2026 Archive Workshops: Registration Form

Learn more about the history of Newburgh and work directly with historical records from our Archive. Also, learn historic crafts and techniques from professionals. Register here to participate:

• Sunday, April 26, 11am-1pm: 19th Century Text Messages: Make Your Own Postcards and Notecards, with calligrapher Marjorie Politi, is an introduction to crafting your own late nineteenth-century style stationery, using historic examples from our archive.

• Sunday, May 3, 1pm-4pm: Quilt a Log Cabin Square: Quilts of the Civil War, with textile conservator Kate Klein, which teaches the history and context of log cabin squares, popular in the 1860s as well as how to make your own.

• Sunday, July 19, 11am-1pm: Life of a Newburgh Farmer: Solomon Watts’ Diary, with HSNBH Board Member Kris Sammarco and paleographer Jeff Doolittle, explores a recently donated 1841 diary and provides practice reading and transcribing hard-to-read handwritten texts.

• Sunday, October 4, 11am-1pm: Sunprints of the City: A Cyanotype Workshop, with HSNBH Vice President Varvara Mikushkina, introduces the history of cyanotypes and allows you to make your own.

Please leave us your name, email, phone number and indicate which workshop you would like to attend.

For each, there is a $20 materials fee, payable in person (cash or check) on the day of the workshop. All workshops will be held at the Crawford House, 189 Montgomery Street, Newburgh, NY 12550.