Contact Hours: 15
Cost:$125 (two lunches and one dinner included)
Cutoff Date: May 7
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Explore the historic sites of the Oswego area. Participants will meet the curators, tour the sites, and walk the streets of historic Oswego in a program covering the time from the French and Indian War to the present. Share ideas with fellow and teachers and with the curators about how the historic resources of the community can be used in the classroom setting. Curriculum materials included.

Saturday Fort Ontario, Safe Haven, Rudy’s Stand (9:00-7:30/8:00)

9:00 Welcome and Introduction (underground stone artillery casemate)
9:15 Fort Ontario and the French and Indian War
10:15 Guided Tour I
11:15 Fort Ontario and the American Revolution
12:15 Lunch: outdoors weather permitting (tents and tables) or go to town
1:15 Guided Tour II with cannon firing and muskets
2:15 Fort Ontario and the War of 1812
3:30 Safe Haven Museum and Education Center: Tour and Curriculum Workshop
6:00 Dinner at Rudy’s Stand
7:00 Rosemary Nesbitt, Storyteller

Sunday (9:00-3:00)

9:00 Fox Hollow Farms horse drawn trolley Oswego Walking Tour: John Gosek
10:30 Richardson-Bates House Tour: Terry Prior
Local History and Education: Patricia Michel, SUNY Osewgo
Young History Club
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Marine Museum including Fort Ontario paintings by George Gray: Mercedes Niess
3:00 Oswego Maritime Foundation
3:30 Program Wrap Up

For further information contact IHARE at 914-939-9071 or email us at: contact@ihare.org

Location: United States Military Academy (USMA) and neighboring sites
Contact Hours: 45
Cost: $375 (includes 5 lunches, 4 dinners, 2 cruises, and 2 books)
Cutoff Date: May 27, 2008
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“Winning the War, Winning the Peace” examines how America won the war for independence and survived the international tempest which followed. Participants will hear from the experts at the United States Military Academy as well as from the British side. The field trips cover the historic sites in the Hudson Valley area and provide an opportunity to meet the education curators of the museums and historic sites, hear from other teachers, and enjoy the river experience.

6/27 Friday: West Point (9:00-9:00)
Morning: “Winning the War” I: Brooklyn, Saratoga and the Strategic Significance of the Hudson Valley: British and American Perspectives: West Point faculty

Afternoon:  “Winning the War” II: Reassessing Yorktown and the Southern Insurgency: British and American Perspectives: West Point faculty

The British Perspectives will be provided by Ray Raymond, former political officer, British Consulate and adjunct, USMA

3:30 West Point Grounds and Fort Putnam walking and bus tour
5:00 Teaching the American Revolution: West Point faculty
6:15 Dinner: Thayer Hotel
7:30 “Winning the Peace through Diplomacy”

6/28 Saturday: Newburgh (9:00-9:00)
9:00 “The Newburgh Conspiracy,” Ray Raymond
10:00 New Windsor Cantonment
11:00 Knox’s Headquarters
1:00 Washington’s Headquarters
5:30 South Dock, West Point to Constitution Island
7:00 Sunset Cruise: dinner, The Ride of Sybil Ludington: Vin Dacquino,
author and middle school teacher

6/29 Sunday: Andre and Arnold (9:00-9:00; schedule subject to change)
9:00 Walking Tour Tappan
10:45 Washington’s Headquarters Tappan
12:00 Lunch: 76 House
1:15 Andre Bus trip: Andre Hill Monument
1:45 Stony Point
3:15 Beverly Robinson House, Flight of Benedict Arnold, Hudson River Vista
7:00 King’s Ferry Verplanck
8:00 Monument Park, Tarrytown

6/30 Monday: (9:00-9:00)
9:00 West Point Museum
2:00 Bear Mountain Trailside Zoo and Fort Clinton
4:00 Fort Montgomery
7:00 “Keeping the Peace: Diplomatic Challenges for the Early
Republic,” West Point faculty and Ray Raymond

