2025 Archive Workshops: Registration Form

Learn more about the history of Newburgh and work directly with historical records from our Archive. Also, learn valuable archival skills and research techniques from professionals. Register here to participate in one of our Archive Workshops:

• Sunday, February 23, 11am-1pm: Digitization 101: Preserving Your Personal Archive, with digital archivist Varvara Mikushkina, introduces participants to digitization and provides a practical orientation to organizing records, scanning basics, and necessary equipment and software.

• Sunday, April 27, 11am-1pm: The Art of 18th and 19th Century Writing,  with paleographer Jeff Doolittle and calligrapher Marjorie Politi, prepares participants for reading and transcribing historical records, with some practice at writing in historic hands as well.

• Sunday, October 5, 11am-1pm: Researching the History of Your Home, with architecture and restoration expert James Kelly, is an introduction to conducting research on a historic structure, particularly for purposes of preservation and restoration.

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

For each, there is a $15 materials fee, payable in person on the day of the workshop. All workshops will be held at the Crawford House, 189 Montgomery Street, Newburgh, NY 12550.