Don't miss "The New York Campaign of 1776: 250 Years Later." Saturday, August 29. 1:30-2:30PM at the Stony Point Battlefield State Historic Site. Just weeks after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the British Army and Navy conquered the New York City area in a sweeping campaign with a handful of hair-raising battles, testing […]
Don't miss "The World of Rebecca Franks!" Saturday, September 5. 1:30-2:30PM at the Stony Point Battlefield State Historic Site. Site Interpreter Joanne Stein-Kohler has studied the Jewish experience in America in the years leading up to and after the American Revolution, through the lens of Rebecca Franks, the “Jewish Belle” of Philadelphia who married General […]
Join us at Stony Point Battlefield for a presentation of "Sober, Industrious Women: Wives of British Soldiers in the American Revolution!" Saturday, September 19. 1:30-2:30PM. Almost one-eighth of British soldiers were married to women who lived with them in garrisons and traveled with them on campaigns. Often disparaged as mere camp followers, these women were […]
Don't miss Drama from the Past's performance of "In the Shadow of the Gallows: The Trial of Joshua Hett Smith!" Saturday, September 26. 2-3PM. Join performers Gary Petagine and Sean Grady as they present their new historical play which brings to light the role that a local Haverstraw man and the King’s Ferry (between Stony […]
Join us at the Stony Point Battlefield State Historic Site for a presentation of Daring Revolutionary Women: Real & Legend. Saturday, August 22. 1:30PM-2:30PM. History has many stories about male heroics during the American Revolution, but not many in which female courage was displayed. This illustrated lecture by Site Interpreter Susan Overgard will highlight a […]
Don't miss the "Stony Point Light Station Tour." Saturday, October 17. 1:30PM-2:30PM. Join Site Historian Michael Sheehan for an illustrated talk on the history, people, and stories of the Hudson […]