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The Highlands Current Podcast

The Highlands Current Podcast

By: Chip Rowe
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The Highlands Current reporting team brings you fresh interviews that highlight the people, key issues and cultural happenings in Beacon, Cold Spring, Garrison, Nelsonville and Philipstown, New York, in the Hudson Highlands.Copyright 2024 All rights reserved. Art Political Science Politics & Government
Episodes
  • Secessionist Movements

    Secessionist Movements
    Feb 26 2026

    Richard Kreitner, of Philipstown, is the author of Break It Up: Secession, Division and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union. He discusses with Current Editor Chip Rowe the many attempts at secession in the U.S., the state he suspects will be the first to break away, and the logistics of Philipstown seceding from Putnam County.
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    17 mins
  • History of Immigration, with Carl Bon Tempo

    History of Immigration, with Carl Bon Tempo
    Jan 7 2026

    Carl Bon Tempo, who lives in Cold Spring, is a history professor at SUNY Albany. He is the author, with Hasia Diner, of Immigration: An American History (Yale University Press).

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    45 mins
  • The Mitford Sisters, with Dinky Romilly

    The Mitford Sisters, with Dinky Romilly
    Jan 7 2026

    Peter Stevenson speaks with Dinky Romilly, a Philipstown resident who was active in the civil rights movement in the 1960s and also has a famous mother, the investigative journalist and writer Jessica Mitford, best known for her book The American Way of Death, and for her eccentric family of sisters, the Mitford sisters, who were Dinky’s aunts.

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    32 mins
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