A Docent-Led House History Tour & Panel Discussion

WHAT:               A Docent-Led House History Tour & Panel Discussion

LOCATION:       Historic Robert Jenkins House, 113 Warren Street, Hudson

WHEN:               Saturday, May 31, 2025

                           Docent-Led House Tour, 1:00pm & 2:00pm

                           Public Discussion Panel, 3:00pm

TICKETS:          Free, RSVP recommended by May 29, phone: 518 828 9764

Women and Whaling in Hudson 

This event follows up on a similar event on April 26th. See this May 27th article in the Times Union: Hudson event explores women’s lives during city’s whaling era.

Three Columbia County organizations, the Hendrick Hudson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Hudson Area Library, and the Columbia County Historical Society, are working collaboratively to address a ground-breaking, first-time-ever project on whaling. Without whaling, there would be no “Hudson Miracle” that began in 1783 with Nantucket merchants and whalers. This story covers the peak era of Hudson’s whaling—1783-1829 and more. The story needs to be told and shared with the Hudson community. Few are familiar with this “Hudson Miracle.” Women’s roles during whaling have not been explored. How women lived, adapted, survived, and thrived in this era will be brought to life at the country’s 250^th birthday.

In addition to collaborators Hudson Area Library and Columbia County Historical Society, the Hendrick Hudson Chapter thanks the humanities council Humanities New York, which is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The chapter is also very grateful to its board, volunteers and staff and its many private, corporate and foundation supporters.

More Women and Whaling continues in the summer and fall of 2025.

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