HEAR about HERE

HEAR about HERE HEAR about HERE let’s authors and contributors tell tales in the HEAR and THEN about historical people, places and events

A new HEAR about HERE and a New Year!Check out our new website —quicker, sleeker and more informative than ever. Let us ...
01/02/2025

A new HEAR about HERE and a New Year!

Check out our new website —quicker, sleeker and more informative than ever. Let us know what you think!
Have Tales to tell? Tell them with us so all can HEAR .

Best wishes for a Happy New Year from HaH!

https://www.hearabouthere.com

In the years after Fort Orange was established in 1624 in today’s Albany a village grew up outside the fort in the area ...
12/30/2024

In the years after Fort Orange was established in 1624 in today’s Albany a village grew up outside the fort in the area of today’s downtown core. The City and Discover Albany created an audio tour https://tinyurl.com/bdze9r3k along the line of the Stockade erected to protect the village.
Hear more about Bevervyck on HEAR about HERE https://tinyurl.com/yrwcwnxx and get a historical map of the Albany stockade as created by Miller in 1695. https://tinyurl.com/t3k7ant3

400 years after the founding of Fort Orange as the oldest continuous European settlement in the United States, there isn...
12/27/2024

400 years after the founding of Fort Orange as the oldest continuous European settlement in the United States, there isn’t a lot of talk about it. The Times Union says there was a celebration 100 years ago for the 300th anniversary which was a big deal.
https://tinyurl.com/yhetcaub
Time has run out for a big celebration in 2024 which leaves us with other ways to note this anniversary. The Mayor’s Office announced a tour of the Albany stockade line which protected the village that grew out of the Fort.
https://tinyurl.com/5ct77tjx
Important historical sites can be located on the tour created by Tony Opalka with brochure at
https://tinyurl.com/3cw973dm
Map from Wikipedia from unknown author of Fort Orange area

Christmas Miracle? How many are really in a dozen? An early Dutch Albany Baker was visited by a witch on Christmas Eve ...
12/24/2024

Christmas Miracle? How many are really in a dozen? An early Dutch Albany Baker was visited by a witch on Christmas Eve and later St Nick. Baking was never the same. Tale by Friends of Albany History. https://tinyurl.com/hand7jhp
Merry Christmas to all from all of us at HaH! 🎄🌲🎅

A mere 15 years after Henry Hudson first showed up in the river that bears his name and hit a dead end to his search fo...
12/23/2024

A mere 15 years after Henry Hudson first showed up in the river that bears his name and hit a dead end to his search for a path through the continent, the Dutch established Fort Orange beginning the oldest continuous settlement in the United States. Fort later abandoned when Fort Frederick built at top of State St hill.
Tales of the Fort are told by Paul Huey, Charles Gehring and Carl Johnson in the HEAR and THEN. https://shorturl.at/hMINu

Image of painting of Fort Orange with the Patroon’s House, courtesy of LF Tantillo. http://lftantillo.com/17th-century/fort-orange-and-the-patroons-house.html

After Henry Hudson exited the stage of North America and the river that bears his name, it was five years before the Dut...
12/20/2024

After Henry Hudson exited the stage of North America and the river that bears his name, it was five years before the Dutch set up Fort Nassau in 1614-near the spot where Henry Hudson anchored in 1609 -the First fortified Dutch trading post in New Netherland. The fort was abandoned after 4 years due to river overflow and expiration of New Netherland Co patent. Across the river later was built Fort Crailo. Charles Gehring of the New Netherland Institute and Paul Huey Tell their variations of the Tale at HEAR about HERE. https://shorturl.at/0Epej

Hudson and crew spent several days at the end of September 1609 exploring the riverbank of his river and meeting the loc...
09/30/2024

Hudson and crew spent several days at the end of September 1609 exploring the riverbank of his river and meeting the locals. The ship ran aground again and again they were freed. The ship sailed a few ‘leagues’ each day. OTD 415 years ago, the weather was fair and the wind stiff. The locals came aboard and the crew traded knives and trifles for skins and wheat.

