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Our Annual Meetings and other local history programs are now available as streaming video courtesy of our Village television station, WHOH-TV.

Currently available are
Historical Society Sing-Along (Annual Meeting 2008): Celebrating "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," now 100 years old, and other New York State songs.
History on the Hudson: Bernie O'Brien Oral History
The S.S. Columbia Project (Annual Meeting 2007): About a restoration project for an old steamliner to be part of the 2009 Hudson River Quadricentennial.
History on the Hudson: Bernie Hoffman Oral History
Miss Pingrey (Annual Meeting 2006): A re-creation of the legendary high school teacher's slide-show history of our village.
Hastings Waterfront History: Documentary on the waterfront's industrial past by former Historical Society President Karolyn Wrightson.
Hastings 1939: Found footage of a festive day in the Village.
The Croton Aqueduct: The history of the old water pipe that runs through our Village.