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400th Anniversary

Hudson-Fulton 1909 Celebration Program

Hudson-Fulton 1909 Celebration Program

Celebrations, replicas of the Half Moon sailing into New York Harbor and exhibitions at a gallery.    Henry Hudson, we hardly new you, but he’s all over the news lately.  Truly, even the few portraits we have of the man were commissioned many years after his death. But, New York does like a party.  And [...]

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The Summer of Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson

Four hundred years ago Henry Hudson, an English sea captain flying a Dutch flag, departed Amsterdam looking for a northwest passage to the Orient. It would be his third and most important voyage. According to a journal kept by shipmate Robert Juet, Hudson and his crew on the Half Moon sailed into New York Harbor [...]

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