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enjoys the hubbub—is adjusted and equal to it—finishes it so artistically. His pinions just oscillating—the position of his head and neck—his resistless, occasionally varied flight—now a swirl, now an upward movement—the black clouds driving—the
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angry wash below—the hiss of rain, the wind’s piping (perhaps the ice colliding, grunting)—he tacking or jibing—now, as it were, for a change, abandoning himself to the gale, moving with it with such velocity—and now, resuming control, he comes up
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against it, lord of the situation and the storm—lord, amid it, of power and savage joy. Breakneck from the South. From the stereoview published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. Sometimes (as at present writing,) middle of sunny afternoon, the old
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“Vanderbilt” steamer stalking ahead—I plainly hear her rhythmic, slushing paddles—drawing by long hawsers an immense and varied following string, (“an old sow and pigs,” the river folks call it.) First comes a big barge, with a house built on it, and
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spars towering over the roof; then canal boats, a lengthen’d, clustering train, fasten’d and link’d together-the one in the middle, with high staff, flaunting a broad and gaudy flag—others with the almost invariable lines of new-wash’d clothes,
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drying; two sloops and a schooner aside the tow—little wind, and that adverse—with three long, dark, empty barges bringing up the rear. People are on the boats: men lounging, women in sun-bonnets, children, stovepipes with streaming smoke. From
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Specimen Days & Collect by Walt Whitman. Rees Welch & Co., Philadelphia, 1882. Related posts What a Delightful Ride Hudson River Railroad Maps, 1867 Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
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Related Tagged Shad fishing Walt Whitman Published October 13, 2013
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Postcard published by William Terhune, “Ossining on Hudson,” N.Y., circa 1906. Here’s a postcard of the nearly completed New Croton Dam, sent from Ossining on March 13, 1906. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend
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LinkedIn Like Loading... Related Tagged Post card Published October 17, 2013
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View of Haverstraw Bay, from off Scarborough. Published by the United States Coast Survey, Washington, D.C., 1868. Click the image to enlarge it. At first glance you might think this beautiful print is an etching made by a Hudson River
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painter—looking north from Scarborough, showing a sweeping, placid panorama of the widest section of the river, stretching from Rockland Lake to the mouth of the Croton. The artist has depicted a sailboat in the foreground—representing the romantic,
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natural state of the river—and contrasted it with the industrial future—a steamboat chugging to New York City from the factory buildings on the distant shores of Haverstraw. Detail from View of Haverstraw Bay, from off Scarborough . Click the image
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to enlarge it. This is a beautiful print, but it’s a steel engraving, not an etching; created not by Kensett or Cole, but by what was then called the United States Coast Survey—the oldest U.S. scientific organization, dating from 1807 when President
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Thomas Jefferson signed “An Act to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States.” Detail from View of Haverstraw Bay, from off Scarborough. Click the image to enlarge it. The print is one of a series of views of the Hudson which were
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produced to supplement detailed maps and “trigonometrical surveys” that began in the harbor of New York City, expanded up the Hudson River and eventually covered the entire coast of the United States. 1 Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints , a rare book
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dealer just up the river in Garrison, was kind enough to let us share this print, which is just one of a group of similar views of the Highlands they are offering. To see this specific print click here . For all the Hudson River Coast Survey prints
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click here . If you enter “Hudson River” in the search box you’ll get 448 items, including this Art Deco treasure: See this previous post for a U.S. Coast Survey map of Croton Point and links to additional information about this remarkable
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Ad for “Pure and Very Old Wine & Cider Vinegar” for sale at Croton Point from the Highland Democrat , June 17, 1893. If you want to introduce kids to Croton’s agricultural heritage, take them to Thompson’s Cider Mill on a Saturday to watch proprietor
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Geoff Thompson and his crew turn bushels of heirloom and traditional apples into old-fashioned apple cider. They may not use the antique cider-making equipment that’s on display outside the mill, but the process is essentially the same as it was in
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the 18th and 19th century when the Underhills were growing grapes and apples on Croton Point and “one of the largest orchards in this country” belonging to “Mr. Conklin” was selling barrels of cider 1 for $3 to $7 each from an orchard between Croton
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and Verplanck. 2 For more information on Thompson’s Cider Mill, see their website . Click the image to start the slideshow (and don’t miss the footnotes at the bottom of the page). Thompson’s Cider Mill has been in operation for 37 years. The orchard
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is located behind the mill building. Each batch of cider contains a mixture of apple varieties—some tart, some sweet. Fifty percent of the apples used are grown at Thompson’s, the rest come from other local orchards. One of the antique cider presses
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(also called mills) on display. Another type of antique cider press. Let’s make some cider! First step, put apples in the hopper that’s connected to the washer that cleans them. When the apples come out they’re given a final spray and any twigs or
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leaves are removed. The apples on a conveyor belt, headed for the machine that will grind them up into what’s called mash. That’s owner Geoff Thompson on the right. Next, the mash is sprayed into a filter blanket, laid into a frame. When the blanket
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is full the corners are folded over and the frame is removed. A sheet of wooden slats is placed over the blanket full of mash and the process is repeated. When all the blankets are full, they’re pulled under the hydraulic press. Here comes the cider,
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