Hike #31

This I am making it 2 parts since they are close together and they both have trails.

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Years ago in grade school I remember going here with my class and have not gone back since now. There is a one room school house which what I remember hearing was that it was originally down the road some where but the house has always been there. There are trails in the back on the main house.

The Martin Van Buren house is full of trails, some that go around the property and also on the other side of the street there are more trails. I just did some of the back of the house trail. It was not open when I stoped by but could freely walk around the property and and the trails are open. there are signs with information on them all over the place to give your self your own tour and learn more about the history on the house and land.

Hike #30

I have not made one of these in a while since the world has changed a bit do to the virus. I decided to check out PS21 since a few years ago their were talks of trails, so I wanted to see them for my self, since I have only been to events at the main building, which is one of the best public designed buildings in columbia county. There are a few places where you can enter the trail, there was no map or signs just a nicely mowed path to walk on.

I did not walk all the trails but just the one behind the building, there are 2 things during the trail that i found odd, you end up in what feels like someones back yard but PS21 owns the building and the other one is the barns you drive past. As long as you stay on some kind of trail or road you cant get lost.

They are planning and working on connecting PS21 and Crelin park together as you can read below

Black Lives Matter / Blue Lives Matter Kinderhook NY

A very peaceful protest with a few yelling back and forth and near the end both sides came together and talked as well as the guy who started the Blue lives matter part gave everyone on both sides water for standing in the sun.

BLM March Chatham NY 2020

A few people said they counted 200+ people in a small town of chatham

Famous Artist #28

Barbara Kruger

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Born 1945 ( 75 years old

American conceptual artist and collagist. She is known for her BW photos with red and white letters. Addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality

She went to Syracuse but left due to her dads death and then went to Parson’s School of Design

During the 10 years after she did some freelance work editing photos and designing book jackets.

In the 60’s she began attending poetry reading and writing.

She worked at  Condé Nast Publications and after a while she got the head designer job. she also worked at  Mademoiselle and later moved on to work part-time as a picture editor at House and Garden, Aperture, and other publications. She also wrote film, television, and music columns for Artforum and Real Life Magazine.

Her early work was large wall hangings made out of different materials such as yarn, beads, sequins, feathers and ribbons also crocheted, sewed and painted bright-hued and erotically suggestive objects. This work was at the 1973 Whitney Biennial.

1976 she took a break from making what had become more abstract works, feeling that her work had become meaningless and mindless.

She taught at the University of California and became inspired by the writings. 1977 she returned to artmaking, working with her own architectural photographs

Kruger has often been grouped with such feminist postmodern artists.

She works with found photographs and mixes in text to challenge the viewer