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Friday, November 6, 2009
1st Friday
5:00–8:00 pm
On the first Friday of each month, the Albany Institute remains open
until 8:00pm and admission to our galleries is free as part of 1st
Fridays, the downtown arts walk that showcases the thriving and lively
art scene in downtown Albany.
Lecture
and Book Signing
Jim Heron, author
Denning's Point: A Hudson River History
6:00
pm
FREE
Jim Heron is project historian for the Beacon Institute and an
author, historian, and popular public speaker. In Denning’s Point
he unveils a remarkable saga that leads from newspaper morgues and the
back rooms of museums to a hands-on archaeological dig that confirmed
the presence of prehistoric American Indians on Denning’s Point as early
as 4000 BC. Members of Henry Hudson’s crew may have landed there in
1609, as George Washington certainly did during the Revolutionary War.
The most exciting discovery by far, however, was finding proof that it
was on Denning's Point that Alexander Hamilton first set his ideas on
paper in a series of editorials that grew to become the Federalist
Papers, and subsequently were incorporated into the United States
Constitution. Along the way, meet a strong-willed pioneer woman and a
ruthless railroad tycoon. Visit a gracious early-1800s mansion and a
dusty brickyard providing building materials for a rising New York City.
Witness the decline of the Hudson River Valley in the early and
mid-1900s, and its rebirth today as a valued watershed of unparalleled
beauty and now the home of The Beacon Institute for Rivers and
Estuaries.
The event is free and open to the public.
Albany Institute members receive a 10 percent discount on selected items
in the Museum Shop.
Click here for more info on 1st Friday.
Albany Institute of History & Art
2009 Lecture Series
ASL interpretation is
available.
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