Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/60


 * ... that in 1944, using a type specimen from the Albany Pine Bush, Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita) discovered the Karner Blue butterfly (pictured)?
 * ... that the Beaverkill Valley Inn, near Lew Beach, New York, is the only remaining fishing lodge on the upper Beaver Kill from the early days of dry-fly trout fishing in the Catskills?
 * ... that Tarrytown's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-used black church in Westchester County, New York?

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