Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/60

... that in 1944, using a type specimen from the Albany Pine Bush, Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita) discovered the Karner Blue butterfly (pictured)?
... that the Beaverkill Valley Inn, near Lew Beach, New York, is the only remaining fishing lodge on the upper Beaver Kill from the early days of dry-fly trout fishing in the Catskills?
... that Tarrytown's Foster Memorial AME Zion Church is the oldest continuously-used black church in Westchester County, New York?