Index of Half Moon Press Stories Current Month May, 2004 Riverlovers Host Annual Shad Fest in Croton Great Hudson Paddle Will Honor Environmental Pioneer Geneology Searches Made Easier in River Towns Historic River Towns Celebrates Anniversary at New Rockefeller Property 'Pinkster' Festival Comes to Philipsburg Manor Flower Villages Bloom in Historic River Towns Crafts at Lyndhurst Show Marks 20th Year Boscobel Acquires Rare Portrait Miniatures Tours of Yonkers, the Terrace City, Resume Restoration of Van Cortandt Manor Entrance Sought April, 2004 Their Ship Wrecked, Ferry Sloops Carries On Bear Mountain Road Toll House Welcomes Visitors Again Volunteer for Scenic Hudson's Great River Sweep African-American Heritage Trail Created in Historic River Towns Rivertowns Artists Offer Studio Tours Once a Small House, Peekskill Hospital Turns 115 Lyndhurst, a Gothic Revival Estate, Celebrates Grand Re-Opening Revolutionary War Hero, John Peterson, Remembered Museum Holds Symposium on Hudson River March, 2004 Hyde Park Historic Sites to Form New Regional Heritage Area Hudson Valley Gets $1.45 Million for Waterfront Projects Hudson River Museum Expands 'Imaging the River' Exhibit Scenic Hudson Joins Fight Against Cement Plant Expansion Richard Thompson Performs in Tarrytown February, 2004 Curtain Rises on Peekskill Theater Renovation Hudson Valley Fringe Festival Features the Non-traditional Irvington Gets Help in Open Space Land Aquisition Nation's Oldest Lincoln Society Celebrates 100th Anniversary January, 2004 Where to See Bald Eagles in the Hudson Valley Historic River Towns Names New Chairman Great Hudson River Paddle Planned for 2004 Scenic Hudson Marks 40th Anniversary The Met Hosts Exhibit by Hudson River School Painter Forums Promote Underground Railroad Heritage in New York State Metro North Introduces Zipcars at Stations December, 2003 Hudson River Fish 1, Nuke Plant 0 NY State Proposes Cleanup for Hastings Superfund Site Hudson River Almanac Moves to the Web Hudson Valley Landscapes In Tarrytown Exhibit Unique Hudson Valley Gift Ideas New Book Offers Inside View of Sing Sing Prison Hudson River Estuary Program Comes to Irvington November, 2003 Hudson Riverwalk Master Plan Released Hudson River Designated a No-Discharge Area Sing Sing Captured in Pictures Pataki Earmarks $1 Million for Hudson River Upper Trail at Annsville Creek Opene Eastern Bluebirds Breed in Yonkers History Center Opens at Dolce Tarrytown House Westchester County Expands Greenway Compact Plan 'Edgar's Lane Battle' Re-enacted in Hastings-on-Hudson Underground Railroad's Role in Hudson Valley Recalled October, 2003 Who is Buried in the Hudson Valley? A guide to final resting spots of the famous and infamous New Beacon Museum Proving to be a Success Historic Preservation Called An Investment in Hudson Valley Hudson River Featured in Multimedia Exhibit The Beauty of the Hudson Valley Through A Looking Glass Calendar of Events September 2001 Hudson River Valley Ramble Offers 92 Trail Adventures Sunnyside Jazz Festival in September Governor Announces $1.9 Million for Hiking Trails Children's Day at Stony Point Battlefield Work Completed on Bicycle-Pedestrian Master Plan A Tribute to One of New York's Great Civil Engineers July-August 2001 Merchant of Venice Opens Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Trans-Hudson Jazz Fest - High Notes and Fast Boats Former Toxic Site is Now Park on the Hudson River Yonkers Wins Hudson River Estuary Grants Work Begins on Bear Mountain Toll House Restoration Westchester's Greenway Plan Hailed as Model for Hudson Valley Developer Selected for Former GM Plant Site on the Hudson River May-June 2001 Historians Identify Revolutionary War Sites in Hudson Valley Villages Vie for Flower Award Couple Honored for Peekskill Building Preservation Great