The Senate House State Historic Site in Kingston, NY, is set to open for the 2019 season on Wednesday April 24. The site will be open to the public Wednesdays thru Saturdays 10 am to 5 pm and Sundays 1 to 5 pm. The site is located at 296 Fair Street in historic uptown Kingston. [Read more…] about Kingston Senate House Opening Day April 24th
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Slavery and Freedom in New Netherland Talk In Kingston
The New Netherland Institute has announced the talk “To Serve in a Free Country: Slavery and Freedom in New Netherland” by Sam Huntington, educator at Crailo State Historic Site, has been set for Saturday, April 27th at the Senate House State Historic Site in Kingston. [Read more…] about Slavery and Freedom in New Netherland Talk In Kingston
Hudson River Slavery Focus of Historic Kingston Event
The Friends of Historic Kingston is set to hold its annual meeting on Sunday, April 28th at 2 pm in the Bethany Hall, Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall Street, Kingston. Use side entrance on Wall Street.
President of the Board, Jack Braunlein, will give the annual report of the organization, followed by the keynote address. The featured guest speaker is Susan Stessin-Cohn, Town Historian of New Paltz who will be speaking on her newest research and publication, In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York’s Hudson River Valley: 1735-1831. [Read more…] about Hudson River Slavery Focus of Historic Kingston Event
Sugaring Off: 18th Century Style In Historic Kingston
The Senate House State Historic Site has announced a celebration of maple season, set for Saturday, April 6th, 2019, from 11 am to 3 pm. Activities include boiling maple sap to syrup, making jack wax candy, baking molasses cornbread and waffles over an open fire, hewing a log into a trough and making wooden buckets and spiles which were used to collect the sap. [Read more…] about Sugaring Off: 18th Century Style In Historic Kingston
New Audio Tour for Kingston’s Stockade District
Friends of Historic Kingston, in cooperation with Dutch Heritage World Tours, have released the audio tour “How Dutch Is New York? – The Kingston Stockade Tour”.
You can use a smart phone or tablet to walk the National Historic District of the Kingston Stockade. Download the free audio tour using the free app called izi.TRAVEL. When you walk into a GPS zone near a site, images and text will appear. You have your choice of Dutch or English language. [Read more…] about New Audio Tour for Kingston’s Stockade District
18th Century Autumn Festival Set For Senate House, Kingston
The Senate House State Historic Site will host their Century Autumn Festival on Saturday, October 13th, 2018, from 11 am to 3 pm.
Demonstrations at Senate House include meat smoking, pressing apples into cider, blacksmithing, and hearthside cooking. Hands-on activities include dipping candles, making cornhusk dolls, and playing 18th century toys and games. The Third Ulster Militia will be demonstrating 18th century camp life. [Read more…] about 18th Century Autumn Festival Set For Senate House, Kingston
Terror on the Hudson: The Burning of Kingston
Terrorism has been a grim feature of our time, but the tactic is far from new. The Revolutionary War, like every war, was marked by wanton violence. One of the cruelest incidents came in October 1777 when the British attacked the city of Kingston, then the capital of New York State.
A massive enemy invasion in 1776 had driven patriot forces from New York City. The delegates who were in the process of writing a state constitution moved away from the fighting, first to White Plains, then to Fishkill. [Read more…] about Terror on the Hudson: The Burning of Kingston
Catskill Railroad’s Great Train Robbery Premiers May 26th
The Catskill Mountain Railroad is set to celebrate classic 1903 silent movie “Great Train Robery” on May 26th with interactive train rides at the Westbrook Station in Kingston.
Trains will leave the Westbrook Station at Kingston Plaza and travel up the Hurley Flats. Excursions includes a stop at a local festival with live music and local vendors. [Read more…] about Catskill Railroad’s Great Train Robbery Premiers May 26th
Friends of Historic Kingston 2018 Season Events
Friends of Historic Kingston (FHK) is set to reopen its doors for the 2018 season beginning Friday and Saturday, May 4 and 5.
This season celebrates Kingston’s landmarks and local history with an exhibit in the FHK Gallery entitled, “Charles Keefe, Colonial Revival Architect, Kingston and New York,” the Fred J. Johnston House Tour, and monthly guided walking tours of the Stockade and Rondout National Historic Districts. [Read more…] about Friends of Historic Kingston 2018 Season Events
Black History in the Hudson Valley Conference Planned
A conference on Black History in the Hudson Valley has been set for Saturday, July 14th, from 9 am to 5:30 pm, in Kingston.
Hosted by the Hudson River Maritime Museum and The Library at the A.J. Williams-Myers African Roots Center, the focus of this conference is the history of Black and African-American residents in the Hudson Valley, including communities and work along the canals and tributaries of the Hudson River. [Read more…] about Black History in the Hudson Valley Conference Planned