hudson river valley (n.y. and n.j.)

Contains accounts of paranormal activity in and around New York's Hudson River Valley, including hauntings, ghosts, and UFOs.

Overview of the American art and decorative-arts collections of the Albany Institute showing 130 objects from paintings and drawings to furniture and silver spoons.

Enjoy the beauty and variety of the American experience through the work of these great artists.

Features fifty-seven major Hudson River School paintings from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's collection.

Profiles paintings by notable artists from the Hudson River School and explores the school's romantic, idealized vision of the American landscape.

Alexandra Aldrich offers her own words about growing up in poverty and yet living in a mansion on over four hundred acres of property--her father, the owner of Rokeby mansion, inherited the land, but not the fortune, of the Astor family. Aldrich explains how she managed to educate herself and find happiness in such a home, until her father began cheating on her mother, and how she escaped the Astor house.