When Governor Paul Cellucci takes his three-mile morning jog along these streets, local motorists toot their horns and wave because he's one of them. The governor is one of four generations of Celluccis who have called Hudson home in the last century. Hudson is a town that has retained its small-town character.
People are hard-working, tolerant and respectful.
Main Street, Hudson, is an old-fashioned square. Originally known for shoe manufacturing, the town's economy slowed considerably when the mills closed in the mid-1900s. The governor's grandfather, Argeo Cellucci Sr., served as public works commissioner for 17 years. When I was a kid there were only 7,500 people in town. In the late 1970s he convinced the state to build a connector road from Route 290 to Route 495 to make Hudson more attractive for Digital Equipment to locate there.