Comments on: Field Trip – Fall ‘74

By: WolfeNotes.com » Many Rivers to Cross

WolfeNotes.com » Many Rivers to Cross — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:44:10 +0000

[...] [EndNote: some special stuff and some current affairs for my Salem NY reader. [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » My Blood Runs Cold – My Memory Has Just Been Sold

WolfeNotes.com » My Blood Runs Cold – My Memory Has Just Been Sold — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:21:40 +0000

[...] Growing up in New York’s Hudson Valley, there was no doubt in my young mind that I was living in the center of the universe. [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » Can’t See the Meadow for the Trees

WolfeNotes.com » Can’t See the Meadow for the Trees — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:47:40 +0000

[...] I regularly enjoyed Rockefeller’s Pocantico Hills property, which is now known as “Rockwood Hall State Park”. [...]

By: WolfeNotes.com » Checking the Foundations

WolfeNotes.com » Checking the Foundations — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:18:54 +0000

[...] Although I never knew my grandfather Peacox, I got the sense that things were tough growing up in my mom’s household – she was born in 1929 at the start of the Great Depression. He died when I was 5, shortly after our family moved into his house (where my Mom grew up). My grandmother, Nanny Peacox never spoke of him to me. She had remarried my step grandfather, who I spent loads of time with as a kid fishing the Hudson River. [...]

By: blarneyboy

blarneyboy — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:45:22 +0000

So, despite Thomas Wolfe’s assertion, you can go home again!
Great pictures.
The Hudson River
High above, eagles fly
Under blue skies.
Down under,
Saplings grow
On the river bank.
New light shines over the horizon
Running water
Is crashing into the bank,
Veering here and there
Eating away at the
Rock.
By John Hordines, age 11 !!
2008 Finalist
New windsor, N.Y.
Vales Gate High Tech
Teacher: Barbara Oliver