Mohawk Valley

She approached Pittsburgh, choked and screamed and flew high and soared in weary circles over Buffalo for a day and a night.

Some pilots who had followed the flight from the west coast claimed that the vast lament of her voice was growing fainter and hoarser while she was drifting along the line of the Mohawk Valley.

She turned south, following the Hudson at no great height.

Sometimes she appeared to be choking, the laboring inhalations harsh and prolonged, like a great cloud in agony.

By the opening of the 18th century, the pioneers of Connecticut had pushed north and west until their outpost towns adjoined the Hudson Valley settlements.

In New York, the inland movement was directed by the Hudson River to Albany, and from that old Dutch center it radiated in every direction, particularly westward through the Mohawk Valley.

New Jersey was early filled to its borders, the beginnings of the present city of New Brunswick being made in 1681 and those of Trenton in 1685.

In Pennsylvania, as in New York, the waterways determined the main lines of advance.

One of the things about banks in the small and midcap space is they tend to be a lot more regional, and if you go down cap, they're very regional.

So you might be able to say they're gonna benefit from, you know, del- development in the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York, things like that.

So that's sort of the biggest bucket of those thematic ideas.

And, you know, frankly, it's interesting.

But systems and large, like, I'm...

I have a contract with a Mohawk Valley library system in New York, and then they got-

Okay

... other library systems to join.

And then finally, you had the political tradition, and that's the one that people do think about more the communal self-rule for, at that point, 150 years of New England versus far more hierarchical societies.

And I distinguish them, the different societies in the Mohawk Valley of New York and New York City and in Virginia and the South with plantations and so on.

So...

Ben, if I can very quickly talk about Britain, because I did British social history under the great J.P. Dunbabin and the even greater Michael Hart.

And so there are thousands of German refugees who fled down the Rhine River, were suckered by their, as in helped, by their British allies and were taken as refugees on ships to London.

it's a fascinating story, but in 1710, the crown decided that they could be made useful if they worked cutting and preparing masts for the Royal Navy, which could be found in upstate New York.

And so they were shipped off to America where they settled what's now the Mohawk Valley, 150 miles northwest, say, of New York City.

However, New York society decided was founded on a manorial system.

in the near future, I'll be able to travel from the suburbs to, let's say, downtown Toronto, but I'll have to wait a little bit longer to travel from Toronto to New York, right?

Well, so our first network is in the Mohawk Valley.

We've got 12 locations there.

And the Mohawk Valley is ideally situated within 150 miles of Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, New York, and D.C., So, once they can go 175 miles, which is their projected distance for the pure electric ones, then maybe you'll have to stop over in the Mohawk Valley.

For recharging.

And going back to your answer, I think that was another important distinction because the relevant comparison could look very different if a flight replaces a helicopter as you mentioned, a car journey or a trip that would otherwise never have happened.

So that's one situation.

And the other is the communities themselves.