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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Emma Cariello / Museum Educator / [email protected] Program Title: A Field of My Own: A Memoir of Place with Cynthia McVay Date & Time: Monday, November 10, 2025 - 7pm Location: Hudson River Maritime Museum - 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NY Pricing: $10/non member - $5/ HRMM members Presentation Topic: Pull on your boots and take a walk with Cynthia McVay and her dogs in a riveting landscape rife with adventure and discovery. In A Field of My Own: A Memoir of Place, lifelong creative and environmentalist McVay chronicles her intimate, two-decade relationship with a flagging orchard in the Hudson Valley. As a single working mother, she was looking for a weekend escape from New York City, a piece of green, a place to call her own. One blustery winter day, she falls in love with a meadow and her life is forever altered. She renovates the modest cottage, builds a pondish-pool, creates pollinating, native gardens from orphans and strays, learns to forage and runs the tractor. A decade in, as architect and general contractor, she moves an enormous 180-year-old hand-hewn Amish barn to the property to make her sustainable home.This engaging memoir of place is generous and honest, packed with useful know-how and humor. This is an ode to the Hudson Valley and something of a coming-of-middle-age story. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Bio of Speaker: After 25 years as a strategy and management consultant, Cynthia McVay returned to writing and art full-time. Her award-winning essays, stories and poems have appeared in literary journals. She served as Latin American Program Officer for the World Wildlife Fund and inaugural Director of Innovation for the Peace Corps. She holds a BA from Harvard in biology and studio arts, and an MA in international studies from the University of Pennsylvania and MBA from Wharton, as a Fellow of The Lauder Institute. Cynthia serves on numerous boards including the Rauch Foundation, Center for Large Landscape Conservation, Harvard Club of the Hudson Valley and John Burroughs Association. She splits her time between the Hudson Valley and St. Croix, USVI. She is a member of the Rondout Rowing Club and an obsessed rower; in the summer, you will likely see her on the docks in the morning. The Follow the River lecture series is sponsored by Rondout Savings Bank. Find more information and registration details at hrmm.org or here.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Emma Cariello / Museum Educator / [email protected] Program Title: Museum Mates - Maritime Inspired Activities for Kids Date & Time: 1st Saturday and 3rd Thursday of Every Month - 11AM Location: Hudson River Maritime Museum - 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NY Pricing: $10-Sail Tales / $10-Legos / $15-Crafts Program Description: The Hudson River Maritime Museum is proud to offer a new series of fun and educational activities for children. Come join us for Museum Mates, an enriching and entertaining time for kids and parents alike. Each month, activities will alternate between building with legos, hearing and drawing maritime themed stories, and building a craft. Take this unique opportunity to play in a museum setting, surrounded by local historic objects and educational resources and get your children excited about museums and learning! When you’re done with the activities, enjoy complementary museum admission included with your ticket. Stay as long as you like and soak in the history. This program is recommended for children age six and under and adults of all ages! Find more information about the program and registration details at hrmm.org or here.   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dan Nelson / HRMM Wooden Boat School Manager / [email protected] Program Title: Youth After-School Woodworking: Introduction to Carpentry Date & Time: Thursdays and Fridays - Nov. 6-7, 13-14, 20-21; Dec. 4-5, 11-12, 18-19 Location: Hudson River Maritime Museum Wooden Boat School - Kingston, NY Pricing: General Public: $525 / Household Member & Above: $475 Program Description: This hands-on after-school class teaches youths age 14 to 18 the fundamentals of building with wood, Thursdays and Fridays, 4:15-5:45 PM, for six weeks. The first two weeks cover safety, power tool and hand tool use, and students will get their hands dirty practicing with a wide variety of tools to measure, cut, and shape wood. During the remaining four weeks, students will work as a team to design and build a little library for placement in the community by a local library. This project, which builds skills in project planning, layout and design, measurement, fabrication, and assembly, is the perfect vehicle for STEAM-based learning. As a miniature version of a building, it's also a great starting point in applied learning for both college degree track students and vocational students, whether they'll go on to study architecture or engineering, or to start a career as a general contractor or furniture maker. Instructor: Max Smith is a multidisciplinary craftsman with ten years of experience in woodworking in various forms, stringed instrument repair and making, piano tuning and repair, boatbuilding, cabinetmaking, and as Maintenance Coordinator for the Beacon Sloop Club. He is a full time instructor at HRMM and has participated as a skills demonstrator at the Eric Sloane Museum in Kent, CT. Find more information about the program and registration details at hrmm.org or here.  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Emma Cariello / Museum Educator / [email protected] Event: An Apple a Day: The Apples of the Hudson Valley Lecture with Kevin Clark Date & Time: Wednesday October 29, 2025 - 6:30 PM Location: Hudson River Maritime Museum Homeport Barn - Kingston, NY Pricing: $10.00 per Person / $5.00 HRMM Members Presentation Topic: Join Kevin Clark from Rose Hill Farm as he discusses the importance and uniqueness of the apple, the genetic diversity which apples hold, as well as the importance of preserving that diversity. You will learn how apples have traveled around the world and the importance of apples in the Hudson Valley. Each variety of apple has a story, rich in humanity and culture. A collection of over 200 types of apples will also be on display during the lecture. The Presenter: Kevin is the lead orchardist of Rose Hill Farm, located in Red Hook NY. He is fascinated with whole fruit tree physiology and being immersed in the life of the orchard throughout all seasons. As an orchardist, he interacts with the land and trees in such a way that enriches the biodiversity of the land, as well as nourishes the humans that visit or work with it. The Follow the River Lecture Series is Sponsored by Rondout Savings Bank. More information and registration can be found here or at hrmm.org. |
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