This tour season, Historic Huguenot Street is excited to be offering several special opportunities for visitors to tour the magnificent Deyo House. These tours will be taking place 2:00-3:00 PM on the second Sunday of each month, throughtout the summer and fall. 

The 1894 renovation of the Deyo House by a descendant of the New Paltz Patentees marked a seminal moment in the history of New Paltz. Our special tour, "Gilding the Lily," will take guests inside the historic Queen Anne style house, looking at the 19th century design influences of the home and speaking to the societal and political themes of the era that allowed for this ostentatious display of wealth. As the 1894 renovation changed how the past was to be interpreted along Huguenot Street, the tour will also explore the earliest efforts to form a historical society on the street.

Tour guide Kevin Cook is a longtime resident of Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) and a frequent volunteer. Cook is an accomplished landscape painter who is strongly influenced by nineteenth century romanticism. He has received a Painting Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts, exhibited at the American Consulate in Hong Kong as part of the Artists in Embassies Program, and has been an educator at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz. Kevin’s work can be seen on the sets of TV’s Billions, as well as on a CD cover by The New York Pops. He is represented in a number of galleries and has a strong regional following. The Hudson Valley Almanac has written that “The Hudson River School of painters would easily recognize Cook as one of their own.”

$18 General Admission

$13 Discounted Admission (For HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, veterans, and kids 13-17 years old)

$8 Children’s Admission (For children 7-12 years old)

Free Admission (For children 6 and under)

Historic Huguenot Street’s programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

This workshop helps participants critically examine the stories told through their collections and consider how narrative choices shape public understanding. Working together in a historic setting, attendees will review interpretive content, identify gaps or assumptions, and experiment with alternative narrative structures that allow for greater complexity and inclusion. Hands-on activities will focus on refining interpretive language, sequencing information, and presenting multiple perspectives clearly and responsibly. Participants will leave with strategies and draft concepts they can use to strengthen and refresh interpretation at their own institutions.

This tour season, Historic Huguenot Street is excited to be offering several special opportunities for visitors to tour the magnificent Deyo House. These tours will be taking place 2:00-3:00 PM on the second Sunday of each month this summer and fall. 

The 1894 renovation of the Deyo House by a descendant of the New Paltz Patentees marked a seminal moment in the history of New Paltz. Our special tour, "Gilding the Lily," will take guests inside the historic Queen Anne style house, looking at the 19th century design influences of the home and speaking to the societal and political themes of the era that allowed for this ostentatious display of wealth. As 1894 renovation changed how the past was to be interpreted along Huguenot Street, the tour will also explore the earliest efforts to form a historical society on the street.

Tour guide Kevin Cook is a longtime resident of Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) and a frequent volunteer. Cook is an accomplished landscape painter who is strongly influenced by nineteenth century romanticism. He has received a Painting Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts, exhibited at the American Consulate in Hong Kong as part of the Artists in Embassies Program, and has been an educator at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz. Kevin’s work can be seen on the sets of TV’s Billions, as well as on a CD cover by The New York Pops. He is represented in a number of galleries and has a strong regional following. The Hudson Valley Almanac has written that “The Hudson River School of painters would easily recognize Cook as one of their own.”

$18 General Admission

$13 Discounted Admission (For HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, veterans, and kids 13-17 years old)

$8 Children’s Admission (For children 7-12 years old)

Free Admission (For children 6 and under)

Historic Huguenot Street’s programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

People of all backgrounds in Ulster County—Africans, Europeans, and the indigenous Esopus—participated in the American Revolution as patriots and loyalists, for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Explore the historic Daniel Hasbrouck House, built in 1721, while learning how the war shaped Black patriots, Dutch loyalists, and other local revolutionaries.

To personalize this 250-year-old story, visitors will be given 'profile cards' - booklets containing the name and information about a local person from that era: such as a free Black man, a Huguenot descendant, or a working-class woman. Guests will follow their individual's story, and others, through the historic Daniel Hasbrouck House, learning the varied motives for joining one side or another over the course of the war in the pursuit of their own happiness.

$17.76 General Admission

$13 Discounted Admission for HHS members, seniors, students, and children under 13

Free for veterans, active military personnel and their families, and children under 7

This program is supported by the Ulster County Clerk’s Office and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.    

