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25 Jan 2018

Saving the Community Gardens

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  • 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 […]
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26 Nov 2009

Thanksgiving – Hastings Style

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  • November 26, 2009
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  • 1920s, 1970s, Collection
Cover of Hastings House Restaurant’s Thanksgiving menu, ca. 1974 With money as tight as it is these days, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to step into a time machine that would take you back to an era when you could have a full Thanksgiving dinner in a restaurant […]
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14 May 2009

Mystery Photo: Hastings Class of 1963

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  • May 14, 2009
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  • 1960s, 1970s, Collection, Mystery Photos
Editor’s Note: We’ve been having a great time writing about some of the odd corners of Hastings history and the interesting things we have in our collection. We can’t quite manage three posts a week right now, so we’re going to be reducing the number to two and moving the […]
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11 Apr 2009

Mystery Photo: Judging Preserves at the Country Fair

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  • April 11, 2009
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  • 1970s, Collection, Mystery Photos
For the citizens of Hastings-on-Hudson, the highlight of the year 1979 was the festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of the village. (For more on the 1879 incorporation of the village, see posts from March 12th and March 16th.) Hastings Centennial events ran all year long, but this […]
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14 Mar 2009

Mystery Photo: Girl Scouts in a parade

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  • 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 […]
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