The first settlers to reside in what is now the Town of Marbletown are believed to have come from nearby Hurley in roughly the year 1669. Decommissioned British soldiers would build homesteads on the banks of the Rondout Creek, whose name derives from the word fort or redoubt that was erected near its mouth at […]

Join trustees, our museum director and volunteers for a Sunday afternoon party at Bevier House where we will gather to enjoy refreshments and conversation in a delightful period garden setting. At 3:30 p.m. Sanford Levy of Jenkinstown Antiques will give a presentation on Hudson Valley artist Julia Dillon (1834-1919), known for her floral still-lifes, and […]

  A presentation about the acclaimed documentary “Objects and Memory,” will be given by its producer-director, Jonathan Fein. The documentary examines how humans preserve the past through the accumulation, cataloguing and display of physical things. The film was screened on PBS to commemorate the seventh and tenth anniversaries of 9/11. “The film … explores the […]