{"id":207,"date":"2023-05-11T12:08:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/aevc\/?page_id=207"},"modified":"2023-05-11T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T16:08:42","slug":"harvey-flad-geography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/aevc\/harvey-flad-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Flad ~ Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since retirement in 2004, I\u2019ve remained quite busy in both scholarly and civic activities. Much of the first five years was spent researching and writing Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie<\/em><\/a> along with Vassar colleague and co-author Clyde Griffen. Since its publication in 2009 by the State University of New York Press, I have given countless presentations on the history of Poughkeepsie and the region including a six-lecture course for CLS. Parallel to the 450-page book is A Digital Tour of Poughkeepsie<\/em><\/a>, produced by the College\u2019s Urban Studies Program and placed on the Vassar You Tube web site. Other recent publications have included an essay on landscape photography for the Smithsonian Institution, a landscape history of Mohonk Mountain House for Geographical Review<\/em>, and an essay on the influence of the Hudson River School of Art in the evolution of preservation law published in Environmental History of the Hudson River<\/em><\/a> (SUNY Press, 2011). The latter evolved from a series of lectures at the New York Historical Society, Thomas Cole House, and Frederic Church\u2019s Olana, as well as various colleges. For Vassar College\u2019s Sesquicentennial, I wrote two departmental histories: Earth Science & Geography and Urban Studies, while for a conference at Vassar I offered a history of environmental research in Dutchess County. Testimony on the visual impact of a proposed cement plant in Hudson, NY helped Scenic Hudson and Friends of Olana defeat the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this time I\u2019ve continued various civic efforts as a member of the Waterfront Advisory Committee in Poughkeepsie; active in the restoration and celebration of the Fall Kill creek and \u201cSpringside,\u201d Matthew Vassar\u2019s historic site designed by Andrew Jackson Downing; and the boards of Mohonk Preserve and the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/harveyflad.wordpress.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted: January 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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