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/.

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 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.