People of all backgrounds in Ulster County—Africans, Europeans, and the indigenous Esopus—participated in the American Revolution as patriots and loyalists, for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Explore the historic Daniel Hasbrouck House, built in 1721, while learning how the war shaped Black patriots, Dutch loyalists, and other local revolutionaries.

To personalize this 250-year-old story, visitors will be given 'profile cards' - booklets containing the name and information about a local person from that era: such as a free Black man, a Huguenot descendant, or a working-class woman. Guests will follow their individual's story, and others, through the historic Daniel Hasbrouck House, learning the varied motives for joining one side or another over the course of the war in the pursuit of their own happiness.

$17.76 General Admission

$13 Discounted Admission for HHS members, seniors, students, and children under 13

Free for veterans, active military personnel and their families, and children under 7

This program is supported by the Ulster County Clerk’s Office and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.    

People of all backgrounds in Ulster County—Africans, Europeans, and the indigenous Esopus—participated in the American Revolution as patriots and loyalists, for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Explore the historic Daniel Hasbrouck House, built in 1721, while learning how the war shaped Black patriots, Dutch loyalists, and other local revolutionaries.

To personalize this 250-year-old story, visitors will be given 'profile cards' - booklets containing the name and information about a local person from that era: such as a free Black man, a Huguenot descendant, or a working-class woman. Guests will follow their individual's story, and others, through the historic Daniel Hasbrouck House, learning the varied motives for joining one side or another over the course of the war in the pursuit of their own happiness.

$17.76 General Admission

$13 Discounted Admission for HHS members, seniors, students, and children under 13

Free for veterans, active military personnel and their families, and children under 7

This program is supported by the Ulster County Clerk’s Office and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.    

Join the Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Black History Cultural Center (MWLC), at Historic Huguenot Street, for the 6th Annual Juneteenth Jubilee!

The celebration starts at 3 pm at the Ann Oliver House (5 Broadhead Ave). Then, journey together to Historic Huguenot Street (81 Huguenot Street) for music, dance, readings, and community beginning at 3:30 pm.

Featuring Sister in Spirit of the Hudson Valley, callie mackenzie, the NPHS Jazz Band, Greenway Compost, Energy Dance Company, local elected officials, and special guest, incoming MWLC Board President, Mawulekumi Tokponwey (Mow Lay Ku Me Tok Pon Way).

This event is free. Registration is highly encouraged.

At 5:00 pm, Historic Huguenot Street will be unveiling four new Witness Stones as a part of the multi-year collaborative project with MWLC and the Ulster County Historian to commemorate the first individuals on record to have been enslaved at each of the historic properties at HHS. This year’s markers will commemorate Gerritt, James, Molly, and Hendrick, the first individuals on record to have been enslaved by Jean and Jacob Hasbrouck. These markers will be permanently installed in front of the Jacob (Jean) Hasbrouck House, along with a coinciding interpretive panel.

At 5:30 pm, Ulster County Historian Eddie Moran will be guiding a walking tour of the Broadhead-Church-Mulberry Street neighborhood titled, “Jacob Wynkoop: Building a Free Black Neighborhood.” Black carpenter and Civil War veteran, Jacob Wynkoop, constructed a number of homes for the free Black community of New Paltz in the 19th-century. In addition to telling the story of Jacob and his family, the tour will reveal stories of other African-American families who made the neighborhood their home in the late 19th and first decades of the 20th century, including Margaret Hasbrouck Clow, daughter of John Hasbrouck, one of the first African Americans eligible to vote in New Paltz. The tour also introduces members of the Oliver, Freer, Rose, Banks, and LeFevre families, as well as former slave Judy Jackson.

This tour will last approximately one hour and span a distance of approximately one mile. Please note that this tour will require participants to be on their feet for the entirety of the program. This program is not recommended for individuals with mobility restrictions.

This is a ticketed program with limited availability. Please register in advance!

$12 General Admission

$8 Discounted Admission for HHS members, MWLC members, seniors, students, active-duty military personnel and their families, veterans, and children under 18

Free for children under 13

Historic Huguenot Street’s programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

This tour season, Historic Huguenot Street is excited to be offering several special opportunities for visitors to tour the magnificent Deyo House. These tours will be taking place 2:00-3:00 PM on the second Sunday of each month this summer and fall. 

The 1894 renovation of the Deyo House by a descendant of the New Paltz Patentees marked a seminal moment in the history of New Paltz. Our special tour, "Gilding the Lily," will take guests inside the historic Queen Anne style house, looking at the 19th century design influences of the home and speaking to the societal and political themes of the era that allowed for this ostentatious display of wealth. As 1894 renovation changed how the past was to be interpreted along Huguenot Street, the tour will also explore the earliest efforts to form a historical society on the street.

Tour guide Kevin Cook is a longtime resident of Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) and a frequent volunteer. Cook is an accomplished landscape painter who is strongly influenced by nineteenth century romanticism. He has received a Painting Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts, exhibited at the American Consulate in Hong Kong as part of the Artists in Embassies Program, and has been an educator at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz. Kevin’s work can be seen on the sets of TV’s Billions, as well as on a CD cover by The New York Pops. He is represented in a number of galleries and has a strong regional following. The Hudson Valley Almanac has written that “The Hudson River School of painters would easily recognize Cook as one of their own.”

$18 General Admission

$13 Discounted Admission (For HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, veterans, and kids 13-17 years old)

$8 Children’s Admission (For children 7-12 years old)

Free Admission (For children 6 and under)

Historic Huguenot Street’s programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

A man thought to be a Muslim from Morocco and a German barmaid fleeing poverty are hardly the images we have of New York’s founders. This presentation will introduce the seventeenth-century immigrant couple Anthony and Grietje in all their complexity as both outsiders and colonizers. Married in Amsterdam, they crossed the Atlantic to the newly colonized Lenapehoking. Dutch authorities in New Netherland attacked Anthony for being the Muslim he was not, while crude harbor denizens branded Grietje a whore. The rebellious couple was eventually banished to the “frontier,” to what is now Gravesend Brooklyn, where they and their four daughters farmed and seized land from Native Americans while fighting English colonists from the north. Though now mostly forgotten, the rowdy couple’s descendants include some of the most distinguished names in American social and political history, among them the Vanderbilts and President Warren G. Harding. Tracing the lives of Anthony and Grietje tells a new history of the American family and of immigration, and helps us to conceive of the history of early America beyond the dominant categories of Native, Black, and European.

This presentation will take place in-person at the Crispell Memorial French Church located at 60 Huguenot Street.

Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York is available for purchase on HHS’s online Museum Shop.

Alan Mikhail is the Chace Family Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of six books, most recently Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, he has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

$8 General Admission

$5 Discounted Admission (for HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, and veterans)

This program is sponsored by RBT CPAs LLP.

Historic Huguenot Street’s programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

People of all backgrounds in Ulster County—Africans, Europeans, and the indigenous Esopus—participated in the American Revolution as patriots and loyalists, for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Explore the historic Daniel Hasbrouck House, built in 1721, while learning how the war shaped Black patriots, Dutch loyalists, and other local revolutionaries.

To personalize this 250-year-old story, visitors will be given 'profile cards' - booklets containing the name and information about a local person from that era: such as a free Black man, a Huguenot descendant, or a working-class woman. Guests will follow their individual's story, and others, through the historic Daniel Hasbrouck House, learning the varied motives for joining one side or another over the course of the war in the pursuit of their own happiness.

$17.76 General Admission

$13 Discounted Admission for HHS members, seniors, students, and children under 13

Free for veterans, active military personnel and their families, and children under 7

This program is supported by the Ulster County Clerk’s Office and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.    

The Hudson River played a pivotal role in the Revolutionary War. Through 18th century music and songs, this program brings that history of spies, forts, and battles along the river to life; including the story of General Rochambeau and his French troops uniting with Washington's forces to form the ‘grand march’ that led to Yorktown … and victory!

$15 General Admission

$10 Discounted Admission (for HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, veterans, and children under 18)

$7 Youth Admission (for youth 13-17 years of age)

Free Admission (for children under the age of 13)

Meet the Musicians:

Linda Russell explores history through music.  Having served for many years as a balladeer for the National Park Service at Federal Hall on Wall Street, the site of Washington’s inauguration, Ms. Russell now takes her music to historic sites, schools, and festivals throughout the country.  New York appearances have included Lincoln Center and the Carnegie Hall Folk Festival.  

Christa Patton, historical harpist and early wind specialist, has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and Japan with many of today’s premier early music ensembles, including Piffaro the Renaissance Band, Early Music New York, Boston Camerata, The King’s Noyse, Folger Consort, Newberry Consort, Apollo’s Fire, and Parthenia.

This program is supported by the Ulster County Clerk’s Office and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.    

People of all backgrounds in Ulster County—Africans, Europeans, and the indigenous Esopus—participated in the American Revolution as patriots and loyalists, for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Explore the historic Daniel Hasbrouck House, built in 1721, while learning how the war shaped Black patriots, Dutch loyalists, and other local revolutionaries.

To personalize this 250-year-old story, visitors will be given 'profile cards' - booklets containing the name and information about a local person from that era: such as a free Black man, a Huguenot descendant, or a working-class woman. Guests will follow their individual's story, and others, through the historic Daniel Hasbrouck House, learning the varied motives for joining one side or another over the course of the war in the pursuit of their own happiness.

$17.76 General Admission

$13 Discounted Admission for HHS members, seniors, students, and children under 13

Free for veterans, active military personnel and their families, and children under 7

This program is supported by the Ulster County Clerk’s Office and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.    

This presentation explores the lives of Gerritt, James, Molly, and Hendrick—the earliest recorded individuals to have been enslaved by Jean and Jacob Hasbrouck—tracing the fragmentary records that document their presence in colonial New Paltz. Through close reading of these sources alongside carefully grounded historical context, the program reconstructs aspects of their lived experiences and considers the roles they played in shaping the community. In doing so, it invites a deeper reckoning with the human stories embedded within one of New Paltz’s most iconic historic sites.

This presentation will be presented entirely online via a link sent after registration.

Eddie Moran currently serves as the appointed Historian for Ulster County, NY. Eddie graduated with a B.A. in history from SUNY New Paltz in the Spring of 2020, and began work as a tour guide at Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz while still a student in 2017. He managed historical interpretation full-time at Historic Huguenot Street beginning in 2022, and was appointed Ulster County Historian in September 2024. He is a lifelong resident of the Wallkill River Valley.

$8 General Access

$5 Discounted Access (For seniors students, active military personnel and their families, and veterans)

Free Access for HHS members

Gerritt, James, Molly, and Hendrick are the focus of the 2026 Witness Stone Project collaboration between Historic Huguenot Street, the Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center, and the Ulster County Historian. This year, the project welcomes students from Kingston High School as they engage with this research through field trips and in-classroom work. Their culminating art project will bridge connections between the history of slavery, an analysis of archival documents, and their own experiences as local youth.

Commemorative memorial markers honoring Gerritt, James, Molly, and Hendrick will be installed in front of the Jacob (Jean) Hasbrouck House and unveiled at the Juneteenth Jubilee hosted by the Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center at Historic Huguenot Street on Friday, June 19th.

Historic Huguenot Street’s programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

In this presentation Dr. Stephen T. Staggs will explore the dynamic relationships that developed between the Esopus and Calvinist European peoples living in the Northeast Woodlands in the period up to 1750. He will show that Calvinists relied on their Indigenous neighbors, and that Native Americans secured their survival by unconsciously living out the gospel.

This program will be presented entirely online via a link provided after registration.

Stephen T. Staggs holds a PhD and graduate certificate in Ethnohistory from Western Michigan University. His research focuses on the impact of the interactions and interrelations between Indigenous, African, and European peoples in early modern Europe,  colonial North America, and the Atlantic World. His recently published book is Calvinists & Indians in the Northeastern Woodlands (Amsterdam University Press, 2023).

$8 General Access

$5 Discounted Access

This program will be recorded, access to which will be shared with all registrants the following day.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

HHS invites you to join us on select Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons for “‘Go Back and Get It’: A Historic House Tour Examining Black Impacts and Experiences on Huguenot Street.” Sankofa, which translates to “go back and get it,” is a concept taken from the Akan people of Ghana. It emphasizes the importance of learning from the past, even in instances where history has been erased or forgotten.

Despite the impacts of countless enslaved and free Black residents over centuries of New Paltz’s history, historical writing and programming in the 20th century all too often pushed them to the periphery or avoided their mention entirely. In this program, we will use the concept of Sankofa to guide discussions around reconstructing this previously erased history.

During each tour, HHS intern, Aaliyah Sullivan, will lead guests throughout the National Historic Landmark District and into the Jacob (Jean) Hasbrouck House as we explore Black history on Huguenot Street.

$10 General Admission

$7 Discounted Admission for HHS members, seniors, students, active military members and their families, and veterans

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

HHS invites you to join us on select Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons for “‘Go Back and Get It’: A Historic House Tour Examining Black Impacts and Experiences on Huguenot Street.” Sankofa, which translates to “go back and get it,” is a concept taken from the Akan people of Ghana. It emphasizes the importance of learning from the past, even in instances where history has been erased or forgotten.

Despite the impacts of countless enslaved and free Black residents over centuries of New Paltz’s history, historical writing and programming in the 20th century all too often pushed them to the periphery or avoided their mention entirely. In this program, we will use the concept of Sankofa to guide discussions around reconstructing this previously erased history.

During each tour, HHS intern, Aaliyah Sullivan, will lead guests throughout the National Historic Landmark District and into the Jacob (Jean) Hasbrouck House as we explore Black history on Huguenot Street.

$10 General Admission

$7 Discounted Admission for HHS members, seniors, students, active military members and their families, and veterans

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

HHS invites you to join us on select Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons for “‘Go Back and Get It’: A Historic House Tour Examining Black Impacts and Experiences on Huguenot Street.” Sankofa, which translates to “go back and get it,” is a concept taken from the Akan people of Ghana. It emphasizes the importance of learning from the past, even in instances where history has been erased or forgotten.

Despite the impacts of countless enslaved and free Black residents over centuries of New Paltz’s history, historical writing and programming in the 20th century all too often pushed them to the periphery or avoided their mention entirely. In this program, we will use the concept of Sankofa to guide discussions around reconstructing this previously erased history.

During each tour, HHS intern, Aaliyah Sullivan, will lead guests throughout the National Historic Landmark District and into the Jacob (Jean) Hasbrouck House as we explore Black history on Huguenot Street.

$10 General Admission

$7 Discounted Admission for HHS members, seniors, students, active military members and their families, and veterans

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Balladeer Linda Russell and instrumentalist Christa Patton explore the life of the common soldier of the Revolution as seen in song.  Playing guitar, dulcimer, pipe and tabor, flute and bagpipe, the duo will sing camp songs, songs of mutiny and desertion, parodies, patriotic anthems and ballads. “Nothing is more agreeable and ornamental than good music; every officer, for the credit of his corps, should take care to provide it”  wrote George Washington who understood the power of music.  This program looks at the tunes, both military and secular, that were part of soldier’s lives.

$15 General Admission

$10 Discounted Admission (for HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, veterans, and children under 18)

$7 Youth Admission (for youth 13-17 years of age)

Free Admission (for children under the age of 13)

Meet the Musicians:

Linda Russell explores history through music.  Having served for many years as a balladeer for the National Park Service at Federal Hall on Wall Street, the site of Washington’s inauguration, Ms. Russell now takes her music to historic sites, schools, and festivals throughout the country.  New York appearances have included Lincoln Center and the Carnegie Hall Folk Festival.  

Christa Patton, historical harpist and early wind specialist, has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and Japan with many of today’s premier early music ensembles, including Piffaro the Renaissance Band, Early Music New York, Boston Camerata, The King’s Noyse, Folger Consort, Newberry Consort, Apollo’s Fire, and Parthenia.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

HHS invites you to join us on select Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons for “‘Go Back and Get It’: A Historic House Tour Examining Black Impacts and Experiences on Huguenot Street.” Sankofa, which translates to “go back and get it,” is a concept taken from the Akan people of Ghana. It emphasizes the importance of learning from the past, even in instances where history has been erased or forgotten. Despite the impacts of countless enslaved and free Black residents over centuries of New Paltz’s history, historical writing and programming in the 20th century all too often pushed them to the periphery or avoided their mention entirely. In this program, we will use the concept of Sankofa to guide discussions around reconstructing this previously erased history.

During each tour, HHS intern, Aaliyah Sullivan, will lead guests throughout the National Historic Landmark District and into the Jacob (Jean) Hasbrouck House as we explore Black history on Huguenot Street.

$10 General Admission

$7 Discounted Admission for HHS members, seniors, students, active military members and their families, and veterans

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

This show highlights the role of women in America from the 18th century to the 19th amendment as seen in popular song. Accompanied by mountain and hammered dulcimers, flute, and guitar, Linda Russell & Companie sing broadsides, laments, work songs, love songs, parlor melodies, and suffrage anthems. The songs reflect the changing status of women in society. The trio intersperses the music with excerpts from women's diaries and letters.  Included are stories of Deborah Samson, who fought as a soldier in Washington's army, and women such as Elisabeth Cady Stanton from Johnstown, NY and Alice Paul from Mount Laurel, NJ - who led the fight for Women's Suffrage.

