Hillside Kids’ Q&A About Hastings History

03 Apr 2021

Hillside Kids’ Q&A About Hastings History

April 3, 2021
The Hastings Historical Society
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Hastings History

by Natalie Barry

For the last several years, I’ve been asked to come into Hillside School and talk to the 2nd graders about Hastings history. I always look forward to it, as the kids are always great fun and so appreciative of learning about our village’s past. This […]

29 Dec 2020

The Mystery of the Mount Hope Tea House

December 29, 2020
Richard Lovejoy
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1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Hastings History, Hudson Heights, Mount Hope Boulevard

by Richard Lovejoy

Recently Michelle Bohuniek, a former Hastings resident, asked us for any information we might have about her former residence at 357 Mt. Hope Boulevard. Specifically, she was interested in what we knew about a tea room that she had heard operated in her house and […]

26 Jul 2019

The Evolution of HoH’s Official Seal (No, Not the Animal)

July 26, 2019
The Hastings Historical Society
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Hastings History

by Natalie Barry

Several months ago, our new mayor Niki Armacost was asked to speak to the 3rd/4th and 5th graders at Hillside and Farragut Middle School, respectively. During the Q&A segment, one child asked whether our village has an official animal. That got Mayor Armacost thinking about […]

23 Jan 2019

Telephone Booths and Numbers

January 23, 2019
The Hastings Historical Society
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Hastings History, Reminiscences

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 […]

25 Jan 2018

Saving the Community Gardens

January 25, 2018
The Hastings Historical Society
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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
The Hastings Historical Society
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Hastings History

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
The Hastings Historical Society
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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 […]

29 Jul 2010

Bringing History to Life in the 1920s

July 29, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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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 […]

23 Jul 2010

Hastings’ First Female Doctor

July 23, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1880s, 1890s, Collection, Hastings History

Sarah Elizabeth “Lizzie” Curry, probably taken in the 1880s.
Do you find obituaries depressing? But you never know what fascinating lives lie behind these short paragraphs! Take a look at this obituary from the Yonkers Herald Statesman of 1932.

“Hastings-on-Hudson, May 31 – Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Curry, one of the […]

08 Jul 2010

A Fourth of July Parade – 1910s style

July 8, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1910s, Collection, Hastings History, Reminiscences

In 1941, long-time Hastings resident Stephen Zebrock wrote a column for the Hastings News called “Main Street Through the Years.” In this column, he set down everything he could remember about his childhood in Hastings in the late 1910s. This week, we thought you might like to read what Stephen […]