Centenarian donates $20M to preserve river.(Main)

Byline: JIM FITZGERALD - Associated Press

SLEEPY HOLLOW - A 100-year-old woman who still kayaks on the Hudson River pledged $20 million Friday to help save the river's banks from development "and keep it open for the people."

The gift from Kathryn Wasserman Davis of Tarrytown to Scenic Hudson will allow the conservation group to purchase land along the Hudson that might otherwise be bought up for housing or commercial use.

"I love the thought of people enjoying the river, sailing, kayaking, hiking," Davis said at a riverside news conference in Sleepy Hollow.

Davis, a Ph.D. in political science and the widow of Wall Street financier Shelby …