The Historical Society’s newsletter officially became The Hastings Historian in May 1985.
In the table below is a listing of our newsletters from 1982 to present, plus a sample from 1973. Images of newsletter covers are available from February 1983 on. Click the date in the first column for a large view of the newsletter cover. To see the entire newsletter, please visit the Society or call (914) 478-2249 to see if reprints are available.
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| Date | Articles |
|---|---|
| Spring 1973 | One of the oldest newsletters |
| January 1982 | Zinsser Smokestack: editorial The History of Dudley’s Grove Looking Back: The Buccaneer |
| Spring 1982 | Dock Street, alias Landing Road, alias Main Street, alias ... Palisades Inspire a Great Poet (John Masefield) Mills, Unionization, and Trotsky Hastings, The “Melting Pot” |
| August 1982 | Blackballed in Hastings? Ten Riverview Place A History of the Southside Club |
| February 1983 | Across the Hudson: The Tonetti Gardens Hastings’ Only Beaux Arts Building: The Graham Campus Strikes, Freedom of Speech, and the Riverview Manor Bus Hastings Waterfront circa 1900 |
| April 1983 | The Last Luncheonette Hastings Bakery 1922-32 Schools Superintendent Hopkins’ Observations on Recreation in Hastings, c. 1934 Hastings’ First Library |
| July 1983 | The Hastings Waterfront: Its Rise and Decline |
| November 1983 | The Hounds of Hastings A History of the Hastings Public Library Hastings’ Famous Longue Vue Restaurant The Orphan Asylum in Hastings, 1902-22 (Graham-Windham) |
| April 1984 | A Brief History of the Cottage |
| May 1984 | Cold Blooded Murder...in Hastings The Lefurgy Family Papers Ferrara’s Market and Ferrera’s Liquors |
| Fall 1984 | If You’re Thinking of Living in Hastings-on-Hudson (Reprint, NY Times article) Lewis Hine |
| January 1985 | The Glen Then: A History of 645 North Broadway The Ledges of Hudson Heights My Childhood Storytellers: Ellen and Peggy Zinsser When Less Is Really More! (Notes on Cottage restoration) |
| May 1985 | The Riverview Manor House Company Christmas Card of ’42 Hastings’ White Marble Quarry: Its Rise and Fall |
| July 1985 | Hastings’ Research House |
| January 1986 | Hastings’ Gateway: Some of Its Past (The Saw Mill River Parkway) William Edgar, after Whom a Lane Was (Much Later) Named |
| May 1986 | The Summer of ’36 |
| August 1986 | The Baker Funeral Home The Rowley Flats |
| November 1986 | The Todd Family: Village Benefactors A Long Look Backward (1955 reminescence by Julia House) |
| February 1987 | George Baronian: Citizen of the Year Margaret Sanger: Hastings’ First Disgruntled Housewife? Catcing the 6:15 |
| Spring 1987 | Fire! Fire! Fire! (Hastings fire companies) |
| Summer 1987 | From Ellis Island to Hastings: The Effect of Immigration on a Hudson River Village (Part I) Visual History: Postcards |
| Fall 1987 | Ellis Island to Hastings (Part II) Dancing on the Aqueduct Christmas-Past in Hastings |
| Winter 1988 | The Home of Glinda the Witch The Hastings Center The Blizzard of 1888 Preserving Family Memorabilia |
| Spring 1988 | Learning from Our Elders Oral Histories of Jim Gavacs, Lucy Caruso Cocciardi, and John Vanek Follow-ups: Billie Burke, Women at Zinsser Chemical Company |
| Summer 1988 | Joe O’Mara: From Rinky Dinks to Anaconda (oral history) Susan Koslap: Worked Hard, but a Good Life (oral history) Olga Kawalchuk Mullen: We Were River-wise (oral history) When a Shack Was Not a Shack: Dr. Jenks’ Hospital |
| Fall 1988 | Steamboats on the Hudson A Man for All Seasons: Jasper Francis Cropsey Sophie Chemka Minkewicz: Saturday Night Was Family Night (oral history) |
| Winter 1989 | Sue Smith: Citizen of the Year Follow-Up: The Chemka Family Leffert Lefferts Buck: A House in Hastings J. Otis Swift: Chickadees, Mysticism, and Homespun Philosophy |
| Spring 1989 | The Fabulous Hope Diamond: Could It Once Have Resided in Hastings? Paternalism in Hastings (Anaconda and Zinsser companies) Commercial Shad Fishing: Another Aspect of Waterfront History J. Otis Swift and Treetops |
