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'Local Heroes' combines exhaustive research, rare archival film footage, fascinating still photography and revealing original interviews to bring viewers a fill range of the area's diamond history, from its mythical beginnings with Ballston Spa native Abner Doubleday to Heritage Park in Colonie - and everything in between.

The Hudson River bore witness to the age of steamships, the Hudson River School of Painters, industrialization, pollution, and renewed revitalization. Always it has served as an inspiration. Hudson River Journeys allows us the opportunity to see that inspiration continue today, through the eyes of renowned artist Len Tantillo and legendary folksinger Pete Seeger.