JULY 4TH, CATSKILLS, HUDSON VALLEY
Summer is hot in New York.
Even though our apartment has the best view in the city for the Empire State Building and the Fourth of July Fireworks, we opted for cooler weather and headed up the Hudson Valley to the Village of Hudson.
The Village of Hudson is 100 miles up the Hudson River from New York City and the North Atlantic. Amazingly, it and several other Hudson Valley towns were major whaling ports. Hudson benefited from migration of whalers from Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Our plan was to leave the Hudson Valley and the Village of Hudson and go to the Godici Farm House in Claryville, NY. This would have us traverse the span of the Catskill Mountains from East to West.
Along the way we visited the Village of Rhinebeck on the Hudson River. Rhinebeck is the site of Chelsea Clinton's wedding. The Beekman Arms Inn presents itself as the oldest Inn in America.
A view of the Hudson River.
We then visited Olana, the mountain top home of the luminist, Hudson Valley School artist, Frederic Church.
Claryville gave us five days with the Godici Family.
Upon leaving Claryville we headed back to the Hudson River and the Hudson River Valley. Our destination was Hyde Park and Poughkeepsie.
One of the homes we wanted to visit was the Frederick Vanderbilt home in Hyde Park.
Besides the Culinary Institute of America, the other famous site in Hyde Park is the home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
We finished our Hudson Valley trip with a visit to Dia:Beacon. The facility to show the modern art exhibit is a former box manufacturing site for Nabisco. It is a very large, wonderful space. I'm not showing the Andy Warhol exhibit but it filled a very large room and all four walls.
Yes, that's nothing more than an unfinished plywood wall. The other Donald Judd's were a collection of large plywood cubic structures.
Piles of dirt, sawdust, and broken glass.
Scraps.
Our 4th of July trip was wonderful. Hope you enjoyed seeing a bit of it.
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