Back from the dead and hungry for your attention, Siren Theatre and the D&H Canal Historical Society welcome you to the second year of Haunted High Falls: Tales from the Canal, a hair-raising, immersive theatre experience. Come explore the 1797 DePuy Tavern and sections of the former D&H Canal. Wake the dead and discover the terrible secret of those who lived, toiled and perished there. Inspired by true tales of hauntings and horror from High Falls and surrounding towns, this is a night you will never forget. 

$26 (a limited number of discounted tickets available upon request) BYOF (please bring your own flashlight!)

Make your reservation today here- https://www.canalmuseum.org/hauntedhf-2024

Back from the dead and hungry for your attention, Siren Theatre and the D&H Canal Historical Society welcome you to the second year of Haunted High Falls: Tales from the Canal, a hair-raising, immersive theatre experience. Come explore the 1797 DePuy Tavern and sections of the former D&H Canal. Wake the dead and discover the terrible secret of those who lived, toiled and perished there. Inspired by true tales of hauntings and horror from High Falls and surrounding towns, this is a night you will never forget. 

$26 (a limited number of discounted tickets available upon request) BYOF (please bring your own flashlight!)

Make your reservation today here- https://www.canalmuseum.org/hauntedhf-2024

Back from the dead and hungry for your attention, Siren Theatre and the D&H Canal Historical Society welcome you to the second year of Haunted High Falls: Tales from the Canal, a hair-raising, immersive theatre experience. Come explore the 1797 DePuy Tavern and sections of the former D&H Canal. Wake the dead and discover the terrible secret of those who lived, toiled and perished there. Inspired by true tales of hauntings and horror from High Falls and surrounding towns, this is a night you will never forget. 

$26 (a limited number of discounted tickets available upon request) BYOF (please bring your own flashlight!)

Make your reservation today here- https://www.canalmuseum.org/hauntedhf-2024

Join our Historian Bill Merchant for a free guided tour of our National Historic Landmark Five Locks Walk on New York’s Path Through History Weekend. Meet at the Mid-Hudson Visitor Center at 2:00pm for hike with history. No advance registration needed.

This season our Historian Bill Merchant will once again be featured on the Hudson River Maritime Museum’s solar powered boat, Solaris. Given on the first Sundays of the months of June through October, he guides participants in a conversation about the many remains of the Rondout’s history that can be seen along the waterfront, as Solaris sails from the Maritime Museum to the Eddyville Dam and back. The trip starts at 4:00pm. Book your seat now, these popular tours sell out quickly. Go to www.hrmm/all-boat-tours.html to reserve your place.

Zali Win on The Tragedy of Burma. Zali is head of Transactional Commodity Finance- North America at Credit Agricole. He is the principal officer of Rondout-Esopus Land Conservancy and board chair of Philander Chase Conservancy. Zali is also founding board chair of Parami University, a new online university directed towards students from Burma that is part of Open Society University Network. He has worked as a volunteer for non­ profit organizations for more than 25 years and currently advises a number of educational and humanitarian NGOs that serve individuals in Burma, Thailand and Indonesia.

Ulster County Historian Geoffrey Miller presents In Search of the Hudson River School of Musicians, which focuses on the major American and foreign-born composers working in the United States in the early through mid-19th century. There was definitely a body of works produced during the period reflective of the ethos of the Hudson River School Artists (the search for the picturesque and the sublime), but it failed to coalesce into a movement because of a number of reasons which he will explore. Immigrant and native-born composers, though, did find employment throughout the region as choral directors for churches, music instructors at local academies, and band directors, leaving behind a record of their activities in sheet music, much of it published locally, with music for the church, school graduations and other public events.

Join our Historian Bill Merchant for a free guided tour of our National Historic Landmark Five Locks Walk as part of the Hudson River Valley Ramble. Meet at the Mid-Hudson Visitor Center at 2:00pm for hike with history. No advance registration needed.

Join our Historian Bill Merchant for a free guided tour of our National Historic Landmark Five Locks Walk as part of the Hudson River Valley Ramble. Meet at the Mid-Hudson Visitor Center at 2:00pm for hike with history. No advance registration needed.

Roebling Historian Professor Paul King presents “John Roebling’s D&H Canal Aqueducts”.

Time and the Valleys: an Exploration of New York City’s Water Systems (and the sacrifices made by local residents to provide New York City with clean water). This talk will explore the fascinating and turbulent history of water, people and the Catskills, specifically the Catskill/Delaware watershed with a focus on the Rondout and Neversink Reservoirs. Boncek will take us back to a time before the reservoir, the endless need of New York City to find a source of clean water and the choice of the sites of the Rondout and Neversink Reservoir. You will learn about the lost towns of Montela, Lackawack and Eureka and how their loss through eminent domain is still felt in the area today.

