The Burning of Kingston, hosted October 13, 14 and 15th, is a fun and free weekend-long commemoration with several reenactments of actual historical events of 1777. Also includes a colonial grand ball, cemetary ghost tours, bucket brigade contests, exhibitions, militia and redcoat camp drills and tours, games and more at numerous locations throughout the beautiful city of Kingston New York.
By Chronogram Staff
Sep 28, 2017
Tags: kingston reenactment revolutionary war
Registration is open for “Women in Politics: Past, Present & Future,” a conference commemorating the centennial of women’s suffrage in New York, which will begin on Friday, April 21, at the FDR Library in Hyde Park, N.Y., and will continue on Saturday, April 22, at SUNY New Paltz.
By Chronogram Staff
Apr 6, 2017
Tags: SUNY New Paltz FDR Library Women's Suffrage
Following a 2016 exhibit about Pearl Harbor, "Images of Internment" is part of a larger series to mark major moments in America's involvement leading up to and through World War II scheduled through 2020.
By Carolyn Quimby
Mar 1, 2017
Tags: World War 2 Franklin D. Roosevelt Japanese-American
"Labor of love" is a term far more bandied about that it probably deserves, but in the case of Vernon Benjamin's prodigious, two-volume history of the Hudson Valley, it's entirely accurate: the author's love for this place is as abundant as the book's page count. The second volume, The History of the Hudson River Valley: From the Civil War to Modern Times (Overlook Press, 2016) is a fittingly obsessive chronicle of the further populating of this remarkable place.
By Jana Martin
Sep 1, 2016
Tags: Hudson Valley Vernon Benjamin Art & Culture Inquiring Minds Saugerties
In the 1790s, Ulster County was one of the top four slave-holding counties in New York State.
By Diana Waldron
Jun 1, 2016
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