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23 Jan 2019

Telephone Booths and Numbers

January 23, 2019
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In “On This Day in History,” featured in The New York Times, it mentioned that on January 7, 1951, the minimum price of a coin-box telephone call rose to 10 cents from 5 cents in the state of New York.

This made me think about those coin-box telephone booths that were located […]

09 Sep 2018

Immigration to and Emigration from Schwäbisch Hall

September 9, 2018
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1900s, 1910s

One of Hastings’ early shopkeepers, Frederick Breyer, was included in a book recently published by the city archive of Schwäbisch Hall in Germany. The translated title of the book is “Immigration to and Emigration from Schwäbisch Hall: 1600-1914.” For those of you who speak German, we now have a […]

25 Jan 2018

Saving the Community Gardens

January 25, 2018
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1960s, 1970s, Hastings History, Reminiscences

Saving the Community Gardens by Mary Wallis Gutmann (was Whiting in 1968) I’m not very Web-savvy, but every now and then someone who is calls to say, “Mary, listen to what I read on Facebook. . .” This time it was my son, Paul, reporting that Wendy Waczek was writing about […]

16 Feb 2015

Lesser-known trivia and tidbits about Hastings’ famed painter Jasper Francis Cropsey

February 16, 2015
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Artist and Architect The popularity of the Hudson River School came during a time of tension between nature and industry. While Hudson River School painters found their inspiration from the unaltered and natural beauty of the land and the river, life along the Hudson was changing. The Hudson River Valley […]

16 Feb 2015

The Warburton Avenue Bridge: A Trip Down Memory Lane

February 16, 2015
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Hastings History, Reminiscences

In honor of the ongoing construction on the Warburton Avenue Bridge, and while we are awaiting the completion of that construction, we thought you might enjoy taking a trip down memory lane with us as we reminisce over the bridge’s evolution through time. Here are some photos of the bridge […]

08 Nov 2010

Hastings in Yonkers!

November 8, 2010
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1890s, News/Current Events

“View at Hastings-on-Hudson,” painted by Jasper F. Cropsey ca. 1891, on view at the Hudson River Museum, and currently part of their Paintbox Leaves exhibition. We have so loved working on this blog, dear readers, and sharing the wonderful stories and photographs that the Historical Society has collected over the […]

11 Oct 2010

Moonwatch and Open House this Weekend

October 11, 2010
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1860s, Society Events

Stereoview card made from photographs of the full moon taken by Henry Draper in the 1860s from his observatory at Hastings on Hudson. To read more about this card, which is in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum, click on the image.
On Saturday, October 16th, the Hastings Historical […]

19 Aug 2010

Postcards from the Edge (of the Hudson)

August 19, 2010
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1900s, 1960s

The Hastings Historical Society blog is on vacation.

To tide you over, here are a couple of postcards from beautiful and historic Hastings-on-Hudson, one from the 1960s and the other from around 1909.

Wish you were here!

05 Aug 2010

Sails on the Hudson

August 5, 2010
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News/Current Events

I’ll bet many of you spotted the picturesque ships on the Hudson River on June 6th, 2009. Member Paul Duddy did, and snapped these great photos for us. This nautical parade, called the Great River Day Flotilla, was part of the 2009 Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Celebration.

Pretty as the ships were, when you […]

29 Jul 2010

Bringing History to Life in the 1920s

July 29, 2010
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1920s, 1930s, Hastings History

Pocahontas and John Rolfe, after their wedding in the Jamestown church, from Jamestown, one of the Chronicles of America Photoplays.
If you had been sitting in the Hastings school auditorium on Friday, September 16th, 1932, you might well have seen the wedding of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. It would […]