Hastings Historical Society
The Historical Society of
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
407 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
914/478-2249
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Hastings Historical Society The Historical Society of 407 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 |
In the table below is a listing of our newsletters from 1982 to present, plus a sample from 1973.
The newsletter officially became The Hastings Historian in May 1985.
Images of newsletter covers are available from February 1983 on. Click the date in the first column for a large view of the newsletter cover.
To see the entire newsletter, please visit the Society or call (914) 478-2249 to see if reprints are available.
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| Date | Articles |
| Spring 1973 | One of the oldest newsletters |
| January 1982 | Zinsser Smokestack: editorial The History of Dudley's Grove Looking Back: The Buccaneer |
| Spring 1982 | Dock Street, alias Landing Road, alias Main Street, alias ... Palisades Inspire a Great Poet (John Masefield) Mills, Unionization, and Trotsky Hastings, The "Melting Pot" |
| August 1982 | Blackballed in Hastings? Ten Riverview Place A History of the Southside Club |
| February 1983 | Across the Hudson: The Tonetti Gardens Hastings' Only Beaux Arts Building: The Graham Campus Strikes, Freedom of Speech, and the Riverview Manor Bus Hastings Waterfront circa 1900 |
| April 1983 | The Last Luncheonette Hastings Bakery 1922-32 Schools Superintendent Hopkins' Observations on Recreation in Hastings, c. 1934 Hastings' First Library |
| July 1983 | The Hastings Waterfront: Its Rise and Decline |
| November 1983 | The Hounds of Hastings A History of the Hastings Public Library Hastings' Famous Longue Vue Restaurant The Orphan Asylum in Hastings, 1902-22 (Graham-Windham) |
| April 1984 | A Brief History of the Cottage |
| May 1984 | Cold Blooded Murder...in Hastings The Lefurgy Family Papers Ferrara's Market and Ferrera's Liquors |
| Fall 1984 | If You're Thinking of Living in Hastings-on-Hudson (Reprint, NY Times article) Lewis Hine |
| January 1985 | The Glen Then: A History of 645 North Broadway The Ledges of Hudson Heights My Childhood Storytellers: Ellen and Peggy Zinsser When Less Is Really More! (Notes on Cottage restoration) |
| May 1985 | The Riverview Manor House Company Christmas Card of '42 Hastings' White Marble Quarry: Its Rise and Fall |
| July 1985 | Hastings' Research House |
| January 1986 | Hastings' Gateway: Some of Its Past (The Saw Mill River Parkway) William Edgar, after Whom a Lane Was (Much Later) Named |
| May 1986 | The Summer of '36 |
| August 1986 | The Baker Funeral Home The Rowley Flats |
| November 1986 | The Todd Family: Village Benefactors A Long Look Backward (1955 reminescence by Julia House) |
| February 1987 | George Baronian: Citizen of the Year Margaret Sanger: Hastings' First Disgruntled Housewife? Catcing the 6:15 |
| Spring 1987 | Fire! Fire! Fire! (Hastings fire companies) |
| Summer 1987 | From Ellis Island to Hastings: The Effect of Immigration on a Hudson River Village (Part I) Visual History: Postcards |
| Fall 1987 | Ellis Island to Hastings (Part II) Dancing on the Aqueduct Christmas-Past in Hastings |
| Winter 1988 | The Home of Glinda the Witch The Hastings Center The Blizzard of 1888 Preserving Family Memorabilia |
| Spring 1988 | Learning from Our Elders Oral Histories of Jim Gavacs, Lucy Caruso Cocciardi, and John Vanek Follow-ups: Billie Burke, Women at Zinsser Chemical Company |
| Summer 1988 | Joe O'Mara: From Rinky Dinks to Anaconda (oral history) Susan Koslap: Worked Hard, but a Good Life (oral history) Olga Kawalchuk Mullen: We Were River-wise (oral history) When a Shack Was Not a Shack: Dr. Jenks' Hospital |
| Fall 1988 | Steamboats on the Hudson A Man for All Seasons: Jasper Francis Cropsey Sophie Chemka Minkewicz: Saturday Night Was Family Night (oral history) |
| Winter 1989 | Sue Smith: Citizen of the Year Follow-Up: The Chemka Family Leffert Lefferts Buck: A House in Hastings J. Otis Swift: Chickadees, Mysticism, and Homespun Philosophy |
| Spring 1989 | The Fabulous Hope Diamond: Could It Once Have Resided in Hastings? Paternalism in Hastings (Anaconda and Zinsser companies) Commercial Shad Fishing: Another Aspect of Waterfront History J. Otis Swift and Treetops |
| Summer 1989 | The Search for a Vanished Villa Strikes, the Home Guard, and Paternalism: A Follow up Polly Downar Ciborowski: "It was a close-knit community" "Talking Hastings Baseball": Conversations with Those Who Were There |
| Fall 1989 | Old Families of Hastings: The Pulvers Christmas at Locust Wood The Bill of Rights and Hastings-1789 Talking Hastings Baseball (Interviews with John Antku, Mark Bingham, Julius Chemka, and Peter Kazura) |
| Winter 1990 | The Buccaneer: A Faded Beauty with a Questionable Past The Ladies of the Club, 1909-1942 (The Literature Club of Hastings) The Chauncey Family and Their Vanished Villa: A Follow-Up Memories of Sugar Pond |
| Spring 1990 | Hastings' Other Railroad Locust Hill Remembered |
| Summer 1990 | Archeology of 19th-Century Hillside Park Grande Dame on Hudson (La Barranca) Down on the River with Paul Hanak, 1925-1987 (oral history) The Palmy Days of the International Hotel More on Locust Hill and The Put Jacob Schlachter's Frog Hollow (Memories of Sugar Pond) |
| Fall 1990 | The Abells of Sheldon Place A History of the Old Croton Aqueduct Guide to Historic Sites along the Aqueduct in Hastings (map) Berenice Abbott on Photographing Lewis Hine |
| Winter 1991 | Ravensdale Recollections Uniontown, Waverly Estates, and Growing Up Remembering Hastings, 1910s-1930s (Aresta Aluisio) The Survivor (Rosedale's bluestone quarry) |
| Spring 1991 | Animation's Forgotten Man, Frank Moser Kitty Rapoli Brown: Growing Up in Hastings (oral history) Bitts and Pieces of the Buccaneer Return to Texas Daniel E. Rile, 1913-1991 |
| Summer 1991 | Between Heaven and Earth: Jacques Lipchitz in Hastings Summer at Grandma's (Hopke family) |
| Fall 1991 | River View Manor: The Home Place Deluxe The Changing Population of Hastings: A Look at Census Returns Olinda: "The Beautiful" |
| Winter 1992 | John William Draper and the Hastings Observatory Elsie Muller McLave: Speedskater More on Jacques Lipchitz |
| Spring 1992 | Lewis Sente: We Had the Run of the Village (oral history) The Saga of Draper Park Hastings Prototype House Listed on National Register |
| Summer 1992 | Tower Ridge: A Neighborhood and a Club The Ziegfelds' Girl (Excerpts from the book by Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson) |
| Fall 1992 | The Prehistoric Indian Heritage of Hastings The Woman's Club: Books, Bazaars, Benevolence The Dragon Fought and Prevailed Not (Lt. Cmdr. Hallsted Hopping) |
| Winter 1993 | Hastings' Admiral: David Glasgow Farragut Marie Copp, July 24, 1905-January 5, 1993 |
| Spring 1993 | Raffaele and Ralph Menconi The Hospital That Never Was (Hastings Hillside Hospital) |
| Summer 1993 | Hey Buddy, Do Ya Wanna Buy a Gold Mine? (gold mine hoax in Nepera Park) Lovat and the Fraser Family Spanning a Century: Seven Hastings Houses, 1834-1936 |
| Fall 1993 | Confederate Veterans Sleep on Hastings' Eastern Flank Fred Danback: Crusader Against Pollution (oral history) Holiday Greetings (two 1934-35 poems incorporating Hastings family names) A Pinecrest Christmas Carol |
| Winter 1994 | Hastings' Music Man: Peter W. Dykema Now is the Winter of our Discontent (winter storms of 1947-48) The Passing of an Estate (map of subdivision of Fraser property) Courage & Grit: Eugenia Kyrduk Ravinsky |
| Spring 1994 | Jim Slavin Goes To War (oral history) The Saving of the Palisades A Gordon Smith Recalled |
| Summer 1994 | Tennis Anyone? Early Tennis Days in Hastings John Pardy: "I Wanted To Be A Marine" (oral history) Farewell to the Buccaneer |
