Quantcast
Channel: A History of Here » Hudson River.
Browsing all 4 articles
Browse latest View live

We’ve been here before: The floods of 1913

This week’s flooding is a disaster that could affect local lives for years to come. But it’s not the first flood the Capital Region has weathered. That’s one of the gifts history gives us: It assures...

View Article



When Granny went canoodling

Sure, there’s the train or the Megabus. But do you know how I’d really like to travel between Albany and New York City? By boat. The Hudson River is almost an afterthought in contemporary Albany life,...

View Article

Friday photo: The Hudson in flood

All right, so it’s pretty wet today. But it’s not this wet: The Uneeda Biscuit boy was about the only one who managed to keep his feet dry in the destructive spring floods of 1913. I wrote about the...

View Article

‘One of the saddest drowning calamities in the vicinity of Albany’

Some stories have happy endings. This is not one of them. In June of 1889, six young people drowned when a tug hit their rowboat at dusk on the Hudson River. The oldest was 25; the youngest, 15. The...

View Article
Browsing all 4 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images