Category: History

The Columbia County Historical Society announces a new permanent outdoor exhibit, ‘Early Heritage of Columbia County” Outdoor Narrative Panel Exhibit. The exhibit features eight narrative panels set along the treeline of its rural properties on 9-H: The c.1850 Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse and the 1737 Luykas Van Alen House located at 2589 NY-9H in the Town of Kinderhook.

“Treat yourselves to a 20 minute walk around the grounds of our rural properties to soak up a lot of history quickly.” said former Board President, Bob Peduzzi.

As the spring season beckons, the narrative panels are ready to be discovered–or rediscoveredddfor those who were able to view them before the winter snow covering.

Open now for viewing, and located on CCHS’ two contiguous rural properties located along Route 9H in Kinderhook, New York, the new exhibit is an accessible and educational ‘wayside’ narrative panel installation that will increase and reinforce awareness, knowledge, and preservation of our shared cultural heritage for our community and our visitors, including the broad, public audience of residents and visitors from both sides of the river. 

“While the challenges of this pandemic era has changed how we approach our programming, we have found new ways to engage with our community and present the history and heritage of Columbia County,” said former Executive Director, Lori Yarotsky, who implemented the project with funding from local and international grants. 

The prominent property at this location is an 18^th century Dutch Colonial structure, the Luykas Van Alen House, a National Historic Landmark, comprising approximately 53 acres including the Van Alen family homestead. 

Adjacent to the Dutch structure is the Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse, a circa 1850 one-room schoolhouse, named after author Washington Irving’s fictional, Dutch character, a schoolteacher.

Also on the grounds is the trailhead to the Dutch Farming Heritage Trail, the 1.7 mile foot trail to Van Buren’s home, Lindenwald.

Stories portrayed on the eight panels include: 

• ·        Native Inhabitants
• ·        Early Dutch Settlers
• ·        Colonial Dutch Architecture
• ·        Black Locust Trees
• ·        Washington Irving
• ·        The Original Ichabod Crane
• ·        One-Room Schoolhouses
• ·        Eleanor Roosevelt at Ichabod Crane

DATE/TIME: Daily / Dawn to Dusk

ADMISSION: Free

LOCATION:
2589 NY-9H,
Kinderhook, NY 12037 

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This Saturday, the Columbia County Historical Society presents their third lecture of the 2022 Winter-Spring Lecture Series –  19th Century Photography in Columbia County, a zoom discussion by David Sokosh & Lisa Weilbacker.

Join Lisa Weilbacker and David Sokosh as they examine early photographs from the CCHS collection, discuss their place in the history of photography and share information about the County residents shown in the pictures. Sokosh will also show examples of his newly-made images, created using 19th Century photo processes

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

David Sokosh

Artist David Sokosh is a photographer living and working in Claverack, NY. He creates photographs using the 19th Century processes of Cyanotype and Wet-Plate Collodion (tintype) and makes artist’s books using letterpress printing and Cyanotype.  His current project: “Things That Look Like the MOON (but are not the moon), consists of portfolio prints and a hand-made, limited edition, artist book printed entirely with cyanotype. Other projects include:  “Objectified in the Time of Covid” and “John Rogers in the 21st Century, Contemporary Issues Seen Through a 19th Century Lens”. In Clinton Hill, Brooklyn Sokosh was formerly director of the gallery, Underbridge Pictures, which specialized in painted and photographed images of architecture. While in Brooklyn Sokosh worked with a number of nonprofits including the Fort Greene Park Conservancy and Clinton Hill Society, and served on the boards of both groups.

Sokosh’s artistic work is included in the permanent collections of Polaroid Corporation; the Kinsey Institute; Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, FL; Shelburne Museum, VT; Pfizer; and others; his work is represented in Hudson by Carrie Haddad Gallery.

Lisa Weilbacker

Lisa Weilbacker is Curator of Collections and Historic Properties and Executive Director at Columbia County Historical Society. 

​The lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer conversation.

DATE/TIME: Saturday, March 19, 2022  / 4:30pm

ADMISSION: $10/$15
$10 for CCHS members
$15 for non-members

​NOTE: TICKETS ARE  STRICTLY ​LIMITED

Tickets: cchsny.org/winter-lectures-2022.html

LOCATION: Online via Zoom
ZOOM LINK will be emailed after Payment, on DAY of Lecture

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The Columbia County Historical Society 2022 Winter-Spring Lecture Series continues with ‘Life Along The Hudson, The Livingstons in Columbia County,’ a zoom lecture by Pieter Estersohn on Saturday, February 19th. 

This scenic stretch of estates along the Hudson offers some of the finest examples of American architecture and landscape design, now photographed by Pieter Estersohn.  Thirty-five featured homes were designed in a range of styles by notable architects Stanford White, A. J. Davis, Calvert Vaux, Warren and Wetmore, and others. Pieter Estersohn reminds us that the Livingston family “had 250 years of access to the very best architecture, the best designers, the best real estate.”

Included are Dutch colonial cottages and grand Gothic Revival, Federal, Georgian, and Beaux-Arts residences. Constructed on land owned by the Livingston family, who settled in the area in the late seventeenth century.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Pieter Estersohn has worked on over 60 books on historic preservation, architecture, and decoration and has worked for every major shelter magazine. His last book, Life Along the Hudson, the Historic Country Estates of the Livingston Family, was published by Rizzoli. Estersohn purchased Staats Hall, in nearby Red Hook in 2010, and restored the 1839 home using early 19th century techniques and materials. He is presently working on a book with Rizzoli on agriculture in the Hudson River Valley and the new wave of farmers taking the lead.

The lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer conversation.

DATE/TIME: Saturday, February 19, 2022  / 4:30pm

ADMISSION: $10/$15
$10 for CCHS members
$15 for non-members

​NOTE: TICKETS ARE  STRICTLY ​LIMITED

Tickets: cchsny.org/winter-lectures-2022.html

LOCATION: Online via Zoom
ZOOM LINK will be emailed after Payment, on DAY of Lecture

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