CCE Events

Featured Event

Friday, May 24, 2019
11:30 am – 1:00 pm 
Historic Red Hook Annex
The opening of an exhibition, Alexander Gilson: From Property to Property Owner, at the Historic Red Hook Annex, Cherry Street, Red Hook.

This exhibition is a part of Toward an Ethical Imagination: Gilsonfest. Gilsonfest is a collaboration between Bard College, Historic Red Hook, Dutchess County Historical Society, and Red Hook Quilters focusing on the life of Montgomery Place gardener Alexander Gilson, an African American slave, who after being freed stayed on as head gardener and eventually opened his own nursery business.