Neversink Valley Area Museum presents a history of transportation

CUDDEBACKVILLE— The Neversink Valley Area Museum continues its Second Tuesday Lecture Series on Tuesday, Aug. 8 at 7 p.m. Professor J. Ward Regan will speak about the history of transportation in the 19th Century in his presentation Feet, Hooves, and Rails: Transportation in Nineteenth Century America. The talk begins with the era of canal building in New York and continues through to the rise of the railroad all the way to the automobile. The presentation encompasses an examination of the technological innovations and ideological shifts that changed transportation and transformed the United States into a world power. It will also address the central role played by New York City in this process. Dr. Regan teaches history and philosophy at New York University, Pratt Institute of Art and Design and Bard College. He is a member of the New York Council for the Humanities and has also worked in off-Broadway theater and independent film. He currently speaks and performs in and around New York City. His one-man show A Paranoid’s Guide to History was part of the Boulder Fringe Festival. This program is free and open to the public at the D and H Canal Park Visitor’s Center, 58 Hoag Road, (just off Route 209) Cuddebackville. For more information about the museum, call 754-8870 or visit www.neversinkmuseum.org. The museum is at 26 Hoag Road, in Cuddebackville.