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Washington County is something like New Jersey. What?!? Consider: NJ is called the Garden State, but its two biggest influences (New York City and Philadelphia) are not even in NJ and the areas near them have caused several people to question the Garden State moniker. However, most of NJ really is filled with truck farms supplying vegetables to those cities, making the landscape quite pleasant, not unlike a garden. Similarly, Washington County is beautiful, possibly moreso because of the rolling hills and dairy farms that keep the vistas open, but the most important areas to Washington County are Albany to the southwest, Saratoga Springs to the west, Glens Falls, gateway to the Adirondacks and Lake George to the northwest, Lake Champlain and its easy access to Quebec on the northeast, Manchester, and Dorset,VT to the east, Bennington, VT to the southeast, and the Berkshires, just south of that. None of them are even in the county, although Lake George and the extreme southern end of Lake Champlain do touch the northern towns of the county.
We said it was beautiful. How beautiful? Governor Pataki presumably could have a summer home anywhere in the state. He chose the hamlet of Shushan in Salem, NY and while he has recently sold the home on the property, he retained most of the beautiful acreage. OK, maybe he's a governor and he's not famous for his esthetic sense and he did have to choose someplace in NY. How about a writer at Life magazine who had travelled the world for his job and thought the most beautiful spot on the planet was Hebron, between Salem and Granville. OK, he's just a photographer for a now-defunct magazine. How about when Robert Redford needed a location to shoot The Horse Whisperer, he chose Greenwich, another town next to Salem.
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