Hi Hudson, Some people have asked me, ‘Trixie, why was your intro so short last week?’. Well, one person asked. Thing is, I start writing a LOT, like way too much! The first draft is usually very dark, which doesn’t play too well, considering that I’m writing an events blog and not lyrics for a…
Author: Rich Volo
Hudson Area Library: Local Hudson Maps and Atlases Exhibition Opening
On Thursday, March 2nd, the Hudson Area Library showcased its historical Hudson maps and atlases. The exhibition was a culmination of months and years of work by local volunteers of the library’s History Room. Their worked helped preserve and make these maps accessible to the public. The maps have been used to teach local teens…
Planned Parenthood Benefit at The Maker
On Wednesday, February 1st, the The Maker was packed with people at an event benefiting Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood. Through ticket sales and a silent auction, The Maker helped raise thousands of dollars for the local Hudson chapter of Planned Parenthood, located on Green Street. Funding from this event will give Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood…
Sharing Public Spaces: RECAP
FOPS (Friends of Public Square) sponsored a event on January 20, 2023, titled “Sharing Public Spaces”. This community conversation met with the understanding that the 7th Street Park should be safe and welcoming for all. The forty-five people who attended the panel learned the following: Things you can do:
A Bintel Brief
Funny, moving, and poignant, A Bintel Brief takes us back decades and reflects on immigrant Jewish life. The Jewish Daily Forward, (or, the Forverts, in Yiddish), based in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, started in 1897 and by the late 1920’s, had a daily circulation of over 250,000. The newspaper’s progressive ideology focused on social justice,…
FLASH! BAM! ALALKAZAM!
Armstrong NOW! at Hudson HallAn Evening of Spoken Word & Music Featuring Daniel J. Watts Thursday, February 17th, 7pm, Hudson Hall. I was not expecting to learn the proper way to blow a kiss that night, but I did. Daniel J. Watts, and the jazz ensemble at Hudson Hall started out the evening blazing! Daniel…
Iron and Grass
You’ve passed it multiple times and wondered what’s that? Opened in August 2021, in the former Liberi School on Route 9, Iron and Grass is a new steak chophouse, right outside of Hudson. The name, Iron and Grass, is derived from the locally grass-fed meat cooked in a cast iron pan. Cooking in a pan…
Hudson Area Library Launches NEW History Room Website and Online Shop
Learn about the History of Hudson and Give the Gift of Hudson’s History! Locals, transplants, and visitors alike are all fascinated with the history of Hudson. With the planning of the city by a group of merchants and whalers from their homes in Rhode Island and Massachusetts; the seedy stories of Diamond Street brothels, Legs…
Sarah Schulman “Let the Record Show”, Hudson, NY
On Saturday, November 6, 2021 at the First Presbyterian Church in Hudson, NY, author Sarah Schulman talked about, and answered questions, from her book, Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York 1987-1993. Jay Blotcher, former ACT UP New York Media Committee Chair, moderated the question and answer period. The event…
City of Hudson Cemetery Tour
One of the BEST tours in Hudson, is the annual Cemetery Tour given by Spotty Dog’s Kelley Drahushuk and sponsored by the Hudson Area Library’s History Room. The tour is filled with historical facts, descriptions, and you learn, literally, where the bodies are buried! The tour was last Saturday, Oct 23rd. The City’s cemetery, born…