No Place To Go But Up...
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Excerpt from our oral history with Thomas Tunney, Superintendent of the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY from 1964 to 1972.
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First Letter Home
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"Dear Mother," begins Gladys Case's "first letter home," postmarked from the Hudson Girls' Training School three days after Christmas, December 28, 1930.
Read MoreBearing Witness
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In May of 2011, a box of documents from the New York State Training School for Girls was discovered by Lisa Durfee at a garage sale in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreUnderstanding and Preserving a Community's Heritage
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An excerpt from our oral history with the late Timothy Dunleavy, former owner of the Hudson business Rural Residence and co-founder of Historic Hudson.
Read MoreHouse of Refuge for Women Founder Inspires New York City's First Monument Dedicated to a Woman
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In 1912, a granite fountain designed by artist Charles Platt was dedicated in New York City’s Bryant Park to the memory of Josephine Shaw Lowell.
Read More"They Are All Ellas..."
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Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald kept secret the cruelest chapter of her own history: her confinement for over a year in a reformatory as an orphaned teenager.
Read MoreClosure of the Girls' Training School
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In the few months before its closing in 1975, Hudson, NY residents, Training School employees, and elected officials waged a campaign to stop the closure.
Read MoreHow Jan Kerouac 'Escaped' the Training School
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The story of how Jan Kerouac, daughter of legendary Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac's daughter, escaped the Hudson Training School for Girls.
Read MoreThe Delaney Report (1915)
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In 1915, Commissioner of the NY Department of Efficiency and Economy John Delaney released a report condemning the Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreHappy Childhood, Broken Homes
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Excerpt from our oral history with Karen DePyster, who taught recreation at the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
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