Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History

Join us for the 9th annual Kingston Multicultural Festival! On June 13th, 20th, and 27th at TR Gallo Park, join the Reher Center as we enjoy a variety of multicultural food, art, performances, and more! Click the link in our bio or visit kingstonmulticulturalfestival.org for more information. We hope to see you there! . . . #ReherCenter #HistoryInTheBaking #WorryDollHV #KingstonMulticulturalFestival #KingstonNY #UlsterCounty #WorryDolls #LocalHistoryMuseum #HistoryMuseum #kingstonnewyork

Beginning weekends in July, travel back in time with us on a 45 minute tour of the historic Reher Bakery. Visit ReherCenter.org to book your visit! . . . #ReherCenter #HistoryInTheBaking #KingstonNY #KingstonHistory #NewYorkHistory #UlsterCounty #LocalHistoryMuseum #HistoryMuseum #MuseumTour #HistoricBakery #BakeryTour

Enjoy today’s 9th Annual Kingston Multicultural Festival performances from home!

Join us THIS SUNDAY for the 9th annual Kingston Multicultural Festival! On Sunday, June 27th from 10AM to 2PM at TR Gallo Park, join the Reher Center as we enjoy a variety of multicultural food, art, performances, and more! Click the link in our bio or visit kingstonmulticulturalfestival.org for more information. We hope to see you there! . . . #ReherCenter #HistoryInTheBaking #WorryDollHV #KingstonMulticulturalFestival #KingstonNY #UlsterCounty #WorryDolls #LocalHistoryMuseum #HistoryMuseum #kingstonnewyork

A huge thank you to State Senator Michelle Hinchey for stopping by the Reher Center for a tour last week! . . . #ReherCenter #HistoryInTheBaking #KingstonNY #KingstonHistory #NewYorkHistory #UlsterCounty #LocalHistoryMuseum #HistoryMuseum #MuseumTour #nystatesenator #nystatesenate

Brush up on your language learning skills this #MulticulturalMonday as we learn how to say peace and health in Argentinian Spanish, Scottish Gaelic, Ukrainian, Chinese, and Yiddish! These videos come from last year’s virtual Kingston Multicultural Festival. Look out for future Multicultural Monday posts as we explore even more languages from throughout the globe! Don’t forget, this year’s Kingston Multicultural Festival is happening Sundays in June from 10am-2pm! Click the ...link in our bio for more information. . . . #ReherCenter #HistoryInTheBaking #WorryDollHV #KingstonMulticulturalFestival #KingstonNY #UlsterCounty #WorryDolls #LocalHistoryMuseum #HistoryMuseum #KingstonNewYork #Multicultural #ForeignLanguage See more

The Kingston Multicultural Festival! Where a Mexican Blas meets an Eastern European Blas! Join us today til 2 PM in TR Gallo Park! Learn about and taste the foods of @atelierkuki , Land of the Tamale, @masa_midtown and @ramsvalleyllc and shop at all of the market vendors @kwfarmersmarket. Bilingual Hudson Valley poets perform starting at 12 PM, and worry dolls all day!

Culinary Institute of America student Katie Luscher explains the history of pita bread, which dates back at least 14,000 years! This video showcases research she did for the Reher Center in the Applied Food Studies program under Dr. Willa Zhen in 2020. #TheWorldKneadsBread #pitabread #ReherCenter

Reher's Bakery isn't the only place with a fascinating bread roll history. Check out this great taxonomy of the British bread roll!

