Societies plan programs for Rev250

Dutchess County announced on Wednesday (June 11) that it would allocate $100,000 for 23 projects related to the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution.

The Beacon Historical Society will receive $4,105 to create a map of Fishkill Landing and Matteawan during the American Revolution. (The villages merged in 1913 to become Beacon.) 

The Fishkill Historical Society received $1,450 to prepare and publish a colonial cemetery crawl booklet and website, and $6,200 for a recorded performance of The Fateful Hour, a re-enactment of debates in 1788 between Federalists and Anti-Federalists at the Poughkeepsie Court House.

The Dutchess County Historical Society received three grants: $3,000 to publish a collection of articles on the war from its annual yearbook; $2,700 for a traveling banner exhibit; and $10,000 for a recorded performance of Lafayette’s American Journeys of Freedom, about a visit on Sept. 16, 1824, to Poughkeepsie by Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the Revolution.

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