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iPredator Inc. Founder Available to Discuss Tragic Connecticut School Shooting

December 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment


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As Information and Communications Technology (ICT) becomes vital to all aspects of humanity, Dr. Michael Nuccitelli, iPredator Inc. founder, strongly suspects social media, the veil of anonymity and the greater range of information exchange will change the frequency and methods of criminal and deviant acts.

Dr. Nuccitelli, is available to discuss the tragic Connecticut elementary school shooting. As a State licensed psychologist and author of a new technological predator construct, iPredator, Dr. Nuccitelli is adept at educating citizens on the psychological and sociological paradigm shifts occurring in the Information Age.

The mind & ICT will be relevant in understanding the motivations of all criminals, deviants and the severely disturbed. All future alleged mass killers and violent offenders will be assessed and judged by their criminal actions, their past and their Information and Communications Technology usage. In addition to being adept at discussing the traits of the Mass Killer, Dr. Nuccitelli can also present his belief that ICT acts as an accelerant to the fantasy world common to all mass murderers.

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unFRAMED: A Man in Progress

September 11, 2011 By 7 Comments

unFRAMED: A Man in Progress
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The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, in collaboration with Double Play Connections and Doing Life Productions, Jane Dubin, Executive Producer, presents Iyaba Ibo Mandingo’s unFRAMED: A Man in Progress, directed by Brent Buell, on Thursday, September 22 at 1:30pm, Friday, September 23 at 7:30pm and Saturday, September 24 at 7:30pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Tickets are ( students) and are available at www.ticketcentral.com or by phone at 212-279-4200. All shows will be followed by a JUST-US Dialogue.

Winner of the 2011 Award for Excellence in Theatre from the DC Black Theatre Festival, “In unFRAMED writer and performer Iyaba Ibo Mandingo tells the story of his journey from Antigua to America. It wasn't without tribulations; navigating treacherous times without a father, Mandingo turned to art. unFRAMED puts the art front and center: Mandingo uses painting, poetry, prose and song to tell a story that echoes the lives of many.” – Times Herald Record.

At the age of eleven, Iyaba is plucked from the tropical comfort of his childhood and taken to a new life in a strange country. unFRAMED is his poetic tale of life as an immigrant – from boyhood in Antigua to manhood in America. Using canvas, paint, poetry, prose and song, Iyaba Ibo Mandingo tells a story of his transformation -from “Mommy Me No Wanna Go Merrica” – a prophetic piece that hints at the many trials he will face in a new land – to his powerful political poetry which leads to his arrest and attempted deportation in post 9/11 America, Iyaba shares his rage, his determination, and his hope while he paints his self-portrait and successfully struggles to redefine his humanity, rediscover his smile, and truly accept himself for the first time. Presented in conjunction with an exhibit of his original artwork, audiences are invited into the studio of the artist where painting and poetry create unframed art.

"Iyaba IS a true work of art — a powerful poet, painter and performer (among many other things); that raw/rare breed whose naked truth shatters long-held myths about life in America. Real deal."
– Forrest McClendon, 2011 Tony Award Nominee, The Scottsboro Boys

“One of the most powerful, sometimes funny, often angry but ultimately life-affirming shows I've ever seen! GO EXPERIENCE IT!!!” – Frank Lowell, WTBQ

“Everyone needs to know what a fantastic – simply great show this is. Humor, depth, artistry – it has it all and it is truly an engaging and wonderful evening of theater … Heart, heart, heart. GO to this show – it's one of the best evenings of theater you will experience and I can not recommend it highly enough!”
- M. Peters, Esq, Audience Member

IYABA IBO MANDINGO (Playwright, Performer) – painter, poet, writer, and playwright – is a native of Antigua, West Indies, who came to the in 1980 as a young boy. His earliest exposures to the arts were through his mother, a professional singer, and his grandparents, a tailor and a seamstress who first introduced him to colors and patterns, paving a path to his many ways of expression: drawing, painting, sculpting, writing and performing. Iyaba studied fine arts at Southern Connecticut State University and today teaches in and around the tri-state area as a Master Teaching Artist. He is a member of the Harlem Arts Alliance.

