Spring 2025 Conference

The Spring 2025 NEARA Conference was held at Sharpe Reservation's Camp Mariah, near Fishkill New York from May 2nd to May 4th.

View the Spring 2025 Program.

Program

Friday evening had a showing of Ted Timreck's new film, Ancient Sea Peoples of the North Atlantic. Dr. Fitzhugh introduced the film and led a discussion afterwards.

We had our annual membership meeting Saturday morning, followed by chapter reports.

The videos are on our YouTube channel. View the publicly viewable videos on the NEARA Spring Conference 2025 playlist. Videos that are only available for NEARA members are behind a login at SiteDB.org.

• The (State of the) Art of Evaluating Stone Features, Peter Anick (not yet available)
• The Save Buttonhook Campaign: A Case Study of Citizen Advocacy for Site Preservation Tracey Bilski
• Ceremonial Stone Landscapes of the Lower Hudson Valley: Highlights from Years of Rambling in Westchester and Putnam Counties, Rob Buchanan
• Perspectives: An appreciation of different ways of seeing, Mary Baugher (not yet available)
• Mysterious Stone Sites: explorations and observations of the Hudson Valley Linda Zimmerman
• Tongore Brook Site: A Ceremonial Stone Landscape Michael McDonough
• Esoterica America Glenn Kreisberg
• The keynote speech was New Understandings About Argonauts of the Far Northeast Dr. William Fitzhugh


Field Trips

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