Fishkill

Um, because we would find in prison records that John Pennisi actually, um, attempted to self-harm himself, um, inside prison, which that would occur in 1999, about nine years into his stay inside prison.

This one was at Fishkill.

Now notice he was in general population at the time, and for approximately nine days, um, he was, I guess, in some sort of hospital, we would imagine.

Um, now what the self-harm involved, I don't know.

Valley.

Fishkill.

Peekskill.

The Adirondacks.

A year later, we opened a second location about a half hour south.

So I'm in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Fishkill, New York.

And they're booming, honestly.

And it's great.

Only they weren't the right windows.

Those windows belong to a Mr. Landings in Fishkill.

I just phoned him.

You mean he's got our windows?

So in the 1600s, Dutch explorers and settlers named local streams and straits and towns using their native language.

And why wouldn't they? So Fishkill Creek literally translates to Fish Creek Creek.

A redundancy at its finest.

So often the endings of American place names are little fossils of language and settlement.

I don't know if they were still doing the summer programs that were around for me when I was in elementary school.

I remember when, so during that time I was working for the camp at Fishkill and we would always see beacon camps.

Like I would see Star out at Park, you know, when we had trips.

And I want to say around like 2010 was like the last couple of years I stopped seeing beacons.

When Ruben

said he interacted with kids and got to know them.

Our kids probably know more people from Fishkill than Beacon because they go to the Fishkill program.

Yeah, they go to that

Only they weren't the right windows.

Those windows belong to a Mr. Landings in Fishkill.

I just phoned him.

You mean he's got our windows?

because he had just recently learned that he was dying from complications from AIDS.

But he ended up, he did agree, and pre-production of the film was actually moved from the London studio to the residence in Fishkill, New York, to make it easier on Ashman as it was close to his New York home.

I think I've been there.

The residence in Fishkill, New York.

yes i've been to fishkill new york and i've been to one of the marriott's for work so i can't remember if it was the the residence inn but i've been to one of them in fishkill new york so what

you're saying is you basically wrote music with alan menken and howard ashman for beauty and the beast yeah that's kind of what you're saying