Marist rowers find floating head sculpture in Hudson River

upi ^ | April 26, 2013

[happyathome]

My favorite Post headlines from the mid-80’s were:

“Ron tells Gorby, Reds ‘Nyet’”
(When Reagan rejected a nulear arms proposal from Gorbachev)

and

“Ghadaffi goes daffy - Madman Muammar dresses in drag”
(Right after the bombing of Libya, with an obviously doctored photo of the dictator in an evening gown and make-up).

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[radiohead]

When I lived in Philly, one of my co-workers used to row before work. One day she was late - they had found a body while out rowing on the Schuylkill.

[Oratam]

Not so! The Hudson is tidal as far as Troy, about 160 miles inland. In fact, the local Indians called the river Mahicantuck or "river that flows both ways."

A log would take almost a year to float from Troy to the sea. It would travel downstream about 8 miles and upstream about 7 1/2 miles each day. (Hudson: A Guidebook to the River, Arthur G. Adams, p.12)

[John Valentine]

I used to live in Troy.

Your explanation that the Hudson is tidal as far as Troy is literally true, but fails to acknowledge that by the tidal effect weakens gradually as one moves inland, i.e. north.

At Troy, the tidal effect is barely noticeable. In fact, at Poughkeepsie, the tidal effect is already very attenuated. Your quoted estimate of a daily rate of 7.5 miles north and 8 miles south each day seems more true of the lower reaches of the river, say from Peekskill south.

I still doubt this head drifted up to Poughkeepsie.