tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post4548317785429297574..comments2024-03-28T17:55:31.180-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: Still "Not Ready"?Carole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-29340314444714159582011-09-04T22:53:38.395-04:002011-09-04T22:53:38.395-04:00Dear Ruthm,
I was responding to Jennifer's st...Dear Ruthm,<br /><br />I was responding to Jennifer's story about some customers in her store -- where there are sometimes quite expensive, fine objects for sale, especially the gorgeous Scandinavian pictures -- seeing Hudson as a run-down place.<br /><br />It would not surprise me if someone paying, say, $60,000 for a painting came from (let's say) Greenwich; and it would not surprise me if to that person's eye, Hudson looked like a rough place. In comparison to Greenwich, Hudson IS a rough place.<br /><br />There is little chance that any sentient being is going to mistake Hudson for Dark Harbor, Pebble Beach, East Hampton, or Hobe Sound. You do not have to worry that Hudson is ever going to be like those places.<br /><br />-- Jock SpivySamuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16548850334066788444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-20176791406101654182011-09-04T17:13:14.657-04:002011-09-04T17:13:14.657-04:00I love Hudson because of the diversity of things &...I love Hudson because of the diversity of things "to get".I just came back from the waterfront and my grocer's wife just tatooed with Henna my hand at the Bangladesh Cultural Fair. I am going down later to watch their fashion show and a play they are preforming.These are my neighbors and friends,<br />as are so many people from different cultures and ways of life.I find a harmony here amongst such diversity, that I have not seen in most<br />other places,sophisticated or otherwise.Prison Alleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10059050028975347899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-68688534125939681452011-09-04T17:12:53.780-04:002011-09-04T17:12:53.780-04:00One thing we - Hudson or Columbia County - do not ...One thing we - Hudson or Columbia County - do not want to be is the Hamptons or the Berkshires. We like our Gritty Edge - we don't want to be a contender.<br />Thank you Jennifer.ruthmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10769183008558512630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-89490366299498534882011-09-04T16:21:24.977-04:002011-09-04T16:21:24.977-04:00It depends on what one is used to. If one is comin...It depends on what one is used to. If one is coming from Millbrook or Litchfield or Lenox or Greenwich or Southampton or Fishers Island, then Hudson is rough by contrast. <br /><br />-- Jock SpivySamuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16548850334066788444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-15378101510778811372011-09-04T14:47:25.091-04:002011-09-04T14:47:25.091-04:00You wouldn't believe the number of people I ge...You wouldn't believe the number of people I get in the store who don't 'get' Hudson and who ask 'what's the story, here, will it ever get better?'. I have to laugh to myself, thinking back 25 - 30 years, when Marsh's Department Store, Macy's Housewares, O'Neils Flowers, J.J. Newberrys, The Outlet Barn, the Spot greasy spoon (where Ca Mea is now) all looked like something out the Depression and Allen Street's mansions were crumbling and crumbled. The Inn at Hudson was a nursing home, and the large house opposite a total wreck. Oh my, how far we have travelled but he City still has it's gritty edge and I like it that way.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14147241257381928706noreply@blogger.com