Category Archives: Hudson

Monday – 1/30/2017

Walked up to hospital for blood tests.

Stopped at Cascades for peanut butter on whole wheat bagel.

Then, a brief stop in Hudson Opera House to look at the Alleys of Hudson photo display. Peter Spears, photography.

HOH lobby. Construction is closing in on final work.l

Cleaned up downstairs.

Then, did more revisions to UTM piece. Done now. Talked with Ole Breuning about Northern Dutchess Hospital.

Linda Larson arrived with Karen at 7pm when she returned from her Soup Group meeting in Cambridge. Linda’s annual visit. 

Leftover tuna casserole for dinner.

Saturday – 1/28/2017

Breakfast at Tanzy’s. Talked with Tisha and her husband about their trip to Iceland. Revised notes of Thursday’s HAL history talk by Carl Whitbeck. Rick Rector was there too. 

Walked up to library for Board of Trustees mtg. Again struck by the tremendous change in composition of the board. Term limits have that effect. 

Meeting in the Senior Ctr room 2nd floor

Stayed at library until 1pm working on HAL volunteer website. Rushed home. Drove to Kinderhook for a demo outside Congressman Faso’s office. More people than a week ago in Hudson. Occupy Wall St style crowd repetition of speaker’s words. We left after about 15 minutes. Ran into Sue Ciafullo at her house wheee we had coincidentally parked  she has just sold her house. Moving to Charleston SC at the end of March.

Stopped at The School for the latest exhibit.

Here are my favorites:

Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano – The Lake
Huma Bhabha
Thot and Scribe
Thot and Scribe
Thot and Scribe
Thot and Scribe
Thot and Scribe
Enrique Martinez Celaya
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014
The Children’s Rhyme, 2014

Made tuna casserole for dinner.

Saturday – 1/21/2017 Women’s March in Hudson

Took Karen to train at 7:15am. She is off to join Andrea and Nyla for the arch in NYC. Went to Bob’s Diner for breakfast. Sat next to a guy with a torn rotator cuff eating pancakes one handed. About to be retired truck driver. Talkative, but not insensitive enough not to leave me alone when I returned to my New York Review of Books.

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Monday – 1/16/2017

MLK Holiday celebrated. Woke up late. Breakfast at 9am.

Read more of The Common Cause. Very fine grained history. Almost 20% of the typical page is taken up with footnotes and annotations. Will skim more of this. Most interesting is not the somewhat unsurprising racism of the leaders of the revolution. Rather it is the intensiveness with which they managed the communications with the public, chiefly through the press.

Also puttered around with pictures. Downloading, labelling, etc.

Walked to HAL for the movie The 13th organized by SBKeith Social Justice. Another interesting crowd. Compelling movie about incarceration.

Sunday – 1/15/2017

Read Sunday NYTimes.

Walk at Art Omi.

The 5 architects presentation was vacuous. Lots of new sculpture along with some favorites. Very nice weather.

Demo

Back to Hudson for a demonstration in support of Obamacare at the 7th St. Park. Organized by the County Democrats. Started on time, well organized, reasonably fervent.

 

Potluck Dinner at Rasners.

Cooked Indian dishes. New guy in charge of Olana with his partner. Miranda Barry and Charlotte??. OK evening, but these are not people with whom we are socially at ease with.

Saturday – 1/14/2017

Finance Committee at HAL in the morning. Anna Rachminov, Marie Rasner, Miranda Barry and Emily. Very good cheery mtg.

Noticed exhibition of sculpture from Hudson High School students. I took lots of pictures for a posting on the HAL website. Later discovered that I had missed some in the Teen Library. Will have to return Tuesday.

Hudson Pride Event at High School


Then, quick stop at Hudson Opera House to see opening of pictures of Alleys of Hudson. On to HAL for opening of Jim Peppler photos.

Friday – 1/13/2017

Got up at 7:30. Went CMH for presurgery physical with PA Jeanne Pierce. Uneventful. 

Read at library. Talked with a Seth from UTM about CMH RPM app. Walked home for telecon w Gabe Zinn. Postponed. Talked w Matt Almeida. 

Hudson HS girls basketball game against Chatham at home. First time at a game at home. Turned out to be quite competitive until last quarter. Game ended at 48-32.  Very unlike earlier game that they won something like 79-43. 

What's Happenin' at HAL??

A quick run down the screen on your smartphone reveals the range of activities at the Hudson Area Library. We won’t mention here all of the other groups using the Community Room for their meetings and events. Then take a look at the January ’17 E-Newsletter at the bottom.

January ’17 E-Newsletter

Open the news letter here.

BTW – you can sign up for the HAL e-newsletter here.