Monday, May 17, 1926

Wow-- excellent weekend for finding Hudson memorabilia at local rummage/garage sales!  I got all this stuff in the last 24 hours....

Antique made-in-Hudson Gifford Wood ice tongs refashioned into a candelabra:

(Gifford had foundry here that specialized in ice-harvesting tools....)


1985 Fire Alarm Locator/Calendar, courtesy Register-Star:


Flip side is a calendar with reprint of the first edition of the Hudson Weekly Gazette,
March 31, 1785.

Ca. 1940 Elmer Swanson silhouette advertising thermometer:

Chocolate brown size 44 man's suit from Kritzman-Maskin Men's store, 511
(?)Warren St:


And my favorite, a tiny pocket sewing kit from the Orchard Dress Shop:

we lost another today

They bulldozed this house on Prospect Street today.

I have some interior pictures from 2007 that I will share later...

EDIT/UPDATE:::May 6: It turns out I loaded pictures on my flickr page in 2008, when previous owner was cleaning the house out.  Mostly pictures of junk  (a Hudson schoolteacher lived there), but kitchen pantry, stairway with stained woodwork, and  vintage bathroom...

Springtime 4th and Diamond

The Greenport School

The old Greenport Elementary School on Rt 66 is being cleaned out ---

 lots of industrial kitchen equipment being sold off,
as well as desks,

upright pianos,

and mystery machines.



The original school was built in 1928
and is surrounded with daffodils and budding magnolias and forsythia.

It has some nice original wood details.





The single-story mid-century addition has long cinderblock hallways, with some really wonderful murals painted by the schoolchildren


I love how in this one the kids have placed all the local schools right on Hudson's waterfront...

To see all of my photos visit the full set on my flickr page. On each photo page you can click on "all Sizes" so see higher resolution versions.

Who was I

Who was I talking with recently about deer roaming around in Hudson?

I took this picture a couple of summers ago, near the intersection of 2nd Street and Prison Alley (1/2 block from Warren Street).  

Spring is Here

spring is here
Originally uploaded by fiveanddiamond

Earliest Known surviving artwork by Yours Truly.
"Spring is Here
FLOWER'S
Mr. Rabbit, Tulip, Made up, Sun Flower, Rose, Made Up"

*found in my barn during spring cleaning last week.