Wonderful Things About Hudson

# 6. The fig tree at the post office
  1. Train whistles and church bells (thank you, Ellen Thurston)
  2. Alley garages that haven’t changed in over 100 years
  3. People who stop and say ‘Hello’ on Warren Street
  4. Taking an hour and a half to walk three blocks on Warren Street because you’re talking to people
  5. Walking down the quiet alleys so you don’t have to talk to people and take an hour and a half to walk three blocks on Warren Street
  6. The fig tree at the post office
  7. The window displays at the Five and Diamond
  8. If you are ever in need of food or clothing, you can post on fb, and people will help you
  9. Lost dogs are found and returned home
  10. Wallets and keys are turned in to the police station
  11. Going to the Farmers’ Market on a Saturday morning and seeing friends
  12. The local book shelves at the Spotty Dog
  13. The backyard garden of the Red Dot
  14. The lights in the street trees on Warren before Winter Walk
  15. The care and hard work that went into preserving and enhancing the Santa’s Village Huts
  16. The History Room at the Hudson Area Library
  17. Asking a question to someone at the History Room and getting back a response with tons of information
  18. Everyone’s appreciation in preserving our local history
  19. The big vintage photo of Warren Street at Governor’s Tavern
  20. People plunging into freezing cold water to raise money for a good cause
  21. The two giant “locks” on top of Rogerson’s Hardware store are there because the building used to be a locksmith
  22. Diamond Street and Hudson’s infamous past
  23. People who adopt cats from the window of Animal Kind
  24. The guys at the recycling drop-off in Greenport who have dog treats ready for any pups along for the ride
  25. The Tin Ballroom and Vince who restored it
  26. When your neighbor invites you over for a BBQ
  27. The plaque on the General Worth House
  28. Seeing something very unique in a window on Warren Street
  29. Neighbors who drop off extra vegetables or plants
  30. People can restart their lives, fresh
  31. Book readings and author signings
  32. When the person in the store or behind the counter knows your name
  33. A meeting in someone’s living room, trying to change something
  34. Standing in Second Show, making an intention/statement that you want/need something, and having it show up weeks later
  35. The October Hudson Cemetery Tour by Kelley Drahushuk
  36. The “copy editors” of Trixie’s List, who proofread my posts
  37. In the middle of a snowstorm, everyone holes up in the few places that are open to avoid cabin fever
  38. Friends who ask you if you need anything from the store
  39. People who have time for last minute dinner plans
  40. 433 State Street
  41. The blue heron and the geese in the cemetery pond
  42. St. Mary’s Tag Sale
  43. The neighbor who shovels your sidewalk
  44. The view of the river from Promenade Hill Park
  45. An art gallery stroll
  46. Two dozen people who show up dressed as Mrs. Roper on Halloween night
  47. The free food refrigerators
  48. The guerilla-planted daffodils on 9G
  49. You know the current Mayor, or a past mayor, or that you are only one or two degrees of separation away from any Hudson mayor
  50. Seeing police officers, off-duty, at the grocery store
  51. Plant sales
  52. Servers at diners that “refresh” your coffee so it doesn’t get cold
  53. Seniors who start their art career painting/sculpting/writing
  54. A new street tree planted in front of your house, and the birds who find it
  55. Finding an old newspaper in your wall
  56. Pulling off layers of linoleum and finding a hardwood floor
  57. Hudson’s “Floater” houses
  58. Koi in the cemetery pond
  59. You will bump into someone who once lived on your block, and they’ll tell you about all the families that used to live there
  60. The Fugary Shacks
  61. Rope was made on Rope Alley
  62. The tree within a tree on North 4th
  63. Goslings
  64. The “stolen” American Flags

5 thoughts on “Wonderful Things About Hudson”

  1. I love this list so much! I’ve only been here since 2017, and am a long way from home in West Virginia but Hudson is home now . I love all of these things too. Just last week was marveling at that Fig Tree at the P.O. And all the Fat Coke I can drink too.

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  2. Adam himself could have done no better with his own fig leaf–adorned list of Wonderful Things About Hudson! As long as Adam and Eve and Captain Ahab were at the post office mailing “Wonderful Things About Hudson” postcards to their cosmopolitan colleagues, they might add that WPA bas relief. But I’d have to start with Saint Winifred, and her secret admirer who faithfully brings her flowers. . . And what about Bo the vagabond cat on lower Warren , and Darcy and the Salvation Army ladies, and the pair of bald eagles nesting on the Middle Ground, and the half a hundred intrepid shopkeepers of Warren, and the weird optical phenomenon that periodically appears in Prison Alley just above 8th Street, and . . .

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      1. Oh my! How in Heavens did I forget to include TRIXIE and TRIXIE’S LIST in that list?! Leave it to a consummate list–maker (and Hudson–ophile) to invite such a wonderful thing. Thanks, Trixie, for this list and all those you send out to the world.

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  3. I have loved the alleys since I was a little girl. My grampa, Philip Schneider born in 1901 used to tell me stories of coming I to Hudson from Livingston farm…and how the horses knew just where to go. Afternoon back to the farm. Driver asleep but again the horses knew the way home. I often drive the alleys and enjoy knowing these were placed Grampa traveled and feel his presence.

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