Funny, moving, and poignant, A Bintel Brief takes us back decades and reflects on immigrant Jewish life. The Jewish Daily Forward, (or, the Forverts, in Yiddish), based in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, started in 1897 and by the late 1920’s, had a daily circulation of over 250,000. The newspaper’s progressive ideology focused on social justice,…
Month: April 2022
Spring in Hudson, NY
Hi Hudson – It’s FINALLY feeling like spring – with outdoor events, including our own Farmers’ Market. It’s a little breezy, but enjoy it. It’ll soon be 90 degrees. Below pictures are from “Hudson Rocks for Ukraine” at St. Michael’s Church last weekend, Sunday, April 24th. The stage production of “A Bintel Brief” is coming…
Hudson Farmers’ Market Celebrates 25th Anniversary
At the first year of the Hudson Farmers’ Market, “there were five vendors,” says Virginia Ambrose from Scarecrow Farm, one of the original vendors. This year, marks the 25th Anniversary of the Hudson Farmers’ Market with over thirty vendors! “90% of the people that I know in Hudson, I’ve met through the Hudson Farmers’ Market….
Earth Day in Hudson, New York!
Hi Hudson – It’s going to be hard to beat last week’s Trixie’s List, but this is what happens when you interview local Instagram meme accounts: The things I’m willing to do for more Instagram followers! In more important news, (if there could be more important news than my Columbia County Meme Coalition interview), Columbia…
Spring Blossoms in Hudson, NY!
Hi Hudson – TrixiesList.com received over a dozen new events last week! It’s free and easy to post! In the menu options, click on Event Calendar > Submit an Event. Each event gets its own page and url, and you can link directly to it. Also, TrixiesList.com resizes for any device – phone, tablet, desktop….
Trixie’s List Interviews the Columbia County Meme Coalition
Click here to watch the video TrixiesList.com: What are the accounts and which areas do each account represent? Austerlitz: @austerlitz_deez_nuts represents greater Austerlitz – including Spencertown, Austerlitz Hills, Austerlitz Heights, Austerlitz Shores and the exclusive, Austerlitz Oaks. Kinderhook: I’m the Kinderhooker repping the villages of Kinderhook, Valatie and our red-headed stepchild of a hamlet Niverville….
Columbia County Composts!
In response to public feedback, the Columbia County Solid Waste Department will be working with a local vendors to start a pilot food scrap program at the County waste stations. It is the long range goal of the Solid Waste Department to expand this program to include local community gardens and programs already operating in…
Ukrainian Benefits and other events in Hudson, NY
Hi Hudson – There are a TON of events! Events are back! Full swing. I added a couple of dozen this week. Pride is back in June – this year, the Parade is on June 4th. Do you want the story of how Pride started in Hudson? And why it was originally on the third…
April Fools’ Day, Hudson!
Hi Hudson – Since it’s April Fools’ Day, I should think of an appropriate April Fools’ Day joke for Hudson….like what? It’s warm and sunny – April Fools’! I’m going to stop there. Every other “joke” that comes into my head is wildly inappropriate and I’m really trying to keep this website at a PG-13…