Iyaba is a two-time Connecticut Grand Slam champion and in January 2011 won ’s Martin Luther King Birthday Invitational Slam, his third such win. He appears regularly as a performance poet in venues across the United States and abroad, including Nuyorican Poetry Café, Brooklyn Moon, and Next Door Café among others in the NY area and was the keynote performer at the 2011 Westchester, NY Poetry Festival. He will be a keynote performer this fall at the Montserrat National Festival of Words.
Iyaba was awarded a national Percent for the Arts Program artist grant, as well as grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and multiple commendations from the Nassau County African American Museum. His artwork has been included in over a dozen group and individual shows in the tri-state area. He was recently seen at 59E59 as Henry in Deb Margolin’s The Expenses of Rain (Laura Barnett, director). He is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, 41 Times, Amerikkan Exile and his latest, 40 days & 40 nites of write. His new novel, Sins of My Fathers, will be released in early 2012. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Summer, 2011 Artist in Residence.

unFRAMED has been presented all over the east coast, including at the Railroad Playhouse in Newburgh, the Puffin Cultural Forum, as a Spotlight show at the DC Black Theatre Festival; at colleges and universities (York College, NY; Nichols College, MA; University of Baltimore, MD; Rider College, NJ); galleries (Casa Frela, Harlem; Gallery 1212, CT) and the Writers’ Center.

at Gerald W. Lynch Theatre/John Jay College

New York, United States

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Hudson Valley West Point New York Holiday Events 2009

September 10, 2011 By 7 Comments

Living in the area and looking for some holiday events. Here are a few West Point New York holiday events for 2009.

At the West Point Club come and join the “Thanksgiving Day Feast” on November 26, 2009. The price for Members is .95 for Adults and .50 for children ages 6 thru 12. For Non-Members the price is .95 for Adults and .95 for Children ages 6 thru 12 with Children 5 years of age and younger are free. There is a 50 percent discount for families with the FMWR deployment card and registered BOSS soldiers will receive off the menu price. Advanced reservations are required and there will be no refunds after Tuesday, November 24, 2009. The phone number for reservations is 845-938-5120.

Go to the via West Point on November 26, 2009. Motor Coach transportation will be provided to the parade area, leaving West Point at 6am. Motor Coach transportation will be provided to return to West Point immediately after the parade. You can register now at Leisure Travel Services, 695 Buckner Loop West Point New York. Or you can call 845-938-3601. Visa and Mastercard accepted.

The famous Christmas Spectacular Starring the Rockettes! Tickets are available for three shows. Wednesday, December 9, 2009, for the 5pm show, 3rd Mezzanine, each which includes transportation. The bus leaves at 1pm from 695 Buckner Loop West Point New York and leaves directly after the show. Tuesday, December 15, 2009, for the 8pm show, 2nd Mezzanine, each which includes transportation. The bus leaves at 4pm from 695 Buckner Loop West Point New York and leaves New York City directly after the show. Thursday, December 17, 2009, for the 5pm show, 2nd Mezzanine, each which includes transportation. The bus leaves at 1pm from 695 Buckner Loop West Point New York and leaves New York City directly after the show. For more information and tickets please call Leisure travel Services at 845-938-3601. Visa and Mastecard accepted.

 

 

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Very nice ny picture

September 1, 2011 By 2 Comments

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Kaaterskill Falls is a two-drop waterfall located near in the eastern Catskill Mountains of , on the north side of , between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County’s Town of Hunter. The dual cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making the falls the highest in New York, and one of the Eastern ‘ taller waterfalls. The falls are one of America’s oldest tourist attractions, wappearing in some of the most prominent books, essays, poems and paintings of the early 19th century.

While the falls are on public land, they can only be reached via the Kaaterskill Falls Trail, a state-maintained yellow-blazed path running 0.4 mile (650 m) uphill from NY 23A, the only road through the clove. Built in 1967, the trail, though challenging enough for experienced hikers, is the most-hiked trail in the Catskill Park, contribtuing to erosion.

