HRMM Welcomes New Lecturers This May

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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

Join us at the Hudson River Maritime Museum in May for two lectures as part of our “Follow the River” lecture series! May 7th sees Bettina Mueller talk about her experience on the Erie Canal as a Tugboat Cook. On May 21st, Dean Engle will discuss Friends of Historic Kingston and their role in local history. 
KINGSTON, N.Y. (ASAP) – The Hudson River Maritime Museum is pleased to announce the upcoming lectures… held in-person on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM and Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM.
Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for Hudson River Maritime Museum members. To register, visit www.hrmm.org/lecture-series.

Life on the Erie Canal as a Tugboat Cook
with Bettina Mueller
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

In 1976 & 1977 Bettina Mueller made three trips on a tugboat from New York Harbor to Buffalo on the Erie Canal. Each trip took about three weeks to travel over 400 miles. In this fascinating lecture Bettina will show photographs of the Philip T. Feeney and the Erie Canal as well as describe some of her adventures working as a tugboat cook.

"From a chance meeting with the Captain, a girl friend of mine and I joined the boat for what would become one of the great adventures of our lives."
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Still Standing: The Friends of Historic Kingston and the Local Preservation Movement
with Dean Engle
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

​Join us for a presentation with Friends of Historic Kingston to learn more about the organization’s history and the legacy of our city’s preservation activists. The group’s decades of advocacy include purchasing and reselling several threatened buildings including 95 John Street (the Luke Kiersted House) and 292 Clinton Avenue (the Amelia Westbrook House). Our members were instrumental in saving Kingston City Hall and sponsoring the city’s historic districts: Clinton Avenue Historic District (1969), Kingston Stockade Historic District (1974), Rondout-West Strand Historic District (1978), and Chestnut Street Historic District (1984).