Historic Huguenot Street Board and Sponsors Present the 6th Annual Fall Harvest Celebration

Saturday, September 25, 2021

6 to 7 PM

Honoring Vals Osborne in a virtual video presentation

Catering by Main Course Catering

Music by The Michael Hollis Trio

The 6th Annual Fall Harvest Celebration

Guests joined Historic Huguenot Street in celebrating the meaningful stories of the Hudson Valley’s past and the people who keep them alive today. Vals Osborne was honored for her significant contributions to uncovering, preserving, and shining new light on our region’s compelling history. 

Guests experienced the exclusive premiere of an innovative virtual presentation of the 10th Annual Historic Houses on the Land Tour, Historic Houses and Landscapes of Western New Paltz. The 2021 celebration, emceed by Grace Angela Henry, included a delicious boxed dinner and full-color booklet featuring the region’s history and historic houses.

Vals Osborne has an extensive background in the arts and education. Following a decade as a fine art dealer in NYC, she served as Director of Education at Young Presidents Organization and founding director of Sotheby’s Institute, where she created the American Arts Course. During the last 30 years in residential real estate, she has maintained her passion for historic preservation and land conservation through active engagement on the boards of Village Preservation in NYC, and Historic Huguenot Street and the Wallkill Valley Land Trust in New Paltz. 

Historic Houses and Landscapes of Western New Paltz explores the legacy of New Paltz’s farming communities west of the Wallkill: the Springtown, Butterville, and Libertyville hamlets, and the Guilford Neighborhood in Gardiner. Situated on the rich alluvial floodplains and sweeping plateaus above, interspersed with wetlands and wooded areas, western New Paltz lies between Rosendale and Gardiner, and the Wallkill River and the Shawangunk Mountains. Settled predominantly by Huguenots in the 18th and 19th centuries, in an area long inhabited by the Munsee Lenni Lenape, an exception was a small Quaker community that emerged around Butterville at the turn of the 19th-century.