Listen: Tim Albright, a lifetime under the escarpment

The Enterprise — H. Rose Schneider
Tim Albright

 

Tim Albright, who has worked at Indian Ladder Farms for 40 years and is now a manager, used to know each of the large old-fashioned apple trees as individuals. The small, modern rows of trees — which are more efficiently maintained — lack personality, he says. Albright, who grew up playing on the cliffs and in the caves of the Helderberg escarpment, knows the history as well as the topography of the land. At age 13, he researched the New Scotland’s history and designed the town seal still used today. In this week’s podcast, he talks of the century-old local postcards he collects from which he gleans history in words and pictures. Albright and his wife live in an early 19th-Century schoolhouse they’ve restored, surrounded by a parklike yard punctuated with antique tractors, displayed like sculptures.

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