Art, Industry, and Scientific Innovation in 19th Century Peekskill (virtual)
Peekskill in the 1800’s was a nexus for artistry, innovation, and invention in the fields of communication and manufacturing. Its scenic location at the entrance to the Hudson Highlands made it a favorite for painters of the Hudson River School, the best-known local artist being Frank Anderson.
In his virtual lecture, presented by the Putnam History Museum, local historian and industrial archaeologist Kirk Moldoff will look at the development and interrelationships of this community of manufacturers, innovators, inventors, artists and artisans that existed through the rise and fall of industrial Peekskill.
Kirk Moldoff is a medical illustrator and animator with a passion for industrial archaeology, local history and cast iron stoves.
History: The Seneca Prophet Who Saved a Nation (virtual)
The Poughkeepsie Public Library presents a program by Michael T. Keene is the startling true story of Handsome Lake, who claimed to have been visited by three spirit messengers that changed not only his life, but also the lives of his people.
City of Poughkeepsie Historic District & Landmark Preservation Commission meeting
The Historic District and Landmark Preservation Committee is a group of city residents appointed by the Mayor who are charged with reviewing all plans for the moving, exterior construction, alteration or repair, landscaping or demolition or any change in the exterior appearance of places, sites, structures or buildings designated landmarks or landmark sites and all places, sites, structures or buildings wholly or partly within the boundaries of a historic district. The Commission also considers applications for designation of historic landmarks and/or districts and makes recommendations regarding those applications to the Common Council.
Join the public meeting in person at City Hall, 62 Civic Center Plaza, in the Council Chambers on the 3rd floor.
Born This Way: Stories of Identity at Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill (virtual)
This live online event, the second in a series of four social justice/human right-focused programs, engages the power of true storytelling to spotlight the impact of systemic injustice.
Join in the final days of Pride month for an evening of storytelling, and intimate conversation exploring the search for recognition of one’s identity and orientation and the struggle to be seen as a human being. Hosted by Wesley Dixon, Vassar College, TMI Project storytelling performances by Erik, Julie and Windy, Q&A/discussion with storytellers and GLSEN Mid-Hudson.
Advanced registration required; 18 and over, please.
A People’s Geography of the Hudson Valley
Please join the students in Geography 286: A People’s Geography of the Hudson Valley for a presentation on the various sites that they have investigated and written about for a soon-to-be-established online, historical-geographical guide to the Hudson Valley. All are welcome!
Journeys Toward Justice – History Revoiced: Opening the Classroom to Stories that Change Our World
Journeys Toward Justice is a multi-college collaboration spotlighting changemakers across the country who are driving justice and equity forward. The goal is to connect students, partners, and communities with one another and help us all understand the local and historical contexts of universal social justice issues and the work communities are doing.
History Revoiced: Opening the Classroom to Stories that Change Our World
The genocide that happened to Native peoples in California has been conclusively documented. But we have barely begun to confront its cultural, historical, and emotional impact.The University of California, Berkeley, sits on indigenous land and still holds over 10,000 unrepatriated ancestors. In the wake of this unacknowledged genocide in which higher education has been complicit, how can university classrooms and students grapple with this legacy? Can classrooms truly partner with native communities and educators to imagine new institutional spaces and ways of learning? This multi-year partnership between a Berkeley class and Tribal leaders from the Eastern Sierra’s Payahuunadü (renamed the Owens Valley) asks these questions.
Speakers: Kathy Bancroft, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Reservation and Cultural Resources Monitor for Owens Lake, Pat Steenland, Continuing Lecturer for the College Writing Programs at UC Berkeley, and UC Berkeley students Sera Smith and Sage Alexander
Hosted by the University of California, Berkeley’s Public Service Center
Journeys Toward Justice – The Real Montgomery Bus Boycott
Journeys Toward Justice is a multi-college collaboration spotlighting changemakers across the country who are driving justice and equity forward. The goal is to connect students, partners, and communities with one another and help us all understand the local and historical contexts of universal social justice issues and the work communities are doing.
The Real Montgomery Bus Boycott
Marco McWilliams is an educator and public scholar of African-American history and is currently a program coordinator at Brown University’s Swearer Center for Public Service. McWilliams is a Mississippi-born activist, educator, and is the founding organizer and former deputy director of the Providence Africana Reading Collective (PARC). He is also a founding director of the Black Studies program at DARE, and an organizer with Behind the Walls, DARE’s prison abolition committee. McWilliams is the founder of the Providence Black Studies Freedom School, a free political education project focused on providing theoretically grounded and engaged historical instruction for members of Providence’s diverse communities. The Real Montgomery Bus Boycott will examine how working-class Black women organized to break the chains of southern segregation and advanced the struggle for Black liberation.
Speakers: Marco McWililams, Public Scholar, Published Writer, and Activist
Hosted by Brown University’s Swearer Center for Public Service
Journeys Towards Justice – Confronting the Past
Journeys Toward Justice is a multi-college collaboration spotlighting changemakers across the country who are driving justice and equity forward. The goal is to connect students, partners, and communities with one another and help us all understand the local and historical contexts of universal social justice issues and the work communities are doing.
Confronting the Past: Stanford University and Its Fraught History with the Ohlone and Chinese
The Stanford University campus, comprising over 8,100 acres, was once home to an estimated 10,000 Muwekma-Ohlone Indians living in small communities throughout the Bay Area. Understanding of the history of Stanford University, and the land upon which it sits, is deeply contested and has far-reaching implications for how we see the institution today. As an institution that stands for humanistic values, it must contend with troubling elements in its past that profoundly challenge those values and hinder the development of the University as fully inclusive and welcoming. Our talks will present new insights into the lands of Stanford, the Stanford family and early University, and the institution’s relationship with Native peoples, Chinese, and other communities that were long excluded from the traditional narrative of the rise of the University.
Speakers: Gordon Chang, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Under Graduate Education and the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities, and Laura Jones, Director Of Heritage Services And University Archaeologist
Hosted by Stanford University’s Haas Center for Public Service.
Local History Presents: Great Houses of the Hudson Valley
A special presentation from The Poughkeepsie Public Library with Historian Shannon Butler where we will showcase some of the great houses of the Hudson Valley. We will examine homes that have stood the test of time, homes that are long gone, and homes that are no longer loved. We will also look at some of the influential people who called these places home.