| Summer 1989 | The Search for a Vanished Villa Strikes, the Home Guard, and Paternalism: A Follow up Polly Downar Ciborowski: “It was a close-knit community” “Talking Hastings Baseball”: Conversations with Those Who Were There |
| Fall 1989 | Old Families of Hastings: The Pulvers Christmas at Locust Wood The Bill of Rights and Hastings-1789 Talking Hastings Baseball (Interviews with John Antku, Mark Bingham, Julius Chemka, and Peter Kazura) |
| Winter 1990 | The Buccaneer: A Faded Beauty with a Questionable Past The Ladies of the Club, 1909-1942 (The Literature Club of Hastings) The Chauncey Family and Their Vanished Villa: A Follow-Up Memories of Sugar Pond |
| Spring 1990 | Hastings’ Other Railroad Locust Hill Remembered |
| Summer 1990 | Archeology of 19th-Century Hillside Park Grande Dame on Hudson (La Barranca) Down on the River with Paul Hanak, 1925-1987 (oral history) The Palmy Days of the International Hotel More on Locust Hill and The Put Jacob Schlachter’s Frog Hollow (Memories of Sugar Pond) |
| Fall 1990 | The Abells of Sheldon Place A History of the Old Croton Aqueduct Guide to Historic Sites along the Aqueduct in Hastings (map) Berenice Abbott on Photographing Lewis Hine |
| Winter 1991 | Ravensdale Recollections Uniontown, Waverly Estates, and Growing Up Remembering Hastings, 1910s-1930s (Aresta Aluisio) The Survivor (Rosedale’s bluestone quarry) |
| Spring 1991 | Animation’s Forgotten Man, Frank Moser Kitty Rapoli Brown: Growing Up in Hastings (oral history) Bitts and Pieces of the Buccaneer Return to Texas Daniel E. Rile, 1913-1991 |
| Summer 1991 | Between Heaven and Earth: Jacques Lipchitz in Hastings Summer at Grandma’s (Hopke family) |
| Fall 1991 | River View Manor: The Home Place Deluxe The Changing Population of Hastings: A Look at Census Returns Olinda: “The Beautiful” |
| Winter 1992 | John William Draper and the Hastings Observatory Elsie Muller McLave: Speedskater More on Jacques Lipchitz |
| Spring 1992 | Lewis Sente: We Had the Run of the Village (oral history) The Saga of Draper Park Hastings Prototype House Listed on National Register |
| Summer 1992 | Tower Ridge: A Neighborhood and a Club The Ziegfelds’ Girl (Excerpts from the book by Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson) |
| Fall 1992 | The Prehistoric Indian Heritage of Hastings The Woman’s Club: Books, Bazaars, Benevolence The Dragon Fought and Prevailed Not (Lt. Cmdr. Hallsted Hopping) |
| Winter 1993 | Hastings’ Admiral: David Glasgow Farragut Marie Copp, July 24, 1905-January 5, 1993 |
| Spring 1993 | Raffaele and Ralph Menconi The Hospital That Never Was (Hastings Hillside Hospital) |
| Summer 1993 | Hey Buddy, Do Ya Wanna Buy a Gold Mine? (gold mine hoax in Nepera Park) Lovat and the Fraser Family Spanning a Century: Seven Hastings Houses, 1834-1936 |
| Fall 1993 | Confederate Veterans Sleep on Hastings’ Eastern Flank Fred Danback: Crusader Against Pollution (oral history) Holiday Greetings (two 1934-35 poems incorporating Hastings family names) A Pinecrest Christmas Carol |
| Winter 1994 | Hastings’ Music Man: Peter W. Dykema Now is the Winter of our Discontent (winter storms of 1947-48) The Passing of an Estate (map of subdivision of Fraser property) Courage & Grit: Eugenia Kyrduk Ravinsky |
| Spring 1994 | Jim Slavin Goes To War (oral history) The Saving of the Palisades A Gordon Smith Recalled |
| Summer 1994 | Tennis Anyone? Early Tennis Days in Hastings John Pardy: “I Wanted To Be A Marine” (oral history) Farewell to the Buccaneer |
| Fall 1994 | Magic House (memories of Oakledge and Herbert and Rosetta Bohnert) Margaret Dolph Thompson: “I Loved the Army” (oral history) Lynne Polowitz Smith: “The War Brought Us Together” (oral history) Hastings, c. 1910 |
| Winter 1995 | “Hello Southsider”: A Local History of a World War A Child’s View of World War II Christening of the Jasper F. Cropsey When Buffalo Roamed in Hastings |
| Spring 1995 | Hastings to Hastings Memories of 50 Years Ago: Wally Martin (oral history) Reflections on the Battle of the Bulge: Paul Edelman (oral history) Writing About Hastings: Austin Wright |
| Summer 1995 | The Suburbanization of River View Manor: Landscape Architecture in the Romantic Style Remembering Miss Pingrey |
