Episodes from a Hudson River Town

A small river town settled by ordinary people with no renowned citizens or spectacular events is a blue-print representing other similar river towns whose story has generally been left untold. Bush (town historian, New Baltimore) gives a historical account of a Hudson River town prior to European settlement through its current political status in the northeastern United States. From the changing landscape and the lives and deaths of its inhabitants, together with typical human events such as war, innovations, and other worldly phenomena, this account of New Baltimore offers a window into other towns all over the country that experienced a similar evolution. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Clesson S. Bush is Historian for the Town of New Baltimore. He has held a variety of positions in state and local government, and for twenty years worked in the New York State Education Department's congressional liaison office. He received his Master's in Information Science and Policy and his PhD in Public Administration from the University at Albany–SUNY, as well as a Master's in Urban Studies from Long Island University, Brooklyn.