Hudson Area Library

Hudson resident Miranda Barry was recently interviewed as part of our Hudson Area Library Oral History collection. And what an interview! Her career spans Hollywood, American Playhouse, Sesame Street, Ghostwriter!

Clips from her interview will be presented and commented on by Peter Cipkowski at our Thursday, June 25, 6pm event - Celebrating the Library’s LGBTQ+ Hudson History Archive.

To listen to the full recording visit our HAL oral history website: https://oralhistory.hudsonarealibrary.org/.

🪡 This Wednesday!🪡 The incomparable Fahari Wambura joins us at the Fix-It Picnic, to discuss Multi-Use Culture and to share a few hand-sewing techniques! Bring your favorite old textiles in need of some care.

As usual, the LikeMindedObjects team will be on hand with supplies and tools to help develop your skills.

🧵 Wednesday, June 10, 5 – 7:30pm
🧵 Hudson Area Library Community Room
🧵 No registration required. All are welcome!

This program is presented in partnership with The Second Show Community Thrift Shop, and Pay It Forward Community Thrift Store, and it is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Today, Thursday, June 4, 6-7:30pm via Zoom: Wartime Refugee Crisis in the Hudson Valley, 1754-1763 by Tom Arne Midtrød. Dr. Midtrød discusses the refugee crisis in the Hudson Valley of the Mahican and Munsee speaking peoples after the French and Indian War.

This lecture is a collaboration with the Leisler Institute and the Columbia County Libraries Association.

To register for the Zoom link: https://historyroom.hudsonarealibrary.org/history-room-programs

Today is Dinosaur Day and so we look back to Hudson’s relatively recent history with dinosaurs: The Jonas Studio work for the 1964 World’s Fair! A parade of dinosaur models, created for the Dinoland exhibit in the World’s Fair, went from 7th Street Park down Warren Street to the waterfront where they were loaded on boats headed for Queens, the site of the World’s Fair.

We are looking for any photographs, memorabilia and/or memories from local folks who remember this event in the annals of Hudson history for an upcoming exhibit. Email [email protected] with any information.

Thursday, June 4, 6-7:30pm via Zoom, the library and the Leisler Institute presents Wartime Refugee Crisis in the Hudson Valley, 1754-1763 by Tom Arne Midtrød. As this preamble to a proclamation by Governor Sir Charles Hardy of New York illustrates Mahican and Munsee-speaking populations in the Hudson Valley were under pressure to relocate due to the French and Indian War and this led to a refugee crisis.

To register for the Zoom visit the History Room website: https://historyroom.hudsonarealibrary.org/history-room-programs

This Memorial Day we honor all who gave their lives serving their country including Colonel David S. Cowles, who led the 128th Regiment of Columbia and Dutchess counties and was killed during the 28-day siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana. It is said he died saying, “tell my brother that I died with my face to the foe.” Words to that effect are on his tombstone in the Cedar Park Cemetery.

More information: https://gossipsofrivertown.blogspot.com/2013/05/more-about-death-of-colonel-cowles.html

We are closed Monday, May 25 in honor of Memorial Day.

Update: Due to weather, the Memorial Day Parade has been canceled, but there will be an indoor ceremony. Details in comments.

✨🌈✨ Sending out a big thanks to all of our sponsors and community partners for Teen Pride Night on Wednesday! We had SO MUCH FUN!

Thank you to cookie maven Trixie Starr and local library teen Jada for delicious baked goods, Lil Deb's Oasis for cute giveaways, Greene County Pride for visiting from across the river, and our Partners-in-Pride for co-hosting: the Mental Health Association of Columbia Greene Youth Clubhouses, OutHudson and the Q***r and Trans Connection Network.

We can't wait to do it again! 🤗

This program was supported by the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation.

This image of a Neefus photo featured in the Register-Star in the 1970s is of the last house, and one of Hudson's oldest, demolished on Chapel Street in Hudson. Neither the house nor the street exist anymore. Walter First, grandson of the owners, did the demolition. The History Room contains many photographs, maps and documents pertaining to urban renewal.

🏳️‍🌈 Tonight! Express Yourself: Teen Pride Night! 🏳️‍🌈

Join the Q***r Teen Meetup Party Planning Crew for a night of nail art, drag makeup, tarot, tunes and pizza! Come as you are! Ages 12 - 18.

📆 Wednesday, May 20, 5-7 pm
🗣️ Hudson Area Library Community Room
🖋️ Registration appreciated. Email [email protected] or call 518-828-1792.

This program is presented in partnership with OutHudson, the Mental Health Association of Columbia Greene Youth Clubhouses, the Q***r and Trans Connection Network, and is supported by the Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation.