Join the Margaret Wade-Lewis Center, HHS, and other local community organizations*, for a Buffet-style lunch, followed by Main Tent performances with speakers, dancers, storytellers, live local music, and drummers.
There will also be a Children’s Tent featuring: music, storytellers, a double-dutch lesson, and lots of games and crafts!
Speakers will include Esi Lewis, Founder, Dr. Margaret Wade Lewis Black History & Cultural Center at the Ann Oliver House, Albert Cook, New Paltz High School History Teacher, storytellers April Armstrong and Rev. Evelyn Clarke. MC for the afternoon will be Dr. Anthony Dandridge, SUNY New Paltz Dept. of Black Studies, New Paltz.
Music at Historic Huguenot Street will include: DJ Drew Andrews, and African drumming and drum circle, Center for Creative Education, Kingston, KJ Denhert, Jennifer Poroyé, and other musicians/singers as well!
A Fifty/Fifty Raffle will take place.
Walking Tours of Jacob Wynkoop Neighborhood will take place throughout the afternoon with Eddie Moran, HHS Tours & Interpretation Manager. These will be ticketed and cost: $8 for general admission, $5 for HHS members, military, veterans, seniors, students, and kids under 13. Free for under age 6. Register here.
Guided historic house tours featuring the replica Esopus Munsee wigwam, the European community’s original burying ground, the reconstructed 1717 French Church, and the Jean Hasbrouck House led by HHS tour guides will take place at 10:30 AM, 12:00 PM, and 2:30 PM. These will be ticketed and cost: $15 for general admission, $12 for HHS members, military, veterans, seniors, students, and kids under 13. Free for under age 6. Register here.
A free exhibition at the DuBois Fort Visitor Center will be available.
The Old Village: The Evolving Neighborhood of Huguenot Street circa 1830, will highlight the lives of free and indentured Black families in the years following New York’s legal abolition of slavery. Ongoing from June 10-August 31 during Visitor Center regular open hours.Ann Oliver House, the future home of the Margaret Wade-Lewis Center, will be discussed by Kate Hymes, including its history and plans for the House’s future.
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*Other local community organizations include: Arts Mid-Hudson, Center for Creative Education of Kingston, Elting Memorial Library, DR. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center for Black History and Culture, Master’s Touch Ministries, New Paltz Rural Cemetery, New Paltz United Methodist Church, SUNY New Paltz Black Studies Department, Unison Arts Center, and the Village of New Paltz