Remembering Winter Walks Past

The announcement yesterday that there would be no Winter Walk this year reminded me of a project undertaken by Gossips five years ago in the run-up to Winter Walk. That year, Hudson Hall was commemorating Winter Walks past, present, and future. That prompted Gossips to ask people who had been associated with Winter Walk in different ways over the years to share their memories of Winter Walk. There were nine such memories altogether. Since yesterday, I have reread them all, and I invite readers to do the same.

• Memories of Winter Walk: Part 1--Carole Clark, whose childhood memories of department store windows along Fifth Avenue, lavishly decorated for the holidays, were the inspiration for Winter Walk

• Memories of Winter Walk: Part 2--Byrne Fone, author of Historic Hudson: An Architectural Portrait, who was a member of the Hudson Opera House Board of Directors when Winter Walk began in 1997

• Memories of Winter Walk: Part 3--Elena Mosley, long-time member of the Hudson Opera House Board of Directors and now Director Emerita

• Memories of Winter Walk: Part 4--Sarah Sterling, who shares a memory of Winter Walk 2003, the only year the event was canceled, due to bad weather

• Memories of Winter Walk: Part 5--Sarah Lipsky, who chaired the committee that organized the very first Winter Walk in 1997 and the next three Winter Walks after that

• Memories of Winter Walk: Part 6--Gary Schiro, who served as executive director of the Hudson Opera House, now known as Hudson Hall, from 1998 to 2017

• Memories of Winter Walk: Part 7--Lisa Durfee, proprietor of Five and Diamond, whose costumes for Winter Walk were always one of the joyous surprises of the evening

• Memories of Winter Walk: Part 8--Dylan Meyer, who was six years old when the tradition of Winter Walk began in 1997

• Memories of Winter Walk: Part 9--Ellen Thurston, the "Queen of Winter Walk," who took the reins as chief organizer of Winter Walk in 2001 and continued in that role for almost two decades 

Gossips invites you to read all the memories of Winter Walk and recall, with gratitude, what a glorious event it has been for Hudson.

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