| Fall 1995 | George Harvey, Boumeester from Hastings The Saga of a Supermarket |
| Winter 1996 | The Maiers and Temple Israel Cemetery A Remembrance of Harold Friedell The Observatory Cottage Investors in Hastings History |
| Spring 1996 | The Day Hastings Exploded The Society’s First 25 Years: 1971-96 |
| Summer 1996 | Stage Actor, Movie Icon - David Manners Bertha Berbert: Westchester’s First Woman School Commissioner Investors in Hastings History |
| Fall 1996 | A Hastings Photo Album The Archive Takes Shape Investors in Hastings History |
| Winter 1997 | Three Nobel Men (Dr. Max Theiler, Dr. L. James Rainwater, Dr. William S. Vickrey) The Genealogy of a Hastings Farm Investors in Hastings History |
| Spring 1997 | “Sept. 8 - all well”: Letters from the Civil War The Last Luncheonette |
| Summer 1997 | Society’s New Home Completed J. W. Draper’s History of the Civil War The Punky Barrie Fishing Club |
| Fall 1997 | “Making Learning a Joyful Process”: The Hudson River Country Day School Vira Curry McNiece: A Hastings Life Recalled (oral history) Open House (photos of cottage) |
| Winter 1998 | Garibaldi in Hastings “Cold Blooded Murder ... In Hastings” Photographs from the Civil War Postscripts: The Hudson River Country Day School |
| Spring 1998 | Scientist, Scholar, Scribe: Carlotta Joaquina Maury Citizen of the Year Graduation through the Years Notes from the Observatory |
| Summer 1998 | The Battle of Edgar’s Lane - September 30, 1778 Peter Post - Hastings Revolutionary Hero Some Early Accounts of the Battle |
| Fall 1998 | By Mail Order: Sears Houses in Hastings Hastings Before the Revolution Battle of Edgar’s Lane Revisited |
| Winter 1999 | “R.H.S.” The Life of Richmond Harold Shreve The Children’s Playhouse |
| Spring/Summer 1999 | Special Double Issue Life at Burkeley Crest, Home of Billie Burke and Florenz Ziegfeld by Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson |
| Sept. 1999 | Fire! Fire! Fire! Special Supplement in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of Uniontown Hose Co. No. 2 |
| Fall 1999 | Portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper |
| Winter 2000 | Hastings 1900 Scenes from the Renovation of the Municipal Building |
| Spring 2000 | In Farragut’s Wake: The Son behind the Famous Father “Taking Care of Business”: Tales from the Society’s Current Exhibit The Cropsey Campaign |
| Summer 2000 | Carl Brandt: Hastings’ Other 19th-Century Painter Mary L. Allison, 1925-2000 The History of Dudley’s Grove |
| Fall 2000 | The Hudson-Fulton Celebration of 1909 Ed Young’s Hastings |
| Winter 2001 | Unbuilt Hastings Are There Other Inhabited Worlds, by Henry Draper |
| Spring 2001 | Longue Vue Revisited Hastings 1917: Seen through Japanese Eyes |
| Summer 2001 | A History of the Hastings Public Library A Bit of Hastings in the Hebrides |
| Fall 2001 | Introducing the Hastings Historical Society From Ellis Island to Hastings: The Effect of Immigration on a Hudson River Village Kitty Rapoli Brown: Growing up in Hastings |
| Winter 2002 | Genealogy of a Hastings House |
| Spring 2002 | Did Washington -- Irving, That Is -- Sleep Here? Images after Life: A View of Local Cemeteries |
| Summer 2002 | Actors in Hastings ... and a Young Man’s Mysterious Death The First Hastings Youth Center |
| Fall 2002 | This Old House November Photos from the Hastings Historical Society Archive Hitler and the Palisades Courageous Lion: Robert Barr Hill, 1930-1992 |
| Winter 2003 | John Donnelly, Architectural Sculptor The Bronze Doors of the Supreme Court 57 Buena Vista Drive |
| Spring 2003 | Two Artists Named Warren A Family Moves to Whitman Street Inside Hastings: Photos of the Interiors of Some Long-gone Stores |
| Summer 2003 | Shado-Lawn: “Small but Smart Home Colony” Thurman Rotan, Photographer The Battle of Edgars Lane, 225 Years Later |
| Fall 2003 | Speaking Volumes about Hastings History: The High School Yearbooks A Relic in the Cove: The Tale of the Lancaster Hastings Buzzer Christmas Scrapbook, 1955 |
| Winter 2004 | Bill Ewen: Historian and Riverman Steamboats on the Hudson Alger Adams of Pinecrest |
