Events This Weekend

This weekend provides a golden opportunity to steep yourself in Hudson history.

• On Saturday, October 23, Historic Hudson is offering two guided walking tours through Hudson, beginning at 11 a.m. and at 2 p.m. The tour will be an opportunity to explore Hudson through the lens of vintage photos, postcards, and historic documents and to witness firsthand the changes to our city over time. Each tour will start at the gazebo in Courthouse Square, located at West Court and Union streets, and will include Courthouse Square, Warren Street from Fourth to Front streets, and the waterfront.

The fee for the tour, which supports the not-for-profit Historic Hudson, is $15 for adults and $7 for children under 12. To join this walk through history, RVSP to gambrill@historichudson.org. This is an outdoor, family friendly event, and masks are required.

• Also on Saturday, October 23, the Robert Jenkins House, 113 Warren Street, the Chapter House of the Chapter House of the Hendrick Hudson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be open for tours from 1 to 4 p.m.

• On Sunday, October 24, the History Room of the Hudson Area Library presents Tales from Hudson's Crypts, a tour of the Hudson City Cemetery led by Kelley Drahushuk. The tour takes place from noon to 1:30 p.m. 

Long recognized as "a virtual treasure trove for historians and enthusiasts of American funerary art," the Hudson Cemetery includes more than 10,000 grave sites, the final resting places of such notable individuals as the original Proprietors of Hudson, war heroes, famous artists, paragons of industry, and Titanic survivors. 

Mask wearing and social distancing is required on the tour, as is registering in advance. To do the latter, email brenda.shufelt@hudsonarealibrary.org or call 518 828-1792, ext. 106.