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…
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Second Annual Hudson Film Festival returns August 9-11, 2024
For Immediate Release: Hudson Film Festival announces Year 2 programming highlighting diversity, local artists, and community partnerships with Hudson Valley premieres, including opening night feature The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat, Sundance award-winning documentary Daughters, upstate New York filmmaker & production My First Film, Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning documentary A New Kind of Wilderness, a…
Cozy, Consistent Cornerstones
A Trio of Women-Owned Bookstores and the Role they Play in our Community When Kristi Gibson first opened Magpie Bookshop in Catskill just over ten years ago, it was, from her point of view, an act of necessity. “The entire county didn’t have a bookstore at that point,” she remembers, “and I felt like I…
Frederic Church’s Rarely Seen Memorial Landscape Paintings Debut at Olana State Historic Site in New Exhibition, Afterglow
Afterglow Considers How Landscapes Provide Reflection and Healing The Olana Partnership announced today that this season’s special exhibition Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory will open May 12 in the Sharp Family Gallery at Olana State Historic Site. Afterglow brings together for the first time a series of intimate memorial landscapes painted by Church, 19th-century America’s foremost landscape painter,…
Rebus – Provisions for Children – Spring Fashion Show
Do you have a little one who needs some new clothes? Are you going to a baby shower? Maybe the grandkids are coming to town? Are your neighbors having a birthday party for their toddler? Do you want to buy children’s clothes or toys that are special and unique? Rebus is the place to go!…
Columbia County Recovery Kitchen Marks Fourth Year Addressing Hunger
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE We are not going to deliver food that I would not serve in my restaurant. Carole Clark During the pandemic, in April 2020, former restaurateur Carole Clark and community activists Pam Kline and Carol Peckham founded Columbia County Recovery Kitchen (CCRK). “It was Carole’s idea” says Pam, “but I can make it…
Nine Cakes Be Jammin’
You would think that Betsy Thorleifson has enough to do, running the fabulous bakery, Nine Cakes at 748 Warren Street serving cakes, ice cream, cookies and sweets. Starting in March, Nine Cakes adds jars of homemade jams to the list The jams are the perfect Hudson souvenir or wedding favor to complement Nine Cakes’ creamy…
My Favorite Pizza?
One day, without any warning, someone turned to me and asked: “Trixie, what is YOUR favorite pizza??” I was caught off-guard! I knew that I could not NOT answer the question, but I also knew that answering your favorite pizza question is “fighting words”. Like a Hudson Community facebook post about an apartment listing, or…
Plans for Valentine’s Week in Hudson, New York
Any plans for Valentine’s? Here are a few ideas. On Warren Street, between 7th and 8th, you’ll find Nine Cakes Bakery, now in its fifth year in Hudson. The bakery is open Tuesday – Sunday 9am – 8pm and offers cakes, macrons, cookies, and a delectable array of sweets. Indoor and outdoor seating in their…
Verdigris Tea Moves Back to the Future
HUDSON – Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Verdigris Tea & Chocolate is staging a ‘grand re-opening’ on Friday, February 9th. After a year under a temporary management team, owner Kim Bach has stepped back into a more active role. And she’s reached out to several members of her former team as well. “I’m thrilled…