Hundred-mile home : a story map of Albany, Troy, and the Hudson River / Susan Petrie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petrie, Susan, author.

Series:

Excelsior editions.

Excelsior Editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--Description and travel.

Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.).

Albany (N.Y.)--Description and travel.

Albany (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]

Summary:

We live in a future-facing world, consumed by a sense of urgency. Responsibilities press upon us and, inevitably, the stories of where we live scatter down unnamed streets and recede into the past. Hundred-Mile Home is an intimate portrait—a story map—of Albany, Troy, and the Hudson River that slows time and challenges us to reconsider what we choose to remember and what we choose to forget about the places we call home.Inspired by the story of New York's capital region, Susan Petrie uses poetry, prose, photos, and drawings to uncover a place of intense natural beauty, legendary people, and remarkable events. She follows the course of its fabled Hudson River from Troy to Olana and back again, turning down dirt roads, wandering into forgotten terrains, and discovering layers of natural and human history that have become invisible.As a work of art, Hundred-Mile Home moves between past and present. It revives a sense of wonder for what we speed past on our way to somewhere else, and reanimates the forgotten history and often-overlooked natural beauty of the mid-Hudson region. As a work of landscape and memory, it celebrates a place that—despite its instrumental role in the opening of America—has yet to take hold in the national imagination.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Introduction

Repatriation

A Place Is Named for Good Deeds

Topophilia: I

Topophilia: II

Burden Iron Works History of Disappearance

Memory Toy

Slash Tender

Miserable Children in Historic Places

Hard Sledding

Tough Love Ghazal

Early Evening on 4th Street

Heavy Duty Glossary of Enchantment

Shanty-Boy

Landmark H20vliet

Margaret, 1938 She has been swimming in the Erie Canal

Bare Creation Myth

Counterweight of Memory Empire Begins Itself

Soul Preacher

Not Written Elsewhere But between Us

Coyote

A Cartographer’s View in Which Maps Are But Dreams to Nowhere

But, to have a present, you have to know which things to forget and which things to remember

We are living in the Year 415

River, River

Frontier Fortress

Discovery Glossary of Enchantment

Joseph Henry’s Electric Fields 1826

Three Axes of Flight

Bakken Crude Hustle 2014

Mahican Glossary of Enchantment

Anatopophilia: I Disremembered

Young Brick Makers in Love

to 5W

Grain 1948

South End, October 2015

Anatopophilia: II Loosestrife

Natural Glossary of Enchantment

Dirty Harry’s Laundromat November, 2016

South Pine Sunday Everyday, 2015–2018

South Pine Backyard, 2014

You Connect Me to Here

Path to You Pangburn Road

On the Road to Coeymans

1. What We Speed Past Juan’s Crack is OK

2. Come to Jesus in the Pastures Morton & Pearl

3. Shorty Deli, Inc.

4. $3.50 for a dozen farm fresh eggs

5. Henry Hudson Park

6. Greene County is Purple Heart Country High Tide at Hannacroix, January

Living Glossary of Enchantment

Let It Be Unnamed: Down by the River, May 2016

Coxsackie Grasslands May

New Baltimore May

A Field Outside Athens on a Sunday Night

Twilight Alley

1 Harriet Cany (Mrs. Rembrandt) Peale, en Plein-Air 1858

Harriet Cany Peale Succumbs to Light While Regarding the Transcendence of Nature

Hudson Valley Light

Good Things at Malden Bridge

Leçons de Choses

B. The Water Chestnut

September, Canoeing in at Stockport Creek

Six-Cent Redemption

Not Another View of Delft

Nutten Hook

Flood Tide

Hudson River Morning along 9J

Forgetting is Incremental

Frozen Glossary of Enchantment

Get the Window on the Right Memorizing a Landscape/Amtrak at Rensselaer

Aftersong

Notes

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438482996

143848299X