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Malcolm X said, “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” A unique partnership responsible for the revitalization...

The Body Liberation Hiking Club

Hiking is a beloved pastime for so many, offering a...

RecoveryHike

Nature has the power to help heal. Few understand that...

2023 Community Spring Fest Rocks Sojourner Truth State Park

The weather was definitely spring-like and the atmosphere truly festive...

Modern Community Gardens Work for Staying Power

Community gardens may seem deeply rooted in New York. After all, the modern version has...

How to Decorate for Winter by Bringing Nature In

The holiday decorations are down, the lights aren’t twinkling, and the nights feel long and...

The Top 10 Favorite Viewfinder Stories of 2022

A place whose past you know, present you appreciate, and future you can envision. That’s...

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RecoveryHike

Nature has the power to help heal. Few understand that more fully than Bryan Clog, founder of RecoveryHike. Clog regularly...

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Textile Artist Victoria van der Laan Follows Threads to Zero-Waste Art

In the world of visual arts, painting, sculpture, video, and photography often dominate the narrative. Yet there are other forms...

An Artist-Scientist Observes a Changing Climate

Artist and scientist Hara Woltz believes that art is key to bearing witness to climate change in the Hudson Valley...

Wood Artist Reclaims Regional Trees

Megan Offner was surrounded by forests in her early life in Montana — yet the forests of the Hudson Valley...

Revealing Storm King’s Beauty: Unsung Painter Brings Mountain’s Majesty to Light

Storm King Mountain was a popular subject for Thomas Cole and other artists associated with the 19th-century Hudson River School of painting....

Artist Matthew Friday Considers Water, Waste

Not many artists think deeply about ecology and water, but artist-writer-educator Matthew Friday has done exactly that in multidisciplinary works...

Artist Arnie Zimmerman Worked With Valley’s Bricks and Clay

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Hudson Valley was the largest brickmaking district on the planet. Its metrics were...

Artist Jean Shin Reimagines Fallen Trees

Frederic Church and his fellow painters of the Hudson River School saw nature in a beautiful, romantic light. Contemporary artists...

Artist Jean-Marc Superville Sovak Contends With Valley’s Social Dynamics

Jean-Marc Superville Sovak was born in Montreal, the child of one parent from Trinidad and another from the Czech Republic....

Artist Alison McNulty Explores Valley’s Ecological and Industrial Past

The work of Newburgh-based artist Alison McNulty has taken a dizzying number of forms: sculpture, photography, drawing, video, site-responsive outdoor...

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Malcolm X Park Hosts New Moments of Joy

Malcolm X said, “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” A unique partnership responsible for the revitalization...

Seeding Poughkeepsie’s Healthy Future at Pershing Farm

“I used to walk by this park all the time and never thought there would be a farm here.” That’s...

Celebrate Good Times! Sojourner Truth State Park Opens with Community Earth Day Event

A Community Earth Day get-together was a fitting way to celebrate the opening of Sojourner Truth State Park, located on...

Celebrating Pershing Avenue Farm’s First Harvest

Residents of Poughkeepsie’s Northside neighborhood turned out in force to enjoy a Harvest Fest at the Pershing Avenue Neighborhood Farm +...

Newburgh Street-Tree Planting Aims to Restore the City’s Healthy, Shady Canopy

In May, the residents of South Miller Street in Newburgh gathered to plant, to care for — and really, to...

Creating a New Community Resource in Poughkeepsie

Deepening our roots in the City of Poughkeepsie — and building upon our commitment to be an active partner in...
Kingston waterfront, aerial view of AVR (photo by Pierce Johnston)

Kingston Transformation

More than 500 acres of forested and former industrial lands along the Hudson River will begin to heal from decades...

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Kim Mathews, West Point Foundry Preserve Landscape

When West Point Foundry Preserve reopened in 2013, after a 16-month construction project and years of planning, the new “historical park” became...

Barry Medenbach, Suspension Bridge at Black Creek Preserve

“You could have just put a couple of big beams in there,” Barry Medenbach says about options for crossing the water at...

David Souers, Overlook Pavilion

The Hudson Valley has lots of iconic scenes, from the river and mountains to man-made creations that show up in...