By Diane Lapis, Trustee Of The Beacon Historical Society
BEACON LOVE BITES
One day while waiting for my kindergartners at the Austin Road Elementary School in Mahopac to disembark from their morning bus ride, I chatted with my across-the-hall neighbor and fellow teacher. “Where do you live?” I asked. She said, “well, you probably never heard of it. I live in Beacon.” She emphasized the first syllable like this… beeeecon. “Well,” I said, “I have heard of it because I live there too.
It turned out that not only were we across-the-hall neighbors, but we also actually lived across-the-street from each other, too.