$15 General Admission

$10 Discounted Admission (for HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, veterans, and children under 18)

$7 Youth Admission (for kids 13-17 years of age)

Free Admission (for children under the age of 13)

Meet the Musicians:

Linda Russell explores history through music.  Having served for many years as a balladeer for the National Park Service at Federal Hall on Wall Street, the site of Washington’s inauguration, Ms. Russell now takes her music to historic sites, schools, and festivals throughout the country.  New York appearances have included Lincoln Center and the Carnegie Hall Folk Festival.  

Margery Cohen is a soprano whose work in musical theater has received Grammy and Obie nominations, and whose credits include the New York production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill.  Most recently she served as an understudy in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl.

Christa Patton, historical harpist and early wind specialist, has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and Japan with many of today’s premier early music ensembles, including Piffaro the Renaissance Band, Early Music New York, Boston Camerata, The King’s Noyse, Folger Consort, Newberry Consort, Apollo’s Fire, and Parthenia.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

How early New Yorkers experienced the American Revolution and began to think of themselves as American was profoundly shaped by their understanding of gender in the 18th century. From the quiet tea table at home to violent street protests, from Indigenous peoples' trade in early European settlements to petitions to the Crown, from military enlistment before the Declaration to pension petitions after the war, men and women understood their rights and responsibilities as American citizens shaped by how they thought about gender. In this talk based on a new book in progress, Dr. Maeve Kane (University at Albany, SUNY) will discuss how gender shaped the experience of the American Revolution for Black, white, and Indigenous families in this pivotal time for our nation's history.

This program will be presented entirely online via a link provided after registration.

Maeve Kane is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at the University at Albany.  Her first book, Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade and Exchange Across Three Centuries with Cornell University Press, uses digital social network analysis, material culture, and Indigenous studies methods to argue that Haudenosaunee women used clothing to protect their nations’ sovereignty.  She is the co-author of a new textbook on American women’s history in addition to several articles on material culture, women's history, and Indigenous history. Her current project examines how objects are used to express ideas about race, gender, and nationhood in commemorations of the American Revolution. Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New-York Historical Society, and the New York State Archives, and she is a member of the Organization for American Historians Distinguished Lecturer program.

$8 General Access

$5 Discounted Access

This program will be recorded, access to which will be shared with all registrants the following day.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Drawn by promises of freedom, thousands of Black men, women, and children crossed the British lines during the American Revolution. By the war's end, the "Inspection Roll of Negroes" listed over 3,000 Black Loyalists in New York, destined for Nova Scotia - including several Ulster County freedom seekers. Highlighting archival documents and historic maps, "Escaping Ulster" traces the flights of three local families as they escape enslavement, find refuge with the British in New York City, and struggle to make a new life on a foreign island.   

This program will be presented entirely online via a link provided after registration.

Zachary Veith is the Tours & Interpretation Coordinator for Historic Huguenot Street. He holds an M.A. in Museum Studies from University College London and currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Greater Hudson Heritage Network. His research on nineteenth-century Black communities has been published in journals across the region. A lifelong resident of the Hudson River Valley, Veith is a descendant of the region’s Huguenot and Dutch colonizers.

$8 General Access

$5 Discounted Access (for seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, and veterans)

FREE for HHS members

Photo Credit: Inspection Roll of Negroes Book No. 2" (NAID: 5890797). Courtesy of the National Archives.

 This program will be recorded, access to which will be shared with all registrants the following day.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

This lecture explores the fabled “Book of Negroes,” created by English officers to enumerate Black Loyalists leaving New York City for Nova Scotia, London, and other parts of the world in the Fall of 1783. After a discussion of the book’s origins, Dr. Hodges will reveal the fate of these Black Loyalists, and the long-term significance of the dispute between the American government and its English counterpart, with some unexpected twists.

Graham Russell Gao Hodges is the George Dorland Langdon, Jr. Professor of History and Africana Studies at Colgate University. He is the author of many books, including the 2nd edition of the ‘Book of Negroes’ published by Fordham University Press in 2021.

This presentation will be presented entirely online via a link provided after registration.

