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Join us in celebrating our first 10 years in the historic Hudson Armory and honoring this year’s Lion of the Library hon...
08/25/2026

Join us in celebrating our first 10 years in the historic Hudson Armory and honoring this year’s Lion of the Library honorees - David Murphy, Mark Orton, and Theresa Parsons - at this year’s annual library gala. RSVP by Friday, August 28 to guarantee your seats!

For more information and to RSVP: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/annual-gala-4374

One stop along the way in our Hudson: A History of Whaling & Maritime Commerce walking tour is The Wick. Learn about the...
08/25/2026

One stop along the way in our Hudson: A History of Whaling & Maritime Commerce walking tour is The Wick. Learn about the candleworks factories that existed in Hudson during its whaling eras. Free walking tour booklets can be picked up at the library, City Hall, Spotty Dog Books & Ale, and other Hudson businesses.

🍦‼️Attention readers! 🍦‼️You still have the rest of this week to complete our 2026 Summer Reading Challenge! Paul, our r...
08/24/2026

🍦‼️Attention readers! 🍦‼️

You still have the rest of this week to complete our 2026 Summer Reading Challenge! Paul, our reference and tech services librarian, is holding a very special Stewart's free cone card, which you will receive when you finish the reading challenges listed on this year's bookmark.

📆 You have until this Saturday, August 29, to complete the challenge. Good luck!

(Ice cream sculpture by Courtney Kirk and Paige & Ashley Herber, former HHS students.)

📸 So proud of our Digital Camera Club Participants, who learned to shoot over three weeks with amazing teacher Otto Ohle...
08/22/2026

📸 So proud of our Digital Camera Club Participants, who learned to shoot over three weeks with amazing teacher Otto Ohle.

🎞️ Please check out their photo collages on display in our Teen Room. Here are a few highlights taken by Arshia, Elizabeth, Jack, Janajia, Karel, Kassia, Reid, Sara, Subha and Otto!

📸 More teen/tween photo opportunities on the horizon, so stay tuned.

Copies of Hudson: A History of Whaling & Maritime Commerce Walking Tour are available at the library. Any businesses in ...
08/21/2026

Copies of Hudson: A History of Whaling & Maritime Commerce Walking Tour are available at the library.

Any businesses in Hudson wanting copies for distribution email [email protected].

Pick up your Hudson: A History of Whaling & Maritime Commerce Historic Walking Tour now available at the library. Visit ...
08/18/2026

Pick up your Hudson: A History of Whaling & Maritime Commerce Historic Walking Tour now available at the library. Visit the sites and buildings in Hudson associated with its glorious maritime past. This tour is another part of our 2025 exhibit on the subject. See also the online exhibit at hrvh.org and the video Whaling in Hudson? What!? on our YouTube channel.

This photograph of 1918 shows The Farmerettes, a Land Army unit from Greenwich, CT who worked in agriculture in Columbia...
08/13/2026

This photograph of 1918 shows The Farmerettes, a Land Army unit from Greenwich, CT who worked in agriculture in Columbia County. They were replacing the men who went overseas to fight in WWI. The woman, third from the right, back row, is Peggy Schroeder Hallenbeck, who settled in the county after marrying Harold Hallenbeck.

This photo is of the Greenwich, CT Land Army Unit working on the Lasher Farm in Germantown, 1918. The Land Army was comp...
08/11/2026

This photo is of the Greenwich, CT Land Army Unit working on the Lasher Farm in Germantown, 1918. The Land Army was composed of women during WWI who did agricultural work during WWI that men conscripted in the armed forces weren't there to do. One of the women in the photograph is Peggy (Henrietta) Schroeder who married local farmer Harold Hallenbeck.

🦕 This Wednesday at 3pm: Dinos Rock! 🦕Step into an exciting dinosaur pop-up exhibition with interactive demos, a live sh...
08/10/2026

🦕 This Wednesday at 3pm: Dinos Rock! 🦕

Step into an exciting dinosaur pop-up exhibition with interactive demos, a live show, and hands-on fossil digging where young explorers get to take home their own fossil!

🦖 Wednesday, August 12, 3-4 pm
🦖 Hudson Area Library Community Room
🦖 Registration required and space is limited: please email [email protected] or call 518-828-1792.

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