Talk:Bear Mountain State Park

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Did the events in the section on "The Lost Eight" ever actually happen? The citations given, as far as I can tell, are not 'real.' Anyone know what the deal is? (Jack). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.65.113.189 (talk) 23:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's completely bogus. Time magazine has searchable archives and fails to confirm this, plus the whole thing fails to google, plus I lived in Rockland County when this is supposed to have happened-- there is no way it wouldn't have been a huge deal locally. It's garbage. -- Mwanner | Talk 01:18, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

History

The section is a bit confusing and essentially has no references. I fully understand why the bit about the Palisades are included but possibly it could be removed for sake of simplicity. I removed bit about Anthony Wayne attacking Fort Montgomery.

Calamitybrook (talk) 17:17, 9 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not Middle Importance but Major

I removed the not directly relevant information about Palisades.

This article has few or no citations or sources.

It's called a "start class" article of "mid importance" within the Hudson Valley category...........

Yet it can be easily deemed of "major importance" within this group of articles.

"Bear Mountain State Park" had much to do historically with our current definition of the Hudson Valley due to New York City press coverage in 1920s through 1960s and its identification with Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, as well as the Hudson Highlands coverage by "Hudson River School" painters of 1800s.

I'd say the appraiser is quite wrong and his or her criteria are obscure and incorrect.

Calamitybrook (talk) 00:58, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In Films

I know that some significant and some insignificant parts of several films have been shot on location at Bear Mountain State Park, particularly "At First Sight", "To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar" and "The Juror". Would it be relevant to the article to point out these films and scenes in a separate section?

Apologies, I forgot to sign. 68.115.35.110 (talk) 21:36, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]