7/1 Tuesday: Fort Montgomery (9:00-2:30)
9:00 Tom Paine and the American Revolution: John Wright, The Thomas Paine House
10:00 Chris Dipasquale, middle school teacher and author of An Object of Great Importance: The Hudson River During the American War for Independence
11:00 Stories of the American Revolution: Jonathan Kruk, storyteller
12:30 Cruise (from South Dock, West Point)

For further information contact IHARE at 914-939-9071 or email us at: contact@ihare.org

Location: Albany, Troy, Waterford
Contact Hours: 45
Cost: $295 (includes 3 dinners)
Cutoff Date: June 9
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Interdisciplinary program covering the art, history, literature, and ecology of the Greater Capital Region. Tour the homes, walk the grounds, see the exhibits, meet the curators, take home the curriculum material and ideas to energize your classes and stimulate minds. The program covers from Dutch settlement to the Erie Canal to the Underground Railroad to the Rockefeller years including behind the scene tours of museum labs, and sunset walks in the ravines of a cemetery topped of with a river cruise.

Monday, July 7: Waterford 9:00-8:30

 

• 9:00 Waterford Historical Museum and Cultural Center
• 1:00 Tugboat Urger (tentative)
• 2:00 Peebles Island Tour
• 3:00 Peebles Island Lab Tour
• 5:30 AlbanyRural Cemetery/TrolleyTour and Dinner

 

Tuesday, July 8: Albany Institute of Art (9:00-8:30)

 

• 9:00 Behind the Scenes Tour/Hudson River Art Exhibit Tour/Resources Workshop
• 1:00 “Meet the People of Colonial Albany” – Steve Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project
• 2:00 “The Historyof the Greater Capital Region” –  Robert Arnold
• 3:00 Teaching Local History Workshop – JoAnn Larson, NYS Education Department
• 5:15 Albany Underground Railroad – Paul and Mary Liz Stewart, Underground Railroad HistoryProject of the Capital Region
• 6:30 Albany Underground Railroad – Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence: dinner and tour

 

Wednesday, July 9: Albany 9:00-8:30

 

• 9:00 “New York State Government” – Bob Ward, Rockefeller Institute and Maryanne Malecki, Education Director, WAMC

• 10:45 The Youth Media Project: Student Town Meeting – Maryanne Malecki

• 1:00 Politics of NYS Art, 1950’s-1960’s – Jennifer Warner, NYS Office of General Services,Curatorial/Tour Services

• 2:00 NYS Capitol Tour – Stuart Lehman, NYS Office of General Services, Curatorial/Tour Services
• 3:30 NYS Museum: Mohawk and Iroquois Village
• 4:00 NYS Museum: Schuyler Flats Cemetery – Lisa Anderson, NAGPRA Coordinator
• 4:30 NYS Museum Lab Tour – Christina Rieth, State Archaeologist and Director, Cultural ResourceSurvey Program
• 5:30 TrolleyTour and Dinner: Aqua Ducks

 

Thursday, July 10: Troy 9:00-8:30

 

• 9:00 “Kate Mullany: Trade Union Pioneer” – Paul Cole, American Labor Studies Center

• 10:15 Washington Park Walk – Thomas Caroll, RiverSpark

 

• 1:30 Rensselaer County Historical Society: Resources/Underground Railroad/House Tour
• 7:30 “The Dutch Farm Survey” – Keith Cramer, The Dutch Barn Preservation Society

Friday, July11: Albany 8:30-4:30

 

• 8:30 Historic Cherry Hill
• 1:00 Schuyler Mansion
• 2:45 FortCrailot Beacon Incline

 

For further information contact IHARE at 914-939-9071 or email us at: contact@ihare.org

July 12 Beacon: Mount Gulian, Mount Beacon, Madam Brett

July 13 Garrison: Constitution Marsh, Manitoba House

Contact Hours: 4.5
Cost: $45 (lunch included)
Cutoff Date: June 19
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Step back into the past and wonder about the future of life along the Hudson River. Participants in this program in the hamlet of Garrison will tour the headquarters of General Putnam at the birth of America and see where closing of a neighborhood pub made news in the 21st century. Met a descendant of a Revolutionary family and explore an artist’s vision that transformed a stone quarry into an environmental masterpiece.

