Written in Stone Throughout the Hudson Valley

Throughout the Hudson Valley

Diane Townsend

The splendid setting of the Hudson Valley encompasses an almost infinite variety of design approaches from formal and traditional to naturalistic and an equal range of scale from multiple gardens within a vast estate to charmingly diminutive spaces between historic village houses

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Written in Stone Throughout the Hudson ValleyBy Chet Raymo and Maureen E. Raymo In vivid, non technical prose, Written in Stone traces the geological changes in the American northeast since the continent perched on the equator and dinosaurs were young. Grand events unfold as continents collide, oceans disappear, mountain ranges rise and fall, and mass extinctions decimate entire species. The events are grand, but the features of the landscape created by these events are as familiar as the hill