Join The Neighborhood, The Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History, and New York Distilling Company for an evening in celebration of rye in all its
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In this episode, Amy Halloran sits down to interview Sarah Litvin, PhD, the Executive Director of the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History. Sarah shares the some highlights of the Reher Center's work in Kingston, NY, including past and upcoming exhibits. Before they get to the present, they also cover the past, as the Reher Center building served as a prominent Jewish Bakery for nearly a century. Kingston residents of the surrounding Rondout neighborhood, mostly working class and immigrant, came to Reher’s for bread, canned goods, and gossip.
The Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History, a former bakery in Kingston’s Rondout District, has plans to become the go-to spot for school groups looking to learn about the region’s immigrant past.