Infinite Road
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Tarrytown → Hyde Park

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Narrated by The Storyteller 100 km · about 75 min · 15 stories

Up the Hudson past Sleepy Hollow's burying ground, Washington Irving's invented folklore, Sing Sing, and the Rockefellers' Kykuit. The Hudson River School painted this valley into American identity; the Vanderbilts built on the proceeds.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Tarrytown, New York

    The Old Dutch Burying Ground

  2. 2
    Pleasantville, New York

    Matisse and Chagall's Windows

  3. 3
    Briarcliff Manor, New York

    Washington Irving's Literary Folklore

  4. 4
    Ossining, New York

    The Founding of Sing Sing

  5. 5
    Yorktown Heights, New York

    Yorktown Heights Railroad Station

  6. 6
    Yorktown Heights, New York

    The LaFarge-Heins Memorial Church

  7. 7
    Mahopac, New York

    Lenape Land Stewardship

  8. 8
    Putnam Valley, New York

    Kykuit and the Rockefeller Estate Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  9. 9
    Kent Cliffs, New York

    Kykuit and the Rockefeller Estate Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  10. 10
    East Fishkill, New York

    Kykuit and the Rockefeller Estate Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  11. 11
    East Fishkill, New York

    The Old Put Railroad Line

  12. 12
    Lagrangeville, New York

    The Joseph Horton House

  13. 13
    Poughkeepsie, New York

    The Hudson River School Painters

  14. 14
    Poughkeepsie, New York

    Vanderbilt Mansion's Gilded Ambition

  15. 15
    Poughkeepsie, New York

    The Danish Architect of Rosenlund

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.