Monthly Archives: June 2009

River of money

By Deborah Medenbach | Published: June 24, 2009 | 0 Comments
Congressman Maurice Hinchey and the National Parks Service announced on June 23 that $750,000 had been allocated for several Quadricentennial celebration projects. The money was tagged on to an additional $492,000 the congressman secured last year. Today’s Times Herald-Record article by Jeremiah Horrigan highlighted the top three items, but the rest of the grants provide [...]
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Ahoy! Where Lies Sustainability?

By Deborah Medenbach | Published: June 8, 2009 | 0 Comments
The carpenters paused during construction of Solange Fabiao’s “Path to Hudson” sculpture in the woods to talk in amazement about the trouble she’d taken to choose materials certified to be from forests that were managed in environmentally responsible ways.  It was more expensive, but was a principle the Brazilian architect would not compromise on in [...]
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River Day schedule, hour by hour

By Deborah Medenbach | Published: June 3, 2009 | 0 Comments
The Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston,  has released the hourly schedule for River Day on June 10: KINGSTON’S “HUDSON RIVER DAY” Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:00 pm         Shuttle Bus begins running from Kingston Point Beach to the Rondout to accommodate                              remote parking.  [Shuttles will run throughout the evening from 5 – 11 p.m.]             [...]
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Sailors race to welcome flotilla to Kingston

By Deborah Medenbach | Published: June 2, 2009 | 0 Comments
The Kingston Sailing Club, founded decades ago by the last lighthouse keeper of the Rondout Light, is calling all sailing vessels large and small for a race from the Rondout Lighthouse on June 10 to meet the advancing Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial fleet. Sailors are invited to assemble at 4 p.m. on the Hudson River by the [...]
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Columbus beats Hudson to port

By Deborah Medenbach | Published: June 1, 2009 | 0 Comments
All of Kingston is awaiting next week’s arrival of Henry Hudson’s Half Moon and accompanying flotilla as part of the Quadricentennial and River Days celebrations. In an interesting historical buckle, replicas of Christopher Columbus’ ships will get here first. The Pinta and the Nina arrive on June 4 at the Hudson River Maritime Museum in [...]
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