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, Aug 6^th, 2020
  Landscape Walking Tour: "What you see...and what you don't see" at Staatsburg State Historic Site - 10:00 am
• Friday, Aug 7^th, 2020
  Sunflower Festival at Barton Orchards - 10:00 am
• Saturday, Aug 8^th, 2020
  Sunflower Festival at Barton Orchards - 10:00 am
• Saturday, Aug 8^th, 2020
  Dance: Summer Festival 2020 Outdoor Performances at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli - 5:00 pm
• Saturday, Aug 8^th, 2020
  Jazz at the Vineyard Outdoor Summer Concert Series at Millbrook Winery - 5:30 pm

• Sunday, Sep 13^th, 2020
  Mid-Hudson Road Runner's Club 2020 Virtual Dutchess County Classic - 12:00 am
• Thursday, Sep 17^th, 2020
  Mid-Hudson Road Runner's Club 2020 Virtual Dutchess County Classic - 12:00 am
• Wednesday, Sep 16^th, 2020
  Mid-Hudson Road Runner's Club 2020 Virtual Dutchess County Classic - 12:00 am
• Friday, Sep 18^th, 2020
  Mid-Hudson Road Runner's Club 2020 Virtual Dutchess County Classic - 12:00 am
• Tuesday, Sep 15^th, 2020
  Mid-Hudson Road Runner's Club 2020 Virtual Dutchess County Classic - 12:00 am