Hudson Hall in the Hudson Opera House restoration to be celebrated
Saturday, April 22: It’s time for a celebration. The Proprietors Ball marks the grand re-opening of New York State’s oldest theater.
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Friends of Historic Kingston advocate for bluestone preservation in the city
Sometimes we take for granted the things we become accustomed to. Bluestone sidewalks, for example, literally underfoot in most of Kingston, are so much a part of the streetscape they go unnoticed in the hubbub of daily life.
Living history tour at Mills Mansion in Staatsburg marks WWI centennial
Saturday, April 8: To mark the centennial, the Staatsburgh State Historic Site is offering a special themed tour titled “World War I & the End of the Gilded Age.”
Harvey G. Eastman: College founder, mayor and assemblyman who cured ‘the sickly city’ and got the railroad bridge built
One newspaper of the time described thriving but cholera-ridden Poughkeepsie as, “A fine place to live, with fine schools and churches and railroad accommodations, well governed but oh, how sickly.”
Truly historic Stockade exhibit
“Kingston’s Stockade: New Netherlands’ Third City” is the first major change in exhibitry in the main building at the site in many years
Learn more about the wily revolutionary Henry Knox and his HQ in Vails Gate
Knox was a sort of 18th-century Zelig, always in the thick of history-making events.
New life at once-abandoned Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory
While Ulster County has been enjoying the success of Kingston’s Lace Mill artist housing project by RUPCO, the Dutchess County not-for-profit organization Hudson River Housing, Inc. has been busily renovating a three-story brick building known as the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory.
Vassar clandestine suffragist to be honored on centennial of NY women’s suffrage
In 1913, on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, Vassar alumna and lawyer Inez Milholland led a parade through Washington, DC astride a big white horse, wearing a crown and a long white cape, followed by some 10,000 suffragettes. Crowds of men jeered, spat on and harassed the marchers. Milholland was afterwards likened to Joan of Arc.
Abandoned Hudson Valley founders to speak about their romance with ruins
Friday, 3/24: New photographs of abandoned churches, convents and cemeteries will be presented, along with other structures on the verge of being torn down.
The Dead Beat: Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest who tried to reconcile science and religion
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is buried in a small cemetery at the Culinary Institute in Poughkeepsie. “It is doubtful,” Flannery O’Connor wrote, “if any Christian of this century can be fully aware of his religion until he has seen it in the cosmic light which Teilhard has cast upon it.”