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Beacon's Camp Nitgedaiget: A Vanished Utopia


  • Beacon Historical Society 61 Leonard Street Beacon, NY, 12508 United States (map)

EXHIBIT

Just two miles south of Beacon, in Dutchess Junction, Jewish progressives and Communist sympathizers gathered at Camp Nitgedaiget. Operational from 1922 until the early 1950s, it accommodated up to 1,000 patrons daily. Come learn what brought them back year after year.

The exhibit will run from July 26 through November.

Admission & Parking are (always!) free. Open Thursdays 10-noon and Saturdays 1- 3 p.m at Beacon Historical Society, 61 Leonard Street.

Mounted in collaboration with the Bronx County Historical Society and sponsored by the Irving and Gloria Schlossberg Family Fund of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley.

Earlier Event: July 22
Historic Preservation in Beacon