| Fall 1994 | Magic House (memories of Oakledge and Herbert and Rosetta Bohnert) Margaret Dolph Thompson: "I Loved the Army" (oral history) Lynne Polowitz Smith: "The War Brought Us Together" (oral history) Hastings, c. 1910 |
| Winter 1995 | "Hello Southsider": A Local History of a World War A Child's View of World War II Christening of the Jasper F. Cropsey When Buffalo Roamed in Hastings |
| Spring 1995 | Hastings to Hastings Memories of 50 Years Ago: Wally Martin (oral history) Reflections on the Battle of the Bulge: Paul Edelman (oral history) Writing About Hastings: Austin Wright |
| Summer 1995 | The Suburbanization of River View Manor: Landscape Architecture in the Romantic Style Remembering Miss Pingrey |
| Fall 1995 | George Harvey, Boumeester from Hastings The Saga of a Supermarket |
| Winter 1996 | The Maiers and Temple Israel Cemetery A Remembrance of Harold Friedell The Observatory Cottage Investors in Hastings History |
| Spring 1996 | The Day Hastings Exploded The Society's First 25 Years: 1971-96 |
| Summer 1996 | Stage Actor, Movie Icon - David Manners Bertha Berbert: Westchester's First Woman School Commissioner Investors in Hastings History |
| Fall 1996 | A Hastings Photo Album The Archive Takes Shape Investors in Hastings History |
| Winter 1997 | Three Nobel Men (Dr. Max Theiler, Dr. L. James Rainwater, Dr. William S. Vickrey) The Genealogy of a Hastings Farm Investors in Hastings History |
| Spring 1997 | "Sept. 8 - all well": Letters from the Civil War The Last Luncheonette |
| Summer 1997 | Society's New Home Completed J. W. Draper's History of the Civil War The Punky Barrie Fishing Club |
| Fall 1997 | Making Learning a Joyful Process": The Hudson River Country Day School Vira Curry McNiece: A Hastings Life Recalled (oral history) Open House (photos of cottage) |
| Winter 1998 | Garibaldi in Hastings "Cold Blooded Murder ... In Hastings" Photographs from the Civil War Postscripts: The Hudson River Country Day School |
| Spring 1998 | Scientist, Scholar, Scribe: Carlotta Joaquina Maury Citizen of the Year Graduation through the Years Notes from the Observatory |
| Summer 1998 | The Battle of Edgar's Lane - September 30, 1778 Peter Post - Hastings Revolutionary Hero Some Early Accounts of the Battle |
| Fall 1998 | By Mail Order: Sears Houses in Hastings Hastings Before the Revolution Battle of Edgar's Lane Revisited |
| "R.H.S." The Life of Richmond Harold Shreve The Children's Playhouse |
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| Spring/Summer 1999 | Special Double Issue Life at Burkeley Crest, Home of Billie Burke and Florenz Ziegfeld by Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson |
| Sept. 1999 | Fire! Fire! Fire! Special Supplement in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of Uniontown Hose Co. No. 2 |
| Fall 1999 | Portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper |
| Winter 2000 | Hastings 1900 Scenes from the Renovation of the Municipal Building |
| Spring 2000 | In Farragut's Wake: The Son behind the Famous Father "Taking Care of Business": Tales from the Society's Current Exhibit The Cropsey Campaign |
| Summer 2000 | Carl Brandt: Hastings' Other 19th-Century Painter Mary L. Allison, 1925-2000 The History of Dudley's Grove |
| Fall 2000 | The Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909 Ed Young's Hastings |
| Winter 2001 | Unbuilt Hastings Are There Other Inhabited Worlds, by Henry Draper |
| Spring 2001 | Longue Vue Revisited Hastings 1917: Seen through Japanese Eyes |
| Summer 2001 | A History of the Hastings Public Library A Bit of Hastings in the Hebrides |
| Fall 2001 | Introducing the Hastings Historical Society From Ellis Island to Hastings: The Effect of Immigration on a Hudson River Village Kitty Rapoli Brown: Growing up in Hastings |
| Winter 2002 | Genealogy of a Hastings House |
| Spring 2002 | Did Washington -- Irving, That Is -- Sleep Here? Images after Life: A View of Local Cemeteries |
