SAVE THE DATE: Pinkster Celebration

The Wyckoff House Museum and Elite Learners bring you a special Pinkster Festival with live music, carnival activities, drumming and more. Stay tuned for a full schedule announcement, coming soon!

About the Pinkster holiday:

This very important 350-year-old, but little known, Africanized celebration took place annually in the Hudson River Valley region, including the N.Y.C. area, for almost 200 years. The Africans enslaved by Dutch colonists took this opportunity to celebrate with their own music, dance and other cultural expressions of their African heritage. The Pinkster Festival evolved into what is probably the oldest openly African holiday celebration in America.