Recommended for Ages 7+ The Hudson River flows from the Adirondack Mountains 315 miles south to the bay between New York City and New Jersey, where it meets the Atlantic Ocean. What do you know about the Hudson River? Have you been to places along it? Hudson Rising tells the stories of how parts of the river were threatened and then later protected. Today, the movement to protect nature is called “environmentalism.” Use this guide to explore, discuss, and do fun activities in the exhibition. R R E E V V I I R R N N O O S S D D U H U H Start your Hudson Rising journey at Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire. These five paintings tell a story about the rise and fall of an empire. View them from The Savage State to Desolation. What happens to nature as people create and destroy their empire? What happens to the people? CANADA GO TO Section 1 JOURNEYS UPRIVER ADIRONDACKS Find three objects that you can touch. Read their labels NEW with your adults. YORK What are they? HUDSON RIVER What do they feel like? Find Samuel What Hudson River Colman’s painting HUdson industries are they HIGHLands related to? Storm King on the Extra Hudson Challenge: In the 1800s, businesses used natural materials What do you notice? What industry is PALisades found along the Hudson being portrayed When this painting was made in the painting NEW River like clay, iron, in 1866, some may have seen and trees. Boats also above? JERSEY it as nature being destroyed, NEW YORK CITY transported goods while others saw civilization on the river more thriving. What do you see? Mark efficiently than ever. the scale below to represent each person in your group’s perspective: Samuel Colman was part of Nature People and People is being nature are are the Hudson River School destroyed in balance thriving of artists, like founder Thomas Cole. Read about them in this section! G S CANADA O TO ection 2 Watch Seneca THE ADIRONDACKS Ray Stoddard’s slideshow. ADIRONDACKS Why did he think the Adirondacks should be protected? How did he share his message with HUDSON RIVER New York State legislators? Find Asher B. Durand’s painting Adirondack Mountains, New York. HUdson What do you notice? HIGHLands Because To forests maintain PALisades moisten soil plant and In the 1800s, the To preserve and prevent animal So people logging industry EROSION habitats cut down tons of its natural can visit the NEW YORK CITY trees and sold the beauty Adirondacks The Adirondacks were wood for different legally declared as uses. This led to “forever wild” in the deforestation. late 1890s. Discuss with your family: If you were a lawmaker then, why would you most want to protect the Adirondacks? GO TO Section 3 CANADA THE PaLISADES Find the painting Palisades, ADIRONDACKS Hudson River. What are the F Palisades? ind the photos and list of camp groups that Pretend this image is part of a tourism brochure. visited the Palisades Write a slogan on it to State Park. NEW YORK get people to visit the Palisades: Pretend you are a F camper. Sketch an HUDSON RIVER ind a piece animal from the of Palisades Trailside Museum HUdson rock and to share with others HIGHLands touch it! back home. What was happening to the Palisades in PALisades the late 1800s? Hint: Cecilia Gaines NEW Look for newspaper of the New Jersey headlines. Federation of Women’s JERSEY Clubs fought against NEW YORK CITY Palisades rock blasting. F ind her scrapbook. D Without the right to vote, ISCUSS how did women convince with your family: lawmakers to protect the Have you been to summer Palisades? camp in a nature reserve or public park? How do your experiences compare to what you see here? CANADA Read Frances GO TO Section 4 Dunwell’s quote about pollution in THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS the Hudson, and then check out the From 1962--1980, community groups fought in court and in ADIRONDACKS other ways to stop Con Edison from building a hydroelectric pollution map. power plant on Storm King Mountain. The power plant was Do any of these kinds of never built. pollution have an impact on your life? Look at John Ferguson Weir’s painting View of the Highlands HUDSON RIVER from West Point. What sounds would you hear if this painting came to life? Make them HUdson HIGHLands with your family. PALisades NEW Find the W aquarium to rite or JERSEY learn whose draw a sign NEW YORK CITY spawning that you grounds were might have threatened by carried at a the Storm parade on King plant. the first What would these Earth Day fish have said about in April 1970 the plant? to protest pollution in the Hudson River. CANADA GO TO Section 5 A RISING TIDE ADIRONDACKS Compare the before and after photos of Beacon’s Long Dock and New York City’s Hudson River NEW YORK Park. What changes do you notice? HUDSON RIVER Read the label to learn how these changes help the environment HUdson bounce back and make How do landscape HIGHLands these areas prettier architecture firms like PALisades for visitors. SCAPE plan to restore NEW shorelines devastated REFLect BEFore YOU Go! by Hurricanes Sandy JERSEY 1. What problem affecting the environmentNEW YORK do you CITY and Irene? care about? Could any of the change-making strategies you learned about here be used to solve the problem? Hint: Talking to lawmakers, bringing court cases, getting reporters to write about the problem etc. 2. What did you learn today that made you feel... Hopeful | Angry | Inspired | Worried Proud | Surprised If these words don’t apply, come up with your own!. Generous support for this exhibition IMAGE CREDITS: provided by First Republic Bank, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Lily Auchincloss Foundation, William T. The Savage State, ca. 1834. Morris Foundation, Inc., Shaiza Rizavi and Jonathan Friedland, The Hart Charitable Andrew Fisher Bunner, Cutting Ice, Trust, and Dr. Charlotte K. Frank in Rockland Lake, New York, ca. 1890. memory of Pete Seeger. Asher Brown Durand, Adirondack Mountains, New York, ca. 1870. Seneca Ray Stoddard, The Choppers, 1888. Adirondack Experience. Charles Edouard Dubois (1847–1885), Palisades, Hudson River, 1875–76. Private Collection. Cecilia Gaines. Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. Educational program, 1920s. Palisades Interstate Park Commission Archives. John Ferguson Weir, View of the Highlands from West Point, 1862. Penn Central Line, ca. 1968. Exhibitions at New-York Historical are Bob Hoeberman / Riverkeeper. made possible by Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang, the Saunders Trust for American Long Dock in the 19th century. History, the Seymour Neuman Endowed Scenic Hudson. Fund, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council Unless otherwise noted, all images are on the Arts with the support of Governor collection of the New-York Historical Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Society. Legislature. WNET is the media sponsor..