Mr. Wonderful's World

State Cuts Continue to Library Budget
Here in Hudson, we just successfully passed a voter referendum to increase the City of Hudson’s support for our library for the first time in a decade. By a better than 60% margin voters here affirmed the importance of the library in our daily life.
Now we are faced with cuts [...]

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Yesterday was Hudson’s 13th annual Winter Walk, a three hour event up and down Warren St.
Our BeLo3rd business group made a number of efforts to attract the crowds down the street. For the first time Warren St. was car free its entire length. The parade started at Front St., instead of Third St. Merchant windows below Third featured special [...]

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We have been an admirer of the website The 12534 ever since we discovered that this site had the good sense to add Mr. Wonderful’s World to its list of “notable blogs”. Flattery does get you somewhere in these parts. Despite the pleasant ego inflation, it remained a mystery here at 114 Warren as to [...]

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Lighting for this three hour event that brings 15,000 people to Hudson’s Warren St.

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Bruce Edward Hall’s Diamond Street Hudson, New York – The Story of the Little Town with the Big Red Light District1 is every new resident’s introduction to a part of the history of Hudson missing from conventional touristics materials. Turns out that Hudson has depended on weekend traffic far longer than the current economy of Manhattanites (and others) coming [...]

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Library Budget Question on the Ballot
Tomorrow, Nov. 3rd, is Election Day here and around the state. On the ballot in Hudson and Greenport is a proposition to increase support to the Hudson Area Library. I have been working on this initiative and pass along the following reasons to go to the polls and say, “Yes” [...]

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This morning I helped set up the Friends of the Hudson Area Library ArtsWalk activity tent next to the library. Here a few shots.

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Last night we went to a kick off event for Hudson’s Arts Walk weekends. This was an opening cum party for two artists.
GRAND OPENING AT BASILICA INDUSTRIA
110 South Front Street Artists:
Arthur Price and Earl Swanigan
5:00pm – 10:00pm
Entertainment: Walking the Dog Improv Ensemble Theater
The OFF LEASH! [...]

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Some comparative data:
Middlesex County
848 sq mi
population 1, 465, 396
density 1,780/ sq mi

Columbia County
land area: 636 sq mi
population 62,363
density 98 / sq mi
 
Cambridge
land area 6.4 sq mi
population 101388
density 15,767 / sq mi
Estimated median household income in 2007: $58,850 (it was $47,979 in 2000)

Cambridge:
$58,850

Massachusetts:
$62,365

Estimated per capita income in 2007: $41,093

Cambridge:
$41,093

Massachusetts:
$32,822

Estimated median house or condo value [...]

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A few months back I was in the Spotty Dog cruising the books. I stumbled on a large format book with a great title: Looking for Work: Industrial Archeology in Columbia County, New York – the emergence and growth of local industry as revealed in surviving sites and structures1 by Peter H. Stott.2 This 358 [...]

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