The Matthewis Persen House Museum & Cultural Heritage Center also functions as Ulster County's Heritage Gateway. Cultural heritage groups from throughout the county guest host at the House on Saturdays throughout the season. These guest hosts share their treasure troves of history and culture with visitors and often feature exhibits, lectures, programs, and even re-enactments!
Guest Host events are listed in our Events Calendar and in the Persen House Exhibits & Events Schedule on the home page.
British Brigade/16th Queen’s Light Dragoons – Revolutionary War era British re-enactment group
D & H Canal Historical Society & Museum
Ellenville Public Library & Museum
First Ulster Militia – Revolutionary War era colonial re-enactment group
Historical Society of Shawangunk & Gardiner
Hudson River Maritime Museum & the Rondout Lighthouse
Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture
John Burroughs Association/Sanctuary at Slabsides
O & W Napanoch Train Station & Museum
Red Feather Drummers of the Association of Native Americans of the Mid-Hudson Region – Contact: Judith Boggess (AKA Grandmother Judith Laughing Owl), Keeper of the Sacred Women’s Drum, Judithab657[at]gmail[dot]com, 845-657-9735 [no current website]
Reher Center for Immigrant History and Culture
Save Native Sites, Contact: Judy Abbott (845) 679-8440
Scions of Patria, 17th Century Dutch Re-enactment
Senate House State Historic Site
Society for Creative Anachronism - Shire of Nordenhal
SUNY New Paltz Anthropology Department
SUNY New Paltz Metal Arts Program
Third Ulster Militia – Revolutionary War era colonial re-enactment group [no current website]
Ulster County Historical Society
Wittenberg Center for Alternative Resources
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