By HOWARD BLUE
THE WEATHERVANE WHOSE image you see here probably sat on top of its building on Route 22 for decades. Because of the building’s height, even if you spent hundreds of hours in it, you might not have ever noticed this beauty. But if you’re like the other hundreds of people who also frequented the building, you have a tremendous nostalgia for the edifice.
It is the venerable, the much beloved Roe Jan School which years ago lost its students to a new building, the Taconic Hills School. Roe Jan alumni have well attended reunions and friendships with their classmates that have wonderfully weathered the years. But the building becomes increasingly decrepit each year. A number of plans emerged to save it, to turn it into various other uses. Yet nothing’s come of those efforts.
As I took the photo with a good telephoto lens, a robin landed on the cow. Strangely, I thought I heard it say, “Save the weathervane.” I wasn’t sure who it was talking to, maybe to the Roe Jan alumni. A crane, a fund to pay for it and a new building for it to sit on would be needed.
Just sayin.’
Howard Blue (who never had the good fortune to attend the Roe Jan School) can be reached at Copaketownhistorian@gmail.com
