• Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar

New York Almanack

History, Natural History & the Arts

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Adirondacks & NNY
  • Capital-Saratoga
  • Mohawk Valley
  • Hudson Valley & Catskills
  • NYC & Long Island
  • Western NY
  • History
  • Nature & Environment
  • Arts & Culture
  • Outdoor Recreation
  • Food & Farms
  • Subscribe
  • Support
  • Submit
  • About
  • New Books
  • Events
  • Podcasts

Crailo Historic Site

Schuyler Mansion, Crailo Hosting Virtual Twelfth Night Celebration

December 22, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

12th Night The Schuyler Mansion in Albany and Crailo State Historic site , across the Hudson River in Rensselaer, NY, have announced “Salutations of the Season!,” a virtual Twelfth Night celebration set for Wednesday, January 6th, 2021. [Read more…] about Schuyler Mansion, Crailo Hosting Virtual Twelfth Night Celebration

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Crailo Historic Site, Schuyler Mansion

Fort Crailo State Historic Site Has Reopened

July 30, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Crailo State Historic Site (also known formerly as Fort Crailo) on the Hudson River in Rensselaer, once the Van Rensselaer family’s fortified home, has reopened to the public.

 

[Read more…] about Fort Crailo State Historic Site Has Reopened

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley Tagged With: Crailo Historic Site, Rensselaer, State Parks

Seasonal Celebrations Planned at Crailo, Schuyler Mansion

December 28, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

On Saturday January 6, 2018 Crailo State Historic Site is planned to host their annual Twelfth Night Celebration from 4 to 7 pm.

The evening will include decorations, seasonal music, seventeenth century re-enactors, games, and Hearthside cooking demonstrations. In addition the Marketplace Museum Shop will be open, with a selection of unique items.  [Read more…] about Seasonal Celebrations Planned at Crailo, Schuyler Mansion

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Crailo Historic Site, Schuyler Mansion

Pinkster Celebration at Fort Crailo Saturday

April 21, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

pinkster celebrationOn April 22, 2017 from 11 am to 4 pm, Crailo State Historic Site will host a Pinkster celebration featuring the performance and education group, The Children of Dahomey.

Once a Dutch holiday commemorating Pentecost, Pinkster became a distinctly African American holiday in the Hudson River Valley during the colonial era. During the 17th and 18th centuries, enslaved and free African Americans transformed Pinkster from a Dutch religious observance into a spring festival and a celebration of African cultural traditions. All along the Hudson River and on Albany’s “Pinkster Hill” (the current site of the NYS Capitol), enslaved African Americans reunited with family and friends and celebrated Pinkster with storytelling, food, music, and dance. Other Pinkster traditions, like the selection of the Pinkster King, created opportunities for enslaved African Americans to honor respected members of the community and to subtly mock their white enslavers. [Read more…] about Pinkster Celebration at Fort Crailo Saturday

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Black History, Crailo Historic Site, Pinkster Fest, Slavery

Crailo Features On New Netherland Podcast

June 9, 2016 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

new netherlands praatjesIn the latest episode of the New Netherland Praatjes podcast Crailo State Historic Site Director Heidi Hill chats with Russell Shorto about the history surrounding the settlement of the 17th-century Dutch patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, the history of the building itself, and the evolution of the site as a museum. [Read more…] about Crailo Features On New Netherland Podcast

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Crailo Historic Site, New Netherland, Podcasts, Rensselaerswijck

Crailofest Celebrates New World African Culture

March 28, 2016 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Crailo Historic SiteThe public is invited to the opening day of Crailofest, a celebration of African culture in the New World, on April 2, 2016.

From 12:30 until 2 pm, Crailo will be open for self-guided exploration of a new exhibit A Dishonorable Trade: Human Trafficking in the Dutch Atlantic World and the permanent exhibit A Sweet and Alien Land.

Two more Crailofest days will take place on May 7 and June 4 with dramatic performances, poetry readings, stringed instrument performances, jazz, dance, art and food.

