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Hudson River Valley

Piermont Marsh Shoreline Stabilization Project

January 6, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The 1,017-acre Piermont Marsh courtesy DECPiermont Marsh at the southern edge of the village of Piermont, four miles south of Nyack in Rockland County, is one of four sites within the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (HRNERR).

It is the largest brackish tidal marsh in the estuary, providing an ecologically significant habitat that is uncommon in the region.

[Read more…] about Piermont Marsh Shoreline Stabilization Project

Filed Under: Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Hudson River, Hudson River Valley, nature, Orangetown, Rockland County, Wildlife

Museum Spotlight: Dia Beacon, Dutchess County

January 5, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Dia:BeaconDia Beacon, on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, Dutchess County, NY, is a museum of contemporary art with more exhibition space than Manhattan’s Guggenheim, Whitney Museum, and MoMA combined. [Read more…] about Museum Spotlight: Dia Beacon, Dutchess County

Filed Under: Arts, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Art History, Beacon, Dia Beacon, Dutchess County, Hudson River Valley, modernism, Museums, painting

Hudson River Lesson Plans For K-12 Teachers

April 10, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Hudson River Watershed mapThe Hudson River Estuary Program announced a new Hudson River Curriculum Guide, featuring original lesson plans from the Estuary Program and its partners. The inquiry-based, multi-component science guide is designed for teachers and students to enhance STEM learning, as well as deepen their engagement and understanding of the Hudson River and its watershed. [Read more…] about Hudson River Lesson Plans For K-12 Teachers

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, New York City Tagged With: Climate Change, Education, Hudson River, Hudson River Estuary Program, Hudson River Valley, nature, Science, water quality

Hudson River Valley Ramble Will Feature Nearly 150 Events

August 21, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

hudson river valley rambleThe 21st Annual Hudson River Valley Ramble will return with nearly 150 events, held every day throughout September. The Ramble provides people of all ages an opportunity to experience the cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley by hiking a trail, visiting a historic site, or paddling on the river. [Read more…] about Hudson River Valley Ramble Will Feature Nearly 150 Events

Filed Under: Events, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Hudson River Valley

OSI Protects Land Near West Mountain, Warren County

November 18, 2020 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

 OSIs West Mountain Property in Saratoga County Bob Stone Courtesy of Open Space InstituteBuilding on more than three decades of protecting land in and around the Adirondack Park, the Open Space Institute (OSI) has announced the permanent protection of land in the Town of Lake Luzerne.

The newly protected 1,260-acre “West Mountain” property is located west of the West Mountain Ski Area, between the southeastern boundary of the Adirondack Park and Moreau Lake State Park and adjacent to Ralph Road State Forest.

[Read more…] about OSI Protects Land Near West Mountain, Warren County

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Climate Change, Hudson River, Hudson River Valley, Lake Luzerne, Open Space Institute

19th Century Hudson River, New England Travel Diaries Published

March 24, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

majestic nature of the northThe new book The Majestic Nature of the North: Thomas Kelah Wharton’s Journeys in Antebellum America through the Hudson River Valley and New England (SUNY Press, 2019), edited by Steven A. Walton and Michael J. Armstrong, features the travel diaries of nineteenth-century artist, educator, and architect Thomas Kelah Wharton, documenting his trips in the lower Hudson River Valley and New Orleans to Boston and back. [Read more…] about 19th Century Hudson River, New England Travel Diaries Published

Filed Under: Books, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Book Notices, Books, Hudson River, Hudson River Valley, Steamboating, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Transportation History, Washington Irving, West Point

Hudson Valley Ruins Photo Exhibit Opens at NYS Museum

August 24, 2016 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

NYTrapRockCorpThe New York State Museum has opened “Hudson Valley Ruins,” a photography and architecture exhibition.

On display through December 31, 2017, the exhibition features over 80 photographs by Robert Yasinsac and Thomas Rinaldi documenting forgotten historic sites and cultural treasures in the Hudson River Valley.

The exhibition is based on Yasinsac and Rinaldi’s 2006 book, Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape. In addition to great river estates, the book and exhibition profiles sites meaningful to everyday life in the Hudson Valley: churches, hotels, commercial and civic buildings, mills, and train stations. The exhibition explores many of these abandoned places and also revisits several sites that have changed in the past ten years since the book’s publication. [Read more…] about Hudson Valley Ruins Photo Exhibit Opens at NYS Museum

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Architecture, Documentary, Historic Preservation, Hudson River Valley, Photography

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