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Trivia Night at The Spotty Dog – The Turkeys Don’t Win

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In a warm up for Thanksgiving we went off to Trivia Night at The Spotty Dog. Between Karen’s teaching and other intrusions we have not made it to very many Trivia Nights this Fall. We gathered up Judy Garvey and sallied forth. Once at the The Spotty we found lots of people milling around as usual. We teamed up with Enid Advocate for our fourth.

We named our team The Turkeys. This proved prescient. Despite much heckling on our part, Karen’s dispatch of a glass of wine to the floor, and much more laughter than justified by our performance, we squeaked out a place somewhat above last. But, as the saying goes, much fun was had all around.
Trivia Night at The Spotty Dog

Trivia Night at The Spotty Dog - Enid doing the work

Trivia Night at The Spotty Dog - Enid doing the work while we goofed.

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Authenticity and Hudson

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authentic |ôˈθentik| (abbr.: auth.)

adjective

  • of undisputed origin; genuine : the letter is now accepted as an authentic document | authentic 14th-century furniture.
  • made or done in the traditional or original way, or in a way that faithfully resembles an original : the restaurant serves authentic Italian meals | every detail of the movie was totally authentic.
  • based on facts; accurate or reliable : an authentic depiction of the situation.
  • (in existentialist philosophy) relating to or denoting an emotionally appropriate, significant, purposive, and responsible mode of human life ((definition adapted from Dictionary Version 2.1.1 Apple, Inc.)

Warren St. Hudson Ny dusk looking up town

In part because of the vigorous discussion in the various “Signage” postings in the Hudson Business Coalition discussion group and other discussions I have had recently about Hudson, I have come to think that a major feature of Hudson is authenticity. Hudson demonstrates authenticity in all four senses described in the definition above. People who own businesses here, whether in antiques, art, music, and many more, do so from some central personal passion. Visitors experience this directly. Visitors must digest the experience and make it their own. And, many times businesses receive direct feedback about their passions from visitors and not in frequently new perspectives and information about their passions. Continue reading →

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Taste of Hudson – great weather, great crowds, big success

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Belo3rd’s Taste of Hudson street extravaganza came and went today. The weather was great from beginning to end; lots of restaurants brought their offerings; and lots of people showed up to munch and graze. Here are a few photos of the event.

Tent frame

Tent frame at 8:45am

tent frame with roof

Roof goes on 9am

view from 3rd street

View from 3rd St.

Taste of Hudson ticket sales

BeLo3rd Bucks move briskly

Savoia food

Food work at Savoia's table

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Sacred Heart Church table with popular eggplant parmesan

musiciansWest Indies Natural Food

Tanzys Breakfast and Tea

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American Glory BBQ – we finally partake – rank it “a keeper”

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American Glory BBQ - Warren St. Hudson NYMonths after the opening of American Glory BBQ here in Hudson, Karen and I stopped for a munch yesterday. In honor of my birthday I had a very specific hankering for meatloaf. After checking around, I realized that, excepting the meatloaf at the Blue Plate in Chatham and  at the diners on the Taconic Parkway, American Glory was the only place serving up this delicacy close enough not to involve lengthy car rides.

So, before what turned out to be a less than completely satisfying trip to the movies to see the new George Clooney vehicle, The American, we stopped at American Glory. Even at 5:30 the ground floor was a bit too noisy with piped in music. We trotted upstairs and found ourselves in a spacious room with a high tin ceiling and booths and banquette seating. It was much quieter. The service was good and the food serviceable to quite good for slightly up scale bar cuisine. Karen had a bowl of chili and some crab stuffed deviled eggs. Keeping in mind that we have a rather forgiving sense of food values, we rate American Glory as a keeper for future visits.

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Hudson Pride Parade and Rally

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Most parades, like the Hudson Flag Day (6/12/10) (noted earlier here)are at best droll affairs with a somewhat cookie cutter format, content, and purpose. The Hudson Pride Parade, Rally and Tea Dance was quite different. It was a fun event. Along with the recent Prom King and Queen election at the high school (reported on here in the Register Star) it is clearly a marker of a maturing public acceptance and engagement with a wider range of people as they are, not as some might wish or imagine them to be. Davis orton Gallery with Pride Day flag

We were a sponsor of this event through the gallery. And so we had our Hudson Pride flag out along with our usual BeLo3rd Open flag.

Karen was not available to take pictures and make movies, so you have to settle for my photographic efforts.

The parade was notable for its many groups of people with simple banners, paucity of floats, and almost complete avoidance of the usual herds of fire trucks and rescue vehicles. I admit to only being surprised at the large contingent from the Capital Area Pride Bowlers.Pride Day - County DemocratsHudson pride Day - Capital Region bowlersHudson Pride day - marchers-tot-in-carHudson pride Day - crowd at Promenande Hill

I particularly liked the crowd that gathered at the end of Warren and up onto Promenade Hill. Right size space and right size crowd. Still in Hudson instead of visually cut off down in Henry Hudson Park.

You should visit the website for the event, HudsonPride.com, and note the endless list of sponsors.

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