Category Archives: Hudson

12/6/2020 – Sunday – walk, Leiden Zoom, dinner with Dave and Hazel

Snow on the Catskills already….

Went for a walk. Not our usual  route. Down  to  the Promenade, then on to the water  treatment  plant,  up 2nd to Robinson. At end of 3rd walk down steep hill and back up to Washington St. At the Fire Station walked around to County Social Services building this revealed a path across the eastern end of Oakdale Park. Through the woods to clamber on up to Oakwood Blvd. Along Oakdale Beach on 6th St on to Warren and then home. 3 1/2miles.On Robinson St.

Past the County Social Services bldg. to the path around the eastern end of Oakdale Park.

A lot of this was new territory for us. And new perspectives on well know ground.

Zoom with the kids in Leiden

Jesse scored in the top ranks for selection to the high schools in Leiden.

Dinner with Dave and Hazel

Karen roasted a beer can chicken, made tomatoes and cabbage stew, and I made faro. Dave brought his homemade butter nut pecan ice cream. Temperature was 30 degrees. Dinner lasted for 1 1.2 hours. With the 2 hours with Ted and Anne Saturday looks like a tank of gas lasts for around 4 hours.


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4/30/2020 – 7/1/2020

I have not felt motivated to write much during this period. The pandemic and its associated tribulations interfere.

We’ve been quite busy with socializing mainly virtually but with warm weather outdoors chiefly people’s backyards. We’ve moved our drinks with Ted and Anne to our backyards on a weekly schedule. Dave Drake has come by for food a number of times. He is working his way through a myriad of curry dishes. Zoom meetings weekly with Esther Hanig, Ellen Feldman, Dave Drake, the Orton siblings, the Leiden crew. 

With less regularity Andrea and company have Zoomed and appeared here physically. Though we have seen Noah and Nyla twice now in the backyard once including Noah’s girlfriend Kiara Guyton. Andrea actually talked with us for almost two hours in a singe stretch. Probably my longest conversation with her in decades. Nyla wrote a great high school essay, “Aunt Jemima Ain’t Chure Mammy”

4/21/2020 Tuesday – HAL

Went for walk first thing after breakfast. I pooped out at 7th St. Karen walked all the way around.

Participated in Hudson Arts Task Force meeting. Run by Seth Rogovoy. over 30 people attended. Well organized and well run. Met some new people in the arts community. From my email to others:

Thanks to Julia for alerting us to this. I attended the Arts Task Force mtg. Tuesday 3pm.  About 35 people. Seth Rogovoy chaired the meeting.

I  attended with two hats – the Davis Orton Gallery and HAL. I specifically mentioned the library’s connections to the arts community and our early planning for an art auction with shared proceeds. Most of the meeting was taken up with setting up sub-committees to investigate various approaches to supporting the arts.

Here are some new (to me) contacts:

• Feliz Soyak    HudsonArts.org      hudsonartscommunity@gmail.com
• Marc Scrivo    FinchHudson.com    StudioScrivo.com
• Adam H. Weinert   adamweinert.com   promoting the Hudson Arts Coalition, dancer, faculty at Vassar, co-founder Hudson Dance Collective
• Marlene Martin, Exec. Director,   Council for Resources to Enrich the Arts, Technology & education (former Greene County Council on the Arts – supports arts in Coliumbia, Greene & Schoharie counties) – GreeneArts.org    executivedirector@greenearts.org      CREATE has fubnded projects with HAL in the past.

• Jonah Bokaer  – Jonah Bokaer Foundation, Jonah Bokaer Choeography, The Hudson Eye https://www.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/space-428-choreographer-jonah-bokaers-church-of-dance-in-hudson/Content?oid=10283694     His foundation is active locally. He explicitly asked people to reach out to him about funding.
• Aaron Levi Garvey – staff curator Jonah Bokaer Foundation and The Hudson Eye
• Jane Ehrlich – organizer last fall’s Open Studios Hudson    openstudiohudson.com   She is moving to an online format. I know her personally.

Drinks and chat with Dave Drake in the evening.

4/19/2020 – Sunday NY Times, Zoom with family and friends, walk…..

Bought Sunday NYTimes paper. it included a separate section on Quarantine Parenting. Travel section was 4 pages, similar for Sports. Made whole wheat pancakes. Think I will experiment with half and half next week.

Visited Walmart for shopping and prescription.

Longish letter to Walter Stitt in production.

Visited with Leiden crew at 12:30. Good visit. The top floor house project is moving slowly. Only two guys working on it. No Andrea and her crew. Not even a note that they wouldn’t attend. I’m not surprised. Reflects her long term priorities.

Out for a walk…..2pm. Down to river and back up the 2nd st. Stairs, up Allen beyond the court house then home down Warren. Many, many more people out and about. Warm weather. Feels very Spring like. Continue reading →

3/18 – 4/7/2020 – Coronavirus Isolation

Wednesday 3/18/2020

Hudson Area Library closes; all programs stop.

Friday 3/20/2020

Gov. Cuomo announces shit down of all non-essential businesses.

Saturday 3/21/2020

HAL hold first online Board of Trustees meeting; library closed

Tuesday 4/7/2020

Today marks the end of the third week of isolation. Excepting for a couple of trips to the grocery, bank, and liquor store we have had no contact with any one closer than 6 feet.

Walks

Fortunately for us we have been taking daily walks, sometimes lengthy enough to be called hikes. It has been remarkable how few people we see during these walks. You might think that people would be getting out for exercise, air, nature…. maybe this reflects how sedentary we have become as a society. Our walks have mainly featured a route up Warren St. around the hospital and then back down the hill to home – about 2.5 miles (4K). We have extended and varied this to make it both longer and more challenging. 

Here are reports for a few.

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3/14/2020 – Bob’s, shopping, tennis

Saturday

Off to Bob’s Diner for breakfast. Sat at some distance from others. Not as crowded as usual. Couple of cracks about practicing social distancing. Went to ShopRite. Parking lot was over half full. never seen this at this early hour. Some shelves, noticeably paper products and water were nearly bare. Meat in thin supply. Certain air of frenzy about some of the shoppers. We stocked up on canned goods. Also went to Walmart. Both places were sold out of tofu!

Walked up to Farmer’s Market on upper Union. Warren St. was quite empty. Noticed workers moving pews out of the Presbyterian Church. Maybe the roof project is going to get underway. The market had quite a few people. No Berkshire Bakery bread. Bought a bacon and gruyere quiche.

Largely a day lost to the strange vibe of the COVID19 pandemic.

Played tennis at Old Chatham for 2 hours with Ted. Felt like a break through. Much fluid play and more good exchanges at the net. Love the HardTrtu court

12/7/2019 – DOG Opening – Winter Walk – HAL

Saturday

Esther Hanig is visiting over the weekend.

Saw this iceboat being set up on Warren while walking back from farmer’s market in the morning.

DOG Opening

We held the opening reception for the PhotoBook show with pictures of books and readers at 3pm in order n to to bump into Winter Walk that starts at 5pm. Feared few would show up. Having a couple of locals in the show brought out their posses.

Winter Walk 

Spent most of the time at the library’s History Room store front at 538 Warren.

Gary Sheffer, Miranda Barry, MMO, Jim Hoon