Quadricentennial Evening Speakers Series
The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in partnership with the Greater Cornwall Quadricentennial Committee and the Cornwall Presbyterian Church presents their Quadricentennial Evening Speakers Series: 1809: Fulton’s Legacy: Hudson River Steamboats. This lecture will take place on Tuesday, February 17, 7:30 p.m. at the Cornwall Presbyterian Fellowship Hall, 222 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson (right down the road from Painter’s Tavern.) Join Allynne Lange, Curator of the Hudson River Maritime Museum for an illustrated talk about Robert Fulton’s development of a workable steamboat which created a revolution in transportation beginning in 1807. Throughout the 19th and well into the 20th century millions of passengers rode a steamboat on the Hudson for a day’s outing. Tourism developed as people came from near and far to see the famed scenery depicted in the work of Hudson River School artists from the elegant steamboats known as “floating palaces.” Commuters traveled to shopping or work on small steamers or crossed the river on larger ferries.
Suggested donation: $5, Museum members and church members: $3. Beverages and desserts available for purchase.
This program is sponsored in part by the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial.
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