Dyckman Farmhouse Museum

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum relies on people like you to fulfill our mission to preserve this historic site, to be a catalyst for engaging and adventuresome programming, and to be a good neighbor and dynamic resource for our community. Your support is crucial to our ability to provide our Upper Manhattan community with free and engaging public programs and exhibitions, from our Pinkster celebration to our Games Week children's program to our annual Fall Festival. Please consider how you can support Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, whether by making a gift, volunteering your time, or attending a program. However you are able to provide it, your help will allow Dyckman Farmhouse Museum to serve our neighbors and visitors for years to come. Learn more at dyckmanfarmhouse.org

Twice a year, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum hosts Talking About Race Matters (TARM), a FREE three-part virtual lecture series where notable community leaders and esteemed scholars share their groundbreaking research on cultural history, racial identity, and social justice. Each TARM series is grounded in a unifying theme. For this Hispanic Heritage Month, all three TARM lectures will explore the history and formation of Afro-Caribbean identity. Join us for the third and FINAL session of Talking About Race Matters 2025 featuring Dr. Sophia Monegro, a literary scholar working at the intersection of Black Women’s Intellectual History, Dominican Studies, and Digital Humanities. She will be presenting “Archival Justice: Black Dominican Studies Archive-Building across Samaná, Puerto Plata, and Ayiti.” This presentation introduces restorative justice and community-engaged approaches to building Black archives. You will learn about: the “We Choose Freedom: Samaná, Dominican Republic,” a digital collection documenting the papers of African American descendant Samaneses; the “Guerilla Archiving Program” currently based in Puerto Plata; and the forthcoming digital archive “Cimarronas: A Black Woman’s Archive of Ayiti/Quisqueya” a trilingual platform aimed at making Black women’s histories, as they traveled across the Atlantic, Caribbean, and South America from the 16th to 19th centuries, accessible to diverse audiences using interactive animations, digital mapping tools, primary documents, multimedia essays, and site-based micro documentaries. Dr. Sophia Monegro earned a PhD in African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Currently, Dr. Monegro is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity at Washington University in St. Louis. Monegro’s research agenda democratizes access to archives that help account for Black intellectual production in the Atlantic world. Dyckman Farmhouse Museum’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Talking about Race Matters is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Twice a year, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum hosts Talking About Race Matters (TARM), a FREE three-part virtual lecture series where notable community leaders and esteemed scholars share their groundbreaking research on cultural history, racial identity, and social justice. Each TARM series is grounded in a unifying theme. For this September-October (Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!), all three TARM lectures will explore the history and formation of Afro-Caribbean identity. Join us for the second TARM lecture featuring Dr. Yalidy Matos, Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, as she presents her newest research, "Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Political Consciousness." "Living Afro-Latina Lives: An Afrodiasporic Feminist Approach to Understanding Political Consciousness" explores how Afro-Latinas— whether born in the U.S. or abroad but primarily residing in the United States—identify and construct their identities, and how they engage with broader identity categories. Crucially, the work traces the shift from individual identification to the development of an intersectional Afro-Latina political consciousness. This consciousness isn’t just about how they see themselves—it’s about how they act, what they believe, and how they engage politically. Rooted in Black feminist thought, this intersectional Afro-Latina political consciousness has real consequences for political attitudes and behavior. This works examines how identity becomes action, and how Afro-Latina lives illuminate the power of lived experience in shaping political life. Yalidy Matos is Associate Professor of political science at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and politics, immigration, and identity politics. Her book Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics (OUP) was published in 2023. She graduated from Ohio State University in Columbus, OH with a PhD in Political Science in 2015, and Connecticut College in New London, CT with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Gender and Women’s Studies in 2009. Dyckman Farmhouse Museum's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Talking about Race Matters is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Twice a year, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum hosts Talking About Race Matters (TARM), a FREE three-part virtual lecture series where notable community leaders and esteemed scholars share their groundbreaking research on cultural history, racial identity, and social justice. Each TARM series is grounded in a unifying theme. For this September-October (Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!), all three TARM lectures will explore the history and formation of Afro-Caribbean identity. Join us for the first TARM lecture featuring Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel, an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She will be presenting "Genesis of Blackness in the Americas: Santo Domingo, A Passport to Black Caribbean Culture and Identity," a conversation about the first Black people to arrive in the Caribbean and how Santo Domingo (or La Española) played a key role as the main port of entry for the Transatlantic Slave Trade, leading to one of the largest diasporic Black communities and each with a distinct sense of belonging through identity preservation, development, and adaptation. Dr. Lissette Acosta Corniel's work focuses on gender, slavery, and resistance in early colonial Hispaniola and Santo Domingo. She is the editor of the book Transatlantic Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Spain, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico (SUNY Press, 2024). She was the research associate of the www.firstblacks.org database, and is the co-creator and co-director of the faculty-student research program Black Studies Across the Americas (https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/black-studies-across-the-americas/).She is currently working on her next book, Bad Women, Contested Freedoms: Feminist Behavior in 16th Century Hispaniola. Dyckman Farmhouse Museum's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Talking about Race Matters is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

