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VikingTerminal.Com y [email protected] something not too distant from that may be shaping-up in Kingston, New York, where there are perhaps fewer yuppies and more of a population with both his- torical and personal connections to the water. A new undertaking has been quiet- ly underway, involving the acquisition of the old Cornell tugboat company build- ing on Rondout Creek, the purchase of local scrapyards for conversion, and the old town dock to continue serving as a public amenity for a renewed Kingston waterfront. The new development would incorporate the resources and much of the vision of Steve Trueman's North

River Tugboat Museum, with which the

Harvey and the presence of North River

Historical Ship Society members would be incorporated.

Whether this will lead to Mr. True- man's "Mystic Seaport of Iron" reported here last year remains to be seen, but the early indicators are promising. A big maritime festival is scheduled at

Kingston for August 19 and 20th, at which antique tugs such as the Pegasus,

Chancellor, Urger, and others are expect- ed to join the festivities, and the boda- cious development plans revealed in detail.

Meanwhile, back downstate, New

York City still nurses the black eye it received when Bayonne, that small New

Jersey community barely visible from

Manhattan's residential towers, got the cruise ship terminal. And now Kingston, even further from the center of Manhat- tan's universe, gets the history center and all its traffic?

As much as the Hudson River Park has been criticized by restoration-minded motorheads, it is not, in John Krevey's view, entirely a villain. "They have more problems than people realize," he tells us,

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