THE CROSSING.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 08-NOV-04

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Marcey Tree in the Wind Stefancik is a receptionist at the Honda dealership in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, and the chief of the Turtle Band of the Ramapough, a Native American tribe based in northern New Jersey. Whenever Marcey crosses the Hudson River, she does so in a car, on the Tappan Zee Bridge, usually to drive her husband, Tony Moon Hawk Langhorn, a housing cop, to his job in the Bronx. But the other day she became the first Ramapough in a very long time to cross the Hudson in a canoe--although for a while it seemed iffy whether she would go through with it. First of...

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