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Real Estate Development – a local story –

December 16, 2019 Comments Off

We generally don’t report or comment on local affairs here at AmericanDelusions. But, the craziness of real estate development in Greenport, the town that surrounds our hometown of Hudson, illustrates a downside of our market centered --->> read more -->>

Slavery in Hudson – updated

September 14, 2019 Comments Off

9/12/2019 A lecture at the Hudson Area Library tonight, Slavery and Dutch-Palatine Farmers: How did middle class farmers in Colonial New York interact with slavery?’ by Travis M. Bowman. The lecture began with the note --->> read more -->>

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Slavery in Hudson and nearby – continued

June 18, 2017 Comments Off

My earlier post on this topic was picked up by Gossips of Rivertown. That brought a reference from David Marston to a new source: Radical Cartography where the results of the 1790 Census (the first --->> read more -->>

Slavery in Hudson and Columbia Cty NY

June 14, 2017 1

It is doubtless a fact that most Northerners, including the writer, think that slavery in America was a Southern problem. In the North slavery was an occasional institution, or so we think. A week ago --->> read more -->>

Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare) Review – Rob Bujan

April 1, 2017 Comments Off

Dan Udell videotaped a presentation on the US healthcare system by Rob Bujan on 3/25/17. I could not attend so I watched Dan’s YouTube video – The discussions towards the end of this presentation (about --->> read more -->>