If Albany’s Pine Bush could talk, what stories it could tell!
Formed thousands of years ago following the drainage of glacial Lake Albany, it is one of the largest inland pine barrens in the world. Traversed by Native Americans as they made their way back and forth between the Mohawk and the Hudson river valleys, a path developed that would soon be used by diverse groups of people for diverse purposes.
This desert-like stretch of land between these two important rivers was deemed inspirational by some travelers and disheartening by others. Regardless of which way the pendulum of human activity and interaction would swing, the history of this unusual piece of land is rich and amazing…