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Numbers on the Side of the Road – Jan. 7 – Hudson Valley papers

Along the side of Rt. 23, just west of the New York Thruway is a series of nunbers painted on the limestone outcrop. Who is studying these rocks? What is there to be learned? Read about it in the...

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Nanny Goat Hill in Saugerties Jan. 21 – The Hudson Catskill Newspapers.

Nanny Goat Hill in Saugerties may be blasted to Kingdom come in order to make space for a parking garage. Is the Hill worth saving? Is there a geological heritage here? Read about it on Jan. 21 in the...

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Fossil” river channel along Rt. 145 in East Durham-Hudson Valley papers, Jan 14.

“fossil” river channel as seen just on Rt. 145 just east of Hogans Motel in East Durham

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Earthquake at Port-Au-Prince, left – Earthquake faults of Caribbean, right

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February, 2010 – The Wall of Manitou

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Thurs, April 8, 2010

Take a good look at this outcropping of stratified rock. It is just the sort of rock exposure that all of us drive past every day. But what stories lurk in these rocks, what can we learn when we turn a...

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April 22, 2010 – Top of the falls, bottom of the stream

We are standing at the top of Kaaterskill Falls. The breath-taking scenery here has been attracting visiters for almost 200 years. But there is another story here, one hidden in the rocks. Take a good...

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April 29, 2010 – The killer trees

Black shales on Rt. 209 The evolution of the trees got underway for real during the middle Devonian time, about 380 million years ago. Many of the earliest forests grew right here in the Catskills...

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May 6, 2010 – Glacial Lake Conesville

Bottom of Lake Conesville, looking west The old Richtmyer Tavern in the Manor Kill Valley Conesville, in the Manor Kill Valley is an out of the way rural retreat, but it hides an Ice Age past. The...

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Remember the ladies -June 3 papers

Kaaterskill Clove, Harriet Cany Peale, 1858 Site where painting was done, 2010

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