Step back nearly 400 years at Historic Huguenot Street’s fifth annual New Netherland Marketplace, a free living-history event that transforms New Paltz into a bustling 17th-century settlement on June 13 and 14. Visitors can explore demonstrations of open-fire cooking, hide tanning, flintknapping, woodworking, tailoring, wool spinning, and wampum making while interacting with Lenape Delaware, Black, and European living historians portraying life in colonial New Netherland.
The weekend also features cultural stomp dances, period music, Dutch folktales, martial arts and cutlass-fighting demonstrations, and presentations from Inalienable Rights, the living-history arm of The Slave Dwelling Project, which explores the experiences and contributions of some of the colony’s first enslaved people. It's history at its most immersive—and most human.
