Hudson Raft Project

This Sunday it is a sunny day. It is 4:07 p.m. As I write this I am sitting at a bar on Lark Street, the speakers are playing a Tommy Dorsey song, and as the girls pass in their summer dresses and pretty hair, life is a sepia-tone lemonade commercial. After years of planning and [...]

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Launch time is Thursday, July 29th at 7:15 at Alive at Five in Albany.
Specifically, we will be assembling “Assembly Required” at the ramp just north of The Barge restaurant (where the Albany Aquaducks enter the water) between 3 and 7 pm on Thursday.
The outlook is good. The forecast shows 10 days of sun and weather [...]

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I believe that a person should be able to do a thing, if it harms no other person, simply because one desires. One’s volition is reason enough to act, and ‘meaning’ is derived only from consideration afterward.
People have asked, “what’s the point” of building a boat that uses no fossil fuels and floating from Albany [...]

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