The Hudson River has provided a way of getting from here to there since humans first appeared in the region....

From the mid-19th century to the 1930s, few people would think of leaving home without putting on a hat. With all...

Before the mid-1850s, Hudson Valley farms kept a cow or two to supply the family’s dairy needs. It took a...

Block ice was once a can’t-live-without-it piece of American culture. For about a century beginning in the 1830s, keeping food...

Scattered along the shores of the Hudson River, it’s not hard to find red “rocks” — or the remnants of...

Few things offer the sweetness of a Hudson Valley summer more than biting into an ear of local corn. By...

Even many foodies might believe hominy is an exclusively Mexican menu item. Not a chance. In reality, it’s a traditional...

Rocks possess a spirit, an energy that draws people. They are sacred beings … and they carry the weight of...

Not long after the last glacier receded from the Hudson Valley 10,000 years ago, the region’s wildlife-filled forests, rich soils,...

Walk through many forests in the mid- and lower Hudson Valley — including those at Scenic Hudson’s Shaupeneak Ridge, Esopus...

The region we call the Hudson Valley has a deep Indigenous heritage. Early Native American inhabitants of the valley  —...

When it comes to superlatives, the Hudson Valley definitely holds its own. Here are five more sites that rank supreme...

A race in the clouds on the Fourth of July, with one hot air balloon piloted by a woman! That’s...

In 2021, Time magazine named the Hudson Valley one of the world’s greatest places. But some places in the region lay claim...

As thousands of men went off to fight in the American Revolution, many women kept the home fires burning — which...

She built one of the most striking homes on the Hudson River — and the nation’s first female self-made millionaire...

Described by one writer as the “Bob Dylan and Madonna of her generation,” poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was...

From the beginning, stargazing has been part of the curriculum at Poughkeepsie’s Vassar College. That’s because Maria Mitchell — America’s...

They fought for working women’s rights, advocated for vulnerable children, even rescued drowning sailors. And of course, they called for...

Driving along the distinctly suburban stretch of Route 17K in Coldenham, a hamlet in Orange County’s Town of Montgomery, it’s...