Hudson River Paddle: Many Strokes for These Folks Plank-baked Shad and Music Served up at Annual Shad Festival Art Students Recreate Work of Landscape Painter Frederic Church for Olana Show Hudson on List of "Most Troubled Rivers" Hastings Aquires Waterfront Property Food, Lots of it, is Theme of the Hudson Heritage Festival Effort Launched to Protect History of Croton Point Spring 2001 GE Enlists Its NBC Execs in Lobbying Blitz to Avoid PCB Cleanup Discarded Railroad Ties Along the Hudson River Targeted for Removal Peekskill Groups Plans Underground Railroad Museum Historic River Towns of Westchester Plans 2001 Events December 2000-Jan. 2001 EPA Recommends that GE Clean up Hudson River PCBs Blueprint Emerges for Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area Celebrate the Holidays by Candlelight at Historic Sites Feds Approve Hudson River as "No-Discharge Area" New Book Traces Impact of Urban Renewal on Peekskill Classic Toy Train Display Returns to Peekskill for Holidays November 2000 House, Senate Pass Bill to Study Preservation of Washington-Rochambeau Route Albany May Become Permanent Home for Half Moon Rememberi ng the Contributions of Aaron Copeland "Defendin g the Hudson" Exhibit at Bear Mountain Plans Unveiled for Hudson Riverama at Museum October 2000 Heritage Festival Continues in the River Towns Hudson River Estuary Grants Available Art Exhibit Features Racing Yachts on the Hudson Museum Acquires Hudson River School Paintings September 2000 Heritage Festival Comes to Historic River Towns of Westchester Swim the Hudson for Multiple Sclerosis Pete Seeger Releases Storytelling Book "The Whole Shebang" Headlines Irish Festival in Peekskill Half Moon Re-creates Henry Hudson's 1609 Voyage Fall Crafts Show at Lyndhurst New Hudson River Access Site at Annsville River Towns Conference Focuses on Smart Growth Trolley Visits Site of British Spy's Capture August 2000 Hudson Heritage Festival Returns This Fall Planning Conference Focuses on 'Smart Growth' 'Hudson River Valley Ramble' Offers 70 Walks New Book Highlights the Palisades Peekskill Celebration Brings Ships, Rides, Fireworks Pump Out Program For Hudson River Boats New Map Guides Hikers in Sterling Forest River Towns Trolley Tours Sleepy Hollow Garrison Hosts Arts and Crafts Show July 2000 'Boats on the Hudson' Exhibit at Hudson River Museum Picking up the Pieces at the Greenway Peekskill Hosts Celebration 2000 in August Study Will Identify 'Biocriteria' in the Hudson Kayak Skills Symposium in Peekskill Rochambeau and the Hudson Valley June 2000 Dar Williams, Moxy Fruvous Headline Clearwater Music Festival State Helps Fund Key Land Purchase Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Opens in Garrison Hudson River School of Painting Exhibit Opens Greenway Funds Hudson Valley Projects Guest Editorial: Smart Riverfront Planning Needed May 2000 Gallery Exhibit Focuses on Hudson River Art State Acquires Watershed Lands in Westchester County Celebrating Mother's Day on the Hudson 175 Years of History at Sing Sing Prison Hudson River Recreation and Safety Day in Sleepy Hollow Guest Editorial: Protecting Gateway Cities Calendar of Events March 2000 Rockland County Mountain Saved from Development 'Walking Weekend' Features Guided Walks, Hikes African-American Heritage Trail Being Planned New Book Highlights Hiking Trails Along the Hudson Historic River Towns of Westchester Plans Events for 2000 February 2000 Open Space Institute Protects Revolutionary War Site Nine Sites Eyed for Improved Hudson River Access Vintage Hudson Valley Adds Wine Seminars New Edition of the Hudson River Almanac is Published Washington and Rochambeau Revolutionary War Route Planned Hudson River Research Institute Proposed New Map Highlights Attractions in Hudson Valley New Year's Resolutions for the Hudson