$8 General Access

$5 Discounted Access (for HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, and veterans)

This program will be recorded, access to which will be shared with all registrants the following day.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

In July 1680, New Paltz Patentee Christian Deyo purchased an enslaved African man named Jack from a New York City physician named Hartman Wessels. Nine years later, Christian's son, New Paltz Patentee Pierre Deyo, purchased an enslaved African woman named Betty from a trafficker of enslaved people in New York City named James Barré. These are the first recorded purchases of enslaved people by the European founders of New Paltz following the community's establishment in 1677, making Jack and Betty the earliest recorded African residents of the town.  

In June of 2025, HHS, the Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center, and the Ulster County Historian commemorated Jack and Betty’s lives, sacrifices, and bravery by installing permanent memorial markers on Historic Huguenot Street. 

On Saturday, February 7th, 2026, with us, the MWLC will honor and remember the lives of Jack and Betty at the site of their commemorative Witness Stone markers, on the property where they once lived on Historic Huguenot Street. The event will take place next to the markers' location, adjacent to the Deyo House, on the portion of Huguenot Street closed to street traffic.

In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be postponed to the following day: Sunday, February 8th, 2026. 

The program will include African drumming, libation, presentations, a prayer of remembrance, and offerings to the ancestors. 

This is a free community event. Please let us know you’re coming by RSVP’ing here: 

Jack & Betty’s Witness Stones research, development, and installation were sponsored by Devine Insurance and partially funded by the Deyo Family Association.

HHS’s public programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

This talk will explore the lives and experiences of Loyalists from the Hudson Valley during the Revolutionary War. Although many colonists supported American independence, a large minority favored remaining in the British Empire. Loyalists in the Hudson Valley faced an especially fraught situation, with much of the war raging in and around the region. We will learn who these Loyalists were, what their war experiences were like, and what happened to them after the Revolution.

 This presentation will be presented entirely online via a link sent after registration.

Kieran J. O'Keefe is an Assistant Professor of History at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. His book, Suffering for the Crown: The Hudson Valley Loyalists, Violence, and Forced Migration in Revolutionary North America, is forthcoming with the University of Virginia Press.

$8 General Access

$5 Discounted Access (for HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, and veterans)

This program will be recorded, access to which will be shared with all registrants the following day.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

This year marks the 6th Annual New Paltz Hoopla: Winter Carnival. From 12 PM to 3 PM, HHS will play venue to music performed by New Paltz High School Caroling Choir, a doggie holiday costume contest, Little Brays of Sunshine, food vendors, and numerous activities for children of all ages (i.e., arts & crafts, bouncy houses [weather permitting], face painting, outdoor carnival games, etc.).

The rain/inclement weather date will be December 14th. 

Schedule of Events (Subject to change):

12:00 – 12:15                Welcome

1:00 – 1:45                     NPHS Caroling Choir

2:00 -2:15                      Children’s Costume Parade 

2:30 – 2:45                    Holiday Dog Costume Contest

3:00                                 Thank you!

This event is hosted in partnership with Town of New Paltz Office for Community Wellness, New Paltz Youth Program, and Thriving Together Town of New Paltz.

The Winter Carnival is free and open to the public. Registration is not required, but please consider RSVP’ing below.

This program is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, HHS and the Delaware Tribe of Indians invite you to join us for this Lenape-centered presentation on the difference between cultural appreciation and appropriation. This program will reveal why misuse of Native culture causes harm and how to engage respectfully with Indigenous traditions, art, and identity. Participants will learn practical ways to honor culture with integrity and reciprocity.

This presentation will be presented entirely online via a link provided after registration.

Gianna Barone is Lenape, an enrolled citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, and serves as the Tribe’s Cultural Education Department Generalist. Her work focuses on Lenape cultural revitalization, food sovereignty, and intergenerational learning. She leads programs such as CALO: Community At Large Outreach and ReConnection, which strengthens connections among Lenape citizens across regions. Gianna is dedicated to sustaining cultural knowledge, language, and traditions that honor the continuity and resilience of the Lenape people.

$8 General Access

$5 Discounted Access

This program will be recorded and made available to all registrants the following day.

