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Patricia Smiley Guralnik

Kingston, New York

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NEW PALTZ- Patricia Smiley Guralnik was born on Aug. 29, 1936 in a family home at Lake Mohonk in New Paltz, the last child of Rachel Orcutt and Francis Smiley. As a child, the hotel grounds were Pat’s playground, including climbing on the roof for fun and running up the famed “Labyrinth” trail to...

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Just received this news today...so sorry ❣Pat was my first best friend when we started school at the Campus school in New Paltz...many weekends at the Laurels followed. Her Mom ( Rachel, Sr. ) took us on many excursions in her woody station wagon...to the Bronx Zoo, the Museum of Natural History, to Radio City to seethe Nutcracker, to a production of the Creation, with an all black cast...to see Paul Muni in the Scopes Trial reenactment...so many happy and edifying experiences at Mohonk and...

I was so fond of Pat! In addition to loving her for her spiritedness and her kindness, I was grateful that when we first met she introduced me to her late husband Robert, with whom I did a memorable concert at Mohonk many years ago, and that she made sure I returned from time to time. She always attended the concerts, too.

There are many things in her obituary here that I didn’t know about her—they round out the picture, but don’t surprise me. Pat was one of a kind! Much love to...