A blog for St. Philip’s Nursery School. A blog for my husband’s campaign for Town Council. I did these, but never my own blog until now. It begins with Tumblr – a “scrapbooking” Web 2.0 product that I began just a few days ago to show my graduate professor, Beth Kava. Right away I liked it a lot, but I missed the possibility for comments and the possibility of pages and a list of links and tags. So, a parallel blog. May or may not work; we’ll see.
This is how I began, with a photograph that’s not great but that I like because it captures two very different worlds that are both classic Hudson River Valley: the momentous Revolutionary history that happened here, and the industrial history of the 19th and 20th centuries that we live with. The photograph was taken at a September 2007 reenactment of a crossing of the Hudson in 1782, after the defeat of Cornwallis, when Rochambeau’s and Washington’s troops marched north, the French to return home, the Americans to await the final political outcome of the war. I went to the reenactment with my friend Kay; we had a lovely time on the Verplanck riverside.
