BrainFood: Last Patroon/First Lord Kiliaen van Rensselaer

Name: BrainFood: Last Patroon/First Lord Kiliaen van Rensselaer
Start: 2024-10-11T12:00:00-04:00
Location: New York State Museum

Schedule

Fri Oct 11 2024 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

New York State Museum | Albany, NY

Celebrate New Netherland Day with Chelsea Teale of the New Netherland Research Center. Join us for a lunchtime lecture focused on the 1685 journal of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer. This diary, kept as van Rensselaer prepared to become lord of the manor of Rensselaerswijck, includes practical details such as shopping lists, financial accounts, and notes from his journey from the Netherlands to New York. It provides insight into the priorities of Van Rensselaer, who died just two years after arriving and who remains an ambiguous character in the history of colonial New York.
Learn more: https://nysm.nysed.gov/programs/brainfood-lord-kiliaen-van-rensselaer