Speakers
Speakers

Find a Lecture

View all lectures in:
New York City History | New York State History | Colonial America | Hudson Fulton Champlain Quadricentennial

Upcoming Appearances by Firth H. Fabend:

Patroons and Plowmen, Pietism and Politics: Dutch Settlers in the Hudson Valley in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The Castello Plan

A lecture by Firth H. Fabend

This lecture is no longer available for 2010 bookings due to high lecture demand. Still available for Speakers in the Schools.

Firth Fabend presents a brief overview of the Dutch people who settled in the Hudson Valley in the 17th and 18th centuries. She illustrates her talk with eighty slides, screened in forty pairs for purposes of comparison. Fabend asks, who were these Dutch people who replanted themselves in the Hudson Valley when it was a wolf-infested wilderness? Why did they come to America? What did they do when they got here? And why is their cultural influence still felt in the area today? She examines the importance of the fur trade, the importation of slavery, the patroon system of land tenure vs. the English manorial system, farming practices, family structure, domestic architecture and house furnishings, the religious culture, the winsome beauty of the land, and the schism in the Dutch Reformed Church that paralleled the divisions between Patriots and Tories in the War of Revolution.

This lecture is available from December 1, 2008 to January 1, 2012

Can be tailored to a high school audience

Setup Needed

  • Microphone required
  • Screen required
  • Tables to set up laptop and projector

Dr. Firth H. Fabend

Firth Haring Fabend is an independent historian with a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Her fields are New Netherland studies, the Dutch Colonial experience in the eighteenth century, and the Dutch in New York and New Jersey in the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on family life and the Reformed Dutch Church. Firth is a Fellow of both the New Netherland Project and The Holland Society of New York.

Telephone: (973) 746-5336
Website: members.authorsguild.net/fhfabend/
Address: 54 Elston Road
Montclair, NJ  07043
Email this speaker:

Other Available Lectures by Firth H. Fabend:

This contact information is not to be used for commercial purposes.