Please join us for a discussion of Historic Huguenot Street’s (HHS) three-year NEH-funded project to preserve and digitize significant historical documents from its own archival collections and those of project partners the Haviland-Heidgerd Historical Collection at Elting Memorial Library, the Reformed Church of New Paltz, and the Town of New Paltz. These include legal, financial, and religious records, as well as a wealth of personal letters, which together provide detailed insight into the lives of New Paltz residents and how their communities overlapped and evolved.
Curatorial staff Josephine Bloodgood, Director of Curatorial and Preservation Affairs, Donna Dixon, Digital Librarian and Project Manager, and Beth Patkus, Archivist and Librarian, will give an overview of HHS and the NEH project and its significance in local, state, and national history, discuss the grant process, and demonstrate how to navigate and search the New Paltz Historic Documents online collection, including documents that have been recently translated.
This presentation will be presented entirely online via a link provided after registration.
The New Paltz Historic Documents Project encompasses documents ranging from the mid-1600s to about 1830. With the help of professional conservators and digital imaging technicians, the project partners have conserved, digitized, and made available online at NYHeritage.org more than 24,000 pages of documents. To complement the project, HHS also commissioned translations of Dutch documents (most of which had not been previously translated) by Dr. Jaap Jacobs and Julie van den Hout, supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.
$8 General Admission
$5 Discounted admission for seniors, students, active military personnel and their families, and veterans
FREE for HHS members
The preservation and digitization of these documents has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The translation of Dutch language documents is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.
Sponsored by HKM Employment Attorneys
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.