| Summer 2002 | Actors in Hastings ... and a Young Man's Mysterious Death The First Hastings Youth Center |
| Fall 2002 | This Old House November Photos from the Hastings Historical Society Archive Hitler and the Palisades Courageous Lion: Robert Barr Hill, 1930-1992 |
| Winter 2003 | John Donnelly, Architectural Sculptor The Bronze Doors of the Supreme Court 57 Buena Vista Drive |
| Spring 2003 | Two Artists Named Warren A Family Moves to Whitman Street Inside Hastings: Photos of the Interiors of Some Long-gone Stores |
| Summer 2003 | Shado-Lawn: "Small but Smart Home Colony" Thurman Rotan, Photographer The Battle of Edgars Lane, 225 Years Later |
| Fall 2003 | Speaking Volumes about Hastings History: The High School Yearbooks A Relic in the Cove: The Tale of the Lancaster Hastings Buzzer Christmas Scrapbook, 1955 |
| Winter 2004 | Bill Ewen: Historian and Riverman Steamboats on the Hudson Alger Adams of Pinecrest |
| Spring 2004 | When Hastings Went to the Chickens Former Hastings "Resident" Is Once More Plying New York Waterways Margaret Sanger: Hastings' First Disgruntled Housewife? |
| Summer 2004 | Society to Bring "Museum" to Hastings' Streets The Dan Rile Prize Winner: Talking with Three Mayors New Exhibit: Two Hastings Artists Hastings--125 Years Old |
| Fall 2004 | Strike! Labor Troubles at National Conduit and Cable Strikes, Freedom of Speech, and the Riverview Manor Bus |
| Winter 2005 | The Quarry Transforming the Quarry Social Life at Quarry Park |
| Spring 2005 | A Hastings Photo Album: 1914 Growing up in Hastings: Photos from the Archive |
| Summer 2005 | The Dan Rile Prize Winner: The Hastings-on-Hudson Girls' Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps The House That Became the "Burke Estate" Tennis 1890s Style |
| Fall 2005 | Recollections of Life in 1930s Hastings: Oral History of Anna Boulanger Freitag Joseph Boulanger, as in Boulanger Plaza Our New Exhibit: Anaconda in Hastings, 1929-1975 Memories of Anaconda |
| Winter 2006 | Kenneth Clark: A Quiet Man Who Made a Difference Memories of Virginia Andrus McGuire Back When We Danced on the Aqueduct "The Beautiful Suburb of Hastings" in 1867 The Blizzard of 1888 |
| Spring 2006 | On the Waterfront The Mystery of Florence Groff's Pyramid How Anaconda Made Wire and Cable |
| Summer 2006 | The History of Temple Beth Shalom Hastings' Olympian: Harry Hillman The President's Annual Report |
| Fall 2006 | When Hastings Went Black: Air-Raid Wardens on Patrol Growing Up in Tower Ridge, 1928-1945 Notable Hastings Residents: Arthur Abell, George Baker, William Briesemeister |
| Winter 2007 | Two Boys with a River in their Souls and Olympic Dreams in Their Heads Hastings Overseas: Messages and Photos from Those Who Served in WWII Notable Hastings Residents: Bertha Berbert, John L. Hopkins, Jack A. Warren |
| Spring 2007 | Alan Brock: Actor, Agent, Writer Mysteries of Circle Drive Notable Hastings Residents: August Sundh |
| Summer 2007 | Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.: Impresario, Theater Producer (1867-1932) Henry Kulky (1911-1965) Hastings Historical Society Annual Report 2007 |
| Fall 2007 | The House That Tax Built: The Stormy History behind the Construction of the Hastings Schools Computerization Three Years On: Accomplishments and Next Steps for the Mary Allison Archive Project |
| Winter 2008 | On the Street Where You Live: A History of Hastings' Street Names Ice Yachts on the Hudson River: "Men in Great Glee" A Menu from the Longue Vue Restaurant, c. 1915 |
| Spring 2008 | Antonia Maury: Draper Granddaughter, Astronomer, Naturalist Origin of Current Street Names: Part II Another Draper Granddaughter: Dorothy Catherine Draper Nye |
| Summer 2008 | Nick Cook: A Hastings Life Origin of Current Street Names: Part II Annual Report of the Hastings Historical Society 2008 |
| Fall 2008 | They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot: A Memoir by Carol Marie (Venuto) Davis Remembering Miss Pingrey: A Hastings High School Legend |