Hudson River Zeitgeist

10/15/2021

...More than a century later, the cliffs that once hosted a popular tourist destination called Bishop Falls are dark, caked in sediment, and more than 100 feet underwater.

Several Catskills hamlets lie beneath the surface of the Ashokan Reservoir, submerged to...

01/18/2020

Chronogram Magazine picked The River's Never Full, the local bestseller based on the Hudson River's last shantytown, as one of "6 Books for your January Reading."

In his new memoir, The Art of Resistance, Holocaust survivor Justus Rosenburg chronicles the four years he spent in the French Resistance during World War II; plus short book reviews.

01/13/2020

In the current edition of the Columbia Paper, a Q&A about “The River’s Never Full,” the local bestseller based on the 2012 eviction at Hudson’s North Bay fishing shacks

01/07/2020

Released Dec. 8 and became Spotty Dog’s top-selling title of 2019! Back in stock again there and also available on Lulu.com and at Fairview Books in Greenport.

12/23/2019

Available while supplies last at Spotty Dog Books & Ale on Warren Street and Fairview Books by the Greenport Walmart

William Shannon, journalist and author of the blog Hudson River Zeitgeist , has written a novel about the stand of shacks at North Bay, va...

12/22/2019

"In reality, the story of the Furgary shacks is still an unfinished tale. Since the 2012 evictions, the shacks have remained in a kind of limbo."

Tale from a river town: Conflict over Hudson fishing shacks provides inspiration for novel. By John Townes

12/17/2019

Spotty Dog Books & Ale and Fairview Books are freshly stocked with copies of The River’s Never Full. Also, pick up a copy of this month’s Hill Country Observer to read a feature on the book and on the real-life story it’s based on.

12/09/2019

Phew! Thanks to all who made it out last night to the Spotty Dog for the book release party. We went through lots of pickled herring and lots of books. A day after the official release of The River's Never Full the first printing is nearly gone. Spotty Dog had ten copies left as of last night; Fairview Books out by the Greenport Walmart has a few copies left; and one will be up for silent auction at Promise Neighborhood's holiday fundraiser this Sunday. If you want a copy before the holidays, pick one up soon from one of those places or order online this week @ Lulu.com (link in comments). Second photo by Germantown Waterfront

12/07/2019

*Just a tumble-down shack by an old railroad track, like a millionaire's mansion. Oh baby it's calling me back! I'd give up my palace if I were a king. It's more than a palace, it's my everything.*

Rumor is the Cold Club of Queens will play their rendition of this 1932 hit (played below by the Ink Spots in the '50s) at the Spotty Dog Books & Ale Sunday, Dec. 8 during the book release party (7pm-9pm) for The River's Never Full, a novella featuring Hudson's shacks-by-the-old-railroad-tracks.

An old standard as performed by the great Ink Spots or at least a group calling themselves the Ink Spots (1950s)

12/05/2019

12/04/2019

"...The site is quite polarizing around Hudson and has often stirred passions." (An updated version of a 2015 story)

The Furgary or Fugary Boat Club is also sometimes called the North Dock Tin Boat Association, Shantytown or just The Shacks. It’s a collection of seventeen small shacks—some of which likely date back to the late 1800s—right at the mouth of Hudson’s North Bay, where it meets the Hudson River....