Jacob RemesI have been holding off on an #introduction post here because I’ve been considering changing servers. But I guess I’ll do it here anyway. I am a historian and disaster scholar. The main themes of my posting are labor, disaster, urban affairs, and politics. I think a lot about the U.S. and Canada especially, with interest also in Japan. My pet peeve is when people call areas that drain to the Housatonic River the “Hudson Valley.”
I dunno. This seems like a weird genre of post, because I am actually more than my intellectual interests or where I’ve lived. I feel like people on here who followed me (still do follow me!) on Twitter are possibly better able to introduce me, and me them. Maybe that should be a thing.
Miss g@jacremes er hi but what do you mean about this housatonic thing. I’m from the ct side of the Hudson but where are you talking about really? This is of interest to me because I also have strange opinions about the region near to the region you are discribing and I’d like to either have a big fight or agree. A fight would perhaps be better because it might bring some passion to this place.
@grainne the red area is the Housatonic’s watershed. Basically, I object when people in Millerton and Amenia call themselves Hudson Valley.
@jacremes is that your cutoff? Millerton? What about a few miles west of millerton? Pine plains says it’s in the Hudson valley but does millerton? They aren’t quite the berkshires. Should they say Housatonic valley? Millerton feels very ct aligned - like it should actually be in ct and I’m not saying that just based on now how rich and twee it is. Poor amenia probably never needed to call itself anything until covid.
@jacremes wait the wappingers creak starts in pine plains and that feeds into the Hudson so I think maybe the cutoff between Hudson valley and whatever millerton is is winxhell mountain?
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Steven Schwinghamer@jacremes Happy to see you here!