KATHLEEN EAGEN JOHNSON is a lecturer and museum consultant. Previously, she was Curator of Collections at Historic Hudson Valley and the author of many articles and books on the region's history and culture. She has most recently been nominated to the Senate Curatorial Advisory Board which is responsible for advising and assisting the United States Senate Commission on Art in acquiring, preserving, and displaying documents and artifacts that are of historical importance to the Senate wing of the Capitol and the Senate office buildings.
Johnson's book comes alive with 239 photos and illustrations
displaying the two-week long Hudson-Fulton Celebration held in 1909
to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of
the Hudson River and the belated centennial of Robert Fulton's
first successful run in 1807 of his steamship Clermont up the river
to Albany.
*—Times Union*
Johnson's attractive book, with its hundreds of photographs and
color illustrations, brings the mammoth celebration and the times
to life.
*—The New York Researcher*
The centenary has also occasioned the publication of the first
full-length study of the event, The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: New
York's River Festival of 1909 and the Making of a Metropolis.
*—The Magazine Antiques*
The book takes the reader on a tour of 1909 events and souvenirs,
from illuminated sites throughout New York City to commemorative
airplane flights by Wilbur Wright.
*—The Journal News*
Johnson's overall mission is to recapture the spirit that prevailed
in 1909, when for two weeks, New York hosted a sprawling festival
150 miles long, from Manhattan up to the Hudson River in
Albany.
*—Steve Goddard's History Wire*
Through the use of images and artifacts, this book displays how New
York City capitalized on the Hudson-Fulton Celebration to establish
itself as a cultural, artistic, and commercial center, while
developing a political identity all its own and serving as a
jumping off point for Hudson River Valley towns to the north.
*—The Hudson River Valley Review*
Co-published with Historic Hudson Valley, an organization of six
historic sites headquartered in Tarrytown, Westchester County,
www.hudsonvalley.org, the book is accompanied by an online
exhibition at www.hudsonfultoncelebration.net.
*—Poughkeepsie Journal*
. . . [Events], accompanied by photos, fill the pages of new books
that will keep readers invested in the state's Quadricentennial
celebrations long after they end.
*—The Daily Freeman*
As Kathleen Eagen Johnson recounts in The Hudson-Fulton
Celebration: New York's River Festival of 1909 and the Making of a
Metropolis, Wilbur Wright flew from Governors Island to Grant's
Tomb and back, and there was a vast flotilla that included a
replica of Hudson's ship the Half Moon.
*—The New York Times*
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