LOCAL HISTORY: Kinderhook’s overlooked State Farm for Women buildings
By RUSS IMMARIGEON STARTING ABOUT 1903, the New York City-based Women’s Prison Association, which has thrived now for 180 years since its founding in 1845, initiated […]
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THROUGH THE WOODS: The Blackbirds Are Back
By NANCY JANE KERN THE VERNAL EQUINOX marks the official start of spring and will happen on March 20, 2025. Can it only be two weeks […]
THROUGH THE WOODS: Amber the cat
By NANCY JANE KERN FOR WHATEVER REASON Amber the cat wandered from a neighboring farm and picked our farm to live. Fortunately for us, her owner […]
LOCAL HISTORY: Exploring the Hudson Area Library History Room Archives
By BRENDA SHUFELT, History Room Coordinator THE HUDSON AREA LIBRARY History Room has monthly local history talks you’ve probably read about in this newspaper but also […]
Library talk looks at the Roosevelts, race and civil rights
By LORNA CHEROT LITTLEWAY THE COLUMBIA COUNTY Libraries Association sponsored the webinar “The Roosevelts, Race, and Civil Rights” via Zoom February 10. Jeff Urbin, educator at […]
THROUGH THE WOODS: Will they survive?
By NANCY JANE KERN IN 1942 COLUMBIA naturalist Alan Devoe gave a grim description of this month of winter in his book “Lives Around Us.” He wrote, […]
LOCAL HISTORY: The presidency and more of Van Buren
By LORNA CHEROT LITTLEWAY Continued from ‘Van Buren, new book looks at his history’ FROM DAY 1, Martin Van Buren’s presidency was fraught with economic crises […]
THROUGH TE WOODS: The 2025 Great Backyard Bird Count
By NANCY JANE KERN FEBRUARY 14–17, 2025 is the Great Backyard Bird Count, the joint project of the National Audubon Society and Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. […]
THROUGH THE WOODS: Love is in the air
By NANCY JANE KERN THIS WEEK we celebrate Valentine’s Day which gets its name from several Christian men named Valentine who were martyred by the Romans […]