The falls, like the clove and creek with which they share a name, are a relatively recent addition to the Catskills in geologic time. They evolved through stream capture at the end of the Illinois glaciation, when runoff from the glacial melt that created North-South Lake began to flow away from the nearby headwaters of Schoharie Creek and down the steep slopes of the newly-created clove. The rushing waters of what would become known as Spruce Creek eroded a natural amphitheater at roughly 2,000 feet (609 m) on the south slope of South Mountain. Most of the drop is accounted for by the upper cascade. The shelf breaking the two falls (and creating the huge pool) is the break between the Manorkill Sandstone formed in the Middle Devonian period and the Oneonta-Genesee sandstone-shale mix of the late Devonian period.

While the falls’ existence was known prior to colonization, it played minor role among the indigenous peoples of the , who avoided the Catskills due to the limited agricultural possibilities of higher elevations. The falls’ name probably came from a later corruption of "Catskill" by English-speaking colonists who had supplanted the Dutch by the early 18th century. Cat could mean Bobcat or Mountain Lion, while "kill" means stream in Dutch.

Early American naturalist John Bartram visited the falls on his 1753 expedition to the area. In "A Journey to Ye Cat Skill Mountains with Billy," one of the earliest Catskill travelogues, called it "the great gulf that swallowed all down." Still, Americans regarded upstate New York as unsafe and populated by savage natives. It wasn’t until after the War of 1812 when the frontier shifted far to the west that attitudes changed.

The falls’ fame began with a mention by Washington Irving in "Rip Van Winkle" in 1819. Drawn by Irving’s story, pioneering Hudson River School artist took a steamboat ride up the Hudson in October of 1825. The resulting paintings were featured on the front page of the New York Evening Post, and in turn helped make the Hudson River Valley one of the foremost tourist destinations in the country. A trip to the falls became something of a pilgrimmage for the first influential class of truly American artists. The earliest known view of the front of the Falls by Thomas Cole, dated 1826, is in the Westervelt Warner Museum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Perhaps the best-known depiction is Asher Durand’s highly stylized "Kindred Spirits" (1849), eulogizing the recently deceased Cole.

At some time in the 19th century the falls were used as a mill to power a tannery. The Laurel House, a nearby hotel, acquired the water rights to Spruce Creek and dammed it during tourist season, charging spectators a fee to watch as the falls were "turned on". In 1885 established the Forest Peserve, which later became part of the New York State Constitution. The "forever wild" requirement helped protect the area from logging and commercial development, once the falls property came into state ownership during the early 20th century. They are today part of the North Mountain Wild Forest, a Forest Preserve Unit owned and managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

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August 31, 2011 By 7 Comments

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Kaaterskill Falls is a two-drop waterfall located near in the eastern Catskill Mountains of , on the north side of , between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County’s Town of Hunter. The dual cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making the falls the highest in New York, and one of the Eastern ‘ taller waterfalls. The falls are one of America’s oldest tourist attractions, wappearing in some of the most prominent books, essays, poems and paintings of the early .

While the falls are on public land, they can only be reached via the Kaaterskill Falls Trail, a state-maintained yellow-blazed path running 0.4 mile (650 m) uphill from NY 23A, the only road through the clove. Built in 1967, the trail, though challenging enough for experienced hikers, is the most-hiked trail in the Catskill Park, contribtuing to erosion.

The falls, like the clove and creek with which they share a name, are a relatively recent addition to the Catskills in geologic time. They evolved through stream capture at the end of the Illinois glaciation, when runoff from the glacial melt that created North-South Lake began to flow away from the nearby headwaters of Schoharie Creek and down the steep slopes of the newly-created clove. The rushing waters of what would become known as Spruce Creek eroded a natural amphitheater at roughly 2,000 feet (609 m) on the south slope of South Mountain. Most of the drop is accounted for by the upper cascade. The shelf breaking the two falls (and creating the huge pool) is the break between the Manorkill Sandstone formed in the Middle Devonian period and the Oneonta-Genesee sandstone-shale mix of the late Devonian period.

While the falls’ existence was known prior to colonization, it played minor role among the indigenous peoples of the , who avoided the Catskills due to the limited agricultural possibilities of higher elevations. The falls’ name probably came from a later corruption of "Catskill" by English-speaking colonists who had supplanted the Dutch by the early 18th century. Cat could mean Bobcat or Mountain Lion, while "kill" means stream in Dutch.

