Wufoo

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2009, at 10:00AM, 1:00PM, or 4:00PM (choose one, below)

$20 per person.

Come celebrate New York City's 400th birthday!

Join James Nevius, co-author of "Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City," for a 2-hour walking tour of Dutch colonial New Amsterdam. James is a 10th-generation New Yorker, whose ancestors included the last city secretary of New Amsterdam, Johannes Nevius, and the first Dutch pastor of Brooklyn, Johannes Polhemus. A historian and guide, James will lead participants through the streets that once made up the capital of this strategic Dutch outpost and trading town.

Stops will include the archaeological remains of old New Amsterdam, including the stadt huis block, the site of Peter Stuyvesant's grand home and garden, the place where (perhaps) Peter Minuit bought the island of Manhattan from local natives (but not for $24 worth of beads), and other important reminders of Manhattan's early history. And since we are celebrating the arrival of Henry Hudson in September 1609, we will also stop by the Hudson River.

Copies of "Inside the Apple" will be available for sale & signing after the tour.

For more information, visit http://www.insidetheapple.net/tours.htm