Are they accepting applications for new fountain ideas for 7th Street Park, yet? I understand that the requirement for the fountain is no naked women. Fine with me. Like Hudson’s sidewalk tax mimicking the sidewalk tax of Ithaca, NY, Hudson’s new fountain can mimic the fountain of another college town – Bologna, Italy. The Fountain…
Category: Community
Hudson Area Library Builds a Queer Archive
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…
Vote for Hudson Local Louis Scoffier, and his Mullet.
I love my mullet because it represents being different in life and that being different is okay.-Louis Scoffier Last year, Louis Scoffier, and his blond mullet, raised over $20,000 for the Jarren Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors. In 2023, Louis was the seventh out of 900 kids nationally in the Mullet Champ USA Competition. He…
Tri-City Valleycats – Minor League Baseball
So close and yet, so far. The mascots for the Tri-City Valleycats represent the cities’ mayors – Schenectady, Albany, and Troy, respectfully. Could you imagine something similar in Hudson? I write this blog because I want to help people get out of the house and meet other people, places, whatnot. Go do stuff! Noble enough…
Pictures from the Former Foster Office
The Hudson Dog Park’s location, around North 2nd and Mill Streets, used to be the home of the Foster Refrigerator Corporation. When I first moved to Hudson in 2006, the Foster’s office was openly abandoned, as if people went out for lunch and did not come back. You could look in a window and see…
The City of Hudson’s Splash Pad is Kinda Like a Well-meaning, Middle-aged Recently Divorced Dad
You probably did not know that the City of Hudson has a Splash Pad at Promenade Hill Park. I did not know, until a meeting this week, and I’m on the City’s Common Council. New York State and other municipalities are all about Splash Pads. Policymakers understand that the planet is getting warmer, kids need…
The Olana Partnership Collaborates with Woodstock School of Art to Offer Summer Art Workshops at Olana State Historic Site
HUDSON, NY – The Olana Partnership will host three summer Saturday art workshops in collaboration with Woodstock School of Art beginning June 15 at Olana State Historic Site. During each afternoon workshop, expert teaching artists will focus on different media to connect to Olana’s current exhibition, Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory. Participants…
Trixie’s List Interview with Mat Zucker of Cidiot
Cidiot just celebrated its 100th podcast episode and fifth year! Congratulations! Trixie’s List: Why did you decide to go into podcasting, and not a blog or another medium? Why the topic of ‘Cidiots’? Mat Zucker, Cidiot: My first job after college was as an advertising copywriter writing radio commercials so I developed an early love…
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!…