10:00 Garrison Landing: Welcome
Garrison Future: Farewell to a Pub, and Maybe an Era
The Mandevilles: An Artistic Use of Primary Source Documents: Betsy Braun Lane

11:00 Manitoga, The Russell Wright Design Center

Manitoga, Dragon Rock and the Russel Wright Studio are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and Manitoga is a featured site in the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Artists’ Home and Studios program. Wright acquired the 75-acre property, an abandoned stone quarry, in 1942 and designed Dragon Rock, the Studio and a vast woodland garden as a total environment over the course of 35 years. Tours begin with a 15 minute documentary about Russel Wright’s life. Afterward, visitors follow the inner quarry pond trail around to his home and studio. The landscape features views of Dragon Rock, a field of mountain laurel, a moss room, a stone staircase up the hill, and a wood plank bridge over the waterfall. Please wear comfortable walking shoes and dress appropriately. Visitors need to be able to negotiate uneven ground.

Lunch The Garrison Market
2:00 The Mandeville House
Tour the American Revolution headquarters of General Israel Putnam where Washington, LaFayette and others met. The house is open by a special request for this program.

3:00 Grist Mill

For further information contact IHARE at 914-939-9071 or email us at: contact@ihare.org

Location: Cold Spring and vicinity
Contact Hours: 9
Cost: $95
Cutoff Date: June 14
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Experience the ecology and history of the Cold Spring, New York, area. Participants will canoe the marshes of Constitution Island and go seining in the Hudson River at Little Stony Point in accordance with the flow of the tides. The history of the region encompasses the American Revolution including a Tory presence, manufacturing weaponry for 19th century wars, the home of a 19th-century book-writing powerhouse, archaeology excavations to uncover this past, and a village seeking to maintain its identity in a world of globalization, box stores and the internet.

8:30 Constitution Marsh Audubon Center and Sanctuary
Canoe the marsh in the morning when the tide permits and observe the flora and fauna struggling to survive amidst environmental change. Step back in time and imagine what the river life was long before people first began to settle here.

10:15 Boscobel: Tour the house and gardens by the river of a former Loyalist

12:15   Lunch: Meet with the education curator and review the Boscobel curriculum materials

1:30 “The Tories of the Hudson Valley: A British Perspective,” Ray Raymond, SUNY, USMA

2:30     Foundry School Museum: The West Point Foundry originated as a canon manufacturer for the American army and later aided the Union Army during the Civil War. An archaeology excavation is uncovering the material remains of this important part of American history and the artifacts are on display in the Museum. Meet with the education curator and review Foundry curriculum materials.

3:30 Seining, Little Stony Point

4:30 Constitution Island: Tour the American Revolution site that provided one end for the chain across the Hudson River to West Point. Tour the Victorian era home of authors Susan and Anna Warner, popular writers of the 19th century.

This program can be combined with other IHARE programs for teachers who need additional professional development hours before submission to the school district.

For further information contact IHARE at 914-939-9071 or email us at: contact@ihare.org

Locations:Elephant Hotel, 335 Route 202 (at Route 100), Somers, NY
Contact Hours: 6
Cost: $25
Cutoff Date: June 15
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This program can be combined with other IHARE programs for teachers who need additional contact hours to submit for professional development credit

9:00 – Welcome and Introductions
9:30 – Somers Circus History

This session will focus on the evolution of the American circus in the area, the early menageries, and Somers’ integral role in this. The history of the Elephant Hotel, a National Historic Landmark, will be discussed. We will explore various artifacts related to the history of the menageries and circus, and debunk some of the myths associated with Somers.

Materials: Somers Its People and Places circus chapter; Bandwagon article; True False Test

10:30 – Tour Somers Historical Society Museum, Third Floor, Elephant Hotel
11:00 – Somers Local History

This session will focus on the history of Somers, from its incorporation in 1788 through present, and the social and economic factors which influenced its evolution.  We will explore use of historical resources.

Materials: Somers Its People and Place Overview, Somers Remembered; Somers, A Walking Tour; Scharf’s History of Somers.

