Full Moon over Cohoes Falls |
Stories of family and ancestors who lived and worked in Cohoes (textile and garment workers, butchers and barbers), Waterford (canalers), Whitehall (farmers and canalers), Port Henry (iron miners and Civil War soldiers), Champlain (canalers and farmers) and other towns along the Champlain Canal in New York State with some diversions to the places they emigrated from....Quebec (landless farmers, shoemakers, sailors, soldiers), Acadia (more farmers), and even Cornwall, England (tin miners).
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Full Moon on the Mohawk
Here's a very interesting postcard that I hope Cohoes natives will carefully look at and offer a comment about.......
The Cohoes Falls under the light of the full moon......except I don't think it is possible from the trajectory of this romantic painter. Viewing the falls from this point, the spectator would be looking almost directly north. So readers, astronomers and Cohoes natives please tell me is this possible in the northern hemisphere? Can the moon shine directly over the Cohoes Falls as in this postcard? Or is the painter using a great deal of license?
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