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TEACHING THE HUDSON VALLEY BLOG
Chris Pryslopski
Posted by Chris Pryslopski   
on June 25, 2010
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Chris is program director at the Hudson River Valley Institute (HRVI) and associate editor of its Hudson River Valley Review.

His monthly blog entries are likely to explore art and architecture, the importance of place, and the tension between our history and future as a region.

HRVI is the academic arm of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area and a center for the study and promotion of the region's history, culture, economy, and environment. It provides educational resources including a digital library, portal site, public programs, and the Review.

It might seem odd for the Hudson River Valley Institute to blog about "upstate," but that is where I spent the last two weeks and found our region part of every conversation.

At Ithaca College for the NYS Historical Association's annual conference I attended a Museumwise workshop, "Engaging Students with Local History," led, in part, by two high school students who researched artifacts from a local historical society and then published articles in the local paper. These students were from the Ithaca area, but the Rensselaer County Historical Society runs a similar program in Troy.

At a panel on abolition and suffrage, two of three papers presented had links to the Valley. And, as I shared our journal, Hudson River Valley Review, many speakers stopped to ask about our region and to relate their themes to the Hudson Valley's recreation, tourism, monuments, immigration, farming, the anti-rent wars, and industry.

woodchucklodgechrisp2010compressed.jpgNext I headed to Oneonta for the Sharp Eyes VI conference on John Burroughs and Nature Writing.

Of course John Burroughs is a natural for the region, and we visited Woodchuck Lodge his home (shown here) in Roxbury, and looked at his journals now being digitized and placed online by Vassar College and Hudson River Valley Heritage.

(THV grantee Susan Pereira of New Paltz Middle School has developed seven lessons and activities about Burroughs.)

While there was a great range of presentations on environmentalism and eco-criticism around the world, one of several on Burroughs recounted his "Lost February" in Jamaica and noted how he wrote as much about missing his beloved Catskills as he did about the flora and fauna there.

I too was happy to return home and resume work on our own website, the upcoming issue of the Review on landscape architecture, and a self-guided audio-video tour at Staatsburgh State Historic Site.

Stay tuned to hear more about how influential our region had been in national -- and international -- events as we improve our hall of fame this summer.

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