Join the Elmendorph Handspinners Guild for their monthly workshop day, an exciting opportunity for fiber enthusiasts to come together and explore the art of handspinning. Learn More.

Join the Elmendorph Handspinners Guild for their monthly workshop day, an exciting opportunity for fiber enthusiasts to come together and explore the art of handspinning. Learn More.

New York Harbor was once home to the greatest oyster habitat on the planet–before we fished and polluted them out. Now, communities across the city are working to bring the once plentiful bivalves back. This talk examines the past, present, and potential future of oysters in New York’s waters.   Click here to register.

Join us at the Elmendorph Inn or on Zoom for this presentation given in partnership with the Red Hook Public Library. More details.

Join friends and neighbors for a cozy winter evening enjoying a variety of homemade soups. Space is limited, so guarantee your seat by reserving tickets in advance . Click for details on reserving tickets.

The Elmendorph Inn looks its festive best for the holidays. Historic Red Hook invites you to enjoy live holiday music, hot mulled cider, homemade cookies, and fresh-baked treats from the beehive oven!

Join us for a night of brain-bending fun at our Trivia Night in the Elmendorph Inn! Assemble a team, enjoy great company, and challenge your wits. Local trivia expert Karen Sipperley has joined forces with the county historian Will Tatum to come up with an entertaining blend of popular knowledge and locally specific questions. Register your team here.

Join us on Zoom for this free presentation. Dr. Kane will discuss her new book, which offers a sweeping, detailed cultural history of three centuries of Haudenosaunee women's labor and their agency to shape their nations' future. Click here to register.

Time to party! Celebrate the end of the Cemetery Crawl with food, music, and fun on the Elmendorph Green! We’ll be using recycled materials to turn the Green into a cemetery. Grand Prize winners will be announced, and participation prizes handed out at 3:30 PM! Learn more.

Historic Red Hook is turning 10 this year! Join us at the Elmendorph Inn to celebrate with friends, music, light bites, and cake!

The Dutchess County Historic Tavern Trail returns to Foster’s to explore a Spooky Season favorite: Ghost Stories! How have our methods for telling spooky stories changed over the centuries? What are some favorite examples of Dutchess County haunts? Explore the mysteries of local history with Dutchess County Historian William P. Tatum III.

Join George Michael for a tour of the cemetery grounds at St. John’s Reformed Church in Upper Red Hook as he talks about the work he has done to repair and preserve gravestones. Learn More.

We will launching our Third Annual Cemetery Crawl on Hardscrabble Day! Visit our table in the Village of Red Hook parking lot as we kick-off a month of festivities. More details.

Join us at the Elmendorph Inn for Ruff’s performance of early Scottish music composed, collected, or inspired by women.

This concert is being presented and produced by the Hudson River Consort as a benefit for Historic Red Hook. Get tickets.

Join us for a summer festival celebrating our beloved town! We will be showcasing both the new and the old, so whether you're a newcomer or a lifelong resident, there will be something for everyone. Enjoy demonstrations, games, prizes, music, food, vendors, and Red Hook memories that will make you smile!

Join us for this second annual summer festival as we explore the farms, food, and families past and present that shape our town’s unique character. Experience demonstrations, tours, games, music, food, vendors, and Red Hook memories that'll make you smile!

Join Dutchess County Historian William P. Tatum III at Foster’s Coach House explore the hidden history of illegal liquor in northern Dutchess during Prohibition. How was the moonshine made? Who transported it? What were local speakeasies really like? What changed from the pre-Prohibition drinking scene? RSVP required.

Join us for a celebration of you, our members! More details to come. Not a member? Become one today.

Join Dutchess County Historian William P. Tatum III at Rose Hill Farm for a presentation on the Prohibition history of Red Hook and the story of the Red Hook Steam Cider Company Raid. Click to learn more and RSVP.

Thomas Summerhill is a professor at Michigan State University. His book, Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York, focuses farmers’ creative and radical organization, such as the Anti-Rent and Grange movements , in the face of social, political, and economic transformations of the nineteenth century. Click here to register.

Join friends and neighbors for a cozy winter evening enjoying a variety of homemade soups. Space is limited, so guarantee your seat by reserving tickets in advance . Click for details on reserving tickets.

Following the American Revolution, it was a cliché that the new republic's future depended on widespread, informed citizenship. Yet, it took decades before even Northern states created the common schools--accessible, elementary education--that seemed necessary to create such a citizenry. This talk explores the political debates particularly in New York State that led to the creation of public schools and, in turn, the racialized democracy that characterized the nineteenth-century United States. Click here to register.

Join us at the Elmendorph Inn for trivia and holiday drinks for the final hour and a half of bidding in our Online Benefit Auction from 4:30 to 6 PM!

The Elmendorph Inn looks its festive best for the holidays. Historic Red Hook invites you to enjoy live holiday music, hot mulled cider, homemade cookies and fresh-baked treats from the beehive oven!