One of my favorite places in Columbia County is Ocean State Job Lot in Valatie. It’s a place where you can buy everyday stuff, cheap. I tell all the newbies. It’s a right of passage. Ocean State is in a large gray building in a shopping center on Route 9/Fairview – about fifteen to twenty…
Author: Trixie Starr
Almost Spring!
What a difference a week makes! Those 50ish degree days are intoxicating after a long, pandemic winter. Thank you to everyone who submitting events into Trixie’s List this week. Event submissions are FREE and super-easy! Submit your event here. Plus, Trixie’s List is a smart-phone responsive website – perfect for those on the go to…
Space Deconstructed
Susan Eley Fine Art, 433 Warren Street, held a (COVID-safe) gallery opening reception on Saturday, March 6 from 5-7pm for the artists David Collins and James Isherwood. The exhibit is open March 4 – April 18, 2021Thursday-Monday 11am-5pm Here are some pictures from the reception: From the exhibit: Space Deconstructed offers a platform for the…
Little Free Libraries Celebrates Women’s History Month
Hudson Little Free Libraries is celebrating Women’s History Month with the addition of some new books scattered throughout our three libraries around town. A Voice named Aretha Hidden Figures50 Women in Sports50 Women in ArtShe PersistedWho was Ida B Wells?Who is Greta Thunberg?Who was Dr Mae JemisonLegacyWomen Poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Take a book….
It’s ALMOST Spring, Hudson…just hold on…
It’s really difficult to imagine spring around the corner, when it’s still below freezing outside. YAY! Upstate New York!Things will change, hopefully within a week. It’s March, in like a lion…blah, blah, blah…you’ve heard it before. Read my blog post about the Oakdale Plunge from 2018 to 2021.Click here. Meet your local farmer at the…
Cold Plunge – Hot Tamales!
The Oakdale Plunge RETURNS! Are you ready to PLUNGE into the freezing cold water? Or, maybe just watch other people do it? Saturday – Feb 27th @ 11am – Watch it LIVE here! Make a donation here. I will be the announcer – that is my contribution for this event… There will be fabulous teams…
What’s REALLY at the Hudson Winter Market?
Wintertime pandemic blues?Don’t know what to do?Come to the Hudson Farmers’ Market!Saturdays201 Harry Howard Blvd10am-1pm The Hudson Farmers’ Market is more than just a place to get local produce – it’s the “Town Square” – you can see some friends, find out the latest gossip, and buy some apples. In these winter months, the Hudson…
Snowy Days
Well, I’ll be honest with you, Hudson. Writing an event-based blog in the middle of February, during a pandemic, does have its challenges in finding content! This week, I got lucky! Sam J. Miller was up here and I had a chance to meet and talk with him about his latest Hudson-based book, The Blade…
“The Blade Between” by Sam J. Miller
While reading Sam Miller’s The Blade Between, I had to constantly remind myself, that it’s a work of fiction – horror, actually. The book references similar Hudson street names, businesses (like The Pizza Pit) and quotes from daily Hudson parlance, such as “Hudson used to have a bowling alley…where the Walgreens is now.” There’s bribery,…
Window on Hudson: Kate Skakal
I read that artist, Kate Skakel, would be performing and creating art in the Window on Hudson, so I took my video camera with me. However, the art that Kate created required her to sit in stillness for at least twenty minutes – so maybe a still image would be sufficient. Kate Skakel’s art is…