12:15 – Lunch, travel to Wright Reis Homestead
1:30 – Visit Wright Reis Homestead, tour house & grounds

This session will introduce the Wright family in Somers, and focus particularly on the life of Carolyn Wright Reis, an early 20th century design student, farm manager, collector and philanthropist.

Materials: The Wright Family Legacy workbook, Somers Confederates pamphlet

3:00 – Visit Mt. Zion Methodist Church and Burial Ground, built 1794

This session will focus on Mt Zion Church, its history and significance in Somers, and the local community which thrived along Primrose Street until the New York city reservoirs effected its demise. We will touch on issues of preservation, diversity, interdependence, and community.

Materials: Mt. Zion and Rural Homesteads flyer

For further information contact IHARE at 914-939-9071 or email us at: contact@ihare.org

Location: Garrison and vicinity
Contact Hours: 7
Cost: $95 (lunch included)
Cutoff Date: June 19
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Experience the art, ecology and history of the Garrison, New York, area. Participants will walk the preserved roads from colonial times, stand at the redoubts constructed to thwart the British during the American Revolution, hear the stories of the Hudson Highlands, and see the art that glorified a river.

9:00 Old Road Society: Eric Wagner, Bird Bottle Inn, 1751 Route 9
Following a talk about the efforts to preserve and maintain the roads of the colonial era, we will walk on the old dirt roads that once were the post roads and where many people live to this very day.

11:00 North and South Redoubts: Jim Johnson, Marist College
Led by former West Point Colonel and American Revolution historian, we will walk to the redoubts which were constructed during the American Revolution to prevent the British from moving north.

1:00 Lunch: The Garrison Terrace Grill

2:00 Lower Hudson Symposium at the Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library

The speakers will review the ecology, history, and stories of Hudson River Highlands.

“Cultural Encounters in Colonial Times: The Legacy,” Laurence Hauptman, SUNY New Paltz
“The Hudson River,” Fran Dunwell, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation
“Stories of the Highlands,” Jonathan Kruk, storyteller

For further information contact IHARE at 914-939-9071 or email us at: contact@ihare.org

Locations: Sleepy Hollow to Hastings-on Hudson
Contact Hours: 40
Cost: $245 (includes five lunches and one dinner)
Cutoff Date: June 21
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Experience the Hudson River from colonial times to the present.  Meet the authors, scholars, and curators who preserve its legacy and tell its story.  Learn about the Dutch, slavery, Washington Irving, Hudson River art, the Gilded Age, and the Rockefellers.  See how the ecology changed over the centuries and learn about the plans and ideas for the future.  Debate the challenges of the new construction.  The program combines art, archaeology, ecology, history, literature and provides a testament to the efforts of small rivertowns to maintain their heritage and identity into the 21st century.

7/21 –  Hudson River History Symposium, Hastings-on-Hudson Library, Orr Room (9:00-5:00)
10:00 The Lenape: Ira Hauptman, SUNY New Paltz
11:00 “The Croton Aqueduct,” Friends of the Croton Aqueduct
1:00 “The Hastings’ Waterfront,” Stuart Cadenhead, Friends of Hastings’ Historic Waterfront
2:00 “Hudson River Art,” Ken Maddox, Newington-Cropsey House
3:00 “The African American Migration to North: A Case Study” Fred Opie, Marist College
4:00 “The Rockefeller Legacy,” the Rockefeller Archives

7/22 – Tuesday, Hastings-on-Hudson and Dobbs Ferry (9:00-8:00)
9:00 Hastings-on-Hudson Historical Society
10:30 Newington-Cropsey House: house and gallery tour
12:00 Museum in the Street walk and lunch
1:30 The American Revolution: A Local Story
2:30 Croton Aqueduct: Overseer’s Cottage and Guided Walk
7:00 “Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape.” Rob Yasinsac, author Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape

7/23 – Wednesday, Tarrytown/Irvington (9:00-8:00)
9:00 Lyndhurst
1:00 Sunnyside
2:30 Irvington Historical Society and bus tour
6:00 Hudson River Cruise with the Riverkeeper (from Tarrytown)

