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
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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? destroyed efficiently than ever.efficiently than theon river more transported goods trees.and also Boats River like clay, iron, found the Hudson along materials natural used businesses the 1800s, In to? related they are industries River Hudson What they do What feel like? they? are What
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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.