Early American naturalist John Bartram visited the falls on his 1753 expedition to the area. In "A Journey to Ye Cat Skill Mountains with Billy," one of the earliest Catskill travelogues, called it "the great gulf that swallowed all down." Still, Americans regarded upstate New York as unsafe and populated by savage natives. It wasn’t until after the War of 1812 when the frontier shifted far to the west that attitudes changed.

The falls’ fame began with a mention by Washington Irving in "Rip Van Winkle" in 1819. Drawn by Irving’s story, pioneering Hudson River School artist took a steamboat ride up the Hudson in October of 1825. The resulting paintings were featured on the front page of the New York Evening Post, and in turn helped make the Hudson River Valley one of the foremost tourist destinations in the country. A trip to the falls became something of a pilgrimmage for the first influential class of truly American artists. The earliest known view of the front of the Falls by Thomas Cole, dated 1826, is in the Westervelt Warner Museum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Perhaps the best-known depiction is Asher Durand’s highly stylized "Kindred Spirits" (1849), eulogizing the recently deceased Cole.

At some time in the 19th century the falls were used as a mill to power a tannery. The Laurel House, a nearby hotel, acquired the water rights to Spruce Creek and dammed it during tourist season, charging spectators a fee to watch as the falls were "turned on". In 1885 established the Forest Peserve, which later became part of the New York State Constitution. The "forever wild" requirement helped protect the area from logging and commercial development, once the falls property came into state ownership during the early 20th century. They are today part of the North Mountain Wild Forest, a Forest Preserve Unit owned and managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

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August 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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Image by wallyg
Kaaterskill Falls is a two-drop waterfall located near in the eastern Catskill Mountains of , on the north side of , between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County’s Town of Hunter. The dual cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making the falls the highest in New York, and one of the Eastern ‘ taller waterfalls. The falls are one of America’s oldest tourist attractions, wappearing in some of the most prominent books, essays, poems and paintings of the early .

While the falls are on public land, they can only be reached via the Kaaterskill Falls Trail, a state-maintained yellow-blazed path running 0.4 mile (650 m) uphill from NY 23A, the only road through the clove. Built in 1967, the trail, though challenging enough for experienced hikers, is the most-hiked trail in the Catskill Park, contribtuing to erosion.

The falls, like the clove and creek with which they share a name, are a relatively recent addition to the Catskills in geologic time. They evolved through stream capture at the end of the Illinois glaciation, when runoff from the glacial melt that created North-South Lake began to flow away from the nearby headwaters of Schoharie Creek and down the steep slopes of the newly-created clove. The rushing waters of what would become known as Spruce Creek eroded a natural amphitheater at roughly 2,000 feet (609 m) on the south slope of South Mountain. Most of the drop is accounted for by the upper cascade. The shelf breaking the two falls (and creating the huge pool) is the break between the Manorkill Sandstone formed in the Middle Devonian period and the Oneonta-Genesee sandstone-shale mix of the late Devonian period.

While the falls’ existence was known prior to colonization, it played minor role among the indigenous peoples of the , who avoided the Catskills due to the limited agricultural possibilities of higher elevations. The falls’ name probably came from a later corruption of "Catskill" by English-speaking colonists who had supplanted the Dutch by the early 18th century. Cat could mean Bobcat or Mountain Lion, while "kill" means stream in Dutch.

Early American naturalist John Bartram visited the falls on his 1753 expedition to the area. In "A Journey to Ye Cat Skill Mountains with Billy," one of the earliest Catskill travelogues, called it "the great gulf that swallowed all down." Still, Americans regarded upstate New York as unsafe and populated by savage natives. It wasn’t until after the War of 1812 when the frontier shifted far to the west that attitudes changed.

The falls’ fame began with a mention by Washington Irving in "Rip Van Winkle" in 1819. Drawn by Irving’s story, pioneering Hudson River School artist took a steamboat ride up the Hudson in October of 1825. The resulting paintings were featured on the front page of the New York Evening Post, and in turn helped make the Hudson River Valley one of the foremost tourist destinations in the country. A trip to the falls became something of a pilgrimmage for the first influential class of truly American artists. The earliest known view of the front of the Falls by Thomas Cole, dated 1826, is in the Westervelt Warner Museum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Perhaps the best-known depiction is Asher Durand’s highly stylized "Kindred Spirits" (1849), eulogizing the recently deceased Cole.

