Dyckman Farmhouse Museum

The Dyckman Farmhouse Museum is excited to report another successful year of programs, exhibitions, and more. Watch this video to learn more about our upcoming projects in 2025, including capital planning, ongoing programming, and the memorial at the Inwood Sacred Site. None of these projects would be possible without the support from our community. Continue a donation to DFM today: https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/donate/ All donations are tax deductible, and support free programs, artists exhibitions, accessibility initiatives, and more.

Are you curious about the newest research and interpretation about enslavement in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut? Come spend a few hours with our speakers to find out about the latest updates and get your questions answered. Speaker Bios: Noelle Lorraine Williams is the director of the African American History Program and the Black Heritage Trail at the New Jersey Historical Commission. Part of the New Jersey Historical Commission, the African American History Program champions and partners with universities, historical societies, schools, and other institutions, groups, and individuals in a collaborative statewide effort to develop African American history in New Jersey. Founded by the late Giles Wright in 1983, it was recommenced at the Commission in 2021. As a public humanities specialist, artist, researcher, and curator, her work examines the ways African Americans utilize culture to re-imagine liberation in the United States. She is a graduate of the New School for Social Research and Rutgers University Newark and her work has been profiled in the New York Times, ArtNews, and the Star-Ledger. She is the recipient of the Giles R. Wright Award for contributions to African American History and an award from the National Academy of Design for a mural on Black women suffragists. Her research work contributed to Newark being recognized as one of first northeastern New Jersey cities to be federally recognized Black underground railroad sites by the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Her current exhibition “Stay: The Black Women of 19th-Century Newark” is currently on view at the historic Ballantine House at The Newark Museum of Art. Lavada Nahon is a culinary historian focused is on the 17th – 19th century mid-Atlantic region, with an emphasis on the work of enslaved cooks in the homes of the elite class. She has 18 plus years of public history experience working with a variety of historic sites, societies and museums across the tri-state region. She has cooked on a variety of historic hearths many of which are no longer in use. She has developed educational programs, after-school programs, lectures and tours, period presentations and historic dinners for sites ranging from the New York Historical Society, Albany Institute of Art and History, Dyckman Farm House Museum, Johnson Hall, many more. She worked as a museum associate and educator for Historic Hudson Valley for 12 years at Van Cortlandt Manor and Philipsburg Manor Upper Mills, and as a production coordinator for their special events team for 3. Currently she is on the reinterpretation team for Dey Mansion in Wayne, NJ, the home of the Passaic County Historical Society. And is also working with several other historic sites to give presence to the Africans once enslaved on their properties. As of two weeks ago, Lavada stepped into what she describes as her ‘dream job,’ she is the newly appointed interpreter for African American history for the Bureau of Historic Sites; a division of the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Her mission is to bring history to life both its tastes and by giving presence to the Africans and African Americans enslaved in the landmass that was once New Netherland in whatever way possible. Heather Lodge is the Programs Manager at the Windsor Historical Society in Windsor, CT. Before coming to Windsor, she worked at the Greenwich Historical Society in Cos Cob, CT as their Associate Director of School and Youth Programs. Both historical sites have a long history of enslavement, and Heather has spent most of her historical career developing these histories into programs for school aged children. Heather graduated with a BA in History and Education from Merrimack College and a MLitt in Ethnology and Folklore from the University of Aberdeen.

Giulietta Fiore, Deputy Director of the Historic House Trust in NYC, gives a presentation about accessibility and community engagement initiatives at various HHT sites. Learn more about how you can create an accessible space in your museum. Learn more about the upcoming capital project at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum. Slide deck: https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NorSC-Networking-Event_August-2024.pptx.pdf **The end of the presentation is unfortunately cut off. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Bearing Witness: An Update on the Journey Toward Collaboration, Repair and Return at the Inwood Sacred Site and African Burial Ground By Peggy King Jorde and Rachel Watkins Thursday, August 29th at 6PM on the back porch at DFM In Inwood until the late 1800s, the Dyckman and Nagel family cemeteries remained with grave markings, enclosed by a fence, and appeared to be a well kept rural cemetery. A few hundreds yards away were unmarked graves of enslaved Africans. During rapid development in the early 20th century, the site was discovered in March of 1903, and again, no means of protection came for those buried in this hilly knoll, and the bodies were exhumed, examined, and stolen. The location of the Inwood Sacred Site lies between today’s 211th and 212th Streets, between Broadway and 10th Avenue. Until recently, this block was occupied by various Auto Shops and P.S. 98 - Shorac Kappock’s faculty parking lot. The local community of Inwood is fighting to raise awareness and gain recognition of this sacred site that was sadly desecrated a century ago. Hear from the team behind the Inwood Sacred Site Memorial at this session of Back Porch History at the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum.

By Dr. Andrea Mosterman Ships are usually seen as masculine spaces, and slave ships are no exception. But as the slave voyages database shows, about a fourth of the captives transported on board seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch slavers were in fact women. In this presentation, I explore the experiences of women on board these slavers, paying special attention to pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in these spaces.

De-Gendered and De-Humanized: The Historical Deconstruction of Black Womanhood The deconstruction of Black women/womanhood began with negative racial and gendered depictions, while embedded in slavery, flourished with fifteenth and sixteenth century European contact with Africa and the slave trade industry. This presentation focuses on the origin of these historical representations and the legacy that has been created as a result. Maria DeLongoria, Ph.D., is a seasoned educator with over twenty years of experience in higher education specializing in History, Popular Culture, and Leadership. She has held several teaching and administrative positions, currently as the Interim Associate Provost for Academic & Faculty Affairs at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She has presented and published on racial & ethnic identity, race/gender discrimination, the lynching of Black women, and leadership in higher education. As the founder and owner of Quiet Storm Consulting, LLC, Dr. DeLongoria and her team specialize in historical research, education career mentoring, dissertation coaching, and facilitate programming on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ).