HRMM Announces Wrecked and Abandoned: Forgotten Vessels of the Rondout Creek and Hudson River Lecture

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Contact: Emma Cariello / Museum Educator / [email protected]

Program Title: Wrecked and Abandoned: Forgotten Vessels of the Rondout Creek and Hudson River
Date & Time: Wednesday December 3, 2025 - 7pm
Location: Hudson River Maritime Museum - 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NY
Pricing: $10/non member - $5/ HRMM members

Presentation Topic: ​In the 19th century, Rondout Creek was a center of transportation and industry. The entrance to the over 100-mile-long Delaware and Hudson (D&H) Canal was accessed through Rondout Creek, here in Kingston, allowing barges carrying thousands of tons of Pennsylvania coal, Hudson Valley bricks, and other resources between the two ends of the canal. The Mary Powell, one of the “floating palaces”, as these large passenger steamboats were called, had its home port in Kingston and brought thousands of passengers across the Hudson River to New York City and back every year. Hundreds of sloops and schooners sailed the Hudson River, many travelling back and forth in Rondout Creek.Over the years, many boats and barges have been neglected, left to rot on the creek. Accidents were unfortunately inevitable, and the Rondout Creek and Hudson River is home to a plethora of forgotten, wrecked and abandoned vessels. Join museum educator Emma Cariello as she discusses these vessels.

​The Follow the River Lecture Series is sponsored by Rondout Savings Bank.

Bio of Speaker: Emma is an educator at the Hudson River Maritime Museum. She holds a journalism degree from SUNY New Paltz. She has previously worked as a historic interpreter at the Senate House State Historic Site and as a tour guide at the Reher Center.

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