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Another day to celebrate a President who loves America, fights for We the People, and is as smart a sea captain as they come! Seems like more than a few FReepers love the landscape art from the Hudson River School painters.  Here's another one.  Enjoy... and contemplate how lucky we are to have this fine, conscientious and wise man WORKING FOR US! MAGA, my FRiends.   William Stanley Hazeltine (1835 — 1900) was an American painter associated with tbhe Hudson River School, a mid-19th century art movement of landscape painters influenced by Romanticism. Born in Philadelphia, he studied at the...

Thomas Cole is known primarily as the father of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. Cole enjoyed the patronage of several prominent businessmen in New York City, and they would have been particularly interested in his depictions of the seemingly limitless resources of the country’s interior—the profusion of timber and the extensive network of rivers and lakes that would enable them to make their fortunes. They believed that settlement of the land would have nothing but beneficial effects. It is Cole’s skill as an artist that enables him both to create an image that would both appeal to...

"The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. The paintings for which the movement is named depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains; eventually works by the second generation of artists associated with the school expanded to include other locales in New England, the Maritimes, the American West, and South America."--Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_School

http://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/prose/revdiary.htm http://www.henrylivingston.com/music Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1744-1828), my 5th great grandfather, went with his cousin's husband, Major General Richard Montgomery, on the 1775 invasion of Canada. These were short term enlistments, so he became major of the 3rd NY in August and returned home in late December. The diary is shown along with the Hudson River School's images of the terrain. The music was transcribed from Henry Livingston's handwritten music manuscript, one of the largest such books of the period.

From the North Lake Beach parking area in the Catskill Forest Preserve, a narrow foot trail climbs a rocky incline. After following the trail for about 20 minutes, hikers reach Artists Rock, which gives a sweeping view of the Hudson Valley, the river a sliver of silver in the distance. The trail then leaves the ledge and in less than a half mile it meets a junction with a side trail toward Sunset Rock, the prized view from atop North Mountain that by the late 19th century had become an iconic view of the northern Catskills, celebrated in the work...