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!

Long before Amazon and other online shopping venues, Dutchess County residents went to physical stores for all of their retail needs. Join Dutchess County Historian Will Tatum for a deep dive into the origins of the shopping experience in the county. Learn what colonial era stores stocked and sold, the forms of payment their accepted, and the extensive areas they served. If you feel that you have to drive a ways to access a grocery store today, prepare to have your frame of reference significantly widened. Learn more and RSVP.

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 County Historian for the traditional Spooky Season installment of the Tavern Trail! As always for this event, we'll be in the basement dining area of Fosters, which is accessible only by stairs. But it does offer a certain crypt-ic atmosphere appropriate to the season.

Last year, we explored the History of Ghost Stories in Dutchess. This year, Dutchess County Historian Will Tatum will share a carefully curated selection of stories drawn from old history publications, including the infamous 1880s Smith History of Dutchess, where the line between fact, fiction, and the supernatural was blurry indeed. As always, your host will offer his own brand of commentary on these tales, and might even share some of his own spooky experiences from twelve years of wandering through the county's oldest sections. Learn more and RSVP.

All month long, enjoy our Fourth Annual Cemetery Crawl! This event is both a competitive Scavenger Hunt and a self-guided tour of six Red Hook cemeteries that offers highlights of the lives of interesting individuals and their memorials. 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.

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 us at Lasting Joy Brewery for a journey into the initial European settlement of southern Columbia and northern Dutchess Counties. Some may be familiar with the story of the German Palatines from the Rhineland, who immigrated to the Livingston Estates between 1709-1712, then dispersed across New York. This presentation follows the Dutchess County branch of that story, focusing on the hamlet of Wurtemburg in Rhinebeck, which is still largely intact today. Hear about the challenges and tribulations on both sides of the Atlantic that led hearty Rhinelanders to lay the groundwork for our modern communities. Learn more and RSVP.

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

The Tavern Trail returns to Lasting Joy Brewery in Tivoli to explore one of the most confusing aspects of local life in the Hudson Valley: Where do we actually live? The US Post Office says one thing, the tax assessor says another, and local lore is entirely different. Join Dutchess County Historian to learn about the real history behind this confusion and why there isn't a Town of Tivoli, yet there is a Town and Village of Red Hook, but Rock City is not part of either one. Learn more and RSVP.

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 us for our second annual 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!

In rural communities where soaring land prices threaten the traditional economy, emerging practices in technology, marketing, and ownership are securing agriculture’s future. These innovations are all on display in the Hudson Valley, where longtime suburban development and more recent pandemic-related migration have placed unique stress on farmers and their allies. Join Historic Red Hook for this panel discussion that celebrates local achievements in agricultural stewardship and outlines the progress that still needs to be made.

The outlines of this story read like a major motion picture: an erstwhile professor is trapped behind enemy lines while Fascists seek to overrun a major European country. However, there are some important differences from the major movie series: the professor was female, James Bruce Ross of Vassar College, the place was Spain, and the power-hungry dictator was Francisco Franco. The explosions and gunfire were still very real, along with the last-minute rescue by a French aristocrat. Join Dutchess County Historian Will Tatum at Foster’s Coach House in Rhinebeck at 6 PM on Wednesday, May 22nd to hear the details of this hair-raising episode of real Dutchess History. Seating is limited and reservations can only be held until 5 minutes before the program time. Learn more and RSVP.

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 Dutchess County Historian William P. Tatum III, Ph.D for a rollicking ride through the life and times of General de Peyster. Learn about de Peyster’s egomaniacal contributions to Dutchess County and New York life, and his eventual calamitous fall that left him alone and broken on his Tivoli estate. Learn more and RSVP.

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.