Saugerties, N.Y.: A Congenial Place With a Colorful History
The Ulster County town with its quaint village has attracted creative urban transplants for decades with the promise of new beginnings.
By Julie Lasky
May 19, 2021Updated 2:46 p.m. ET
For 51 years, Johanna Hall has been living in Saugerties, a Hudson River town 100 miles north of New York City brushed with forests, dotted with hamlets and cradling a quaint village with shoulder-to-shoulder Victorians. She calls her home on four acres in West Saugerties “the house that Janis built,” because she and her then-partner, John Hall, bought it with money earned from writing a song for Janis Joplin (“Half Moon,” the B-side of 1971’s “Me and Bobby McGee”). It was one of those watershed moments. Ms. Hall, now 75, went from being an urban rock critic for
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