The Beat

Staatsburg, N.Y.  — Explore the upstairs/downstairs world of the Gilded Age this March at Staatsburgh State Historic Site. Perhaps you align yourself with the likes of the Dowager Countess from Downton Abbey or Bertha Russel from HBO’s The Gilded Age. Or you identify more with the working-class servants downstairs in the grand Gilded Age mansions. Staatsburgh’s popular “The REAL Gilded Age: America’s Elite in the Downton Abbey Era” and “A Life in Service” theme tours, offered this March, will explore two separate topics of Gilded Age history.

Free Online Program on the Birth of a Black Community within the Historic Hamlet of Staatsburg

Staatsburgh, N.Y.  (1/15/25) — DeWitt the soldier. Helen the activist. Robert the freedom-seeker. Ivy the immigrant. What did the Gilded Age mean to these, and other, Black citizens of the Staatsburg village, beyond the walls of the Mills estate, Staatsburgh?…

Newburgh, NY (February 4, 2025) - Come to Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site and help us celebrate George Washington’s Birthday!!! The three-day event will be held February 15^th, 16^th and 17^th, from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm each day. Admission is free for all three days, though donations are welcomed.

Yonkers, N.Y.  — Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site is pleased to present a President’s Day Revolutionary Walking Tour for the general public on Monday, February 17, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. This free, family-friendly tour will include the sites of many important Revolutionary War events that occurred in downtown Yonkers.

Youngstown, N.Y. – On Saturday, February 15, Old Fort Niagara invites visitors to discover how people in colonial times survived and thrived during the winter months. Winter Warriors is an interactive living history program that teaches visitors valuable winter survival skills, such as how to build a campfire using flint and steel, construct a brush shelter, trek over the snow using snowshoes and employ natural fibers like wool to keep warm.

Americana Corner grant allows Fort Ticonderoga to tell signature 250^th stories

Ticonderoga, N.Y. - Fort Ticonderoga is thrilled to announce a five-year expansion of our weapons demonstrations and signature living history events through the Guns for Ticonderoga project funded by Americana Corner. 

Thanks to the generous support of Americana Corner, Fort Ticonderoga has embarked on recreating two complete American artillery pieces with cannon, carriages, inert reproduction ammunition, and the implements Continental Army artillerymen employed with these guns.

A Child and Family Program at Staatsburgh State Historic Site

February 1, 2025 at 3:00p.m.

Staatsburg, N.Y. (1/13/25) — On Saturday, February 1 at 3:00p.m., Staatsburgh State Historic Site is collaborating with the Staatsburg Library for some pre-Groundhog Day shadow play! Featuring a reading from the picture book, Punxsutawney Phyllis, children will gain some knowledge about the natural science behind the groundhog’s weather forecast.

This REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ living history event recreates wintertime life for Fort Ticonderoga’s guard of British soldiers and their families

Ticonderoga, NY (January 6, 2025) – Fort Ticonderoga invites history buffs and families alike to step back in time with a special REAL TIME REVOLUTION™ living history event “Necessary for the Rigour of the Climate” on January 18, 2025, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. This immersive experience will transport visitors to a pivotal moment in the American Revolution. Highlighted programming will recreate wintertime life for Fort Ticonderoga’s guard of British soldiers and their families, who made their homes inside the fort’s barracks.

Rensselaer, N.Y. – On Saturday, January 4, 2025, Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site will welcome visitors for its annual Twelfth Night Celebration, “Salutations of the Season!” From 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., the site will host an open house filled with 18^th century holiday fare, live music, bonfires (weather permitting!), period reenactors, and wassail toasts.

Newburgh, NY (December 4, 2024) – As the days get chillier, you are invited to Warm Up at the Washingtons’.  Stop by Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, in Newburgh, on Sunday, December 8th, 12 PM until 3 PM. Historic interpreters in each seasonally decorated room will greet visitors and talk about when the Washingtons occupied the Hasbrouck farmhouse during the last winter of the Revolutionary War. …