Lecture
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Once Ancient Oceans: Hudson River Geology
Hudson River Maritime Museum 50 Rondout Landing, KingstonBefore the first dinosaurs, before the first mammals, just as the very first forests were beginning to form on Earth, the land that makes up New York state today was covered by an ancient ocean. How did the geology formed by this ancient world, nearly 400 million years ago, shape life and commerce along the […]
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Speciesism, The Movie
Rosendale Theatre 408 Main Street, Rosendale, NY, United StatesSpeciesism: The Movie brings viewers face-to-face with the leaders of this developing movement, and fully examines the assumption of human superiority through the lens of Factory Farming. A panel of animal activists, sanctuary caregivers and vegan entrepreneurs follows the film.
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Taking the Air: Vacationing to the Catskills in the 19th Century
Hudson River Maritime Museum 50 Rondout Landing, KingstonThe late 19th century was an era of intense change. To escape the whirlwinds of newly booming cities, many would take vacations into the bucolic Catskill Mountains to stay at grand hotels. Learn how these vacationers would get to their destinations, what clothes they would pack, and what activities awaited them. We will also explore […]
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Crime on the Hudson: Gilded Age Pirates and River Thieves-Lecture and Performance
Hudson River Maritime Museum 50 Rondout Landing, KingstonDo you ever wonder if there were actual pirates on the Hudson River? Come and learn about a wild chapter in Hudson River history when mercenary sloops prowled the waterway, raiding mansions and plundering merchant ships. Who were these river outlaws stirring up chaos…and how did local communities and the law fight back? The evening […]
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Sikena Khadija and Josh Kramb Artist Talk
DRAW 20 Cedar St. (entrance at 24 Iwo Jima Lane), kingstonThe DRAW Gallery presents the closing event for Between Water and Sky by Sikena Khadija. Sikena Khadija and Josh Kramb will give an artist talk in conversation with each other. The talk will consider how place informs identity and how identity shifts within place without always announcing itself. Through dialogue, the artists will examine slowness […]
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