New Netherland Marketplace, 1645: A Living History Event
Sat, May 14
|Historic Huguenot Street
We're excited to partner with historic Huguenot Street to bring you a mid-17th century marketplace, where you’ll discover Indigenous and Dutch reenactors sharing their craftsmanship and culture, and portraying life in 1645 New Netherland.
Time & Location
May 14, 2022, 10:00 AM – May 15, 2022, 4:00 PM
Historic Huguenot Street, 81 Huguenot St, New Paltz, NY 12561, USA
About the Event
Come visit a mid-17th century marketplace, where you’ll discover Indigenous and Dutch reenactors sharing their craftsmanship and culture, and portraying life in 1645 New Netherland. Living historians portraying Dutch merchants, traders, and craftspeople will be offering demonstrations on leather and wood working, hearth cooking, tailoring, wampum making, musket firing, and more. The marketplace will also include displays of camp gear and furs, clothing, wooden bowls, and spoons for sale.
Delaware representatives from Oklahoma will be returning to their ancestral homelands to portray the life of their ancestors and their economic relationship with the Dutch. Their camp will have ongoing open fire cooking, cordage making, bow shooting, flintknapping, arrow making, and hide tanning demonstrations throughout the weekend.
Members of the Munsee-Delaware Nation from Muncey, Ontario and the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown in Thamesville, Ontario will also be present, selling their modern-day crafts and speaking about their community today.
This weekend long event will open to the public at 10:00 AM on Saturday, May 14, 2022. Saturday’s demonstrations will conclude at 5:00 PM. Day two of the public event will begin at 10:00 AM on Sunday, May 15, 2022 and will conclude at 4:00 PM.