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and other American landscape painters who created a new — and quintessentially American — style of art in the early and mid-19th century

along with her diaries

and unique ecology

Rhinecliff: A Hudson River History In order to answer theAuthor: Cynthia Owen Philip In Rhinecliff, Cynthia Owen Philip paints a vivid portrait, filled with fascinating detail and extraordinary characters, of a proud, independent community with a sense of place like no other. Overshadowed by its upstreet rival the politically more powerful village of Rhinebeck and closely surrounded by the great estates of the Astors, Livingstons, and Beekmans, feisty Rhinecliff has carved out its own unique identity from