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Experience the Hudson River from colonial times to the present. Meet the authors, scholars, and curators who preserve its legacy and tell its story. Learn about the Dutch, slavery, Washington Irving, Hudson River art, the Gilded Age, and the Rockefellers. See how the ecology changed over the centuries and learn about the plans and ideas for the future. Debate the challenges of the new construction. The program combines art, archaeology, ecology, history, literature and provides a testament to the efforts of small rivertowns to maintain their heritage and identity into the 21st century.
7/21 Hudson River History Symposium, Hastings-on-Hudson Library, Orr Room (9:00-5:00)
10:00 The Lenape: Laurence Hauptman, SUNY New Paltz
11:00 The Croton Aqueduct, Friends of the Croton Aqueduct
1:00 The Hastings’ Waterfront,Friends of Hastings’ Historic Waterfront: walking tour
2:00 Hudson River Art, Ken Maddox, Newington-Cropsey House
3:00 The African American Migration to North: A Case Study, Fred Opie, Marist College
4:00 The Rockefeller Legacy, the Rockefeller Archives
7/22 Hastings-on-Hudson, Croton Aqueduct
Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape
7/23 Irvington, Sunnyside, Lyndhurst, Hudson River Cruise with the Riverkeeper
7/24 Sleepy Hollow, Philipsburg Manor, Old Dutch Burial Ground, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown Lighthouse and the General Motors Plant Site: River Communities from the Industrial Age to the 21st Century
7/25 The Rockefellers: Kykuit, Stone Barn, Rockefeller Archives, Union Church
Dates: July 21-25, 2008
Location: Sleepy Hollow to Hastings-on Hudson
Contact Hours: 40
Cost: $245 (includes five lunches and one dinner)
Cutoff Date: June 21, 2008
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