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All My Dead & Living Things is a fifth-generation Hudsonian’s attempt to make sense of history, power, and belonging in a city that is still becoming.
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What Gets Lost When a Place Gets Found: The Vanishing Volunteer Fire Service (opens the original)
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This essay was originally published in H.E.R.E. Journal, in their inaugural issue in August 2026. I had the joy of interviewing Justin Elliott, a friend I grew up with in Hudson (we were actually both born at CMH on the same day). I had already been reporting on local firefighting when the editor of H.E.R.E. Journal, Ann Marie Gardner, reached out; volunteer firefighting departments are one of the many institutions under threat from a housing crisis that disproportionately impacts working- and m
What’s At Stake: A Neighborhood Without Neighbors (opens the original)
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There are only sixteen houses on the dead-end street where I live in Hudson.I bought my house seven years ago from my high school History teacher and guidance office secretary. It’s a sweet 1,300-square-foot, two-story, three-bedroom house, complete with a pool out back — a pool I swam in with friends as a teenager, never imagining it would one day be my pool.We bought it for sale by owner, one year after I moved back to Hudson with my partner, a one-year-old, and our dog. We lived with my mom a
A September Dispatch (and Welcome to the New Folks!) (opens the original)
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Dear Reader,I’m here for my periodic hello, as there are several dozen more of you here now after my piece about Flocks in Columbia County. So glad you’re reading along.I started All My Dead and Living Things in February 2025, and since then I have written nearly every week about Hudson – its history, its community, and how we might build a way forward that works for everyo
Flock Cameras in Hudson and Beyond (opens the original)
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When I opened deflock.org — the crowd-sourced database that maps the locations of Flock cameras across the country — I was surprised to see one right on Warren Street.I already knew about Flock cameras from the news: automated license plate readers that photograph the plate, make, model, and color of every car that passes, whether or not there’s any reason to suspect the driver of anything. Their use is drawing pushback nationally — <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/4
Reading the Record on Bliss Towers (opens the original)
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Dear Reader,This is my fourth time writing about Bliss Towers — first its history and memory, then the current state of the building, and then a recent update on the redevelopment proposal. I want to tell you why this issue has a hold on me the way it does.I love Hudson. For
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