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 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.

Hudson was due to become a free agent at the end of the season and would not be re-signed.

Local weeklies include the free bilingual paper, Hudson Dispatch Weekly, ( named for the former daily Hudson Dispatch ), the Hudson Reporter, the Spanish language El Especialito.

Local weeklies include the free bilingual paper, Hudson Dispatch Weekly, a former daily, The West New York Reporter, which is part of the Hudson Reporter group of local weeklies, and the Spanish language El Especialito.

It was a quarter mile paved oval track and was located close enough to the Hudson River that spectators would sit on the Troy-Menands Bridge and watch the races for free.

Article III states " It is agreed, that it shall at all times be free to His Majesty's subjects, and to the citizens of the United States, and also to the Indians dwelling on either side of the said boundary line, freely to pass and repass, by land or inland navigation into the respective territories and countries of the two parties on the continent of America, ( the country within the limits of the Hudson Bay company only excepted ) ... and freely carry on trade and commerce with each other.

A free season of events ( Summer on the Hudson ) takes place throughout Riverside Park between May and October and hosts dozens of fun events for all including movies, concerts, and children's shows.

The Maquis are arrested, but Sisko allows one of them, Amaros, to go free with a message to Cal Hudson that it is not too late to settle things peacefully.

About 8, 300 to 7, 700 years ago, the melting ice dam over Hudson Bay's southernmost extension narrowed to the point where pressure and its buoyancy lifted it free, and the ice-dam failed catastrophically.

It was Dixon Edward Hoste, the successor to Hudson Taylor, who originally expressed the self-governing principles of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, at the time he was articulating the goal of the China Inland Mission to establish an indigenous Chinese church that was free from foreign control.

In the movie The Golden Blade ( 1952 ), the Sword of Damaskus, which can cut anything and makes its wielder invincible, is used by Harun Al-Rashid ( Rock Hudson ) to free a fairy-tale Baghdad from Jafar, a usurper of the throne.

Commander Hudson made every effort to free his ship but was forced to leave her, fortunately saving all his men and the scientific papers.

Since 1959, the Mid-Hudson Library System ( MHLS ) has acted to ensure the public's right to free access, facilitate economical resource sharing, and promote professional library services while working in partnerships with the independent public and free association libraries in the Hudson Valley of New York State in the USA.

Hudson now proposed to sail all the way through and test the seas beyond for the long-sought waterway.

A group of sailors announced to Hudson that they would sail no farther.

In August 1782 he made his name by capturing two English forts ( Prince of Wales Fort and York Fort ) on the coast of Hudson Bay, but allowed the survivors, including Governor Samuel Hearne of Prince of Wales Fort, to sail off to England in exchange for a promise to release French prisoners held in England.

That year the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, commemorating the first European to record navigating the river, Henry Hudson, and the first man to use paddle steamer named the North River Steamboat to sail up it, Robert Fulton, was celebrated, leading to controversy over what the waterway should be called.

On August 28, 1609, while searching for the Northwest Passage, Hudson decided to sail up the unexplored Delaware Bay.

Hearne and some of the other prisoners were allowed to sail back to England from Hudson Strait in a small sloop.

Large gaff-rigged mainsail on the sloop Hudson River Sloop Clearwater | ClearwaterA gaff rigged sail and its surrounding spars

Plans were made for more ships to sail to the Pacific Northwest in 1789, including the Princess Royal, under Thomas Hudson, and the Argonaut under James Colnett.

In an attempt to find this undiscovered route, Henry Hudson decided to sail his ship up the river that would later be named after him ( Hudson River ).

Then followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.

to West Point, N.Y., the famous military academy in a beautiful setting on the Hudson River.

With Hudson looking on, his protege Greene picked a fight with the ship's surgeon, Edward Wilson.

I had studied with Burns ten years before, during the scholarship year the Manhattan gave me, along with the five-hundred-dollar prize for my paintings of bums on Hudson Street.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

* 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

2B Orlando Hudson became the recipient of his second career Gold Glove Award, as announced on November 3 becoming only the sixth infielder in major league history to win a Gold Glove award in both the American and National Leagues.

Orlando Hudson underwent season-ending surgery on his left wrist August 9 in the wake of a collision with catcher Brian McCann of the Atlanta Braves.

The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.

On August 31, the Diamondbacks acquired former World Series MVP David Eckstein to fill the hole at second base which was opened after Orlando Hudson was placed on the disabled list.

The land upon which it stands was created by land reclamation on the Hudson River using 1. 2 million cubic yards ( 917, 000 m < sup > 3 </ sup >) of soil and rocks excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from New York Harbor off Staten Island.