Download or read book Hudson Valley Places and Scenes written by Anders Norden Van Rennsalaer and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of this book arose out of an epiphany of mine years ago when I was constantly asked where I was going on vacation. It reached a peak of annoyance when the realization struck me that there was no reason to travel far and wide to experience scenery and history that the reast of the worlds comes here, to the Hudson Valley, to see. Then as gasoline prices began to soar this idea was further reinforced. I then created a slide show and lecture presentation on this very topic; "Why Go to All That Trouble When I Have a Great Vacation Within an Hour's Commute?" Which was well attended and popular. So this book comes as an outgrowth of this concept and now that gasoline is approaching and revisitng record levels again the subject is more topical than ever before. So it is with great pleasure that I include some of the sites contained within my slide presentation plus some more. There is plenty of material to choose from and growing all the time so don't be surprised of there isn't a sequel to this much as my lecture has branches out to include Mansions and Castles and other points of interest.