That seems to be the main divide between old and new --
not on change versus stasis, but on how change comes about, whether to get ahead of it, develop a vision for the waterfront, enhance a new tourism-based economy or let the market decide much as it has in the past.
In that sense, Cold Spring's story is one of many towns along the Hudson, once forgotten, now courted, once left for dead, now facing a menace that was unthinkable two decades ago -- sky-high real estate prices, runaway development, the downside of being places where dead foundries get a post-industrial life and there's no such thing as a Hudson River Brigadoon.