Black History Kingston & History Alliance of Kingston

The Reher Center has been working with colleagues in the History Alliance of Kingston to launch a Black History of the Hudson Valley Collaborative Research Project. The group will present this work-in-progress and ask for input Monday at 7 PM in a Zoom event. We'd love to have you there and hear your thoughts! For more and to register: https://www.historyallianceofkingston.com/

This #BlackHistoryMonth, we remember and recognize Black Kingstonians who worked in Kingston's garment industry. At the height of Kingston's garment industry, in the early-to-mid twentieth century, most Black Kingstonians who worked in the industry faced discrmination and could only secure lower-paying positions, such as ironing and maintenance. An outlier in this story was Pauline Timbrouck, who was employed by Halpern Blouse Manufacturing (which was located above the old bu...s station in Midtown,) for twenty-five years. Her 2014 obituary noted that she was the first Afro American seamstress to work there. During her tenure she excelled and before her retirement she was promoted to chief sample blouse maker for Halpern.The second image shows a 1948 ad for a Halpern Sale in the Daily Freeman. Learn more about Black history research projects in-progress and share your knowledge and stories of Black Kingstonians in the garment industry with the History Alliance of Kingston! Join us on February 22nd at 7pm to learn more about their project to compile Black history of Kingston and the Hudson Valley! Register at: https://www.rehercenter.org/events/ #BlackHistory #HudsonValleyHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #Halpern #GarmentIndustry #Kingston #LocalBlackHistory

If you can, please take a moment from your day to donate to help our friends and neighbors at Ever-Growing Family Farm to rebuild. Last month's big snow storm collapsed an important piece of infrastructure on their rice farm, threatening their livelihood.

The Reher Center is 43% of the way to our fundraising goal of $150,000 to Grow our Gallery and Build our Bathrooms this winter! Please consider donating by year's end to help us get to 50% Here's a fun way to support our work while learning more about the amazing cultural institutions in our network! Tonight at 5 PM join us at a happy hour non-profit fundraiser organized by Turnstile Tours to learn about us all

Anyone eating leftover Panettone French toast or bread pudding this week?? Culinary Institute of America graduate Erin Tamney explains why, and shares the differences between Italian and Italian-American panettone traditions! Erin made this video showcasing research she did in the Applied Food Studies program under Dr. Willa Zhen in 2020! Stay tuned this winter for more excerpts of student research showcasing bread traditions from around the world on our social media and website. @appliedfoodstudies @drwillazhen @theculinaryinstituteofamerica @ulstercountyiaf #pannetone #italianfood #italianamerican #bread #theworldkneadsbread

Anyone else dreaming of getting dressed up like Ellowyne for a holiday party? Why not do it, even if it's just for a Zoom party? Robert Tonner came by to drop off this gorgeous doll, Ellowyne, which he designed for Robert Tonner Doll Company. This specialty doll company operated in Ulster County from 1991-2018, and eventually from 301 Wall Street in Uptown Kingston (now Hotel Kinsley). Tonner spent his early career in the garment center in NYC and he brought that understandin...g of fabric make to his collectibles. Always a favorite category of the company was fantasy fashion. Ellowyne will be on view at the Reher Center Gallery for our #SewinginKingston exhibition this summer, along with several other Tonner Dolls! Many thanks to Robert Tonner for lending us his gorgeous dolls and for generously supporting our "GrowourGalleryBuildourBathrooms campaign! #sewinginkingston #kingstonny #christmas2020 #dressedup #rehercenter #rondout #ulstercounty See more

We were all so excitedand worked so hard!!to bring @whoopdeedooshow and the Boys and Girls Club to perform at the Reher Center courtyard earlier this month. But alas! COVID precautions meant we had to reschedule for the summer. More details to come, but take a look at this amazing preview of students’ work! #publicart #artseducation #diversityisbeautiful #covidcancellations

Here's to Kingston's postal carriers who are working so hard this holiday season to get our packages and letters to loved ones across the country and around the world. Somewhat miraculously, this letter made it to Hymie Reher in March 1946 from an army buddy who addressed it to "Mr. Hymie Reher (Bakery Shop) Kingston, New York.Let's all try to make postal workers' jobs a bit easier with clear, legible, and complete information on our missives this year! #fromthearchives #KingstonNY #postage #postalservice #hudsonvalleyny #rehercenter