Volume 37, Number 1, Autumn 2020

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“In the Catskills”: The Meanings of Region in Thomas Cole’s  Catskill Creek Landscapes, H. Daniel Peck

Creating a “Wide-Awake and Progressive City”: Greater Albany’s Electric Streetcars  and the Idea of Progress, 1886–1906, Wyatt Erchak

Robert Moses in the Hudson River Valley, Alan Strauber

Personal Reflection

Dawn Chorus: Reliving FDR’s Wartime Birding at Thompson Pond, Susan Fox Rogers

Regional History Symposium

The Poughkeepsie Regatta at 125: A Marist College Archives Collection Spotlight, Emma Dionne

The Hudson River’s Famous Four Miles, Elizabeth Clarke and Ann Sandri

Book Reviews

Enterprising Waters: The History and Art of New York’s Erie Canal, by Brad L. Utter, Ashley Hopkins Benton, and Karen E. Quinn, reviewed by Bill Merchant

Patriot Hero of the Hudson Valley: The Life and Ride of Sybil Ludington, by Vincent T. Dacquino, reviewed by Roberta Silman

Everything Worthy of Observation: The 1826 New York State Travel Journal of Alexander Stewart Scott, Paul G. Schneider, Jr. Editor, reviewed by Robert Chiles

Last Page

The Sketchbook Turns 200: Remembering Washington Irving on the Bicentennial of The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq., Emily Yen