7/24 – Thursday, Sleepy Hollow (9:00-6:30)
9:00 Rockefeller Park Preserve: Guided Tour
10:30 Philipsburg Manor
3:30 Old Dutch Burial Ground
4:30 Old Dutch Burial Ground and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Tour
5:30 Tarrytown Lighthouse and the General Motors Plant Site: River Communities from the Industrial Age to the 21st Century

7/25 – Friday: Rockefeller (10:00-5:30)
10:00 Kykuit
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Stone Barn
2:30 Rockefeller Archives
3:30 Union Church
4:30 Kendal-on-Hudson: Riverfront Life in the 21st Century

For further information contact IHARE at 914-939-9071 or email us at: contact@ihare.org

Locations: Fort Edward, Fort William Henry, Fort Ticonderoga
Contact Hours: 40
Cost: $345
Cutoff Date: June 26
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Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of the French and Indian War in upstate New York. This important American war helped create the tensions that led to the American Revolution a generation later and contributed to the disintegration of the British Empire in North America. Hear about the British and American perspectives. Tour the forts, stand on the highground, cruise the lakes, and walk the shores of the war that became part of American history, literature, and movies. Hear from a range of speakers, receive curriculum materials, leave with a better understanding of the global war that preceded the American Revolution, and bring that excitement and experience back to the classroom.

8/4 Monday: Fort Edward and Whitehall
9:00 Welcome to Rogers Island Visitor Center
9:05 Archaeology in Fort Edward and Rogers Rangers: Learning Channel video
9:30 Guided tour of Rogers Island Visitor Center
10:00 “Who won the French and Indian War? A British Perspective,” Ray Raymond, SUNY and United States Military Academy
11:00 Walking tour of Rogers Island/Major Robert Rogers Memorial State Park
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Archaeological Field School lunchtime lecture
1:00 “Fort Edward Archaeology,” David Starbuck, Plymouth State College
2:00 Archaeological Site Tour, David Starbuck
3:15 Old Fort House Museum: Tour
Jane McCrea: Facts, Myths and Legends
History of Fort Edward
6:30 Dinner Whitehall
7:30 Skenesborough Museum and Heritage Area Visitors Center

8/5 Tuesday: Fort Ticonderoga
9:00 “Winning the War, Losing the Peace: The Strategic Consequences of
the French and Indian War for Britain and its American Colonies” Ray Raymond
10:00 “Fort Ticonderoga in the French and Indian War,” Fort Ticonderoga curator
11:00 “Naval Campaigns of the French and Indian War at Lake George and Lake Champlain” Russ Bellico, author of Chronicles of Lake Champlain: Journeys in War and Peace
12:00 lunch
1:00 Tour of the Fort and the grounds
4:00 Museum workshop
Primary Source Documents
Pre- and Post-Visit Curriculum Programs
6:00 Dinner
7:00 “Battle of Valcour Island,” James Nelson, author of Benedict Arnold’s Navy

8/6 Wednesday: Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point
9:00 19th Century Tourism: Guided Tour
10:0 Women’s History of Fort Ticonderoga
11:00 Fascine Building
12:00 Camp Cooking
1:00 Lunch at Mount Defiance overlooking the Region
2:00 Story-teller, Rick Salazar
3:00 Crown Point State Historic Site
6:00 Dinner Lake Champlain Carillon Cruise

8/7 Thursday: Fort William Henry
9:00 Fort William Henry and the French and Indian War: David Starbuck
10:00 Fort William Henry in Literature: Daniel Donahue, curator
11:00 Fort William Henry Exhibits: self-guided tour
12:00 Lake George lunch cruise
2:00 Fort William Henry Tour
3:00 Fort William Henry Curriculum Material
3:30 Teaching the French and Indian War Workshop
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Fort William Henry Public Lecture
9:00 Fireworks

8/8 Friday: Fort William Henry
9:00 “The History and Underwater Archaeology of Lake George’s Sunken Fleet of 1758” Joseph W. Zarzynski, Bateaux Below, Inc, RPA
10:00 “Colonial Wars Walking Tour of Lake George,” Joseph Zarzynsky

Lodging has been arranged at the Super8’s in Fort Ticonderoga and Glens Falls

For further information contact IHARE at 914-939-9071 or email us at: contact@ihare.org