Photo Caption: Enrolled Lenape Delaware citizens performing cultural dance at the 2025 New Netherland Marketplace
This program is presented in partnership with the Delaware Tribe of Indians and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

English Baroque music offers a combination of charm, cosmopolitanism, and musical greatness.  From the sweet, lilting elegance of the dance tunes in Playford’s Dancing Master to the musical brilliance of Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) and George Frederic Handel (1685 – 1759), the English Baroque thrillingly mixes home-grown musical creativity with contributions by composers from abroad.  Presenting this repertoire will be Ruthanne Schempf, keyboard; Susan Seligman, cello; and Gregory Bynum, recorder.

$14 General Admission

$10 Discounted Admission (For HHS members, seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, and veterans)

MUSICIAN BIOGRAPHIES

Susan Seligman has been principal cellist with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic since 1984.  She is a member of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Quartet, the piano trio Innisfree, the Poné Ensemble featuring new and American chamber music, Hudson Valley Baroque, and the Hudson Consort.  In 1999, Ms. Seligman was favorably reviewed in the New York Times for her performance in works of Robert Starer.  In the summer, Ms. Seligman is on the faculty of the Chamber Music Institute at Ithaca College.  During the academic year, she is on the faculty of SUNY New Paltz and has a busy private cello studio as well.  Her discography includes CDs on the Albany, Soundspells, and Parnassus Records labels.  A recent recording with Innisfree of the music of Henry Martin includes Sonata No. 1 for Solo Cello, written for her by the composer.

Ruthanne Schempf, harpsichordist, is an active chamber and solo musician in the Hudson Valley. She is on the faculties of SUNY-New Paltz and Interlochen Arts Camp, and is a member of the Poné Ensemble for New Music.  She is also a co-founder of the non-profit Hudson Valley Society for Music which produces Potluck Concerts and an annual Hudson Valley BachFest.  Dr. Schempf maintains a busy piano teaching studio and is the organist and choir director at the Cornwall Presbyterian Church. She earned undergraduate and masters degrees from Michigan State University and a D.M.A. from the Manhattan School of Music.  Her solo piano recording, An American Mirage: Exotic Piano Images, was released in March of 2009 on the MSR Classics label.  In her spare time, she likes to ski, garden, and dabble in various domestic activities.  She is married to oboist, Joël Evans.

Gregory Bynum, recorder player, has studied with Marion Verbruggen, Han Tol, and Mattias Weilenman. He has performed with members of the Mannes School of Music and SUNY New Paltz music faculties, and with Yale music faculty including Jaap Schroeder.  Mr. Bynum has taught at the Bloomingdale House of Music in Manhattan and has performed at many venues including the Morris-Jumel Mansion, the Middletown Thrall Library, and the Old Stone House in Brooklyn.  As a member of Hudson Valley Baroque, he has performed in New Paltz, NY at Historic Huguenot Street and SUNY New Paltz.  As a guest performer with Brooklyn Baroque, he can be heard on the ensemble’s recordings Northern Lights, The Pleasures of the French, and a recording of Beth Anderson’s music entitled The Praying Mantis and the Bluebird (MSR Classics).  He has appeared on WKCR and appears on the Quill Classics YouTube channel with Ensemble Luini.  Mr. Bynum is Associate Professor in the School of Education at SUNY New Paltz, and the founder of the Music at Morris-Jumel chamber music series.

 Sponsored by the Kvistad Foundation.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

On Monday, November 10th, homeschool families are invited to a special Open House Day at Historic Huguenot Street! Join us for a fun day filled with history, community building, and resources for you and your family. Attendees can visit a replica wigwam, tour the colonial Daniel (“Abraham”) Hasbrouck House, play colonial and modern era games, and make a craft to take home.

The Open House will take place from 10am-2pm, with free tours of the Daniel Hasbrouck House offered at 10:30am, 11:30am, and 1:00pm. All other educational activities and crafts will be set up for families to explore at their own pace.

Each participating family will also receive a coupon for 10% off at The Museum Shop located in the DuBois Fort at HHS, valid only on November 10th.

This event is intended to provide local homeschooling families with a space to connect with each other. Families will also have the opportunity to chat with a librarian from Elting Memorial Library about additional resources!

Children's tickets (ages 5-18) are $20 each, adults' tickets (+18) are $5 each, children under 5 years will be admitted for free.  Children must be accompanied by their adult caretakers at all times. 

For more information about the content or accessibility of the event, please contact Sarah McCully at sarahmccully@huguenotstreet.org or 845-870-0832.

This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.