It looks like I will be moving away from Ulster County, NY, where I have lived for the past seven years, to Columbia County, near Albany, NY. It's not such a big change geographically -- only fifty miles -- but it means the end of a whole way of life here and the attempt to establish a new way of life, with a new circle of friends and acquaintances, there. As mental and spiritual preparation, I'll start making a record of some of the very fine things one can find in what I hope will be my new home county.
Here's a site about Columbia County generally -- Columbia Co. And here are two local historic sites --
Olana, home of artist Thomas Cole
Steepletop, country home of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Not too awfully far away is Edith Wharton's country home The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts.
If the tourism dept. can be of any help - just let me know! Annie Cooper - call us - 8oo 724 1846 - Columbia is not that far...
Posted by: Ann Cooper | July 28, 2007 at 08:57 PM