NEXToNow

08/14/2023

07/23/2023

07/16/2023

Happiness is being hugged by a tree. W/ at Ramona Falls, OR.

07/04/2023

Old friends, new places

06/17/2023

getting ready to perform Trig at the Dumbo Dance Festival next week. Friday at 7pm! I can't believe my luck to be working with such amazing dancers: Mac Twining, Cullan Powers and Christopher Williams!

06/06/2023

What a year! We've been holding jams and classes for over a year now!! Yay team! Weekly roster is posted at eliseknudson.org, usually on Sundays.

05/28/2023

Mile 1, Nimham Multiple Use Area is named after the last sachem of the Wappinger people. He enlisted with the English in one of the French Indians wars, and moved his people to a Christian settlement for the duration of the war. When he returned he found his land around Mt. Nimham had all been illegally rented out. He and two Mahicans petitioned all the way to the King. Though the court acknowledged the theft, they refused to rule in favor of Nimham as it would produce an "adverse precedent". Nimham served as constable in Stockbridge MA after defending it. He later led a band of displaced people including Mahicans and Munsee as they traversed less settled lands and worked for local farmers. He befriended Madam Brett, who founded Beacon, NY and may have helped him learn English. He later fought in the Continental Army at Valley Forge with George Washington before dying with his son at the battle of Kingsbridge. Kingsbridge is in Van Cortlandt Park, BX where I started my bike ride yesterday. No matter where he went he reportedly made a yearly pilgrimage back to is lands near Mt. Nimham. Under a large rock outcropping there by a stream was the last settlement of Wappinger people on their own land.

I often drove by his statue in Fishkill without knowing who he was.

The Empire State Trail probably crosses his footsteps many times. I remember him this weekend.

05/27/2023

Mile 50 plus a little on Nimham Forest

05/27/2023

Mile 40 somewhere by Carmel.

05/27/2023

Mile 30 Yorktown

05/27/2023

Mile 20 on the EST