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MA & T in the lower Hudson Valley


8 days' driving, 1816 kilometers (825 shown below).

Art

The lower Hudson Valley was the locus of the informal "Hudson School" of painters, starting with Thomas Cole and possibly peaking with his student Frederic Edwin Church. The light and the skies of the region are reflected in their paintings, not to mention the spectacular landscapes.


Some history.

Newburgh was a center of industry and commerce until the 1960s when it declined and its entrepreneurs moved out. In the 1970s it was subjected to "Urban Renewal" which razed fine architecture and left parts looking like Europe after WWII. Newburgh nonetheless claims to be a heartland of conservation, starting with the saving and restoring of Washington's headquarters in Hasbrouck House in the 19th century and resuming with the saving and restoring of houses along Montgomery St during the "urban renewal", including our B&B.

Rosendale claims to be responsible for the industrialization of New York city and state because of 30 square miles of limestone used to produce "natural cement". This built the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty (which might have gone to Boston or Pittsburgh except for NY industrialization) and more fundamentally the Delaware to Hudson Canal (half of it following Rondout Creek) which brought Pennsylvania coal to the Hudson halfway between the ports of NYC and Albany.


Travel map.
map/1408mapHudsonValley
Map: T, 2014/8/30 from Google

Beds and Breakfasts, Aug. 22-29, 2014 6 photos, 1.0 Mbytes

Storm King Art Center, Aug. 23, 2014 23 photos, 4.0 Mbytes

Beacon and Poughkeepsie, Aug. 24, 2014 6 photos, 1.3 Mbytes

Storm King Mountain, Aug. 25, 2014 6 photos, 1.3 Mbytes

CIA and FDR, Aug. 26, 2014 10 photos, 1.5 Mbytes

The Gunks and a drive, Aug. 27, 2014 14 photos, 2.8 Mbytes

Olana and Opus 40, Aug. 28, 2014 15 photos, 2.7 Mbytes

Albany, Aug. 29, 2014 3 photos, 0.4 Mbytes