Category Archives: Hudson Area Library

4/27/2018 – library Board cocktail party

Thursday

Miranda Barry organized this party at Club Helsinki for HAL Board members current and past.

Kimberly Irwin, new Board member met up with Sharon Getty, past member. Teary reunion. Sharon was Kimberly’s grade school teacher.

Theresa Parsons looks on as Sharon Getty and Kimberly Irwin get reconnected.

Theresa Parsons and David Murphy

Brenda Shufelt, Anna Rachminov, Ginger Benedict

Janet Schnitzer, Ken Kraus

Tessy Keller, Gwen Gould, Lisa Dolan

Ginger Benedict, Emily Chameides, Anna Rachminov, Brenda Shufelt

Carol Pledger, MMO, Brigid Dorsey

1/9/2018 – work, Hudson River bridges at HAL

Tuesday

UTMH meeting with RPM team at Columbia Memorial Hospital.

Exhibition at Hudson Area Library

We are pleased to announce the installation of “Bridges Past and Present: Crossing the Hudson River,” an exhibition of the work of artist Otto Miranda. This exhibition consists of 63 watercolors of bridges from the 1800’s to the present that all pass over the Hudson River from New York City to the river’s beginning in the Adirondack Mountains at Lake Henderson’s Tear of the Clouds. The bridges represented include vehicle, railroad, pedestrian, and even a troop bridges. They will be on exhibit in the library’s Community Room from Friday, January 5, until Wednesday, February 28.

The artist, Otto Miranda, has been a watercolor artist for 18 years. He moved to Columbia County in 2009, where the wonderful mountains and the Hudson River inspired him to take on this project. He spent 15 months researching and then traveled with his wife Dale, and her GPS, from the river’s beginning to the lower end. Together they photographed many of the existing bridges, which Miranda then painted. Bridges no longer in existence are painted in sepia tones. Miranda states, “My greatest expectation and satisfaction is to show this project at as many libraries, museums and other venues as possible so everyone can enjoy the history as much as I have preparing it for presentation. (http://hudsonarealibrary.org/2017/01/exhibition-bridges-past-and-present-crossing-the-hudson-river/ (accessed 03042020))

Thursday – 3/9/2017

Worked library voter lists. Then we drove to Crossgates Mall in Albany in search of rain proof coats for our Netherlands visit. Went to Burlington Coat Factory. Dreadful place. Never enter that store again. Walked across mall to Macy’s. now suffering from early signs of consumption revulsion. Nothing water proof there. Stopped at Dicks where we found two water proof jackets. Saved. Continue reading →

Tuesday – 3/7/2017

Worked on library volunteer site most of day. Solved the problem of keeping two different type of volunteers visible until processed. Then they automatically show upon Active lists. 

Went to PT for second visit w Susan Sheldon about vertigo she repeated treatment to try to overcome lingering problems on getting up from bed. 

Tennis nets are up early this year!!

Boring UTM telecon w Seth, Ole & Gayle went on for almost an hour. Need to work on marketing plan. 

More Homeland and The Americans followed by 30 Rock.  Karen still coughing. 

Monday – 3/6/2017

8:30 discussion with Jeffrey Cadan about his business presentation. Made revisions. Plan to talk further at 11. No call back from him for the rest of the day. 

 

Worked on volunteer site for HAL. Trouble with backend filters. No OR function.

Brief walk to river with Karen. Made vegetable frietada for dinner. 

Watched two more episodes of The Americans. Scandal and then 30 Rock. 

Saturday – 3/4/2017

15 degrees when we got up. Winter is back for sure. Bob’s Diner for breakfast followed by quick shopping at Price Chopper. Home for coffee then a walk up to the indoor Farmers’ Market for Berkshire bread. 18 degrees. Cold fingers and face on walk back going into a stiff wind.

Karen noted this house on S. 6th St. again. Odd arrangement; maybe complex elevations inside.

Read much of a new NYReview of Books.

Went to library at 4 to see how the Living Library program was going. Karen talked with Jeff Rigby about repairing a book; I made paper birds with Pamela Badilla.

Off to TSL to see BEHEMOTH (BEI XI MO SHOU) a 2015 movie. Very compelling scenes from strip mining for coal in Inner Mongolia. Workers and goat herders lives in a tumult. Moved on to iron production. Workers with lung diseases. Ended with scenes in a ghost city of apartment towers somewhere west of Beijing. A tour de force about unrelenting uncontrolled exploitation of the earth and people by Chinese state capitalism.

Saturday – 2/25/2017 – HAL volunteer fair

Karen has bad cold. 

Breakfast at Bobs then shopping at Price Chopper and Walmart. Temperature 65 degrees  

I worked on the forms on the library volunteer site. Figured out how to get the flow working. Went library at noon. Prop 414 meeting at 1. Lasted almost until 3.

Volunteer Fair followed at 4. Spent most of the time talking with Joe Keenan. About 30 people attended along with the whole board. Fixed problem with the online application form on the fly. 

Came home as the 60 degree weather broke in a windy blow. Temperature fell quickly. Got to 2nd St just as rain changed into a downpour. 40 degrees at 7pm. 

Thursday – 2/2/2017

Dr. Rivard. He said everything is healing well. Go back to regular activities. See him in four months.

Brutalism in Albany


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