This Bill Moyers program focuses on the seminal role the Hudson has played in the development of America's culture, literature, art, economy, industry, and ideology. Interviews with historian Roger Panetta; former West Point superintendent General David Palmer, retired; art scholars Barbara Novak and Ella Foshay; art dealers Howard Godel and Alexander Boyle; Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature; and others shed light on the many facets of the Hudson . .