The Hudson Valley in the Ice Age Try to imagine a half

Try to imagine a half mile of glacier rising above—part of a vast sheet of ice reaching south from Labrador

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where he is best known for some words he penned in a letter to the Bennington Committee on 31 July 1809 in response to an invitation to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Bennington

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The Hudson Valley in the Ice Age Try to imagine a halfAuthors: Robert and Johanna Titus Mastodons in Greenville? There weretheir bones have turned up there in the past and many still probably lie beneath ponds and swamps in that region. New Yorks version of Los Angeless famous La Brea Tar Pits? Well, not tar, but muck, and today rich farmland in the Wallkill Valley has yielded the remains of many ice age mammals. Sand dunes in the city of Albany? Yes, frozen in time and now part of the Pine Bush