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Dennis Forney has been a journalist on the Delmarva Peninsula since 1972 and has been writing his Barefootin’ column for The Whale and then the Cape Gazette for more than 30 years. Like his Barefootin' Facebook page to get notified of blog updates.

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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN: Wednesday night races

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1 month ago

VALCOUR ISLAND, LAKE CHAMPLAIN - Sunday afternoon and we’re anchored in a cove just south of Bluff...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN: Architecture and art

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1 month ago

“Art succeeds as art to the extent to which it enhances the sense of brotherhood among people...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN: Ticonderoga sunset elegy

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1 month ago

MOUTH OF EAST CREEK - We anchored near the southern end of Lake Champlain, within eyesight of Mt...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN: Partying with the locals at...

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1 month ago

WHITEHALL, NEW YORK - This town where the Hudson River and its Champlain Canal meet up with Lake...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN: Connecting the dots between...

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1 month ago

FORT ANN - We started the day where we ended yesterday, at a free dock in this little canalside...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN: Through Albany and then 13 locks

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1 month ago

CHAMPLAIN CANAL - We left Albany yesterday morning. Two days at Albany Yacht Club. $25 bucks per...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN - Interesting sights along the...

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2 months ago

CATSKILL, HEADING NORTH - It’s a big river folks and we’re still heading north. The high hills of...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN - United States Military Academy

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2 months ago

WEST POINT - The Hudson River dives deep here at this bend in the river. Almost 200 feet. After...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN - Making our way up the river

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2 months ago

POUGHKEEPSIE YACHT CLUB - A natural, wood-sided clubhouse perches on a bluff. It overlooks a...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN - Fireman’s Parade; Rockefeller...

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2 months ago

TARRYTOWN -This village above the Tappan Zee Bridge lies between Irvington and Sleepy Hollow...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN - Gender, Dutch influence, Nyack

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2 months ago

I don’t hear people refer to the Hudson River as he or she. They often refer to vessels as she. We’...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN - New York City connections

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2 months ago

NYACK - Tide rising again. Wind out of the south. Morning dawning on the Hudson. Calling for rain...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN - New York City morning

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2 months ago

The Hudson flows by constantly, dirty and brown this early August morning. Old wooden floating...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN - Remarkable Sandy Hook clammers

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2 months ago

SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019 The Highlands and Sandy Hook mark the northern end of the Jersey shore. A...
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HUDSON RIVER SOJOURN - Juking up Jersey’s coast

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2 months ago

3 AUGUST 2019, SATURDAY HORSESHOE COVE, SANDY HOOK, NEW JERSEY “Counting the cars on the New...
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Funsters draw record crowd to Stango Park

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3 months ago

A crowd estimated at between 1,600 and 2,000 filled Stango Park in Lewes Tuesday evening, July 2,...
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Dewey Beach, Lewes, Alice Walsh, Dave Truitt and Joe...

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8 months ago

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2019 Politics is about people. People are about politics. Funerals are about...
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Its been a mushroomy fall

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1 year ago

Dave Gillan sent me a photo recently of a fairy ring of mushrooms behind the Lingo realty office...
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Waxing gibbous making toward Easter full

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1 year ago

A waxing gibbous moon rose over the harbor in Lewes Thursday evening this week. Today, March 31, it...
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Canvasbacks and snow geese in Rehoboth; feral cat...

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1 year ago

Hundreds of thousands of snow geese took advantage of last week’s mild winter weather to vacation...