Mystery Solved: Southside Club’s Service Flag Photo

02 Apr 2009

Mystery Solved: Southside Club’s Service Flag Photo

April 2, 2009
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1940s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Here are eight young men holding up the Southside Social and Athletic Club’s World War II service flag. The photograph is dated March 30th, 1945, six months before the end of the war. Service flags were first used by individual families in World War I. During World War II, organizations, […]

30 Mar 2009

Hunting for Easter Eggs

March 30, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1950s, Collection, Reminiscences

Back in the mid-50s, when I was in elementary school, the annual Easter Egg Hunt in town was a very big deal. This was the time when TV shows were in shades of black and white, and the Saturday morning line-up was the Modern Farmer followed by an endless stream […]

28 Mar 2009

Mystery Photo: Rescue Squad of Protection Engine Co.

March 28, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1930s, Collection, Mystery Photos

This photograph is from a set of three taken by the famous documentary photographer and Hastings resident Lewis Hine. The photograph above shows a masked fireman from the rescue squad of Protection Engine Company No. 1 carrying a boy down a staircase. It is a striking photograph and has always […]

26 Mar 2009

First Mass at St. Stanislaus Kostka, 1914

March 26, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1910s, Collection

Back in 1988, Ted Borys gave the historical society a Polish Bible that had belonged to his mother, Caroline. Jan Gustafson was recently making a new box for it, and in the back we discovered a handful of lovely old prayer cards. One in particular caught our attention — a […]

23 Mar 2009

Good-bye “School Days”

March 23, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, Collection, Society Events

Yes, we’ve had to take down our latest exhibition “School Days, School Days: A Historic View.” But now we get to do what all graduates do – reminisce. One of the highlights of this history of the Hastings public school system was Julius R. Chemka’s letter sweater. Julie, class of […]

21 Mar 2009

Mystery Photo: Faculty Shows

March 21, 2009
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1950s, 1960s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Four teachers dressed as showgirls; Blanche Mueller may be on the right We’ve never made the best use of our slide collection. It has always been hard to access, and the slides were never completely cross referenced into our subject files. We also worried, from time to time, that we […]

19 Mar 2009

The next “Hastings Historian” is on its way!

March 19, 2009
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Collection, Society Events

Mrs. Drewes (standing) and a few of our dedicated group of volunteers, clockwise: Vice President Barbara Thompson, Tom Donohoe, Polly Ciborowski, Georgia Honovitch, Jo Downar, and Helen Bernarducci Keep an eye on your mailboxes, folks. The next “Hastings Historian” goes into the mail today. Four times a year Volunteer Coordinator […]

16 Mar 2009

Hastings-on-Hudson Becomes an Official Village

March 16, 2009
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1870s, Collection

In our post for March 12th we showed you our incorporation map, but we didn’t tell you the story behind incorporation. According to the local paper, The Statesman, people in Hastings-on-Hudson had been talking about incorporation since 1875. The place had already been called Hastings-on-Hudson (or a variation on that […]

14 Mar 2009

Mystery Photo: Girl Scouts in a parade

March 14, 2009
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1970s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Here is our first mystery photograph! What we know is that it shows a Memorial Day parade, and that the girls and their scout leader are standing on Warburton Avenue near the corner of Spring Street. The photograph was taken looking east across Warburton Avenue. In the background you can […]

12 Mar 2009

The First Official Map of the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson

March 12, 2009
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1870s, Collection

For our very first post on this blog, we thought we’d take you back 180 years to 1879, the year when Hastings-on-Hudson was officially recognized by New York State as a “village.” The map you see here is one of the treasures of our collection. It is the survey that […]