The Gathering 2022

Saturday, August 13th, 2022

HHS invites descendants of Huguenot Street to The Gathering, a triennial event that highlights the site’s unique and diverse history.  The Gathering will be taking place on Saturday, August 13th, 2022. Registration includes continental breakfast, special topic tours, presentations, catered lunch, a concert in the Crispell Memorial French Church, and more! The day’s events will conclude with an exclusive dinner, for an additional fee, at Garvan’s Gastropub.

Registration deadline is Monday, August 8th, 2022

$45 Registration

Historic Huguenot Street strives to make its grounds, exhibits, and programs accessible to everyone, wherever possible, with understandable limitations given the historic nature of the buildings and grounds. For more information about the accessibility of museum houses, please contact the Main Office at (845) 255-1660 or info@huguenotstreet.org. It is helpful to inform us in advance if you plan to attend with someone who has limited mobility so that we can ensure we are prepared.

Schedule of Events

8:30 AM                     

Check-in opens at the DuBois Fort Visitor Center
Continental breakfast available under the event tent located between the Bevier-Elting House and the Deyo House

9:00 AM                     

Welcoming Remarks from HHS President Liselle LaFrance

9:30 AM                     

Registrants may choose to take one out of three special tour offerings listed below. Each tour lasts approximately one hour. The same three tour options will run for a second time in the afternoon. Therefore, guests will have the opportunity to attend an additional tour of interest.

#1. HHS’s 2022 Standard Historic House Tour

The 2022 Historic House Tour, which is offered to the general public 5 days/week, takes visitors into the replica Esopus Munsee wigwam, the Crispell Memorial French Church, and the Jean Hasbrouck House. On this tour, visitors consider how individuals from New Paltz’s diverse past were affected by their physical environment and social status.

#2. Jacob Wynkoop Neighborhood Walking Tour led by HHS Tours & Interpretation Coordinator, Eddie Moran

This unique experience takes guests on a nearly one-mile tour through the Broadhead-Church-Mulberry Street neighborhood where 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.

#3. Women’s History Tour

Guests will be guided through our National Historic Landmark District and introduced to the lives and stories of historical women of various backgrounds, including a Native American woman who signed the 1677 Esopus-Huguenot Land Agreement, a colonial woman managing her own estate, a formerly enslaved woman who was one of the first Black landowner in New Paltz, and others.

10:45 AM                               

#1. Preservation Tour

#2. Readings from Jesse Elting DuBois’ memorable newspaper columns “PLACES & PEOPLE” (1970-1975) and “The Good Old Days” (1976-1977), read by Jesse’s daughter Dina DuBois and audience members

Jesse Elting DuBois was a tenth generation direct descendant of the French Huguenots and Holland Dutch who settled New York’s Wallkill Valley in the mid seventeenth century. He was born and raised in New Paltz in the Victorian House on Orchard Heights built for and belonging to his grandfather. His 1970s writings, published in the local newspapers, paint a vibrant picture of country life from around 1905 through the mid-thirties.

These writings have been lovingly published by his daughter, Dina DuBois, in honor of the 102nd anniversary (2022) of the Elting Memorial Library in the old stone house on Main Street, New Paltz.

12:00 PM                               

Lunch provided by Lola’s Café in New Paltz. (Please inform us of any dietary restrictions by August 8th)

Lunch Menu

12:15 PM

Remarks from HHS Board Chair Mary Etta Schneider

1:00 PM                                 

Classical guitarist (and former HHS Director and Archivist/Librarian) Eric J. Roth will perform a concert at the Crispell Memorial French Church

The music will be performed on a beautiful, authentic reproduction instrument modeled after one built in 1830. Eric will provide information about the instrument, repertoire, composers, and history. The program will include music from 16th-century France and Italy, 18th-century Spain, 19th-century Vienna, and 20th century France. Composers to be represented include Capirola, da Milano, Sanz, Mertz, Presti, and others. Eric will also perform his own original composition, Pavane.

2:00 PM                                 

#1. Historic House Tour starts at the DuBois Fort Visitor Center, led by HHS Staff

#2. Jacob Wynkoop Neighborhood Walking Tour led by HHS Tours & Interpretation Coordinator, Eddie Moran

#3. Women’s History Tour

3:15 PM   

#1. Preservation Tour                              

#2. “A Tale of Two Paintings” retelling by Josephine Bloodgood

This engaging presentation will highlight two paintings by 19th-century American portrait artist, Ammi Phillips, that were stolen and missing from HHS for fifty years. The two portraits, returned with the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, depict prominent New Paltz residents Dirck D. Wynkoop (1738-1827) and his wife Annatje Eltinge (1748-1827). Hear Josephine relay the story of the paintings’ shocking theft and amazing recovery.

5:30 PM                                 

Dinner at Garvan’s Gastropub

This is an exclusive dinner opportunity, limited to 20 guests, for an additional fee of $72 per person. Dinner will be served on the front porch of Garvan’s Gastropub, which occupies the Solomon Eltinge House, built by Abram Eltinge in 1759.

To see the evening’s fixed menu, click here.

Places to Stay

Hampton Inn by Hilton New Paltz 
The 1850 House Inn & Tavern
Americas Best Value Inn*

*Americas Best Value Inn is offering a special discounted rate for registrants attending The Gathering. Registrants MUST call the front desk to book their stay and use a unique discount code. This code will be provided in your registration confirmation email.

Refreshments have been generously provided by DuBois Farms, Tops Friendly Markets, and Starbucks.

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 program is funded in part by a Humanities New York SHARP Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal American Rescue Plan Act.

Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.