Great Moments in Chappaqua: Picnic with “The Sage from Chappaqua”

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Photo courtesy of the New Castle Historical Society
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
by N. O’Neil

1872: Horace Greeley runs for president against the popular Ulysses S. Grant.

Greeley, journalist, author, politician and Chappaqua resident, kicks off his campaign with a big picnic at his farm, about where the Bell School playing fields are now. Campaign publicity called him “The Sage from Chappaqua.”  Greeley lost the election and died soon after. Since then Chappaqua has been home to a president, a senator and a Nobel Prize winner.  But we’ve never had another Sage.

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