Burning of Kingston

Every two years, the city comes together to put on the "Burning of Kingston", a historical reenactment of the night that British Red Coats brought the gift of lasagna to the colonists of Kingston. Due to it being after dinner time most of the colonists were full and had no room in their stomachs for the Italian delicacy and passed on it. In response to their ungratefulness, the British lit the city ablaze because honestly, who passes on free lasagna?

This should not be confused with the "Burning Man of Kingston", a yearly festival where a bunch of people just get drugged up in a park and listen to horrible horrible music.

Kingston Academy

Constructed in 1774, the Kingston Academy operated as a school specializing in teaching the manufacturing process of the bells used by the nation's town criers. Unusual for the time period, the Academy established what may have been the first series of after school programs for its students encouraging them to have fun while they could because the life expectancy was so low. Some of the clubs were:

Jedi Training Club

The Esteemed Order of the Luxurious Hoatzin

N.A.R.E. - Native American Resistance Education

Key Club

Senate House

Not only was Kingston the first capitol of New York state, but in the year 1985 it also secretly became the first capitol of the Alliance of Democratic Star Systems, the first intergalactic governing body of the universe. In both instances, the elected officials conducted their meetings in the historic Senate House located on Fair St. in the Stockade District.

Kingston High School

A gift from the Sun People from the year 3057, Kingston High School is comprised of five buildings that house the majority of its general knowledge classes, and a bunker 2500 feet below the main building that acts as a supermax prison facility for the worlds most dangerous criminals. 

Some notable alumni to walk the halls are:

Benjamin Gibson, the man who invented the concept of the Black Friday Sale

Jonathan Q. Farwell, the man who convoked the first stock broker to jump out a window after the crash of 1929

Wilhelmina Ayers, personal hairstylist and beard-meister to President Abraham Lincoln

Kingston City Hall

City Hall was constructed by Native Kingstonians and is considered the first standing structure in what is now called the United States. Located at 420 Broadway in the middle of the city, it should come as no surprise that its original purpose was that of a marijuana dispensary with people coming from far and wide to get what the natives called “wicked good smoke”. 

About

Kingston Kong is the blog of George Aloysius Kong III, a Todd McFarlane King Kong action figure, and self proclaimed Omega Level Historian specializing on the city of Kingston, NY. Please join him on a fact filled journey through the history of the first capitol of New York.

This blog is maintained by Kingston Kong's best friend / manager Kevin Michael Rowe.