Blog entries tagged 'Historic Hudson Valley'

Philipsburg Manor director Swims for Life

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Thom Thacker, site director at Philipsburg Manor, is participating in Sunday's Hudson River Swim for Life, helping to raise money to fight blood cancers.

The three-mile Hudson River Swim For Life begins in Nyack and ends at Kingsland Park in Sleepy Hollow.

Besides raising awareness of the Hudson River and promoting swimming as a (literally) cool way to exercise, the Swim for Life most importantly raises dough for the ongoing work of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
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Youth Conservation Corps in today's Journal News

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Greg Clary wrote an outstanding piece in today's Journal News about the Historic Hudson Valley Youth Conservation Corps. The piece, which ran on the front page of the "Your World" section, comes complete with great photos, too.

With the seven-week program ending this Friday, the article is pe [...]

An environmental job corps grows at HHV, Part II

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So what was the motivation behind launching the Youth Conservation Corps? As fans of the organization know, Historic Hudson Valley has long been committed to environmental conservation.

Now, the YCC is a way to use its historic sites as contemporary learning laboratories with an environmental focus. Goals [...]

HHV gala in the news

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Coverage of Historic Hudson Valley's recent Hudson Valley Hero Gala honoring Joseph Cotter and his National RE/sources is starting to turn up in various outlets online. Check it out at:

New York Social Diary

Panache Magazine

Norwalk Advocate

More coming I'm sure...

An environmental job corps grows at HHV, Part I

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The Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the best-known "alphabet soup" initiatives created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression, was such a popular work relief program t [...]

Scenes from a dinner dance

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Joseph Cotter named HHV's Hudson Valley Hero

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Each year, Historic Hudson Valley honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the preservation and conservation of the Hudson Valley. Tonight, at a gala event at Washington Irving's Sunnyside, the organization is bestowing its Hudson Valley Hero award on Joseph Cotter, President of National RE/sources, which was established in 1996 as the f [...]

HHV connections in new Cokie Roberts book

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Ladies of Liberty: The Women who Shaped our Nation is the latest book by noted political correspondent and author Cokie Roberts. It's a companion volume to Founding Mothers, in which the author pays homage to the women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation.

Much to HVBLogger's delight, the newly published book [...]