Hudson River Maritime Museum Announces Summer Lecture Lineup

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Emma Cariello/museum educator / [email protected]

KINGSTON NY, The Hudson River Maritime Museum announces the summer line up of its popular Follow The River lecture series. The series is not just for maritime enthusiasts touching a wide array of topics related to local and national history, literature, ecology and more.

This season the museum will be hosting four in person lectures as well as an online lecture by professor Andrea Mosterman from The University of New Orleans (June 11th). In-person lecture’s take place on the HRMM Campus in either the in the Wooden Boat School Classroom or Homeport Barn. Each talk is open to the public with a $10 admission ($5 for HRMM members). Registrations can be made in advance through the HRMM website. Some walk-ins will be welcomed and can pay at the door (cash only) as long as the event has not reached capacity.

More information on each lecture and presenter is available at hrmm.org

The schedule is as follows:​

June 4th, Poetry of the Hudson with Paul Kane

June 11th, Online Lecture: The Slave Ship Gideon: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Slave Trade with Andrea Mosterman

July 9th, A Freeman on the River: The Life, Work, and Journal of James F. Brown with Harv Hilowitz

July 16th, Understanding New York’s Enslaving Past Through Intertwined Families with Debra Bruno

September 24th, Hudson River Ecology with Stuart Findlay