Introducing the Hudson Valley

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30

Class cancelled. Instead: read the syllabus, fill out the questionnaire (at bottom of section for this week), watch the video, do the reading, and browse the social media hashtags provided below.

Video: Where is the Hudson Valley?

Leonard Nevarez, "Amenities, Public Space, and Place Character."

Browse the #HudsonValley hashtag on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

Fieldtrip: Amenia, Dutchess County.
Amenia Farmers Market.

4:30pm: we return to the Library (room 88) for blogging workshop.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

First class meeting.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

Fieldtrip: Woodstock, Ulster County.
1. Discussion with Joshua Colow, Woodstock native.
2. Hike Outlook Mountain or free time in Village of Woodstock.

Barney Hoskyns, Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock (Da Capo, 2016), 13-22, 41-50.

"Buying a Second Home First" (New York Times, September 11, 2015).

"A Tranquil Swimming Hole is Overwhelmed by Its Own Internet Fame" (New York Times, August 20, 2017).

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

Classroom guest: Melaine Rottkamp, Dutchess Tourism.

Katharine Millonzi, "Betting the Farm," Edible Hudson Valley, Spring 2015, pp. 38-42.

Katharine Millonzi, "Agritourism: Every Field Has a Story," TEDxHudson lecture, (2014).

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Fieldtrip: Columbia County.
1. Hawthorne Valley Farm, Ghent.
2. Free time on Warren Street, Hudson.

Harvey K. Flad and Clyde Griffen, Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie (SUNY Press, 2009), 21-24, 361-362.

"A Weekend in Hudson" (Upstater [blog], September 2015).

"Both Sides Now: Catskill & Hudson" (Chronogram, September 1, 2015).

"A Church of Sound Nurtures Sonic Communion at Basilica Soundscape" (The Observer, September 16, 2015).

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

Classroom meeting.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

Fieldtrip: Orange County.
1. Newburgh fieldtrip with Richard Ocejo, urban sociologist.
2. Storm King Art Center.

Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, "Beyond Gentrification: Finding a Balance" (December 2016).

SPECIAL EVENT: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

Campus lecture by Ellen Silbergeld ('67):
"How We Got the Agriculture We Deserve"
5:30pm in Rockefeller Hall 200.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Classroom discussion.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Fieldtrip: New Paltz, Ulster County.
1. Discussion with KT Tobin, New Paltz city council.
2. Mohonk Preserve.

Brian Obach and KT Tobin, "Agriculture Supporting Community in the Mid-Hudson Region" (SUNY New Paltz Center for Research, Regional Education and Outreach, Spring 2011).

"New Paltz mayor, Zero Place developer talk about village’s future growth" (Hudson Valley One, March 18, 2017).

Zero Place (proposed mixed-use development in New Paltz).

"Village of New Paltz compiling list of affordable housing applicants" (Daily Freeman, February 1, 2017).

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4

Last day of classroom discussion.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6

Fieldtrip: Beacon, Dutchess County.
1. Valley Table (publisher).
2. Downtown Beacon.

Harvey K. Flad and Clyde Griffen, Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie (SUNY Press, 2009), 252-257, 363-365.

Dennis Crowley, "Why we're thinking of opening a Foursquare office in the Hudson Valley," Poughkeepsie Journal, August 24, 2017.

Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress, "Urban Pioneering in the Hudson Valley" (September 2014).

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11

Optional classroom/consultation session.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13

All final work due.