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The Hudson River School’s American Apocalypse

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By the standards of geological epochs, Kaaterskill Falls in Upstate New York is positively youthful. Generated by melting glacial runoff eroding the sandstone and shale at the foot of the Catskills’ South Mountain during the middle Pleistocene — a spritely 130,000 years ago — Kaaterskill is a spectacular two-stage waterfall that seems to almost bounce down its 260-foot (~79-meter) height. Two centuries ago, that cascading waterfall would inspire a 25-year-old engraver born i

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