Ossining Police Department, and I’ve been a police officer here for twenty-six years. I’ve lived in Ossining and the Lower Hudson River Valley for my entire fifty years, and I’m never gonna leave. I talk on various topics of the Hudson River to different groups, I have a master’s degree in American history, and I wrote my master’s thesis on the mouth of the Croton River and how it’s changed over the years. Growing up, I lived in Ossining, and everybody knew about the aqueduct, or at least they knew about the shaded path that ran through here. But in the 1970s my mother went back to college, to Briarcliff Women’s College in Briarcliff for a degree in cartography. At the time, one of the students’ assignments was to assist the state in mapping the state park that was the aqueduct through Ossining, so my mom would come back and talk to us about Ossining and how they mapped part of it today, and where they were working, things like that, and it was pretty neat. At the time, Ossining was a pretty densely packed place, and it was different; it was neat talking to her about that. As a police officer, we use the aqueduct all the time. A lot of people walk on it; it’s a common thoroughfare for the village. The big double span over the Kill Brook is on our patch, it’s so unique. And it used to be quite the social place a hundred years ago to walk—not so much now, but it is commonly used by the people of Ossining because Ossining is so hilly and it has such rugged terrain. It’s just about the only level northsouth route there is, even more so than Route 9. So, they use it all the time, and the police bikes love it because police bikes are heavy and carry a lot of gear. Getting north-south in the village is always difficult, so we use the aqueduct all the time on the police bikes, especially at night, so it’s been good for us that way. Like I was saying, I used it, I used to use it years ago; we could, at midnight, we’d... get on our mountain bikes and ride down to Sleepy Hollow High School and back through the cemetery. But it was always safe and it was level, and we knew there weren’t going to be any cars on it so we didn’t care, and it was always fun. That was great. And that one time, I was riding my mountain bike down there, and Khalid Khannouchi at the time was the world record holder in the marathon who lived in Ossining at the time and trained locally, passed me on the aqueduct on foot while I was on my bicycle. I was pretty hurt by that. I think I yelled at him or something. But he blew my doors off, and I was riding a bicycle at the time. But he used to run on it all the time (...) The aqueduct’s great, and as I was saying, you know, years ago, the only time they opened up the aqueduct and the only time most people in Ossining got the opportunity to see it was during the Village Fair, which was the second Saturday in June. And the cops used to love going out to the weir chamber because it was usually blazing hot for some bizarre reason and the weir chamber’s always really cool. So we’d go down there and cool off, and my first year here, one of the things they wanted me to do was, since I was a junior patrolman, was check the aqueduct to make sure no kids Section 4: Interpretation Aqueduct is integral to the setting of his everyday life—a life that just happens to include making arrests. What follows is an extract from the oral history conducted April 12, 2011, by Tatum Taylor at the Ossining police station. The interview will be available in audio format on our website: http://crotonaqueduct.wordpress. com/. 95 Section 4: Conclusion While the Croton Waterworks studio project was only a semester-long undertaking, there is much more work that can be done to further ensure the protection of the system. Our research and analysis informed our preservation plan and interpretive schemes. We have outlined shortand long-term approaches, best-practice methods, and platforms to encourage preservationists and partner organizations to build upon this work. The following section attempts to frame the continuation of our work by making a variety of resources available. First, we have listed the “key players” and stakeholders involved in the future of the Croton Waterworks, with the hope of connecting all interested parties so that partnerships can form between stakeholders. The subsequent section provides information regarding funding sources, preservation initiatives, and