KINGSTON, N.Y. Crowds gathered Saturday as musket blasts pierced the air and smoke rose outside the Matthewis Person House for the annual commemoration of the Burning of Kingston. The weekend marks the Oct. 16, 1777, burning of Kingston, then the first capital of the nascent New York state, during the American Revolution by British […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. – The Burning of Kingston, complete with British soldiers and American militia re-enactors firing off muskets, is set to return this October, six years after the last time militia re-enactors participated. The event will return to the city on Friday, Oct. 13, Saturday, Oct. 14 and Sunday, Oct. 15, according to Mayor Steve […]