Driving time from Peekskill to West Point is approximately 20 minutes. Bus. Short Line Bus offers daily bus service from the New York City Port Authority, near Times Square in midtown Manhattan, to the West Point Visitors Center; one-way trip takes 1 hour 40 minutes and costs approx $15.
Lifetime Achievement Award for Alfred Brendel One of the 20th century's greats, the 85-year-old Austrian pianist makes ears perk up even after the end of his concert career. Now he's being recognized for his lifetime achievement by Germany's ECHO Klassik.
âOnly when we are so old, only, we are aware of the beauty of life.â Alice Herz Sommer, age 106. A few weeks ago I was in a university library when I happened upon a book quite by accident called Gerotranscendence: A Developmental Theory of Positive Aging by Lars Tornstam, PhD (2005) .s Tornstam puts it, many of us have a tendency to define the present age or time of life as the best one and how the rest of life/our lives should be. We can understand that this may not be true in retrospect, but have difficulty doing so in prospect.