As members of the Hendrick Hudson Chapter, we strive to serve our community, honor our Nation’s veterans, recognize educational excellence, and help preserve our historical past. We love to get together for DAR meetings and programs, State and National conferences, and regional workshops and lectures, and we love to host social gatherings in our beautiful chapter house, the Historic Robert Jenkins House. Take a look through our photo galleries to see highlights from some of these events and more!
below: October 2023: DAR Day of Service at Cypress Hill Cemetery in New Lebanon; Hudson River School artist Laura Seymour’s descendant Lili Ott tours the chapter house with vice regent and regent; Frederic Church’s great-great granddaughter, a chapter member, presents the chapter a gift of her painting of the pond at Olana.
below: August and September 2023: Visit by Jacob Leisler Institute board of trustees. Visit by Descendants of Whaling Masters and by Thomas Jenkins descendant Mark Thompson and family, which included a tour of the Robert Jenkins House, a tour of the Plumb-Bronson House, and a Hudson Area Library talk by Carl Whitbeck entitled “Hudson and Its Whaling Roots.” The Descendants made generous gifts to the chapter’s capital campaign and its library.
below: April-June 2023: Visit by Thomas Jenkins descendant Dodge Thompson and family, at Thomas Jenkins House, at Robert Jenkins House, at Plumb-Bronson House; dedication of Lafayette historical marker at the waterfront; Memorial Day services with former US Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Malcolm Nance; Flag Day Luncheon with New York State Regent, featuring her Regent’s Project at the Saratoga National Historic Park as well as a major donation to our Capital Campaign.
below: Over the Years: Good Citizens Awards, Community Service Awards, parades, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Veterans Day, Winter Walk, NYS Regent visits, New Member Swearings-In, Pollinators, our Benefactor, brand-new Citizens, our beautiful Theatre Curtain, Historic Bennington VT, marking a beloved member’s grave, the Hendrick Hudson Free Library, New Lebanon’s Cypress Hill Cemetery, sculptor Sarah Freeborne’s memorial to her parents, veterans’ donations, Tuxedo Cat, program speakers, Save America’s Treasures, Real Daughters, house tours …
Hendrick Hudson Chapter, NSDAR 