At some time in the 19th century the falls were used as a mill to power a tannery. The Laurel House, a nearby hotel, acquired the water rights to Spruce Creek and dammed it during tourist season, charging spectators a fee to watch as the falls were "turned on". In 1885 established the Forest Peserve, which later became part of the New York State Constitution. The "forever wild" requirement helped protect the area from logging and commercial development, once the falls property came into state ownership during the early 20th century. They are today part of the North Mountain Wild Forest, a Forest Preserve Unit owned and managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

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August 24, 2011 By 3 Comments

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Image by wallyg
Kaaterskill Falls is a two-drop waterfall located near in the eastern Catskill Mountains of , on the north side of , between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County’s Town of Hunter. The dual cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making the falls the highest in New York, and one of the Eastern ‘ taller waterfalls. The falls are one of America’s oldest tourist attractions, wappearing in some of the most prominent books, essays, poems and paintings of the early .

While the falls are on public land, they can only be reached via the Kaaterskill Falls Trail, a state-maintained yellow-blazed path running 0.4 mile (650 m) uphill from NY 23A, the only road through the clove. Built in 1967, the trail, though challenging enough for experienced hikers, is the most-hiked trail in the Catskill Park, contribtuing to erosion.

The falls, like the clove and creek with which they share a name, are a relatively recent addition to the Catskills in geologic time. They evolved through stream capture at the end of the Illinois glaciation, when runoff from the glacial melt that created North-South Lake began to flow away from the nearby headwaters of Schoharie Creek and down the steep slopes of the newly-created clove. The rushing waters of what would become known as Spruce Creek eroded a natural amphitheater at roughly 2,000 feet (609 m) on the south slope of South Mountain. Most of the drop is accounted for by the upper cascade. The shelf breaking the two falls (and creating the huge pool) is the break between the Manorkill Sandstone formed in the Middle Devonian period and the Oneonta-Genesee sandstone-shale mix of the late Devonian period.

While the falls’ existence was known prior to colonization, it played minor role among the indigenous peoples of the , who avoided the Catskills due to the limited agricultural possibilities of higher elevations. The falls’ name probably came from a later corruption of "Catskill" by English-speaking colonists who had supplanted the Dutch by the early 18th century. Cat could mean Bobcat or Mountain Lion, while "kill" means stream in Dutch.

Early American naturalist John Bartram visited the falls on his 1753 expedition to the area. In "A Journey to Ye Cat Skill Mountains with Billy," one of the earliest Catskill travelogues, called it "the great gulf that swallowed all down." Still, Americans regarded upstate New York as unsafe and populated by savage natives. It wasn’t until after the War of 1812 when the frontier shifted far to the west that attitudes changed.

The falls’ fame began with a mention by Washington Irving in "Rip Van Winkle" in 1819. Drawn by Irving’s story, pioneering Hudson River School artist took a steamboat ride up the Hudson in October of 1825. The resulting paintings were featured on the front page of the New York Evening Post, and in turn helped make the Hudson River Valley one of the foremost tourist destinations in the country. A trip to the falls became something of a pilgrimmage for the first influential class of truly American artists. The earliest known view of the front of the Falls by Thomas Cole, dated 1826, is in the Westervelt Warner Museum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Perhaps the best-known depiction is Asher Durand’s highly stylized "Kindred Spirits" (1849), eulogizing the recently deceased Cole.

At some time in the 19th century the falls were used as a mill to power a tannery. The Laurel House, a nearby hotel, acquired the water rights to Spruce Creek and dammed it during tourist season, charging spectators a fee to watch as the falls were "turned on". In 1885 established the Forest Peserve, which later became part of the New York State Constitution. The "forever wild" requirement helped protect the area from logging and commercial development, once the falls property came into state ownership during the early 20th century. They are today part of the North Mountain Wild Forest, a Forest Preserve Unit owned and managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

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August 22, 2011 By 5 Comments

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Image by wallyg
Kaaterskill Falls is a two-drop waterfall located near in the eastern Catskill Mountains of , on the north side of , between the hamlets of Haines Falls and Palenville in Greene County’s Town of Hunter. The dual cascades total 260 feet (79 m) in height, making the falls the highest in New York, and one of the Eastern ‘ taller waterfalls. The falls are one of America’s oldest tourist attractions, wappearing in some of the most prominent books, essays, poems and paintings of the early .

