Art Brod:  

It's now March 2015 --- another 30 months since I last wrote --- how time flies --- APHS now nearly 49 years in the rear view mirror. It's been an eventful 49 years --- all spent here in Eastern New York --- first the undergrad years in the School of Architecture at RPI, a stint in the National Guard (remember the first draft lottery?), part-time graduate study at SUNY-Albany, and a community and land planning career partially overlapping and now extending for more than 46 years albeit quite slow these past few years as the pace of development has lagged here in the Northeast.. Along the way there's been a decade in a couple of public sector positions, several years in partnership in an AEP firm with offices throughout New York and in Florida, and now solo private practice in my own firm as a land planning consultant / real estate development facilitator for the past 30 years. Baseball (and most particularly the New York Yankees) remains a religious rite and RPI hockey --- now for a 52nd season --- follows close behind. I also serve as a director of our local land trust, the Agricultural Stewardship Association which serves both my native Rensselaer County and my...Expand for more