Cole Beecher Lecture

Join Greene County Historian Jonathan Palmer for a special Beecher Lecture and Sunday Salon marking the 200th anniversary of Thomas Cole’s first trip to Catskill (1825–2025)—a journey that transformed American art. Palmer will explore what Cole discovered in the Catskills of 1825, as the young Republic shifted into the age of Jackson. In this moment of change, Cole’s visit would ignite a golden age of art and leave a lasting legacy on the village and mountains that inspired him.