The Hudson Valley by Levine, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Introduction Part 1: Living in the Past

Jurassic Parkchester Ice Capades The People of the Waters That Are Never Still

Part 2: Colonization

Black, Like Us The Wars at Home Let My People Come Cheaper by the Duzine Poor No More The Oblong

Part 3: Independence

Hamilton Slept Here. And Here. Here Too Point Well Taken The Great Chain Foreign Legions Spy versus Spy Best. Clinton. Ever Heavy Metal Secret Agent Man

Part 4: The Birth of a New Nation

Echoes of Big Thunder “The Alarming Cry of Fire” A Whale of a Tale Sunken Treasure Ladies First You Call That a War?

Part 5: The Civil War

War and Remembrance Lost and Foundry The Godfather of Soil Seeking Truth

Part 6: The Valley Transformed

“The Pride and Joy of Po’keepsie” My Old School The Birth of a County Air Pure and Dry A (Man-Made) River Runs Through It Train Kept A’rollin A Nineteenth-Century Utopia

Part 7: Business Straight and Crooked

Valley of the Barons Nice Ice Pough-cough-sie Cementing Its Reputation Cheesy Let There Be Light Up the River No Shrinking Violet They Got Legs The Adams Family

Part 8: World at Wars

Over There, Back Here The Picnic That Won the War The Indestructible Man Chasing Ghosts Last Stop, USA Favorite Son Loomis’s Secret Lab

Part 9: Arts and Sciences

Storm Stories Cabin Fever Puttin’ on the Ritz Thoroughly Modern Millay What Hath Morse Wrought? The Irish Alps An Unlikely Artist Local Boy Makes Good Take My Wife (to the Catskills) … Please!

Part 10: Modern Times

A Mixed Legacy New York’s Main Street Leaving Albany Get Your Beer Here Just Breathe

Part 11: Cornucopia

The Worst Woman on Earth The Speed of the Wind Mysteries of the Hudson Valley “I Own a Island!” The Old Man and the Rink Senior Moment Weathering Heights

Conclusion: Glory Days

Twenty-Five (Heck, Twenty-Six) Important Events in Hudson Valley History

About the Author

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