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Rivers

1. the Hudson river I grew up near it walked along side it. hiked to its source where i bragged that I leaped over the Hudson about 2 feet at most. or jumped it between N.Y. to N.J. by wallking out to the middle of the G.W. bridge and hopping over the state line
2. My visit to see the great Mississippi and amazed how nothing it was at st.louis where i had expected to see all sorts of boats, may be run into a wagon train?
3. My brother at my urging took his daughter to see the hudson the mighty hudson as i call it (she had never seen it or was aware thatr she had. well my brother took her into troy N.Y. to see it. It runs in the middle of the city about 8 feet wide so dirty that you think a building was lying in the water. she called me up and told me so what the big deal about this river?I guess dreams are different for different people. Ilive within walking distance to the presebscot river where i keep those dreams now.
yichel's profile
I live near the Ohio River, it is wide and beautiful.
pauletta's profile

about 1 month ago
I drove for worjk once from Idianapolis to cincinnati and also saw the wide slow pace of the Ohio River. there is somrthing about rivers that can bring at least fr m to recalls past & present. I think that is why i love the Hudson so much I almost feel the dutch farmers of dutches/putnum County I love the basalt cliffs of New Jersey right across the G.W. bridge.
yichel's profile

about 1 month ago
Ah, rivers! I love them.
Does anyone else collect the Rivers of America series?

I was born near the Ohio in Pittsburgh, grew up on those "basalt cliffs of New Jersey" on the magnificent Hudson. Lived for most of my adult life on the Connecticut River (more history full) and summered on the Kennebec River and Sasanoa in Maine.
Don't know which is my favorite........but I'm currently writing about the Sasanoa which is filled with very early Maine history in spite of being the shortest at less than two miles long.
TopB's profile

about 1 month ago
did you hike and fish the husitonic area? have always found that a wonderful little hideaway yt so closr to many major urban centers.
One more did yu walk around Beacon N.Y?
yichel's profile

about 1 month ago
Do not know the Housitonic. And where on the Hudson is Beacon, NY? A few years ago, we took a canal boat for a week on the Erie Canal on the Hudson....but did not get very far in that length of time.
Need to get out my map.........
TopB's profile

about 1 month ago
Beacon right across from Newburgh(yech) beacon use to have a casino on top still has remnents of the cable that the cable car was pulled up.i ran all over that area Living in N.J. where you did did you ever walk down th "thousand steps' right off the G.W. bridge, down to he river.(by the way a misnamed place on a bet I counted eery step there were only 88? steps. My brothers and I use to go down there all the time. I even hitch hiked a ride on some guy's boat at the dock. I loved that area as a kid. Use to go up to alpine. (on 9W?) My wife two weeks ago went on a tour of he hudson river she stopped at West Point got my new cap. as ewll t Hyde Park. On the way back home I told her to stop in stockbridge to se if Alice's Restaurant was open? she said no?
yichel's profile

about 1 month ago