Blake Hill of Hussman Hollow Flower Farm will be joined by Sam Calhoun, CLC’s Conservation Programs Manager, to discuss how one landowner’s desire to donate property became an opportunity for affordable farmland. Blake will share more about what’s going on at the farm, while Sam will share more about ways we can all support affordable farmland initiatives in Columbia County.

This event will take place over Zoom.
Registration available here.

Join us for this Zoom webinar: on Wednesday, January 22nd at 7pm EST.

Registration is requires to attend this free Zoom discussion:
http://bit.ly/WRNADA

Speakers:
David Cortright: "Nuclear Weapons Dangers Today" David Cortright is the former executive director of SANE, was actively involved in the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s, has written or edited more than 20 books, and is currently a visiting scholar at Cornell University (https://einaudi.cornell.edu/discover/people/david-cortright). Diane Swords: "The 'Back from the Brink' Campaign" Diane Swords is a long time anti-nuclear activist organizing public education, legislative and divestment campaigns nationally with Back from the Brink (preventnuclearwar.org); and with Peace Action of New York State, and Syracuse Peace Council. Larry Wittner: "The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons" Larry Wittner is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany, a former president of the Peace History Society, and the author of Confronting the Bomb and many other works on nuclear disarmament issues (www.lawrenceswittner.com). Rishi Gurudevan: "Organizing Students for Nuclear Disarmament" Rishi Gurudevan is the founder of Students for Nuclear Disarmament, a national non-partisan 501(c)(3) dedicated to raising awareness among "Gen-Z" about nuclear war, and a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy.

Presented by Back from the Brink, Nuclear Free World Committee of the Syracuse Peace Council, Peace Action of New York State, Students for Nuclear Disarmament, and Upper Hudson Peace Action.

The Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History, in collaboration with the Hudson Area Library, hosts a presentation by BJ Lillis about changing land rights in the colonial Hudson Valley including Indigenous and tenant resistance to a manorial system. This talk traces Indigenous survival and resistance to colonialism on Hudson Valley manors from the early 18th century to the 1760s, when an unlikely alliance between tenant farmers and Native people organized tenant uprisings, rent strikes, and coordinated legal action against Hudson Valley landlords.

Date/Time: Thursday, January 23, 6-7:30pm.

Location: In-person, Community Room, Hudson Area Library.

Registration: There is no registration required.

The Jacob Leisler Library Lectures are made partially possible through the generous support of the Van Dyke Family Foundation, HRBT Foundation, and Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation.

All are welcome to join us on January 25th, 2025, at 10:30 am at the FASNY Museum of Firefighting in Hudson, NY for an IN-PERSON event: Safety Sally’s Firetruck Pinewood Derby! You can visit our website for more details.

THAT TIME OF YEAR, a quarterly-ish reading series at Spotty Dog Books

Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 7 p.m.

Featuring writers Dawn Lundy Martin, Anna Moschovakis, Marianne Shaneen
at Spotty Dog Books, 440 Warren St, in Hudson, NY

THAT TIME OF YEAR is a quarterly-ish reading series featuring writers sharing work around a theme. January’s theme is “Deep.”

DAWN LUNDY MARTIN is an American poet and essayist. Martin co-founded and directed the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh and is now Professor and Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. Her most recent book, Instructions for The Lovers, was published by Nightboat, and her memoir, When a Person Goes Missing, is forthcoming from Pantheon Books.

ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS works with poetry and prose as a writer, editor, translator, publisher, teacher, and designer. Her most recent novel, An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth, was published in November 2024 by Soft Skull.

MARIANNE SHANEEN is a writer of fiction, essays, and poetry. She has been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, and the Tusen Takk Foundation. Her work has been published in The Kenyon Review, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, Vanitas, and elsewhere. She is currently finishing her first novel, Homing.

THAT TIME OF YEAR is hosted by Andrea Kleine.

More information: on Instagram @thattimeofyearseries and on the web at thespottydog.com