White Glove History Tour at Mount Gulian Historic Site

This special tour highlights items from the collection that are rarely on display.  Following a tour of the house and grounds, visitors will have the opportunity to become historians, donning the trademark white archival gloves to examine artifacts up close and out from the storage rooms, giving a perspective on history you won’t find anywhere else. 

Using Verplanck family diaries and records and contemporary advice manuals, Mount Gulian historians will discuss how people of the past coped with summer heat.  Examining items from the museum’s collection, including men’s and women’s clothing from the 19th century, visitors will get a sense as to how early Americans did (or didn’t) manage during the warmer months. 

To help our visitors cope with summertime temperatures, cold refreshments will be served with our compliments at the conclusion of the tour.  

• Thursday, Jan 23^rd, 2020
  Distinctly Dutchess Hotel Week! - 12:00 am
• Friday, Jan 24^th, 2020
  Distinctly Dutchess Hotel Week! - 12:00 am
• Saturday, Jan 25^th, 2020
  Distinctly Dutchess Hotel Week! - 12:00 am
• Saturday, Jan 25^th, 2020
  Hyde Park Winterfest - 1:00 pm
• Sunday, Jan 26^th, 2020
  Distinctly Dutchess Hotel Week! - 12:00 am

• Sunday, Mar 15^th, 2020
  "Anne Frank: Parallel Stories" hosted by The Moviehouse - 1:00 pm
• Saturday, May 2^nd, 2020
  Neil Gaiman in Conversation with N. K. Jemisin Hosted by Fisher Center and Oblong Books & Music - 7:30 pm
• Saturday, Feb 8^th, 2020
  Murder Cafe Presents "Til Death Do We Sing" by at Joseph's Steak House - 7:00 pm
• Tuesday, Mar 3^rd, 2020
  "Anne Frank: Parallel Stories" hosted by The Moviehouse - 4:00 pm
• Friday, Jun 26^th, 2020
  Summer Classic Livestock Show at Dutchess County Fairgrounds - 12:00 am