Daniel Silverman: ...Along The Hudson

Here are some images, "...Along The Hudson", taken during my sabbatical year 2012-13 (in roughly chronological order). Enjoy.

We'll start in the homeland of the Ramapough Lunaape Nation, encompassing lands now part of Hillburn, Ringwood, and Mahwah. Here is Silver Lake, perched atop Stag Hill in Mahwah.

Ramapo Children's Park (Dexter Park to locals)

Lake De Forest

Up at Cheesecoate Pond in Stony Point

At Buckberg Mountain, looking across to Westchester

Lake Boyce in Stony Point

Lake Welch in Harriman

The manse at Marian Shrine, Stony Point

F Cottage at Letchworth Village, where I volunteered 1979-80

The service building at Hill Unit, Letchworth

Stewart Hall, Letchworth

Park Lane, Nanuet

Mom and me

Peter along Seven Lakes.

Rockland Lake

Snow in Cobble Hill

Harriman in the ice

The Red Apple Rest on 17 in Tuxedo

The river at Sandy Beach, Cold Spring, with Lois

The river from Nyack Library

Bear Mountain with Saul

Somewhere in Peekskill...

Self portrait at Defiant Brewery, Pearl River

Manitou

Manitoga, home of American Master Russel Wright

Saul and the city

Residents' Cemetery at Letchworth Village; numbers, not names.

2.2 km (1.4 miles) from the house I grew up in is a Russian Orthodox monastery, with the largest cemetery in all the Russian diaspora. As you look at the pictures I took, you’ll be forgiven for thinking we are in Mother Russia, rather than in little Nanuet. Novo Diveevo was established as the monarchy fell, providing a cultural refuge for royalty (Czar Nicholas’s niece is buried here), for exiled intelligentsia, and, as a woman apologetically told us in broken English, for Nazi sympathizers who masqueraded as oppressed “freedom fighters” after WW2. The Church has an icon portrait of St. Seraphim.

Russian Orthodox Convent Novo-Diveevo, Nanuet