Location: Westchester, NY along the Hudson
Contact Hours: 30hrs.
Cost $175 (includes four lunches and one dinner)
Cut-Off Date: June 15, 2006

July 24
The River (9:00 am – 7:00 pm)

 

• 9:00 Hudson River Museum
  Hudson River Riverama
  Hudson River Museum Tour

• 12:30 Kevin Clifford, Foxfire School, Yonkers, “The Hudson River and the Classroom”

• 1:30 Beczak Environmental Center
  Estuary Model program (indoors)
  Cuckoo for Copepods program (indoors)
  The River in My Backyard seining program (outdoors)

• 5:30 Commodore Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club (on the river)

 

July 25
The Dutch (9:00 am – 6:00 pm)

 

• 9:00 Philipse Manor Hall: tour and curriculum workshop

• 12:30 Chris Riccardi, District Archaeologist, United States Army Corps of Engineers, “Finding the Dutch in NewYork”

• 1:30 Philipse Manor Hall Walking Tour

• 3:00 Bus Tour

 

July 26
Enslaved African Experience in Colonial America (1750) (9:00 am – 5:00 pm)

 

• 9:00 Philipsburg Manor: site tour and talk
  Food and Agriculture in Colonial Times
  Colonial Artifacts and Documents
  Classroom Application Workshop

• 3:00 River Cruise with River Keeper

 

July 27
Great Estates (9:00 am – 2:30 pm)

 

• 9:00 Sunnyside: site tour and curriculum workshops

• 12:00 Lunch at Lyndhurst

• 1:00 Lyndhurst: site tour
  Time Line workshop
  What’s Your Problem? Inventions That Changed Our Lives
  Wrap Up

 

For further information contact Dr. Peter Feinman at the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Education at 914-939-9071 or email us at: contact@ihare.org