| Spring 2004 | When Hastings Went to the Chickens Former Hastings “Resident” Is Once More Plying New York Waterways Margaret Sanger: Hastings’ First Disgruntled Housewife? |
| Summer 2004 | Society to Bring “Museum” to Hastings’ Streets The Dan Rile Prize Winner: Talking with Three Mayors New Exhibit: Two Hastings Artists Hastings--125 Years Old |
| Fall 2004 | Strike! Labor Troubles at National Conduit and Cable Strikes, Freedom of Speech, and the Riverview Manor Bus |
| Winter 2005 | The Quarry Transforming the Quarry Social Life at Quarry Park |
| Spring 2005 | A Hastings Photo Album: 1914 Growing up in Hastings: Photos from the Archive |
| Summer 2005 | The Dan Rile Prize Winner: The Hastings-on-Hudson Girls’ Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps The House That Became the “Burke Estate” Tennis 1890s Style |
| Fall 2005 | Recollections of Life in 1930s Hastings: Oral History of Anna Boulanger Freitag Joseph Boulanger, as in Boulanger Plaza Our New Exhibit: Anaconda in Hastings, 1929-1975 Memories of Anaconda |
| Winter 2006 | Kenneth Clark: A Quiet Man Who Made a Difference Memories of Virginia Andrus McGuire Back When We Danced on the Aqueduct “The Beautiful Suburb of Hastings” in 1867 The Blizzard of 1888 |
| Spring 2006 | On the Waterfront The Mystery of Florence Groff’s Pyramid How Anaconda Made Wire and Cable |
| Summer 2006 | The History of Temple Beth Shalom Hastings’ Olympian: Harry Hillman The President’s Annual Report |
| Fall 2006 | When Hastings Went Black: Air-Raid Wardens on Patrol Growing Up in Tower Ridge, 1928-1945 Notable Hastings Residents: Arthur Abell, George Baker, William Briesemeister |
| Winter 2007 | Two Boys with a River in their Souls and Olympic Dreams in Their Heads Hastings Overseas: Messages and Photos from Those Who Served in WWII Notable Hastings Residents: Bertha Berbert, John L. Hopkins, Jack A. Warren |
| Spring 2007 | Alan Brock: Actor, Agent, Writer Mysteries of Circle Drive Notable Hastings Residents: August Sundh |
| Summer 2007 | Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.: Impresario, Theater Producer (1867-1932) Henry Kulky (1911-1965) Hastings Historical Society Annual Report 2007 |
| Fall 2007 | The House That Tax Built: The Stormy History behind the Construction of the Hastings Schools Computerization Three Years On: Accomplishments and Next Steps for the Mary Allison Archive Project |
| Winter 2008 | On the Street Where You Live: A History of Hastings’ Street Names Ice Yachts on the Hudson River: “Men in Great Glee” A Menu from the Longue Vue Restaurant, c. 1915 |
| Spring 2008 | Antonia Maury: Draper Granddaughter, Astronomer, Naturalist Origin of Current Street Names: Part II Another Draper Granddaughter: Dorothy Catherine Draper Nye |
| Summer 2008 | Nick Cook: A Hastings Life Origin of Current Street Names: Part II Annual Report of the Hastings Historical Society 2008 |
| Fall 2008 | They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot: A Memoir by Carol Marie (Venuto) Davis Remembering Miss Pingrey: A Hastings High School Legend |
| Winter 2009 | Diamonds Are (Not Always) Forever: May Yohe, The Hope Diamond, and Hastings-on-Hudson What Is a Cop? Anonymous Article from the Society’s Archive |
| Spring 2009 | The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Robert Fulton |
| Summer 2009 | Hastings' First Ambulance What's in a Name? Why Hastings Is Hastings When Phys Ed Was “Gym” Annual Report of the Hastings Historical Society 2009 |
| Fall 2009 | Hastings Pop Culture: The Driftin’ Shifters Car Club The Barbers of Hastings: A Resident Remembers John P. Davies’ Historical Map of Westchester, 1932: A Treasure from Our Collection Hastings’ First Jail: “The House That Jack Built” Hubert Krack’s Radio Days |
| Winter 2010 | Geneology of a Building: 583 Warburton Ave. The “Cup”: The Carusos’ Beloved Teen Hang-out J. Stolting: Hastings’ Hermit |
| Spring-Summer 2010 | Our House Tour: A Successful Venture 17 Years in the Making Lufanwal: The Norman Castle on Pinecrest John MacCallum: A Member of Hastings’ Greatest Generation Heads Up: The Hindenburg Flies Over Hastings Broadway: A Millionaires’ Playground |
