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Restored Historic Hudson Hall Announces Reopening Season

July 18, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House has announced the first full season of programming since reopening the 1855 building following major restoration. The season runs from July to December and features performances, exhibitions, readings, artist talks and free community workshops.

Hudson Hall’s opening season celebrates the return of New York State’s oldest surviving theater to public use for the first time in over 55 years with exhibitions, workshops, performances and events that highlight Hudson’s vibrant artistic community, including a new staging of Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein’s The Mother of Us All. This rarely performed opera is based on Susan B. Anthony, who spoke twice at the Hudson Opera House. Conceived by the visionary young stage director and Hudson resident, R. B. Schlather, the production stars mezzo soprano Michaela Martens and a vocal and instrumental ensemble of over 30 Hudson Valley residents. [Read more…] about Restored Historic Hudson Hall Announces Reopening Season

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Hudson, Hudson Hall, Performing Arts

Hudson River School Painters Presentation In Hudson

June 20, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

hudson river painting by sanford giffordThe Columbia County Historical Society and Historic Hudson will host The Hudson River School (1825-1875), a Slide Show and Conversation with Peter Jung on Sunday,  June 25, 2017. An opening reception will begin at 4:30 pm, the lecture will begin at 5 pm.

The mid-19th century landscape painters of the Hudson River Valley depicted the new American landscape in terms where humans and nature were united in peaceful co-existence. These realist paintings were quite detailed, and often combined many images from diverse natural scenes and vistas observed along the Hudson River as well as the extended geography including the Catskills and Adirondacks. [Read more…] about Hudson River School Painters Presentation In Hudson

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Art History, Columbia County Historical Society, Hudson, Hudson River School

Hudson Opera House Renamed Henry Hudson Hall

April 3, 2017 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Proscenium stage before and afterThe site of New York State’s oldest surviving theater, the Hudson Opera House has completed the final phase of a major restoration project begun in April of 2016. The re-opening of the historic theater is accompanied by a name change: the Hudson Opera House will be renamed Henry Hudson Hall. [Read more…] about Hudson Opera House Renamed Henry Hudson Hall

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Architecture, Historic Preservation, Hudson, Performing Arts

Art, Memory, And Historical Sites Of Conscience

June 28, 2016 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Lily HibberdOn Wednesday, June 29, 2016, from 6 – 8 pm at Solaris, in Hudson, the Prison Public Memory Project presents an evening with Lily Hibberd, distinguished Australian interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Dr. Hibberd’s work centers on marginalized people and the representation of their histories through the collaborative production of new forms of memory documentation. More detail about her work can be found here. [Read more…] about Art, Memory, And Historical Sites Of Conscience

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Hudson, Prison Public Memory Project, prisons

A Few Tickets Left For ‘Rail, River, Hudson!’ Event

July 7, 2015 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

rail_river_hudson_composite_for_2015_promoOn Saturday, July 11, the publishers of AllOverAlbany.com will lead a full day excursion called “Rail, River, Hudson!” The journey begins with a 25-minute train ride by Amtrak from Rensselaer to the City of Hudson, and ends with a 2.5-hour sunset cruise from Hudson back to Albany on board the Dutch Apple II riverboat. Only a few tickets remain for this event, which sold out in 2014.

“Taking a day trip down the Hudson Valley by train or riverboat was the Saturday thing to do in Albany until the 1940s,” said Mary Darcy, one of the publishers of All Over Albany. “We’re making it possible for people today to experience what that was like. And it’s a lot of fun.” [Read more…] about A Few Tickets Left For ‘Rail, River, Hudson!’ Event

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Albany, Hudson, Hudson River, Transportation History

Historic Steamboat Planned For Hudson River

April 6, 2015 by Editorial Staff 10 Comments

ss columbiaIn the years between 1807 and 1971, the Hudson River was alive with boat traffic. The great Hudson River Day Liners were perhaps the best known of all the vessels – famous for their elegance and speed. New Yorkers and visitors alike experienced the river and magnificent landscapes from their decks and plush salons.

Now, a New York City nonprofit is planning to restore the S.S. Columbia, believed to be America’s oldest surviving excursion steamship, for service on the Hudson River between New York City and Albany, with stops at Bear Mountain State Park, Poughkeepsie, Kingston, and Hudson. [Read more…] about Historic Steamboat Planned For Hudson River

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Albany, Bear Mountain State Park, Hudson, Hudson River, Kingston, Maritime History, New York City, Poughkeepsie, SS Columbia, Transportation

New Illustrated History of Hudson, NY

February 21, 2015 by Editorial Staff 2 Comments

Hudson NYA new pictorial history authored by Lisa LaMonica, Hudson (Arcadia Publishing, 2014) features over 200 images depicting scenes of the City of Hudson and it’s surroundings’ history.

In vintage photographs, Hudson covers a history that includes the story of the Mohicans, whaling, and the multitude of factories in the Industrial Age, as well as the city’s modern-day transformation. [Read more…] about New Illustrated History of Hudson, NY

Filed Under: Books, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Columbia County, Hudson, Maritime History, Photography, Whaling

Jacob Leisler Institute Opening In Hudson Nov 3

October 28, 2014 by Editorial Staff 2 Comments

Leister HouseThe Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History has announced the opening of its office at 46 Green Street in Hudson, New York, on November 3. The Jacob Leisler Institute is a study and research center devoted to colonial New York under English rule, as well as a permanent home to the Papers of Jacob Leisler Project.

At its organizing meeting recently in Albany, Dr. David William Voorhees was elected Executive Director of the Institute and Dr. Firth Haring Fabend its President. [Read more…] about Jacob Leisler Institute Opening In Hudson Nov 3

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Hudson, Jacob Leisler Institute, New Netherland, NYU

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