UPCOMING EVENTS!
SCREENING EVENT and PANEL DISCUSSION
THE HUDSON RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM
50 Rondout Landing, Kingston NY
Thursday, September 18th, 2025 from 7:00 - 8:30
After the screening, we will have a panel discussion followed by an audience Q & A. Our speakers will discuss the history of the industrialization of the Rondout waterfront, the engineering feat and impact of the original Wurts Street bridge construction and its rescue and renovation a century later.
The D&H Canal Museum
1315 NY 213, High Falls, NY / Friday, October 17th, 2025 – 7:00 to 8:30
After the screening, Historian Bill Merchant, Curator of the D&H Canal Historical Society, in conversation with Roebling scholar Professor Paul King, R.A., AIA, SARA, ASCE, Professor of architecture and engineering at New York City College of Technology, will explore the impact of the D&H Canal on the Rondout Waterfront and the crucial role John Roebling, famed for his design of the Brooklyn Bridge, played in the Wurts Street Bridge engineering and design.
EVENTS ARCHIVE
SCREENING EVENT and PANEL DISCUSSION
THANK YOU to Sarah Litvin and Eddie Moran for their insights and scholarship. The conversation was most interesting.
THANK YOU also to everyone who joined us for a wonderful afternoon of film and conversation!
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Klyne Esopus Historical Society Museum
764 US-9W; Ulster Park, NY / Sunday, August 17th, 2025 - 1:00 – 2:30
After the screening, Sarah Litvin, PhD, Former Executive Director, Reher Center will be in conversation with Eddie Moran, Ulster County’s Historian. Together, they will explore the dynamic events that shaped the communities around the bridge - from waves of immigration and technological change to world events that played out over the Rondout’s consequential history.
