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I absolutely loved the recent series on Curious Orange entitled "Riding history's wave into New York".

I grew up in part of the area being described in this series. I was raised in Yonkers, New York, a city a few miles to the north of Manhattan, or "New Amsterdam", and the history of this region was always of great interest to me. I was taught a little about this in school as a child, but this show did a great deal to bring that history to life. This year a replica of Hudson's ship, the Half Moon, made the same tour that Hudson made up the river that now bears his name, and on October 15th, 2009, the replica docked at the pier in my home town, at the same spot that Hudson landed in 1609. As part of this years quadricentennial commemoration, a time capsule with pictures, letters and other mementos of this years celebration was buried, to be opened in 100 years, during the 500 year celebration of the event.

Even though this area has been very industrialized and developed, it still retains much of its natural beauty, which I still remember 40 years since I moved away from this area. The entire region is still steeped with the Dutch influences from centuries ago.