NEWSLETTER
New Paltz, NY (April 1, 2025) – Historic Huguenot Street is excited to announce the 4th annual New Netherland Marketplace: Living History Event. Throughout this event, visitors will discover Lenape Delaware, Black, and European demonstrators sharing their craftsmanship and culture, and portraying life in mid-17th century New Netherland. This year’s weekend-long event will be taking place on Saturday, June 28th, 2025 from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM, and on Sunday, June 29th, 2025 from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Members of the federally recognized Lenape Delaware communities, which currently reside in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Ontario, will be returning to their sacred homelands to portray the life of their ancestors and their economic relationship with the European settlers. Their camp will have ongoing open-fire cooking, cordage making, bow shooting, flintknapping, arrow making, and hide tanning demonstrations throughout the weekend. Each day, representatives will offer a cultural stomp dance demonstration, in which visitor participation is encouraged. North American Dingos, also known as the Carolina dog, will be present and used to discuss Eastern Woodland hunting traditions and more.
Living historians portraying European merchants, performers, and craftspeople will offer demonstrations on woodworking, hearth cooking, tailoring, wampum making, spinning wool, and more. This year’s marketplace will include displays of camp gear and furs, clothing, wooden bowls, children’s toys, and other items for sale. Musicians will regularly perform to crowds and, just like years past, children and adults alike will line up to enjoy a classic Dutch folktale via a raree show, an exhibition of pictures and objects viewed through a small hole in a box. Scheduled programming will include demonstrations on 17th century martial arts and cutlass fighting, a quack show, and a portrayal of Adriaen van der Donck, alongside an American Indian companion.
Members of the group Inalienable Rights, the Living History arm of The Slave Dwelling Project, will present the lives and histories of some of the colony’s first enslaved people. Presenters will offer African storytelling, artisan demonstrations, open-fire cooking, and more as they convey the significant contributions that the enslaved brought to the early colony, amidst the brutal conditions and horrors they faced, daily.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is highly encouraged and appreciated.
For more information and to register visit: https://www.huguenotstreet.org/new-netherland-marketplace-a-living-history-event-2025
“New Netherland Marketplace: Living History Event” has been developed in partnership with Caesar’s Ford Theatre and Wild Hudson Valley
This event is sponsored by Arts Mid-Hudson and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature
Thank you to the Department of Environmental Conservation Region 3 Forest Rangers for Guidance in our events’ fire-safety management.
Photo credit: Katlynn Hanks
About Historic Huguenot Street
A National Historic Landmark District, Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to preserving a pre-Revolutionary Hudson Valley settlement and engaging diverse audiences in the exploration of America's multicultural past, in order to understand the historical forces that have shaped America. As an educational institution founded by the town’s French-speaking Protestant descendants and chartered by the University of the State of New York Department of Education, HHS explores the lives of the early European colonists, honors the region’s Indigenous people, and acknowledges the enslaved and disenfranchised peoples who built this place. Today, HHS is recognized as an innovative museum and community gathering place, providing visitors with an inclusive presentation of our shared past. For more information visit www.huguenotstreet.org.
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Contact:
Sarah Levy
Marketing & Communications Coordinator
media@huguenotstreet.org
(845) 255-1660 Ext. 102