The purpose of the Great Knot sculpture is to be a presence that gives an historic and cultural character; a provenance; analogous to the cryptographic theme of the website's knot registry concept to the art as a whole. It is this concept's anchor to the real world in an experiment with place ... a land art sculpture about the meaning of history in the interconnections of a concept of site, object and system viewed through the lens of art.

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This book is an effort to put on record the culmination to over three decades of searching for the reason a highly eventful history was being so thoroughly ignored. Click on the menus of the side bar to continue with how this influenced the art. The Audio Overviews like those below are Artificial Intelligence's correction of that.

Saugerties: Site of the Great Knot The audio discussions here are developed from research notes put into NotebookLM.Google. This web presence is a Listen and Look learning experience to topics important to the history narrative further developed in the book A Brief History of Saugerties. AI Audio Overview of The Kingston Commons

The Kingston CommonsBefore the Town of Saugerties was formed in 1811 records of land use and ownership were in both Albany county and in the Corporation of Kingston. The provenance of title from colonial times until today starts with the surveyed placement of lots and classes from the division of Kingston's common lands of 1803 that were based on findings in these earlier patent and grant records.

At the top is an early nineteenth century survey of the bounds of the Corporation of Kingston done for dividing its commons into lots sold between 1803 and 1816. The organization of these lots into "classes" are what are moving from this survey to the shaded relief map showing the terrain each lot held in a class occupies. Between these two the name of each Class is displayed as it moves.

Since the beginning of the twentieth century there has been a steady loss of reference to the classes and lots of the Kingston Commons in land abstracts and surveys. For both historical and practical purposes a reference archive of surveys that have marked commons boundaries is the foundation used to consentrate on an analysis of mid-century abstracts that were the last to reference origins in colonial patents. This Kingston Common lands division survey provides precise placement to compare property bounds of today to for having historic data at its origins.

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interactive resource 1 AI discusses mapping an Earth Commons interactive resource 2 AI Audio Overview of the History Atlas concept An AI Audio Overview is a chatbot that uses a two host podcast theme to present thoughts on proprietary material, voicing understandings as third parties. It is strictly AI's take on a subject that likely the training of its Large Language Model did not have much of in it. AI's "takes" from these seven sections on early history in the History Atlas of Saugerties are assumed to be from totally new information to it. Introduction History Atlas of Saugerties Part 3b History Atlas of Saugerties Part 1 History Atlas of Saugerties Part 4a History Atlas of Saugerties Part 2 History Atlas of Saugerties Part 4b History Atlas of Saugerties Part 3a History Atlas of Saugerties