Gold Star mothers hosted by hotel

WEST POINT-Gold Star mothers recently gathered to attend a screening of a film, dedicated to women who have lost children in combat, held at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville. During their stay, they were the guests of the Thayer Hotel at West Point, which provided complementary rooms for them. Built in 1926, the Thayer Hotel is the only full-service hotel on the Hudson River from the George Washington Bridge to Albany. A successor of the original West Point Hotel, the hotel was originally constructed to accommodate U.S. Military Academy personnel and their guests, and named for Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, who was superintendent of the academy from 1817 to 1833.