All events are free and open to the public. Unless otherwise noted, the events take place in
the Ottinger Room at the Croton Free Library, 171 Cleveland Drive, Croton-on-Hudson, NY. Please join us!
MAY
Voices of the Hudson Valley’s Indigenous Peoples
Nick Schumatoff, a former curator of Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, sought to preserve the Lenape culture and dialect. In the 1970s, Schumatoff and a team of researchers went to Oklahoma to record, preserve, and learn from the voices of the last remaining Unami-speaking Lenape population. This is their story, with archival audio, presented by Jean Klurfeld.
Thursday, May 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the Croton Free Library
JUNE
Croton in the Revolutionary War
To commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, Croton Village Historian Marc Cheshire will recount some of the dramatic events that took place here, the devastation and danger in Westchester during most of the war, the heroic military service of local patriots like Pierre and Philip Van Cortlandt, the brief occupation by Hessian soldiers in 1779 and the march of American troops through the village on their way to Yorktown, Virginia, to defeat the British in the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
Thursday, June 11 at 7:00 p.m. at the Croton Free Library