While the falls are on public land, they can only be reached via the Kaaterskill Falls Trail, a state-maintained yellow-blazed path running 0.4 mile (650 m) uphill from NY 23A, the only road through the clove. Built in 1967, the trail, though challenging enough for experienced hikers, is the most-hiked trail in the Catskill Park, contribtuing to erosion.

The falls, like the clove and creek with which they share a name, are a relatively recent addition to the Catskills in geologic time. They evolved through stream capture at the end of the Illinois glaciation, when runoff from the glacial melt that created North-South Lake began to flow away from the nearby headwaters of Schoharie Creek and down the steep slopes of the newly-created clove. The rushing waters of what would become known as Spruce Creek eroded a natural amphitheater at roughly 2,000 feet (609 m) on the south slope of South Mountain. Most of the drop is accounted for by the upper cascade. The shelf breaking the two falls (and creating the huge pool) is the break between the Manorkill Sandstone formed in the Middle Devonian period and the Oneonta-Genesee sandstone-shale mix of the late Devonian period.

While the falls’ existence was known prior to colonization, it played minor role among the indigenous peoples of the , who avoided the Catskills due to the limited agricultural possibilities of higher elevations. The falls’ name probably came from a later corruption of "Catskill" by English-speaking colonists who had supplanted the Dutch by the early 18th century. Cat could mean Bobcat or Mountain Lion, while "kill" means stream in Dutch.

Early American naturalist John Bartram visited the falls on his 1753 expedition to the area. In "A Journey to Ye Cat Skill Mountains with Billy," one of the earliest Catskill travelogues, called it "the great gulf that swallowed all down." Still, Americans regarded upstate New York as unsafe and populated by savage natives. It wasn’t until after the War of 1812 when the frontier shifted far to the west that attitudes changed.

The falls’ fame began with a mention by Washington Irving in "Rip Van Winkle" in 1819. Drawn by Irving’s story, pioneering Hudson River School artist took a steamboat ride up the Hudson in October of 1825. The resulting paintings were featured on the front page of the New York Evening Post, and in turn helped make the Hudson River Valley one of the foremost tourist destinations in the country. A trip to the falls became something of a pilgrimmage for the first influential class of truly American artists. The earliest known view of the front of the Falls by Thomas Cole, dated 1826, is in the Westervelt Warner Museum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Perhaps the best-known depiction is Asher Durand’s highly stylized "Kindred Spirits" (1849), eulogizing the recently deceased Cole.

At some time in the 19th century the falls were used as a mill to power a tannery. The Laurel House, a nearby hotel, acquired the water rights to Spruce Creek and dammed it during tourist season, charging spectators a fee to watch as the falls were "turned on". In 1885 established the Forest Peserve, which later became part of the New York State Constitution. The "forever wild" requirement helped protect the area from logging and commercial development, once the falls property came into state ownership during the early 20th century. They are today part of the North Mountain Wild Forest, a Forest Preserve Unit owned and managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

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Landscaping Hudson Valley, NY ? A Great Place To Be

August 19, 2011 By 3 Comments

When you are in a mood to enjoy your time and want to enjoy every bit of nature then you should plan to visit the landscaping , NY. This is a great place and when you would go there you would be greatly inspired by the city. If you are looking to find the major attractions of then the Hudson Valley’s landscapes should be your destination. This is the place which has been associated with providing the people the kind of pleasure and calmness they are looking for. There are some of the wonderful buildings in the area that provide a shelter and house to the birds that are recuperating. There are many places in New York that are worth visiting and your tour to the city would not be complete if you do not go to those places and Hudson Valley is one such place among the others which comes in the list of the major things you should do in NY. The landscape maintenance Hudson Valley, NY is done very nicely and there are many great and wonderful designs over there. The landscape design Hudson Valley, NY is one of a kind and the beautiful view they provide can not be compared with any other scene.

