Brrr…it’s cold outside! For seasoned upstaters, thirty-five degrees is nothing. It’s fine. It’s above freezing. People in Miami pull out their fur coats when the temperature dips below sixty while Dade County newscasters warn listeners ‘Take in your orchids!’ If you’ve lived upstate long enough, you know that after a week of single digit or…
Category: Art
Cannonball Factory Hudson Pop-Up Holiday Market
Hudson’s Cannonball Factory (formerly the Etsy building) at 359 Columbia Street – Columbia and North Fourth, entrance on ally – is hosting a holiday pop-up market featuring local merchants and makers. The market takes up the entire ground floor. The vendors behind the tables are often the same people who made the products. There’s no…
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,…
Give the Gift of Hudson’s History for the Holidays
Looking for that special gift for that special someone? Look no further. The Hudson Area Library has a Shop with items based on images in its archival collection. Each sale benefits the library History Room, which acquires, preserves, and makes accessible the history of Hudson, Greenport, and Stockport. Framed and unframed copies of maps and…
The House of Manidae opens in Hudson, NY
GJ and Jana Hoffman, The House of Manidae522 Warren Street, right next to City Hall 300 pangolins are killed every day. The critically-endangered mammal is covered in scales made of keratin (similar to fingernails) which is used in traditional medicine, despite not having any known medicinal properties. GJ and Jana came to Hudson from South…