Lectures

This lecture explores the early history of baseball in Ulster County and the role the region played in the sport’s development during the mid-19th century. Long before professional leagues, baseball took root in river towns like Kingston and Rondout, where dockworkers, tradesmen, and clerks organized clubs and played on open fields. Drawing on newspaper accounts, […]

This event is based on the Peaceful Parent Card Deck, co-written by Pam Perkins, an attachment-based parenting expert. This event will deliver practical, real-world tools parents can immediately use to navigate everyday challenges—from screen time to sibling conflict—while strengthening connection and calm at home.

Author Rebecca Novack joins us to celebrate the publication of her debut novel Murder Bimbo, which Catherine Lacey described as “Gone Girl for the Luigi Mangione era.” The exhilaratingly twisty story of a sex worker turned political assassin on the run, Murder Bimbo is an unputdownable and wholly fresh take on truth, murder, and optics […]

Get ready for spring at Garden Day 2026 - Saturday, April 11, 2026 at the SUNY Ulster campus. The Master Gardener Program of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County presents an all-day event (8:30 – 4:00) that includes a keynote speaker, 16 classes, the Ask a Master Gardener table, local vendors, and plants for sale. […]

The Hudson River Maritime Museum has announced Walkie Talkie with Us, a new and novel series of educational historic strolls and more vigorous walks in the Kingston Rondout area. Led by an HRMM Educator and avid walker, each 1 -3 mile walk will explore a different neighborhood or street in the Kingston waterfront area (Rondout), […]

Dutch history can be elusive – it’s rarely taught in our schools and with so many disparate parts it often follows a meandering, convoluted path and connections are obscured. Historian/filmmaker Stephen Blauweiss brings this history to life in a fun and engaging way, using a vast array of quality images, maps, and timelines. What was […]

Do you ever wish you could write better? Write more easily? Write at all? This is for anyone who has struggled to write a text, a dating app profile, a business plan, a palm card, an application essay, an artist statement, a real estate ad, or a credible explanation about why the cookie jar is […]

“Hudson River Undercover” explores how working-class recreation and private surveillance collided aboard Hudson River steamboat excursions during the early twentieth century. The talk focuses on an investigation report written mere weeks after the onset of federal wartime alcohol prohibition in July 1919 by an undercover agent working for New York’s Committee of Fourteen, an influential […]