They are names carved into the landscape of the Hudson Valley — DuBois, Bevier, Crispell, Hasbrouck — familiar to us as founders, landholders, and pillars of colonial life. But before they were patentees, they were refugees. Driven from their homelands by war, religious persecution, and political upheaval in seventeenth-century Europe, the French-speaking Walloon and Huguenot […]

Immigrant labor built America — and nowhere is that story more visible, or more local, than the Ashokan Reservoir, which still supplies roughly 40 percent of New York City's drinking water more than a century after its construction. Join local historian Steven Caselli for a presentation and conversation about the Southern Italian laborers who built […]