Destination: Hudson River Valley, New York

Book: Seven Locks by Christine Wade, Published January 2013

Thus it would seem that knowledge and genius, of which we make great parade, consist but in detecting the errors and absurdities of those who have gone before, and devising new errors and absurdities to be detected by those who come after us.

Diedrich Knickerbocker,

A History of New York, 1809

Quoted at the beginning of Part  III of Seven Locks

When we celebrate Independence Day on July 4 in the United States, we tend to think of the big dramatic moments–Bunker Hill, the Boston Massacre, George Washington crossing the Delaware.  But Seven Locks takes us inside the lives of ordinary people in the Hudson River Valley who lived through those days for a totally different view of Colonial America. Continue reading Hudson River Valley Novel Takes New Look at July 4 →