There are also many professional companies in the area that provide the services for the landscape development Hudson Valley, NY. You can easily call them and can have a great and attractive location around your home etc. When you are in a mood to have outdoor lighting Hudson Valley, NY is the place from where you should get those lights. There are many different kinds of designs and styles that are available and you would be able to give a great look and feel to your home with the help of these professional companies.

The ecological landscaping Hudson Valley, NY as well as the organic lawn care Hudson Valley, NY is preferred over the other types of landscaping as these are used for lessening the detrimental effects of the other designs which include the consumption of the natural resources as well as the use of the pesticides is harmful and can be dangerous for the pets as well as for the children. The plans for the wetland restoration Hudson Valley, NY are also very remarkable and the area looks too attractive because of the excellent and superb water features Hudson Valley, NY has.

There are many companies which can provide the landscaping Services Hudson Valley, NY. If you are in a mood to have a beautiful landscape in your home or around your hotel or somewhere else then you can contact them and they would provide you many great and wonderful services. They would introduce the latest designs and would do the high quality installation. They would also provide the landscape maintenance Hudson Valley, NY which is really appreciable. You would be greatly impressed by their work and with the help of these companies you would be able to enjoy the time in a much better manner.

Jenifer Diaz is an author of johnjay-landscaping.com, One of the Landscape Development Company. He is writing articles on Landscape maintenance Hudson Valley, NY since long time.

The Republican-led Senate in New York has voted to legalize same sex marriage. Once it is signed into law by Gov. , New York will become the sixth and largest state to recognize gay marriage. (June 24)
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August 14, 2011 By 9 Comments

And here is a interesting ny visual:

NY – Hyde Park: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library – FDR’s 1936 Ford Phaeton
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1936 Ford Phaeton was equipped with special hand controls, enabling Franklin D. Roosevelt to drive the car himself, as well as traditional foot petals for Eleanor Roosevelt.

Originally purchased for 7.50, the car has a license plate of NY 3 1945 and the odometer shows 19,143 miles.

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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, located on Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, is the first of the ‘ presidential libraries. The 16-acre facility was built during 1939-40 by Philadelphia contractor John McShain of fieldstone in local Dutch colonial style. Conceived of and donated by President Roosevelt, the library was built at a cost of 6k and turned over to the federal government on July 4, 1940 to be operated by the National Archives. The museum section of the building opened June 30, 1941. However, the onset of World War II deferred the official opening of the library as a research facility as the President served a third term and then was elected to a fourth term in 1944. He visited the library often during the war to sort and classify his records and memorabilia; and from his study in the library he delivered several of his famous radio speeches or "fireside chats".

In addition to artifacts from the lives of President and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the Library includes papers from all Roosevelt’s political offices—New York State Senator (1910-13), Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-19), Governor of New York (1929-32), and President of the United States (1933-45) and his private collections of papers, books, and memorabilia on the history of the U.S. Navy and Dutchess County, as well as his White House Desk and 1936 Ford Phaeton. As per the President’s original vision, two wings in memory of Eleanor Roosevelt, which would house her more than three million pages of papers, were added in 1971.

Prior to Roosevelt’s Presidency, the final disposition of Presidential papers was left to chance. Although a valued part of the nation’s heritage, the papers of chief executives were private property which they took with them upon leaving office. Some were sold or destroyed and thus either scattered or lost to the nation forever. Others remained with families, but inaccessible to scholars for long periods of time. The fortunate collections found their way into the Library of Congress and private repositories. In erecting his library, Roosevelt created an institution to preserve intact all his papers. Roosevelt’s actions served as a precedent. When Congress passed the Presidential Libraries Act in 1955, it regularized the procedures initiated by President Roosevelt for privately built and federally maintained libraries to preserve the papers of future Presidents. Even though official presidential papers are now public property as a result of the Presidential Records Act of 1978, and there is legislation limiting the size and financing of museums, Roosevelt’s original intentions of preserving papers in one place and making them accessible to the nation still hold true.

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