Mary William Ethelbert Appleton “Billie” Burke, best known as the good witch Glinda in the 1939 film version of “The Wizard of Oz,” began her film and stage career in 1907. She was 24 years old and already a star when she bought the Kirkham estate on Broadway in Hastings […]

as reported in the Hastings column of the Dobbs Ferry Register Warburton Avenue, looking north from the bridge. (Click on any photograph for more information.) Counselor Wm. H. Blain of Tower Ridge is spending his vacation in town. Thomas F. Martin [village tax collector] has been enjoying a well-earned vacation […]

The Society’s earliest photograph of a car, probably taken before 1907 (click on any photograph for more information) On Memorial Day of 1896, Hastings residents were thrilled by an event that had, until then, only been witnessed by residents of Paris, London, and Chicago – a horseless carriage race! The […]