This season our Historian Bill Merchant will once again be featured on the Hudson River Maritime Museum’s solar powered boat, Solaris. Given on the first Sundays of the months of June through October, he guides participants in a conversation about the many remains of the Rondout’s history that can be seen along the waterfront, as Solaris sails from the Maritime Museum to the Eddyville Dam and back. The trip starts at 4:00pm. Book your seat now, these popular tours sell out quickly. Go to www.hrmm/all-boat-tours.html to reserve your place.

The Delaware & Hudson Canal was an important industrial enterprise in 19th century America, marketing Pennsylvania anthracite coal through its Canal and, later, its extensive railroad network. In this presentation, Bill Merchant tells the story of D&H Canal and its Gravity Railroad.

Beth Forrest will present “What is ‘American Food’”?. She is a Professor at the Culinary Institute of America, the author or editor of numerous books and articles on culinary history, and Board Secretary and Past President of The Association for the Study of Food and Society.

We're in a nation where more salsa than catsup is sold and where tacos compete with burgers even in Idaho and Alabama. And there are 100,000 Chinese restaurants to compete with 100,000 McDonalds'. This phenomena is not confined to the USA. When Britons are polled, they invariably state that their favorite food is "curry".

     Have a nice early dinner of  curry or sushi or Pad Thai or Pizza, and then join us.

     Kevin Zraly, a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the James Beard Foundation, and longtime trustee of the Culinary Institute, will introduce the speaker. Kevin is of course a father of the food and wine revolution in our country and in the world.

This season our Historian Bill Merchant will once again be featured on the Hudson River Maritime Museum’s solar powered boat, Solaris. Given on the first Sundays of the months of June through October, he guides participants in a conversation about the many remains of the Rondout’s history that can be seen along the waterfront, as Solaris sails from the Maritime Museum to the Eddyville Dam and back. The trip starts at 4:00pm. Book your seat now, these popular tours sell out quickly. Go to www.hrmm/all-boat-tours.html to reserve your place.

Join D&H Canal Historian Bill Merchant at the Persen House, where he will answer questions, show images, and discuss the history of the D&H Canal and Gravity Railroad and its relation to Kingston NY.

Paul Misko has been hiking in the Catskills since childhood. Over the years he has learned much about the Catskill forest, and the human history within it. Though his main focus is Woodland Valley, near Phoenicia, he has done research throughout the whole Catskill region.
In 2009 he founded the Catskill 4000 Club, a small hiking group which focuses on history themed hikes and events. He has written articles for Kaatskill Life, and the Catskill Mountain Region Guide. He regularly gives talks on Catskill history, American history, and John Burroughs. He shares his research both in person, and on WIOX radio's "From the Forest", and conducts Catskill trivia quiz shows as well.

His multi-media presentation will be; "The Catskill Tanneries: An Environmental Disaster with a Happy Ending."
Almost every valley in the Catskills was home to a Tannery, an industry which demanded huge supplies of Hemlock bark. This led to the near clear-cutting of most of our mountainsides. Was this a bad thing? Come and hear about the tanneries, how they operated, the men that worked them, and how it all affected the Catskill forests.

Join our Historian Bill Merchant for a free guided tour of our National Historic Landmark Five Locks Walk on New York’s Path Through History Weekend. Meet at the Mid-Hudson Visitor Center at 2:00pm for hike with history. No advance registration needed.

This season our Historian Bill Merchant will once again be featured on the Hudson River Maritime Museum’s solar powered boat, Solaris. Given on the first Sundays of the months of June through October, he guides participants in a conversation about the many remains of the Rondout’s history that can be seen along the waterfront, as Solaris sails from the Maritime Museum to the Eddyville Dam and back. The trip starts at 4:00pm. Book your seat now, these popular tours sell out quickly. Go to www.hrmm/all-boat-tours.html to reserve your place.

The Delaware & Hudson Canal was an important industrial enterprise in 19th century America, marketing Pennsylvania anthracite coal through its Canal and, later, its extensive railroad network. It relied on the labor of marginalized peoples- immigrants, women, children and people of color- to construct and operate its Canal. Historian Bill Merchant has conducted extensive research on the plight of the many marginalized peoples who comprised the vast majority of this workforce. Although women are the most ignored by history, this presentation relates how women contributed to its immense success, using stories from primary sources and many period images.

Associate Professor of Political Science at Marist College Juris Pupcenoks will discuss Russian Disinformation. Prof. Pupcenoks received a prestigious fellowship to study responses to Russian strategic narratives and disinformation at the Academy of International Affairs in Bonn, Germany, in 2023.

The Delaware & Hudson Canal was an important industrial enterprise in 19th century America, marketing Pennsylvania anthracite coal through its Canal and, later, its extensive railroad network. It relied on the labor of marginalized peoples- immigrants, women, children and people of color- to construct and operate its Canal. D&H Canal Historical Society Historian Bill Merchant has done extensive research on these workers. In this presentation, full of great period images, he tells some of their stories.