“I do promise to every NEGROE who shall desert the Rebel Standard, full security to follow within these Lines, any Occupation which he shall think proper.”—H. Clinton, June 30, 1779 Join composer/bass-baritone Jonathan Woody, violinist Shelby Yamin, and historical clarinetist Dominic Giardino for a roundtable discussion centered on Woody’s forthcoming work, I Do Promise. Commissioned by Dyckman Farmhouse Museum and the period-instrument ensemble "Music of the Regiment," I Do Promise blends 21st-century sounds with 18th-century instruments and texts from the American Revolutionary War. Taking its name from a line in General Henry Clinton’s 1779 Philipsburg Proclamation, the work is a musical meditation on the experiences of Africans and Black Americans who navigated Britain’s utilitarian policies of emancipation in New York and throughout North America between 1775 and 1783. Date: Thursday, September 11th, 2025 Time: 6pm-7pm Cost: FREE! Location: Virtual via Zoom. Jonathan Woody often performs as a member of the GRAMMY®-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street, where he has earned praise from the New York Times for his “charismatic” and “riveting” solos. Woody is in demand as a bass-baritone soloist, appearing regularly with historically informed and period-instrument orchestras including Boston Early Music Festival, Apollo’s Fire, Pacific MusicWorks, Bach Collegium San Diego, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and New York Baroque Incorporated. As a composer, his compositional voice blends 17th- and 18th-century inspiration with minimalism and socially conscious subject matter of today. Since 2020, he has received commissions from Apollo’s Fire, the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Chanticleer, the Handel and Haydn Society, the Cathedral Choral Society of Washington, D.C., and the Five Boroughs Music Festival, among others. Violinist Shelby Yamin is a sought after chamber musician, recitalist, and soloist. Recent season highlights include appearances as soloist with the Albany Symphony, Oregon Bach Festival, Philharmonia Baroque Chamber Players, New York Baroque Incorporated, House of Time, and Voices of Music. Her passion for bringing historical music into historic spaces has led to concerts at the Hammond-Harwood House and George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Based in New York, Shelby can be regularly heard with the city’s premier period-instrument ensembles, including Trinity Baroque Orchestra and The Sebastians, and she has been a core member of Les Délices (Cleveland, OH) since 2022. In addition to her active performing and teaching career, Shelby is the associate producer of Les Délices’s award-winning early music webseries and podcast, SalonEra. Shelby holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard School, where she won the historical-performance concerto competition. Historical clarinetist Dominic Giardino enjoys a varied professional life as a performer, administrator, educator, and researcher. Dominic performs in period-instrument orchestras throughout the continent, including in recent seasons with Boston Baroque, the Washington Bach Consort, and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra. He also regularly performs in chamber music programs with the Raleigh Camerata and Wit’s Folly. Dominic has recorded with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem Orchestra, Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band, and Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble. He is the executive director of Arizona Early Music, serves on the faculties of the University of North Texas and George Mason University, and co-directs the period-instrument ensemble Music of the Regiment. Dominic is a 2016 Fulbright grantee and holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. This project is made possible through the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts.

1775 was 250 years ago. At that time the people of Kingsbridge did not know that the most dramatic and violent 8 years in the history of the area were about to begin. The Revolutionary War would transform the neighborhood from a lush and fertile farming community into a muddy battle-scarred military camp with forts on every hilltop. For the community that was here, 1775 was the year that everything changed. The men of the area formed a militia for defense and the Continental Congress ordered the area fortified. But why here? Why did George Washington consider it a "pass of the utmost importance?" And how did local people feel about the ideas and events that were reshaping America and their lives? On August 27th at 6:00 PM, join us for Dyckman Farmhouse Museum's LAST Back Porch History lecture of the season featuring historian Nick Dembowski, who will take you on a virtual tour of Kingsbridge and northern Manhattan in the years before the war, leading up to the Declaration of Independence. Nick Dembowski is a Bronx local historian and Executive Director of the Kingsbridge Historical Society. He was the lead curator of the Kingsbridge Remembers 1775-1783 exhibit at the Kingsbridge Historical Society. He is also the Site Historian of the Van Cortlandt House Museum. Date: Wednesday, August 27th Time: 6-7pm Cost: FREE! Location: Livestream via Zoom OR show up in person at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (on the corner of 204th and Broadway)