Early Albany: A Hudson River Festival at The Corning Preserve in Albany, New York

Eric and I drove to The Corning Preserve on the Hudson River in Albany to tour Early Albany: A Hudson River Festival.  Albany is very proud of its Dutch heritage.

English explorer Henry Hudson's 1609 expedition to find the Northwest Passage was funded by the Dutch East India Company.  Hudson and his crew, aboard the Half Moon, discovered New Amsterdam  and sailed north on the Hudson River to Albany.

Later, England took possession of this Dutch Colony in 1664 and renamed it New York.







Our first view of the
Half Moon replica.

A scaled-down model of

 an Algonquin longhouse.

 

The animal furs would

help make the long house

warm in the winter.

A native dugout canoe

An elder leads the

drum circle.

Some of the sailors from

the Half Moon are

camped on the shore.

A reenactor chats 

with a visitor.

A woman plays the flute.

The broom maker shares
his craft.

People inspect one of

the landing boats.

The Half Moon is crewed by
volunteers & has sailed from
North Carolina to Michigan.