soulful With Robert Cray BY DAVE GIL DE RUBIO

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f ever there was an artist that firmly stood at the intersection of rhythm and blues it’s Robert Cray. While the Georgia native has earned numerous accolades (and quite a number of Grammys) for his acumen as a blues artist, Cray’s vocal and playing style is far more reflective of his deep and abiding love of soul music. So it goes with his forthcoming album, That’s What I Heard. While this collection features its share of original numbers penned by Cray, there are a number of more obscure R&B covers the 66-year-old was inspired to cover by longtime friend Steve Jordan, who reunited with Cray to play drums and produce this set. “We once again had the opportunity to work with Steve Jordan, which is always a good thing. So we started talking about songs and he told me about this CD [Groove & Grind: Rare Soul] he said I should order, which is what I did. It’s a compilation of old R&B tunes, from which we got two songs for this record. We got ‘My

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Baby Likes to Boogaloo’ and another one called ‘Do It,’” he recalled. “Upon hearing the first track on that compilation, which is ‘My Baby Likes to Boogaloo,’ I called Steve up and told him I had to do that song. He said he knew it and that he was going to play drums on it. That kind of set us in the mood. We started looking at tunes after that. Steve came up with the idea of maybe doing a gospel tune, so I went to the record pile and came up with the Sensational Nightingales song, ‘Burying Ground.’ The band started putting songs together and I started thinking of other covers and Curtis Mayfield and Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland came up. That’s how it came about. But Steve always sets the mood.” For this album, Cray and Jordan did a deep dive, with the aforementioned “Boogaloo” and the 1971 Bill Sha-Rae representing hard-edged funk with an added bonus being the six-string contributions of guest guitarist Ray Parker Jr. (who played in Sha-Rae’s band as a teenager) lending some grit to the proceedings. (“We were all in

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the control room watching this cat work and he was hitting it hard,” Cray shared). Elsewhere, the inclusion of “Burying Ground” was a nod to Sundays from Cray’s youth, when his parents reserved the stereo for spinning numerous gospel records. As someone who inherited the blues elder statesman mantle from idols like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Albert Collins, all of whom Cray had played with years ago, he sees this blending of sounds as part of the evolution of the blues that he’s seen occurring in the past few decades. “There’s all kinds of stuff going on. There are a whole lot of younger cats playing guitar and coming out. There

are people playing acoustic-style blues and there are a whole lot of female singers now, which is great,” he said. “I spoke with someone earlier today and we mentioned the fact that the music is changing, because it’s supposed to. It’s incorporating a lot of other genres mixed into it, which it’s supposed to, because nobody is an Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker, Albert King or anybody like that. It’s a whole new world now and I’m glad people are picking up on the old and putting their own stamp on that and adding their own thing to it. It’s good.” Cray’s own musical journey had him playing piano as a child. That is, until he caught The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Cray switched to guitar

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MUSIC at 12 and spent his teen years growing up in Tacoma, WA. While playing the West Coast college circuit and collaborating with fellow blues artist Curtis Salgado in the Cray-Hawks, Cray got cast as an uncredited bass player in Otis Day and the Knights, the house band in the 1978 film Animal House. By the ‘80s, he’d built his reputation as a live artist in Europe and the United States, eventually finding crossover success with Strong Persuader, his 1986 major label debut, which also yielded the hit crossover single “Smokin’ Gun.” Over time, he’s shared stages with Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughan, all while compiling quite a canon. Over time, he’s seen quite a change in the music industry. “You don’t get all that support you used to get from the record companies. That seems to be gone, where you had these big family-type situations. It’s a big change. You hope you can sell something online that more

people might get hold of,” he said. That said, the approach to playing live music hasn’t changed and it’s one he still enjoys immensely. So much so, that touring plans include heading over to Europe for a string of dates in April after a quick run through the East Coast. “We go out and have fun— that’s what it’s all about. We change the set-list up every night, with the exception of a few tunes that we do,” he said. “In the end, the reason that you’re on the stage is that [fans] like what you do. They don’t tell you that, but you’re on the stage because they like what you do. So what you should do is do what you do and love what you do.” Robert Cray will be appearing on March 1 at The Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts, 71 E. Main St., Patchogue. Visit www.patchoguetheatre.com or call 631-207-1313 for more information.

