Historical Events

Join history experts for a free, one-day professional development session exploring how Thomas Cole’s 1825 American landscape paintings can illuminate key history curriculum themes, including Colonial Foundations, Expansion, Nationalism and Sectionalism, Westward Movement, and Industrialization. Open to all K–12 educators with advance registration required.

Join ethnoecologist Justin Wexler for a talk exploring the story of the Catskill Indians, from 1,000 years ago to the present.

Join the Greene County Historical Society for an afternoon of community, history, music, food and drinks as we raise funds to help preserve and protect the architectural heritage of the Bronck Museum. The fundraising party will be held at The Wire Event Center.

Greene County Historian Jonathan Palmer presents the Beecher Lecture marking the 200th anniversary of Thomas Cole’s first trip to Catskill. Discover how Cole’s 1825 visit, set against a nation in transition, ignited a golden age of art that transformed both Catskill and American culture.