The Broadway show Hamilton: An American Musical introduced the world to three of the five daughters of Philip and Catharine Van Rensselaer Schuyler. In the play and other media, the women are often associated with indoor and metropolitan spaces. Join PhD student and New York State Museum Fellow Danielle Funiciello as she reintroduces and reconsiders all five women and the world in which they lived through image.

This lecture is presented in conjunction with our current exhibit Portraits and Landscapes which highlights the people and places that inspired the world of the Schuyler women and their peers, including Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Canajoharie about 1780 by Edward Buyck.

We are pleased to present our free HISTORY SERIES events on September 22, October 24, and November 3, each sponsored by Kinderhook Bank.

Admission to this program is free, and donations are welcome. For more information, call (518) 673-2314 or email Curator of Education & Public Engagement Jenna Peterson Riley.

Images:
Elizabeth Hamilton, ca.1787 by Ralph Earl, from a copy hanging at Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site
A View of Greenbush on the Hudsons River near Albany in the Province of New York, 1766 by Thomas Davies from the Detroit Institute of Arts

Do you know your Nifflers from your Blast-Ended Skrewts? Have you read the Harry Potter Series so many times you have it memorized? Bring your friends for Harry Potter Trivia Night at the Canajoharie Library! We'll eat some Harry Potter themed snacks and compete to be crowned the Master of Harry Potter Knowledge!

All ages welcome!

Teams of 6-8 people. Please register by contacting Library Director Hannah Stahl or by calling 518-673-2314. Flying solo, or don't have a full group? Let us know and we'll try to find you one!

Registration ends 10/16/18

The “future face of America” that Thomas Jefferson spoke of in 1817 when writing to New York State Governor and Erie Canal champion DeWitt Clinton was one of the internal improvements that would transform the early American Republic. He congratulated Clinton on the progress of a canal “…in a state wise enough to see that the common interest is individual interest, and rich enough to pursue it." George Washington had also received encouragement from Jefferson for his Potomac Company canal project but both Clinton and Washington were confronted by major obstacles in their efforts to connect the eastern waters to the new westward expanding nation. Both were successful in the long run in changing the political, economic, and physical landscape of the nation; just in different ways.

Join David Brooks, the Education Director at Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, as he looks at the similarities and differences between DeWitt Clinton and George Washington as they navigate the waters of internal improvements in early America.

We are pleased to present our free HISTORY SERIES events on September 22, October 24, and November 3 each sponsored by Kinderhook Bank.

Admission to this program is free, and donations are welcome. For more information, call (518) 673-2314 or email Curator of Education & Public Engagement Jenna Peterson Riley.