Sitting in a little crook of the river, 20 miles south of Albany, Coxsackie was originally settled in the mid-17th century and incorporated as a town in 1788. While those not from the area probably mostly know it for the eponymous virus first isolated here, locals know it as a vibrant if quiet town, encompassing […]
The phrase “college town” conjures up certain images in the mind, not all of them particularly appealing after one sails on from their early 20s to the open seas of actual adulthood: Cheap bars, boisterous crowds, lots of stores hawking tie-dyed items and colorful plethoras of bongs. Not so in Tivoli, which, though right next […]
The Hudson Valley is known for its large-scale artworks: Think Storm King Art Center, Dia:Beacon, and Opus 40. But there’s also the entire village of Rosendale in Ulster County, which some critics consider to be one of the most important works of late-20th century American Art. Not because of the architecture, although the handsome, pastel-colored […]
This may come as a shock to the teens who have nicknamed their quiet little village “Slow Motion Goshen” because of the pace at which life unfurls here, but there was a time when Goshen was synonymous with speed. Reckless, hair-raising, devil-may-care speed! Savage displays of raw horsepower! That’s literal horsepower. In the late 1700s, […]
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