River Dec. '99-Jan. '00 Power Plant Planned for Area that Inspired Hudson River School of Painting Passenger Ship Service Proposed for Hudson River DEC Unveils Hudson River Estuary Logo Hudson Valley Plans Events for 225th Anniversary of American Revolution National Heritage Area Funds Begin to Flow into Hudson Valley Holiday Candlelight Tours in Sleepy Hollow Country Who Does the Hudson River Belong to? Rockefeller Named Chairman of Historic Hudson Valley Clearwater Praises Effort to Force Hudson River PCB Cleanup Turn-of-the-Century Holiday at Lyndhurst Holidays in the 'Great Estates' Region November 1999 Hotel Thayer Re-opens at West Point Bear Mountain Toll House Gets Grant for Restoration Tarrytown Lighthouse Offers Tour on Thanksgiving Day Exhibit Highlights Diversity in Colonial New York A New Leader for Historic River Towns of Westchester October 1999 British Raid Peekskill in Battle Renactment Retro Train Ride Celebrates Hudson Line's 150th Anniversary Exhibit Features Hudson River School of Painting Hawk Watch Every Saturday in October RiverFair Features Bluegrass, Wines, Produce and Crafts September 1999 Hudson Heritage Festival Runs Labor Day Through Halloween Hudson River Rail Line Celebrates 150 Years National Heritage Area Planning Under Way PeteSeeger, Tish Hinojosa Play Peekskill Benefit Paul Robeson 1949 Concert Riot Remembered Historic River Towns Trolley Returns June 1999 Arlo Guthrie Headlines Clearwater Festival Shakespeare Festival Expands at Boscobel More Bed and Breakfasts Sought for River Towns NY Waterways Adds Cruise to Lyndhurst Plans Made for Hudson River Valley Heritage Area May 1999 Pataki Seeks 'No Discharge Zone' on Hudson River Hastings Residents Demand Waterfront Cleanup Hudson Gets a Cleaning - Top to Bottom Hudson River Recreation Trail Planned for Beacon Westchester Festival is New York's Featured Tourism Event An Editorial -- Time to Protect Croton Point's History River Towns' Planning Focuses on 'Liveable Downtowns' Fireworks Will Cap Peekskill Festival April 1999 Hudson Valley 'Heritage Trail' Under Discussion April Hike: Fishkill Falls Half Moon Announces 1999 Sailing Schedule Historic River Towns Festival Get State Designation Ossining Signs Agreement to Develop Waterfront Schooner 'Pioneer' to Visit Hudson River An Update on the Hudson's 'Heritage River' Designation Croton Studies Uses for Waterfront Park Historic River Towns Bursting With Bulbs Clearwater Festival Moves to Croton-on-Hudson March 1999 Task Force Seeks New Access Points on Hudson River Seminar Probes Captain Kidd's Missing Hudson River Treasure RiverRide Bike Tour Pedals Through the Hudson Valley Garden Tours in the Historic River Towns of Westchester Historic Hudson Valley Announces 1999 Events Schedule February 1999 Oysters Making Comeback in Hudson River 'Heart of the Hudson' Tours Debut Second 'Great River Sweep' Scheduled George Washington's Hudson Valley Writings Westchester Hosts Travel Expo '99 Hudson River Almanac Volume IV is Published Report of the Hudson Valley Greenway Conservancy Book Review: Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence Dec. 1998-Jan 1999 Group Petitions Pataki About Hastings Waterfront Cleanup Hiking Map of Aqueduct Trail Available December's Recommended Hike -- Manitou Point Nature Preserve Home of Aaron Copeland to Host Composers Hudson River Art Available Through Web Historic Hudson Valley Holiday Schedule November 1998 Mansion of Nation's First Black Millionaire Opens for Tours State Gets Riverfront Land From Rockefellers November's Recommended Hike: Clear Lake Scout Reservation How Hudson Valley Lawmakers Score on Environmental Issues Assessment Under Way to Track Source of Hudson River Pollution Hudson Valley Wineries, Restaurants in Joint Promotion October 1998 Clearwater's Annual "Pumpkin