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Tracking Down
Lewis Hine's Child Laborers

One hundred years ago, former Hastings-on-Hudson resident Lewis Hine began a ten-year quest to photograph American child laborers, ultimately visiting 32 states and the District of Columbia. His pioneering work helped lead to the passage of federal and state child labor laws and established Hine as one of the world's greatest photojournalists.

Author and historian Joe Manning will showed dozens of these photographs and shared many of the stories he has uncovered about the children at our annual meeting June 7. See his website here.

Currently on Exhibit at the Cottage
The Hastings Historical Society Presents: A Year of Celebrations

In honor of the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial
1909: Hastings-on-Hudson in the year of
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration

also featuring
In honor of the International Year of Astronomy
Milestones in Astronomy: The Drapers of Hastings-on-Hudson

Hastings Anniversaries
Celebrating the Literature Club's 100th Anniversary
100 Years of the Riverview Manor Hose Company No. 3

We're Blogging! Our New Weblog

The Society has a new online venture, a weblog (that's "blog" to those of you on the cutting edge of technology). Like a public diary, the blog will keep you up to date with current and upcoming events, exhibitions, and goings-on at the cottage. It will also give us lots of room to show off our magnificent collection and to share all those fascinating scraps of Hastings history that we uncover every week -- with plenty of room left over for you to share your memories with us!

Visit our blog from time to time to see what's new, or subscribe using your e-mail address or your RSS feed reader to receive each post as it is put up. To access our blog, click here.

Images of America: Hastings-on-Hudson

by the Hastings Historical Society

The latest addition to Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series, this 118-page paperback is filled with 200 black-and-white captioned photographs covering the history of our Village. The book is available at local retail outlets, or you can order it from the Historical Society for $20 each (plus $3 shipping). A separate set of 15 black-and-white postcards is also available, for $8 (plus $2 shipping). To see the postcards and images from the book, click here.

Click here for a printable order form and order yours today!

Visit the Museum in the Streets®!

The centuries-long history of Hastings-on-Hudson is now accessible to all who live, work and visit here, thanks to a new project of the Hastings Historical Society. A historical walking tour of Hastings, starting at Boulanger Plaza, features signs with Village history and photos at 34 different historical sites. For more information, click here.

*The Hastings Historical Society recently received an "Award toward Excellence" for the Museum in the Streets® from the Lower Hudson Conference of Historical Agencies and Museums, which called the project "a unique, illustrated bilingual walking tour and street exhibition using archival materials and presenting them to citizens, school children, and heritage tourists alike in a direct and engaging way."