Cray’s Crooners For as gifted a guitarist as Robert Cray is, the man’s affinity for soul singers goes wide and deep. Hare are some of his favorites. Otis Redding (Sept. 9, 1941 to Dec. 10, 1967) “Otis Redding was so hard driving—he sings a ballad as well that’s beautiful and it hits you to the core.” O.V. Wright (Oct. 9, 1939 to Nov. 16, 1980) “Overton Vertis Wright was one of the very few people that can sing a ballad and take you through the story like the way he did. He did it because he came from the church background and knew how to work it. Archie Brownlee (1925 to Feb. 8, 1960) “Archie Brownlee of the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi has that piercing scream—that squall that he produced—the

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It’s All In The Cards

Strat-O-Matic hosts latest successful Opening Day BY DAVE GIL DE RUBIO

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ort St. Lucie and Tampa may be ground zero for the new baseball season kicking off for Mets and Yankees fans respectively. But for die-hard Strat-O-Matic fans, Opening Day takes place at a gray two-story brick building that’s situated off the parking lot of the Long Island Rail Road Glen Head station. It was here that between 160 and 170 fans recently braved an overcast and blustery day to be able to purchase the new 2019 sets. What is Strat-O-Matic you say? It’s a rotisserie set invented by Great Neck native Hal Richman back in 1961. Two regular-sided dice and one 20-sided die are used in conjunction with player cards that offer various hitting and fielding outcomes based on actual seasonal statistics and thoroughly determined player ratings. While novices can whet their teeth with the basic version of Strat, a flip of the cards enables players to go play Advanced and Super Advanced versions of Strat that factor in strategic nuances like righty-lefty pitching and hitting match-ups, pitcher fatigue and ballpark dimensions. In the five decades since Strat-OMatic hit the market, the game not only inspired a generation of baseball fans, but it has expanded to include football, hockey and basketball. Moreover, the game served as a childhood introduction to include football, hockey and basketball. Also, the game served as a childhood introduction to the inner workings of baseball for a fraternity of announcers and movers-and-shakers of the game that include Jon Miller, Bob Costas, former ESPN anchor Bill Daughtry, STATS, Inc. founder John Dewan and Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein, along with a number of former players that include Doug Glanville and Keith Hernandez. For Richman, a diehard baseball fan dating back to childhood, a fascination with a game called All Star Baseball that only measured hitting prompted him to create his own baseball game when he was only 11.

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Left: Strat-O-Matic world headquarters in Glen Head. Right: Strat inventor Hal Richman (left) kibbitzing with a fan on Opening Day 2020 “I took dice in hand and rolled the hopes of being able to pay him them 5,000 times and created a probback within the year and fortunately, ability table and from there started I was able to.” Costas, who has creating the game,” he recalled. fond memories of childhood Strat In time, this far more primitive competitions with his cousin John version of Strat eventually evolved whenever he’d visit him in Queens to include player stats and by the agrees with Strat’s importance to his time Richman was ready to graduate own hardball schooling. college, he sought to turn this “Strat was definitely part of my childhood dalliance into baseball education,” the a career. Overtures for Commack native explained. seed money were “Baseball lends itself made to a variety of perfectly to Strat, thanks sources, including to the nature of board games titans Strat was definitely part individual players in of my baseball Parker Brothers baseball and how it education...Baseball and the Brooklyn lends itself to statistics, lends itself perfectly Dodgers. After debates, arguments all these potential and comparisons across to Strat. investors took a pass, the generations that you —Bob Costas Richman bet on himself don’t get in other sports.” and approached his hardIn keeping with baseball culnosed father about getting a $5,000 ture, Strat-O-Matic has entrenched loan. The only condition of the agree- itself deeply in the game’s history. ment was if Richman was unable to Prior years have seen the company pay back the money in a year’s time, release sets featuring Hall of Fame he’d abandon his dreams and come players, teams and even a Negro to work at his father’s company. Leagues All Star set. This year saw “The last thing I wanted to do was the company take it a step further go into working at my father’s insurand focus on a number of original ance company,” Richman recalled Negro League teams including the with a shudder. “It was a very tough 1922 Indianapolis ABCs, the 1931 atmosphere and I didn’t want any Homestead Grays, 1938 Kansas City Monarchs, 1936 Pittsburgh part of it. I borrowed the money with

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Crawfords, 1944 Birmingham Black Barons and 1945 Cleveland Buckeyes. For Strat research director John Garcia, the early returns on these specialty sets have been pretty positive. “It’s the first time we’ve done this and they’re doing really well,” Garcia said. “It’s actually the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Negro Leagues, so we’re donating 10 percent of anything we sell that is a Negro League-related product to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.” For Daughtry, who regularly shows up on Opening Day, Strat came into his live at the age of 11, when he would play against good friend Fred Singleton on his stoop when the duo were growing up in Mount Vernon. The retired sportscaster affirms the important career guide Strat became for him. “It’s played a pretty big part in what I’ve done with my life as a professional with it being a library/laboratory/ learning tool for the thing I did on an everyday basis to earn a living,” he said. “It’s a lot more than just a game.” Visit www.strat-o-matic.com to find out more about Strat-O-Matic. Visit www.longislandweekly.com to read a longer version of this story.

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