Slideshow this Sunday: A Voyage up the Hudson in Historic Photographs

03 Jun 2010

Slideshow this Sunday: A Voyage up the Hudson in Historic Photographs

June 3, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1870s, Society Events

Palisades from Englewood Landing (repairing shad net), ca. 1870
The Historical Society’s annual meetings are important but painless affairs, generally lasting from 5 to 10 minutes. Then we get to sit back and relax and enjoy a great lecture or concert, which is always free and open to the […]

27 May 2010

400 Turn Out For House Tour!

May 27, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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Society Events

Noel Murrain (left), nephew of the present owner of 131 Pinecrest Drive, shakes hands with Hastings Mayor Peter Swiderski (right). 131 Pinecrest was owned in the 1920s by Metropolitan Opera ballet master Alexis Kosloff. (Photograph copyright Susan Rutman)
Last minute worries about the weather and a sufficient stock of […]

20 May 2010

Title: House Tour Preview: May Yohe – Hastings’ Glamour Girl

May 20, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, Collection

Hastings has rarely been as close to the international high life as it was at the turn of the century when the actress May Yohe lived here. This weekend, May 22nd & May 23rd bewteen 1 & 5, the house she spent several years in will be on the Historical […]

13 May 2010

House Tour Preview: Jasper F. Cropsey – A View from the Artist’s Studio

May 13, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1850s, 1860s

Jasper F. Cropsey at age 24, painted by Edward L. Mooney in 1847. From the Collection of the Newington-Cropsey Foundation.
Thanks to the generosity of the Newington-Cropsey Foundation, our May 22 & 23 house tour will include the house and studio of the painter Jasper F. Cropsey (1823-1900), one […]

06 May 2010

House Tour Preview: Kenneth Clark – Neighbors and Guests

Our May 22 & 23 house tour will include the home of African-American psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark. In 1950, the Clarks moved to Hastings’ Pinecrest neighborhood, the area west of the Andrus Memorial Home. They raised their children here and remained here until their deaths, Mamie in 1983 and […]

29 Apr 2010

Mystery Photo: 1938 High School Fire Squad

April 29, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1930s, Collection, Mystery Photos

”FIRE SQUAD: The fire bell rings and students are efficiently rushed out of the building by the Fire Chief Albro Rile assisted by those ten strong men on the fire squad: Eben Chabot, John Moser, Walter Bennett, Jack Galvin, Frank Wills, Bill Burckhalter, Bill Kaufman, Joe Janik, and Chris Rohrbach.”

So […]

22 Apr 2010

House Tour Preview: Margaret Sanger’s Window

April 22, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, 1910s, Collection

Margaret Sanger in a photograph she included in her book My Fight for Birth Control with the caption “Suburban Motherhood.”
In 1998, Margaret Sanger was included in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Important People of the Century for her relentless crusade for women’s rights, and especially for birth control (a […]

15 Apr 2010

House Tour Preview: Henry Draper’s Observatory

April 15, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1870s, Collection, Society Events

Save the date! May 22 & 23
Get acquainted with fifteen historic Hastings houses and the celebrities who lived in them. Come to our 2010 house tour and learn more about Civil War Admiral David Farragut, women’s rights activist Margaret Sanger, Hudson River School artist Jasper F. Cropsey, African-American sociologist Kenneth […]

08 Apr 2010

Hastings in 1790, The Year of the First Census

April 8, 2010
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1700s, Collection

The 1790 census: a page showing the numbers for Yonkers and Greenburgh.
The census you and I have just completed is the twenty-third national population count. Since the Constitution directs that a census be taken every ten years, it does not take very higher math to determine the date […]

01 Apr 2010

The New “Hastings Historian” Mails Today!

April 1, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1950s, Collection, Society Events

Hanging out at the counter at Lange’s Sweet Shop, ca. 1958. The photograph shows, left to right, sitting: Marianne Marinello (later Marra), Savo Tseros (later Fries), and Margy Jenkins (later Fisher); standing: Kevin Grauer, Lee Manning, Janet Aluisio (later D’Alio), and in the very back you can see the […]