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...