Dutchess County Historian Will Tatum will speak about the photograph collection of Hilda Bauer.

A talk by Peter Devers and John Flanagan.

A talk on the history of the Millbrook Tribute Garden by Lea Cornell, Alison Meyer, and George Whalen.

Join John Flanagan and Robert McHugh for a talk about Millbrook’s jail. Meet on front lawn of Loedy Architects on the corner of Washington Ave. and Church St.

Join Wayne Lempka for a talk about two vanished buildings: the Millbrook Inn and the Millbrook Hotel. Meet at flagpole on the green across from the new firehouse.

Join John Coppell, Jonathan Boice, and Carole Ann Neville for a talk about the architecture of the Nine Partners Quaker Meeting House. Meet at the meeting house.

Join John Manzi for a history of Millbrook’s fire company. Meet at flagpole on the green across from the new fire house.

Join us for a member tea at Smithfield Church. Please bring some type of finger food to share.

Dutchess County Historical Society Executive Director Bill Jeffway will speak about the free Black community that resided in the Town of Washington in the early nineteenth century and put it into the broader context of the Black communities in the Hudson Valley.

Join Stephen Masri as he discusses the life, career, and home of the celebrated nineteenth-century historian and artist Benson Lossing, a Dutchess County native who lived much of his life on Chestnut Ridge in the Town of Dover. Mr. Masri lives in - and restored - Lossing’s old home.

FDR Library Education Specialist Jeff Urbin will speak on Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s contributions to the Civil Rights Movement as well as examples of New Deal policies that exacerbated racial inequality. The talk is in conjunction with the exhibition now open at the FDR Library.

Author Tonia Shoumatoff relates stories from her recent book on local history, including the tale of Timothy Leary’s time in Millbrook. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

A talk by Ezekiel Sanger.

A talk by Will Tatum, Dutchess County Historian.

From 1864 until 1998, Dutchess County government operated a facility to care for indigent and ill residents in the town of Washington. Initially consisting of a poor house, insane asylum, and pest house, this facility transformed into an almshouse in the 1870s, then into an infirmary in the 1930s. Drawing on surviving poorhouse records, newspaper accounts, and scrapbooks kept by residents, this presentation will explore how life for denizens of the poorhouse changed over its 134 years of operation.

This month’s program will focus on a collection of material from the Duncan/Anthony Family that was donated to the historical society last summer.  The material includes many family photographs, postcards, letters, datebooks, and ephemera.  The presentation will cover multiple generations of the family beginning in the middle of the 19th century and going up to the late 20th century, but will revolve around a Black woman, Sarah Duncan, who worked as a laundress and cook in the houses of many of the prominent Gilded Age families that made Millbrook their home around the turn of the20th century.  The program will be an opportunity to examine Millbrook’s history during that period from a different perspective than the one many of us are accustomed to and examine what is possible to discover – and what remains hidden - from a trove of family artifacts. 

Meeting spot: Quaker Meeting house. Entrance on Chruch St.

Meeting spot: Library parking lot on Friendly Lane. This is a walking tour that will last roughly 45 minutes.

This event has been cancelled, but for more information on this topic please go here…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lXygz0h42Q&t=7s

Meeting Spot: Friendly Lane parking lot.

Meeting spot: Library lawn on Franklin Avenue

A talk by Ed Gerrard, Orvis Sandanona General Manager.

Note: Event will be held at Orvis Sandanona at 3:30.

This program has been postponed due to personnel changes at Orvis. It will be rescheduled for a later date.

A talk and tour led by Kate Kerin, Landscape Curator.

Note: Meet at the Innisfree parking lot at 4:30.

A talk by James Hanna, Author and VP of the Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.

Note: Program will be held at St. Joseph’s parish hall.

A conversation with David Greenwood. If you can, please bring a favorite artifact relating to Millbrook history to the program to share with the audience.

A talk by Rev. Matthew Calkins and Brianne Van Vorst.

Justice Mark C. Dillon will speak about the personal, professional, and political life of John Jay, and the manner that his life influenced his role as the first Chief Justice of the United States from 1789 to 1795.  Some emphasis will be placed on Jay’s law practice and Revolutionary War intelligence activities in the Hudson Valley generally and in Dutchess County specifically.  The discussion will be supplemented with visual images of people, places, and things.  Jay’s life experiences affected how he later viewed and decided the earliest cases of the US Supreme Court that had enduring legacy.