Hear more about Hudson’s journey at
https://www.hearabouthere.com/historical/united-states/new-york/troy/colonial/dead-end-for-henry-hudson/

Henry Hudson hung out in this section of the river bearing his name at Albany for several days in September 1609 before ...
09/25/2024

Henry Hudson hung out in this section of the river bearing his name at Albany for several days in September 1609 before giving up on a passage through the continent and hightailing it back downriver. Hudson’s voyage would start a series of events resulting in the Dutch colonization of the Hudson Valley and differences between this region and much of the rest of the country.

Hear more about Hudson’s journey at
https://www.hearabouthere.com/historical/united-states/new-york/troy/colonial/dead-end-for-henry-hudson/

09/24/2024

Albany Symphony to Present Water Music NY: More Voices Festival, a Project 200 Years in the Making, Highlighting the Past, Present, and Future of the Erie Canal

State-Wide Creative Endeavor Commemorates the Bicentennial of the Completion of the Original Erie Canal.

ALBANY, NY — The two-time GRAMMY® award-winning Albany Symphony, in partnership with the New York Power Authority and the New York State Canal Corporation, presents a powerful commemorative and celebratory series of livestreamed pop-up concerts taking place along the Erie Canal, Water Music NY: More Voices. The 2024 concert series will span the state, with livestreamed concerts in unique venues in Lockport, Little Falls, Fort Hunter, Waterloo, and Savannah, NY between September 26 and November 2.

The new three-year Water Music NY project takes inspiration from the orchestra’s original 2017 Water Music NY Festival, and opens a new chapter, exploring underrepresented voices, including those of women, immigrants, people of color, and indigenous peoples, to commemorate the bicentennial of the completion of the Erie Canal. Built between 1817 and 1825, the original Erie Canal traversed 363 miles from Albany to Buffalo.

“As the Erie Canal nears its third century of operation, we are excited to embark on a grand new adventure with our wonderful partners at the New York State Canal Corporation,” said Albany Symphony Music Director David Alan Miller. “We believe that by commissioning brilliant new works by some of the most compelling composers working today, and challenging them to look at the Canal through fresh eyes, the music they create will spark dialogue, expand perspectives, and energize canalside communities on what the Canal represents, and what it can become.”

The five pop-up concerts will take place at the Lock Tenders Tribute Monument in Lockport, Old Lock 36 (near Lock 17) in Little Falls, *Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site in Fort Hunter*, Waterloo (livestream only), and the Montezuma Audubon Center at Montezuma Wetlands Complex. Featured composers Daniel Bernard Roumain, Clarice Assad, Francisco del Pino, Dai Wei, and Juhi Bansal will have their new works premiered at unique venues along the Canal.

Clarice Assad’s world premiere, Earth and Water, will be performed overlooking the Schoharie Crossing Aqueduct, a New York State Historic Site. This coincides with another anniversary – the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation celebrates its centennial in 2024. This musical dialogue between earth and water explores themes of environmental change, human progress, and the relationship between nature and civilization, all centered around the construction of the Erie Canal. (September 28th at 4pm)

For More Information: https://www.albanysymphony.com/news

We'll See You Out There!
NY State Parks & Historic Sites
NYS Canal Corporation
New York Power Authority

Visit Montgomery County NY

Henry Hudson’s crew headed further up river 415 years ago yesterday but after going 24-27 miles (maybe near where a revo...
09/23/2024

Henry Hudson’s crew headed further up river 415 years ago yesterday but after going 24-27 miles (maybe near where a revolutionary war battle later occurred) the water was only 7 feet deep. Hudson was at a dead end. Did the crew take a detour into the Mohawk and see Cohoes Falls on the way? If so, they didn’t mention it….and they missed a great sight. While they were away, Hudson dined on venison with the locals.

Hear more about Hudson’s journey at
https://www.hearabouthere.com/historical/united-states/new-york/troy/colonial/dead-end-for-henry-hudson/

Address

Albany, NY
12203

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when HEAR about HERE posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to HEAR about HERE:

Shortcuts

Share

Category