The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees, and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather than the Hudson River Valley of his boyhood memories.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

It was a walk up on Hudson Street.

And there I was shacked up with Eileen in that filthy fourth floor attic on Hudson Street.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

One week before the convention, Depew was seated on the porch of a country home on the Hudson, gazing at the opposite shore.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

( Later, it was to be called Hudson Strait.

Even Hudson, experienced in Arctic sailing and determined as he was, must have had qualms as he slid down the Thames.

It is believed that Hudson was related to other seafaring men of the Muscovy Company and was trained on company ships.

) In 1610, Hudson was probably in his early forties, a good navigator, a stubborn voyager, but otherwise fatally unsuited to his chosen profession.

He was not the sort of sailor Hudson wanted his backers to see on board and he had Greene wait at Gravesend, where the Discovery picked him up.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

Hudson was free to sail on.

Hudson pointed the Discovery down the east coast of the newly discovered sea ( now called Hudson Bay ), confident he was on his way to the warm waters of the Pacific.

This was the bitter end, and Hudson seemed to know he was destined to failure.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

His contention was denied by several bankers, including Scott Hudson of Sherman, Gaynor B. Jones of Houston, J. B. Brady of Harlingen and Howard Cox of Austin.

On August 3, two massive headlands reared out of the mists -- great gateways never before, so far as Hudson knew, seen by Europeans.

In the earliest days of European settlement of the Atlantic coast, the frontier was essentially any part of the forested interior of the continent lying beyond the fringe of existing settlements along the coast and the great rivers, such as the St. Lawrence, Connecticut, Hudson, Delaware, Susquehanna River and James.

A great iron chain was laid across the Hudson at this point in order to impede British Navy vessels, but it was never tested by the British.

It stood at the intersection of two great all-water routes: one extending from New York Harbor, up the Hudson River, to Albany and, beyond it, the Port of Buffalo ; the other constituted by the Great Lakes, which could theoretically take boaters in any direction they wished to go ( north to Canada, west to Michigan or Wisconsin, south to Toledo and Cleveland, or east to the Atlantic Ocean ).

Local notable families seem to have had divided loyalties, although the War ended with great rejoicings outside the " Limes " in Sherrard Street, home of Sir Henry Hudson.

The Essex found great success by offering one of the first affordable sedans, and combined Hudson and Essex sales moved from seventh in the U. S. to third by 1925.

The area surrounding the Barnegat Bay and Barnegat Inlet were described by Henry Hudson, in 1609, as "... a great lake of water, as we could judge it to be ...

Frequently referred to as A. J. Cassatt, the great accomplishment under his stewardship was the planning and construction of tunnels under the Hudson River to finally bring PRR's trunk line into New York City.

The great interest awakened in England about China through the civil war, which was then erroneously supposed to be a mass movement toward Christianity, together with the glowing but exaggerated reports made by Karl Gützlaff concerning China's accessibility, led to the founding of the Chinese Evangelisation Society, to the service of which Hudson Taylor offered himself as their first missionary.

Some of the later Hudson River School artists, such as Albert Bierstadt, created less comforting works that placed a greater emphasis ( with a great deal of Romantic exaggeration ) on the raw, even terrifying power of nature.

Early developments along the east coast of the colonies tended to end at the fall line ( the head of navigation ) of the rivers that emptied into the Atlantic directly ( e. g., the Hudson River ) or into its great Bays ( e. g., the Delaware and the Chesapeake ).

Meyer's mission centre attracted great interest-visitors included national figures such as Hudson Taylor as well as local people ; Melbourne Hall became a centre as well as a sphere.

In 1980, Hudson Taylor's great grandson, James Hudson Taylor III, became General Director of the mission work.

Lindisfarne also has the small Lindisfarne Castle, based on a Tudor fort, which was refurbished in the Arts and Crafts style by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the editor of Country Life, Edward Hudson.

Lutyens ' fame grew largely through the popularity of the new lifestyle magazine Country Life created by Edward Hudson, which featured many of his house designs.

According to his son Basil, he did so on the advice of William Hudson, proprietor of the Country Life Magazine, who was both a patron and a champion of Lutyens.

* Robert Havell, Jr. ( 1793 – 1878 ), British-American engraver who printed and colored John James Audubon ’ s monumental Birds of America series, also painter in the style of the Hudson River School

Grace Hudson's Sun House ; designed by Grace and John Hudson circa 1911 in the American Craftsman | Craftsman style

It was the former home of Hudson artist Frederic Edwin Church and is decorated in a Persian style.

* Dr. Davies Farm-The farmhouse, part of a farm that ran from Rockland Lake to the Hudson River, was built in 1836 and is of the early frontier Federalist style.

In fact, Pistol Pete's flamboyant style stood in stark contrast to the conservative play of Hudson and star center Walt Bellamy.

And he managed to blend his style with his teammates, so much that Hudson set a career high by scoring 26. 8 points per game.

In 1974, Keith Hudson released his classic Pick a Dub, widely considered to have been the first deliberately thematic dub album, with tracks specifically mixed in the dub style for the purpose of appearing together on an LP, and King Tubby released his two debut albums At the Grass Roots of Dub and Surrounded by the Dreads at the National Arena.

* Art — The Hudson River School defined a distinctive American style of art, depicting romantic landscapes via the Transcendentalist perspective on nature.

The naturalist William Henry Hudson was dismissive of Freeman's style of argument in his 1920 book Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn.

Thus, the exterior was given a Dutch Gothic Revival style based on older northeastern mansions, particularly those in older areas of Pennsylvania and in the Hudson River Valley region of New York.

The Hudson River School style involved carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism.

His style complemented the " straight wrestling announcers ," Scott Hudson and Craig Johnson.

For 1940 Hudson introduced coil spring independent front suspension, aircraft style shock absorbers mounted within the front springs and true center-point steering on all its models, a major advance in performance among cars in this price range.

In 1914 the New York Central Railroad, which the Hudson River had long been merged into, built a new station, the current building, in the Renaissance Revival style.

With the appointment of G. Donald Harrison as President and Tonal Director of Æolian-Skinner in 1933 by Skinner president Arthur Hudson Marks, the company ’ s tonal philosophy began to turn from the romantic-style orchestral instruments built under the direction of Skinner to a classically eclectic style.

These gardens in the Beaux-Arts style are considered Bosworth's best work in the United States, looking out over very fine views of the Hudson River.

It is believed that the Nash and Hudson Grille medallions were discontinued around October 1956 ( VIN E28326 ); they were replaced with the " M " style Grille medallion.

The Hudson had the identical basic engine but with earlier style updraft carburetor carried over, and a displacement of due to a larger cylinder bore than the Essex-Terraplane Eight.

Designed by architects Phillip Hudson and James Wardrop who were both World War I veterans, the Shrine is in a classical style, being based on the Tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus and the Parthenon in Athens.

Kensett's style evolved gradually, from the traditional Hudson River School manner in the 1850s into the more refined Luminist style in his later years.

Blakelock's early landscapes have their genesis in the style of the Hudson River school of painters.

The Library itself is built of Hudson Valley fieldstone in the style reminiscent of the local Dutch colonial architecture which FDR favored.