mannahatta resources

cool Hudson river environmental resources:

Clearwater!
HYPERLINK "http://www.clearwater.org/education/" http://www.clearwater.org
A great environmental organization built around a working, sailing replica of a 200 year-old ship! Public sailing programs, environmental advocacy, and Pete Seeger!

Hudson River Museum!
HYPERLINK http://www.hrm.org/" http://www.hrm.org/
A museum for all ages and curiosity categories:
Art Peeps: cool art museum, check out the Hudson River School fall show until January 26.
Science Geeks: a permanent, kid-friendly but adult-engaging exhibition on the Hudson as an ecological entity.
Steam Punks: a super decked-out Victorian style mansion you can peruse. It’s nuts. Ask Matt Cleary.

The New York/New Jersey Trail Conference
HYPERLINK http://www.nynjtc.org/content/where-you-can-go-bus-or-train
An awesome nature resource in many regards. They make great trail maps. They maintain trails and you can volunteer to help them do so. And they have a section of their website devoted to public-transit accessible hiking. Bouldering too.... rock on.

Fireboat.org
HYPERLINK http://www.fireboat.org
An historic fireboat that is super cool, and offers free rides up and down the Hudson when weather permits (all seasons ‘cept winter.) Check the “calendar” option of their website when the weather warms.

Hudson Highlands
HYPERLINK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Highlands
My mecca. I’ll take you hiking there if you want. Or explore on your own. You can’t go wrong. See NY/NJ Trail Conference for some great topographical maps of the area.

Reecent Writing 2

Twilight

Whisper with your eyes, child
the mountain breeze
is listening
the laurels remember you

Listen
with your children
eyes dilating
in longing
we are minarets
forgetting where
we came from
we are broken spines

Listen to your whispering
Lie wide awake
In longing

At this hour
Most abundantly
We love

Recent writing 1

Garden

When trees and light
make a mockery of space
security guards, arms uplifted,
call to each other like birds.
This I have seen.

Cherry trees with raindrops
on leaves’ tips, hanging amidst
incandescent night-
Oh dalliance, oh
sculpted cauliflower, oh
dusk in the Bronx,
cold in the Bronx.