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Plattsburgh, N.Y. – The Clinton County Historical Association (CCHA) invites the community to embark on a fascinating journey through time during their March series of events. Mark your calendars for an enriching exploration of local history, featuring captivating presentations, historical photographs, and engaging discussions.

Free Live Online Conversation with Artist Kay WalkingStick to be Presented on International Women's Day

New York, N.Y. - Throughout Women’s History Month, the New-York Historical Society will showcase women’s stories through exhibitions, installations, and public programming.

On International Women’s Day, renowned Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick and New-York Historical’s Chief Curator Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto will be in conversation over a live, free Zoom discussing WalkingStick’s exhibition Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School, on view at New-York Historical through April 14. Other exhibitions and displays on view throughout March include Women’s Work, an exhibition that demonstrates how “women’s work” defies categorization;…

Rochester, N.Y. (February 21, 2024) — The artistic works of the Flower City Arts Center’s Studio 678 Photo Club will once again adorn the walls of the George Eastman Museum this spring, as the museum’s newest Gallery Obscura exhibition opens on Saturday, March 2. These creative works by students of the 2023-24 club are inspired by the students’ vision of the world around them. Works from the Studio 678 Photo Club were featured in the inaugural exhibition in the museum’s new Gallery Obscura in the spring of 2023.

New York, N.Y. – The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism from February 25 through July 28, 2024. Through some 160 works, it will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and Chicago’s South Side and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South.

Seneca Falls, NY -- Women’s Rights National Historical Park will host a free viewing event for the total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024 from 1p.m. to 4p.m. at the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Seneca Falls. When the last total solar eclipse passed over Seneca Falls, New York, in January of 1925, women had only had the legal right to vote for a little over four years. This time, it passes over the first national park dedicated to women’s rights.

Rochester, N.Y. (February 19, 2024) —The George Eastman Museum has announced that it will host five free In This Moment: Revolution, Reckoning, Reparation Volume 3 (ITM) Panel Discussions at the museum’s Dryden Theatre throughout 2024 and 2025. The first of five events will be held on Monday, April 29 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will feature Humanitarian Midge Thomas and Walter Cooper PhD, Regent Emeritus of the State of New York. The full schedule of events will be revealed at a later date.

Staatsburg, N.Y. (2/16/24) — With the Season 2 finale of HBO’s TV series, The Gilded Age, last December and the recent Downton Abbey film “A New Era,” Staatsburgh State Historic Site is presenting a special theme tour exploring the real-life characters and themes at Staatsburgh that parallel these popular shows.

Led by a costumed guide, “The REAL Gilded Age” tour will show how servants and the Mills family conducted a busy weekend of high-society entertaining, comparing Staatsburgh to what viewers saw in the popular period dramas.

NYC's Only Seaport Ghost Tour

New York, N.Y. - Boroughs of the Dead presents a brand new walking tour: Ghosts of the Seaport, a phantasmagoria of nautical ghosts, vengeful spirits, pirates, and other waterfront phantoms. 

This is the city's only South Street Seaport ghost tour, and the first to focus specifically on the spectral and supernatural side of the seaport. Nautical lore is filled with ghost stories and sailor superstitions, and we're so excited to finally have an appropriately haunted walking tour of this historic district! …

Riverhead, NY (Feb. 16, 2024) --- East End agricultural, natural and cultural history will be the focus of four guided walking tours to be offered this spring at Hallockville Museum Farm, a 28-acre preserved North Fork farm homestead in Riverhead. The tours will cover a range of topics including barn architecture from the 18^th to the 20^th centuries, local tree species, antique farm equipment and medicinal uses of plants.

Innovative Augmented Reality Campaign Brings George Washington to Life

Dutchess County’s Revolutionary War Impact Highlighted

Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (February 15, 2024) – Dutchess Tourism, Inc. (DTI) announced the launch of Commander in Cheers, an innovative augmented reality initiative aimed at sparking new engagement with the Revolutionary War history of Dutchess County, kicking off a multiyear celebration of the United States of America’s Semiquincentennial on July 4, 2026. This innovative project will spotlight the roles Dutchess County played in the Revolutionary War and highlight its contributions to American history. The campaign represents a collaborative effort between DTI, Dutchess County Historian William P. Tatum III, Ph.D., technology partner Evercoast and DTI’s agency of record, FourthIdea, to create an immersive experience that educates, entertains, and inspires visitors of all ages.