Sail" Down the Hudson Gets Under Way The Great Tappan Zee Bike Tour Challenges the Fittest October's Recommended Hike: Bear Mountain Clearwater Walkabout Folk Music Series Opens Season Hudson Valley Writers' Center Offers Fall Presentation Series Halloween Events in the Historic River Towns September 1998 River Towns Join Together for Hudson Heritage Festival on Oct. 3 Scenic Hudson Buys More Riverfront Land for Park September's Recommended Hike: A Fall Foilage Teaser Revolutionary War Exhibit Moves to Newburgh Groups Celebrate Hudson's `Heritage River' Designation Course on the Croton Aqueduct Offered at Marymount College Benefit Planned for Yonkers' Beczak Environmental Center RiverFair Celebrates Bounty of Hudson Valley Chuck Mangione, Lionel Hampton, Anne Murray Headline Paramount Season August, 1998 Hudson River Gets Federal `Heritage River' Designation Guidebook to Hudson Valley Estates Debuts A Recommended 'Cool' Hike in August Map of Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway Now Available Riding on the Historic River Towns Trolley -- What You'll See Hudson River Kayak and Canoe Tours Offered in Tarrytown 'Much Ado' Opens at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Tarrytown Hosts Summit Music Festival Garrison Hosts Fine Arts & Crafts Fair Recommended River Access Points Compiled July, 1998 Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Opens Hudson Recommended for `Heritage River' Designation Horace Greeley Mansion Purchased by Preservation Group Historic Sites Contribute $225 Million to Hudson Valley Economy, Study Says Iona Island Included in Biodiversity Study MTA Holds Final Hearing on Hudson River Access Peekskill Offers Downtown Lofts to Artists Dobbs Ferry Hosts Midsummer Night's Festival Momentum Gathering for First `Hudson Heritage Festival' June, 1998 Kayak the Hudson River This Summer Reflections of a Hudson River Fisherman -- by Christopher Letts Aaron Copland House a New Home for the Arts Clearwater's Hudson River Revival Moves to Dutchess County Have Your Dessert and Cruise, too, on the Hudson River Towns Seek Links by Bike, Boat and Foot Revolutionary War the Theme at Peekskill Museum Hudson River Mural Coming to Croton Circus Comes to Peekskill Tall Ships in Peekskill for Summerfest Hudson Heritage Festival Coming In October May, 1998 Tall Ships Visit for Rockland County Bicentennial Historic River Towns to Focus on Waterfront Issues Riverlovers Host Annual Shadfest on the Hudson Boscobel: A Great Spring Destination Greenway Launches Effort to Expand Hudson Valley Trails Hudson on "Endangered River List" After EPA Delays Decision on Removing PCBs "Orchestra-on-a-Barge" Stops at Hudson River Waterfronts `On the Home Front During World War II' Exhibit Opens at Hudson River Museum April, 1998 Mending Irvington's Tainted Waterfront Kykuit Expands Tour Program News from the Deck of the Half Moon Ceramic Mural of Hudson River Proposed for Peekskill Park `Where Land Meets River' Exhibit at Hudson River Museum Revolutionary War Exhibit Opens at Peekskill Museum Memoirs of Revolutionary War Soldier in the Hudson Valley The Hungarian Legacy in Peekskill Preserving the Nation's Maritime Heritage March, 1998 Editorial: Will Cellular Towers Claim our Hilltops? Sleepy Hollow Hosts St. Patrick's Day Parade Boscobel Hosts Vintage Hudson Valley Heritage Cooking Seminar Rockland County Bicentennial Spotlights the Hudson River `Topics in American Culture' Lecture Series at Lyndhurst February, 1998 Metro-North Agrees to Public Hearings on River Access Country Inns offer Cooking Vacations Greenway Conservancy Names Hiking Trail Director What Became of the Chain Across the Hudson Half Moon Ship Battened Down for Winter New Edition of Hudson River Almanac is Published Dec. 1997-Jan. 1998 The Building of the Hudson River Railroad -- The Plan that Changed River Access Forever Scenic Hudson Seeks Help Fighting River Polluters, Developers History and Holidays in the Historic River Towns of Westchester Nyack Hosts First Night Celebration Holiday Star Shines on Westchester's Highest Point November, 1997 Studying Waterfront Uses on the Hudson Jonathan Kruk - Hudson River Storyteller History and Holidays in the Historic River Towns of Westchester Hudson River Estuarine Research Reserve Offers Field Study Programs October, 1997 Hudson May Get `American Heritage River' Designation Hudson Highlands Music Festival Runs Through October Clearwater Makes Annual Fall Trek Down the Hudson Asleep at the Wheel Plays Tarrytown Pete Seeger Opens Clearwater Walkabout Coffeehouse Series Headless Horseman Rides Again in Sleepy Hollow Halloween Events in the Historic River Towns of Westchester Hikes on the Old Croton Aqueduct Works of 12-Year-old `Petite Picasso' Coming to Piermont Croton Watershed Coalition Opposes Water Filtration Plant September, 1997 Half Moon Ship to Return to the Hudson River Nyack Holds Septemberfest with Crafts, Food, Music Clearwater Leads Protest Over Indian Point Nuke Plant Bikes Cross Tappan Zee Bridge for First Time Hudson River Railfan Cruise Combines Railroad and River History Tourism Projects Advance in Historic River Towns of Westchester Aqueduct Trail Gets Pedestrian Bridge Fall Crafts Show at Lyndhurst Peekskill Examines Its Revolutionary War Past Hudson Valley Authors Headline Sleepy Hollow Book Festival August, 1997 Great Estates Weekend: Tour Eight Hudson Valley Mansions for One Price Cold Spring and Garrison: Antiques, Dining and History with a River View `As You Like It' At Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Van Cortlandt Manor Marks Historic Anniversary Rare Books and Antiques at Tarrytown This Day in Hudson Valley History July, 1997 River Taxi Service Crosses the Hudson Four Bitchin' Babes in Peekskill Half Moon Replica Ready for New Sailing Season Concerts at the Hudson River Museum -- Dancing Encouraged Acoustic Folk on the Hudson This Day in Hudson Valley History June, 1997 Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Opens Tall Ships Festival in Peekskill When Whaling Ports Lined the Hudson River Irvington Reclaims Hudson River Land `Friends` Support Rockefeller State Preserve Hudson Valley Named National Heritage Area Historic River Towns Trolley is Back Preserving Community Character in the Hudson Valley This Day in Hudson Valley History May, 1997 Riverlovers Host ShadFest on the Hudson River Powwow at Bear Mountain State Park And Now, Luxury Cruises on the Hudson River Historic River Towns Chart Future With Planning Conference April, 1997 Antique Cars Worth $500,000 to be Auctioned at Lyndhurst Hudson Valley Writers' Center Holds Spring Reading Series Notable Hudson Valley Web Sites Origins of Route 9 Between New York and Albany Vintage Hudson Valley Offers Cooking Classes Nature Center Opens in Croton-on-Hudson March, 1997 Hudson Valley Art And Antiques Month Coming in April New Ferry Service to Bear Mountain State Park Jazz Series at the Tarrytown, N.Y. Music Hall Scenic Hudson Aquires Riverfront Land in Irvington for Public Park A Grand Estate on the Hudson in Restoration Fund Drive 100 Years After Relocating For a Reservoir, Katonah Celebrates Centennial January-February, 1997 Sleepy Hollow Finds New Village Name Brings New Questions A Sumptuous Grand Opening Planned for The Castle A Look Back at Presidential Visits to Area Since 1776 Ferry Sloops Offers Free Winter Sailing Classes Hudson Valley Writers' Center Spring Workshops December, 1996 Hudson River Waterfront Revival Gaining Steam Cross Country Skiing in the Lower Hudson Valley Artists Painting a New Beginning for Downtown Peekskill May, 1996 Who Was Henry Hudson?