How could there be an entire festival about garlic? Welcome to the Hudson Valley! Across the river and about a half-hour from Hudson in Saugerties is the annual Hudson Valley Garlic Festival. The festival started in 1989 when Pat Reppert of Shale Hill Farm and Herb Gardens organized the first garlic festival in the Hudson…
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Dalmation Day 2024 at FASNY Museum of Firefighting
Next Event: Trunk or Treat – October 26th – 10am – 12pm Click here for more information
Meet the New Winter Walk Team
The Foundry at Hudson will be the new team organizing Winter Walk in Hudson this year. On Friday, September 20th, Hudson Hall announced that they will no longer be the coordinators of Winter Walk. On Thursday, September 26th, the City of Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson’s office released the following press release, stating: Just six days…
Story Screen Cinema is the Best Thing to Come to Town in a While
There are few things all Americans agree on nowadays, but hopefully we can all agree on pancakes. Fresh homemade pancakes were served during the screening of The Breakfast Club at Story Screen Cinema this Thursday, September 19th. How could anyone say no? (There was an optional side of bacon, and as a 95% vegetarian, I…
HUDSON HALL STEPS DOWN FROM PRODUCING WINTER WALK
For Immediate Release, from Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House For nearly three decades, Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House, a small nonprofit community arts organization, has produced Winter Walk, a cherished annual tradition in Hudson showcasing the City’s vibrant creative community and unique small businesses, bringing joy and holiday magic to residents and…
Gay Antique City
Gay Antique City drag show in Hudson, NY on Labor Day Weekend!Hudson Power Bottom Boat Club – between the Amtrak Station at the River$20 Cash/Venmo at the door – see poster below. Hope to see you there!-Trix Wigstock used to take place every year on Labor Day Weekend in Tompkins Square Park. Here’s some clips…
Copake Iron Works Historic Site
The train runs Saturdays and Sundays 2-4pm through October and is free to hop on board. The museum and the nearby Roeliff Jansen Historical Society are open during the same weekend hours. Are you looking for a fun – and educational – experience for both kids and adults within a half hour of Hudson? Check…
Hudson, You Need a Fountain? Here’s a Fountain for You!
Are they accepting applications for new fountain ideas for 7th Street Park, yet? I understand that the requirement for the fountain is no naked women. Fine with me. Like Hudson’s sidewalk tax mimicking the sidewalk tax of Ithaca, NY, Hudson’s new fountain can mimic the fountain of another college town – Bologna, Italy. The Fountain…
Hudson Area Library Builds a Queer Archive
In June 2024 the Hudson Area Library and OutHudson began the development of a new archive, the LGBTQ+ Hudson Area History collection. This community-sourced archive will include oral histories of LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies as well as donations from the community of video, photographs, memorabilia, art, documents, and ephemera related to Hudson’s vital queer…
Vote for Hudson Local Louis Scoffier, and his Mullet.
I love my mullet because it represents being different in life and that being different is okay.-Louis Scoffier Last year, Louis Scoffier, and his blond mullet, raised over $20,000 for the Jarren Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors. In 2023, Louis was the seventh out of 900 kids nationally in the Mullet Champ USA Competition. He…