Harvey Flad and Main Street to Mainframes: Book Talk and Signing

Professor Harvey K. Flad is proud to announce the release of the second edition of Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie, which picks up the narrative of the first edition, co-authored with Clyde Griffen, tracing the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries of the small City of Poughkeepsie and the Hudson River Valley and following their stories into the twenty-first century. There will be books for sale and a signing.

Harvey K. Flad is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Vassar College. Dr. Flad’s scholarship has focused on cultural and
historic landscapes; landscape design and social history; conservation and urban history; and environmental and urban
planning in America.

Registration required. Registration will open on August 24, 2026 @ 10:00am.