The New Amsterdam History Center Hosts a Lecture on Governors Island

Fri, Jun 9 - Fri, Jun 9  2017

June 9 at 1 PM, The New Amsterdam History Center organizes a lecture on Governors Island. The lecture will be about “The Archeology of New Amsterdam and its Environs”. 

Archeologists Anne-Marie Cantwell, Emerita Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, and Diana diZerega Wall, an historical archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will offer a lecture and slide show about the archaeology of New Netherland in the greater New York area, including sites in Manhattan and the four boroughs. It will be combined with a visit to the site on Governors Island where a Dutch windmill once stood.

Participation: $15 for NAHC Members; $25 for non-members
RSVP by June 1, 2017, to nahceberg@gmail.com or call Libby Tatum at 212-233-1245

Meet June 9 at the FERRY: Battery Maritime Building, 10 South Street, New York