Chronicle on the Road: The Thomas Cole House in Catskill, home of the Hudson River School of landscape painting.
Just an hour and a half from Croton via the scenic Taconic Parkway, the home of a pioneer of American landscape painting welcomes visitors. Riches await.
MICHAEL BALTER
“Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful bouquet. Shall we turn from it? We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our own ignorance and folly… May we at times turn from the ordinary pursuits of life to the pure enjoyment of rural nature; which is in the soul like a fountain of cool waters to the way-worn traveler…”
— Thomas Cole, “Essay on American Scenery,” 1836
[Editor’s note: With this post, we inaugurate a new occasional feature for this newsletter, “Chronicle on the Road.” From time to time (or maybe more often, who knows) we will journey to places we think Crotonites might find relevant to their lives, or that they know and might want to revisit. In this first installment, we follow the Hudson River closer to its source, and closer to the source of many inspired depictions of this mighty waterway. To tell the story we have liberally borrowed from several historical sources, referenced at the end of this post.] READ AND SEE MORE AT (3) Chronicle on the Road: The Thomas Cole House in Catskill, home of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. (substack.com)
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