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Sailor Twain, or The Mermaid in the Hudson
One hundred years ago. On the foggy Hudson River, a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port in the United States. A wildly popular–and notoriously...
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Hudson Valley Greenway, Conservancy Joint Meeting
The Boards of the Hudson River Valley Greenway Communities Council and Greenway Conservancy for the Hudson River Valley will meet on October 17, 2012 at the historic Cornell Boathouse at Marist...
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Kathleen Hulser: Hurricane Sandy And The NYC Waterfront
As New Yorkers still struggle without power in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, it plunges us right into the heart of a discussion about the historic waterfront. Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Vision for...
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Thomas William Symons: Father of Barge Canals
The first 20 years of Keeseville’s Thomas William Symons’ work as an engineer were incredibly successful. A list of his achievements reads like a career review, but he was just getting started. After...
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Chip Reynolds: Jupiter, Galileo and the Half Moon
What follows is a guest essay by Chip Reynolds, Half Moon Captain and Director of the New Netherland Museum. Don’t miss a great opportunity that presents itself over the next two months —- and...
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Whaling and Abolition: A Sample Path Through History
Diane Duprey, a retired social studies teacher now President Southeastern Council for the Social Studies, has created her own Path Through History. It includes many of the elements I’ve been advocating...
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Was Mary Johnson A Civil War Veteran?
In Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922, while working in a private home, Mrs. Mary Johnson was badly injured in a fall. At the age of 82, with few resources at her disposal, neither Mary nor her husband...
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19th Century Celebrity Phat Boy Babbage
This is a story about a fat guy. In this politically correct and hyper-sensitive world, some of you might already be reaching for your keyboards to send me a nasty message for being so thoughtless. But...
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200 Years Ago: Don’t Give Up The Ship
It’s a phrase most of us use, without knowing much more than it connotes an air of struggle. A desperate struggle is exactly what was taking place when Captain James Lawrence of the USS Chesapeake made...
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Chris Pryslopski: Working On The Weekends, For History
One of my favorite things about working at The Hudson River Valley Institute is the wide variety of random (though usually regional) questions that we receive by phone and email. (The answer to the...
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