About 1945, at the conclusion of the Second World War, certain area residents found they could no longer support themselves in the community as a result of the loss of State and New York Central Railroad jobs and the rise in the use of the automobile. Many of them sold their homes and moved away. Today, there is a steady influx of "city people" seeking homes for weekends and eventually retirement. Many new people have moved to the area in recent years and perhaps things are looking up. Tivoli Acres, a housing development site started in 1955 'and later abandoned, has been recently rezoned and new developers have started to build houses there again. The future for the village is hard to predict, but perhaps a new incarnation will take place and Peter de Labigarre's dream of a town will materialize, although according to some of the residents of the community, there is a feeling that the way it is now makes it a nice place and provides a nice way to live.
TESTING COWS by William A. Benton, 2nd.
About the turn of the Century there was a strong rivalry between the Shermans of Dover and the Dutchers of Pawling, both wealthy and owning large estaates, over which had the best dairy herd. Sherman had Holsteins and Dutcher, Jersies, and both used the same test to determine the quality of various cows. They milked the cow, then dropped a penny into the pail of milk. If they could not see the penny, she was a good cow. If you can't get a laugh out of this without looking at the answer, you don't know much about cows. In those days Holsteins gave a large quantity of very thin milk, and Jersies a very small quantity of very rich milk. So, if Sherman's cow's milk was thick enough to conceal the penny, she was excellent. If Dutcher's pail had enough milk in it to cover the penny, he claimed to be the winner.
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