[Read more…] about Crailofest Celebrates New World African Culture

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Black History, Crailo Historic Site, New Netherland, Rensselaerswijck, Slavery

Harvest Faire at Crailo State Historic Site

September 1, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Crailo Historic SiteOn Saturday, September 12th, Crailo State Historic Site and the Friends of Fort Crailo present a Harvest Faire.

Crailo’s historic grounds and Hudson River park set the scene for the event which features both 17th and 18th century re-enactors, music, and demonstrations, as well as crafts and games for children. Among the re-enactors are 17th-century Dutch settlers, a tinsmith, a doctor and Native Americans. [Read more…] about Harvest Faire at Crailo State Historic Site

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Crailo Historic Site, New Netherland, Rensselaer County, Rensselaerswijck

1600s Clothing: Peter Stuyvesant’s Guide to Style

February 18, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Peter StuyvesantOn February 22, 2015 at 1 pm Crailo State Historic Site in Rensselaer, NY will present “Peter Stuyvesant’s Guide to Style: What to Wear in the Seventeenth Century,” a lecture on the clothing of the Dutch colony of New Netherland by Anne Matusiewicz.

She will discuss the dress of the colonists as well as resources for researching and recreating their clothing. [Read more…] about 1600s Clothing: Peter Stuyvesant’s Guide to Style

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Crailo Historic Site, Fiber Arts - Textiles, Material Culture, New Netherland

Twelfth Night Celebration at Crailo Historic Site

December 31, 2014 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

0104141631aTwelfth Night was one of the traditional holidays celebrated by the Dutch and English colonists of early New York.  Twelfth Night was the final holiday of the season and was marked with unsurpassed feasting and revelry.

On Saturday January 10, 2015 Crailo State Historic Site in Rensselaer, NY, will welcome visitors for its annual Twelfth Night Celebration from 4 until 7 pm. [Read more…] about Twelfth Night Celebration at Crailo Historic Site

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Crailo Historic Site

St. Nicholas Day at Crailo Historic Site Dec 6th

November 26, 2014 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Feast of Saint Nicholas, by Jan Steen, 1660sCrailo State Historic Site in the City of Rensselaer will host a St. Nicholas Day Open House on December 6, 2013 from 12:00 pm until 4:00 pm.  For the Dutch settlers of this region The Feast of St. Nicholas was a day of celebration with favorite food and treats.

Children checked their shoes, left out the previous night, for presents from Sinterklaas. In Washington Irving’s History of New York (1809), Sinterklaas was Americanized into “Santa Claus” (a name first used in the New York press in 1773) and helped popularize today’s Christmas traditions. [Read more…] about St. Nicholas Day at Crailo Historic Site Dec 6th

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Crailo Historic Site

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Help Finish Our 2022 Fundraising

Subscribe to New York Almanack

Subscribe! Follow the New York Almanack each day via E-mail, RSS, Twitter or Facebook updates.

Recent Comments

  • Carol Drew-Peeples on Manhattan Street Names Tied to Slavery Listed from A to Z
  • Edythe Ann Quinn on Poetry: Stairway from Heaven
  • Ellen Brown on How Does A Land Trust Protect A Watershed? One Parcel At A Time
  • Nell Rapport on Transforming The Niagara Falls Experience
  • Jimmy on World War II POW Camps in Upstate New York
  • Paul Huey on Advocates: Pass The Unmarked Burial Site Protection Act
  • NOEL A SHERRY on Adirondack Logging History: Wood’s Lake & Beaver River Stations
  • NOEL A SHERRY on Adirondack Logging History: Wood’s Lake & Beaver River Stations
  • Jim Fox on Adirondack Logging History: Wood’s Lake & Beaver River Stations
  • Big Burly on Adirondack Logging History: Wood’s Lake & Beaver River Stations

Recent New York Books

battle of harlem hights
Ladies Day at the Capitol
voices of wayne county
CNY Snowstorm book front cover
The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
Expanded Second Edition of Echoes in These Mountains
historic kingston book
Buffalo Sports cover re-re-sized.indd
With an Ax and a Rifle Vol I

Secondary Sidebar

preservation league
Protect the Adirondacks Hiking Guide