A new calendar (interactive), for those of you in the New York City area, is that of the Gotham Center for NYC History. Lots of other goodies to check out on the site as well.
Wednesday, September 24 -Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
Wednesday, September 24 - BECHS Resource Center
Friday-Saturday, September 26-27 - United States Colored Troops Institute
Saturday, September 27 - Corpus Christi Church
Saturday & Sunday, September 27th & 28th - Fabius Fall Festival History Weekend
Tuesday, September 30 - Buffalo Architecture Center
Wednesday, October 1 - Edward Frisbee Center at Historic Cherry Hill.
Sunday, June 1 through Sunday October 5 - Pan-Am grounds walking tours
Friday, October 3 - Lower Hudson Conerence of Historical Agencies, etc.
Saturday, Octobr 4 - Dutch Barn in America
Sunday, October 5 - Historic Buffalo Touring
Wedneadays, October 8 through November 12 - Buffalo School of Architecture & Planning
Sunday, October 12 - Office of the Suffolk County Clerk
Wednesday, October 15 - Genesee Valley Civil War Roundtable
Tuesday, October 21 - Barnes & Noble history book discussion group
Wednesday, October 22 - Johnson Hall State Historic Site
Sunday, October 26 - Brooklyn Historical Society
The Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier is pleased to
announce its September 2003 Tuesday noontime lecture series at
the Buffalo Architecture Center
How Should we Celebrate Buffaloís Landmarks?î
September 30 Annagret Richards
Roam Buffalo, School of Architecture & Planning at UB
Joseph Ellicott Design of Buffalo 1804-2004
The mission of the Buffalo Architecture Center is to stimulate
discussion about our architectural landmarks. A tour will be provided
at the end of each lecture.
Lectures and tours are free for members of the Landmark Society
of the Niagara Frontier. A donation of $5 is requested for non-members.
All lectures start at 12:15pm and end at 12:50pm. Bring your lunch
and join in these important discussions.
Current Exhibit at the Buffalo Architecture Center
Rita Argen Auerbachís Architecture Series on display August
- November 2003
For further information contact Dennis Galucki or Kate Waterman-Kulpa
at the
Landmark Society of the Niagara Frontier at 716-852-3300.
Friday, September 19 - February 22, 2004
Adirondack Vernacular: The Photography of Henry M. Beach
Opens at Everson
September 19 - February 22, 2003
Memorial Gallery
Opening Lecture & Reception September 19, 2003
Syracuse, NY - The Director and Trustees of the Everson Museum
of Art are proud to present Adirondack Vernacular: The
Photography of Henry M. Beach to open September 19, 2003 - February
22, 2004. An opening lecture and reception will be held at the
museum Friday, September 19, beginning with the lecture at 5:30
pm, followed by the reception from 6 pm - 8 pm.
Henry M. Beach (1863-1943) was one of the most prolific, but least known photographers of his time. He devoted his entire career to postcard photography, documenting Adirondack life and culture during a time of unprecedented change. Armed with a camera, Beach witnessed the rise of the automobile and the fall of the horse-and-buggy, the prosperity of the Great Camps and the struggle of family hotels, and an explosion in tourism that brought modern challenges to a previously untamed wilderness.
Beach was a self-taught photographer well known in the Adirondack community for his postcards, which were quite popular among tourists as well as locals throughout the 1910s and 1920s. As an insider to the people and places he photographed, Beach skillfully portrayed his subjects in a vernacular style: an outsider could not appreciate them without understanding the culture and context in which they were taken. He specialized in Adirondack scenic views, photomontage advertisements, and freak cards; composed of exaggerated images combined for humorous effect: a favorite was the local fisherman struggling with a catch three times his size.
In this exhibition, some of Beach's best photographs, which in many cases, no longer exist in original postcard format, have been reproduced from his original glass-plate negatives. The modern reprints emphasize the aesthetic qualities of Beach's photography (a secondary consideration to quantity in postcard production)and clarify visual details that provide added insight into Beach's subjects, his surroundings, and his humor. In addition to more than five thousand postcard images, Henry Beach produced an interesting array of oversized panoramic images depicting grand landscapes, Great Camps, community gatherings, and the ever-popular group portraits.
Adirondack Vernacular: The Photography of Henry M. Beach, based on a book written by sociologist Dr. Robert Bogdan, presents the work of this important and relatively unknown photographer for the first time. By exhibiting the photographs in a museum environment, viewers are encouraged to consider postcard images beyond their ephemeral nature and question their significance on multiple levels: as a passing trend in American popular culture as well as a valid art form with social, historical, and aesthetic merit.
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2003, 6 PM
Erie Canal Harbor Project
Public Meeting regarding the Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (SEIS)
Sponsored by Empire State Development Corp.
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
Wednesday, September 24
Here's an opportunity to see some wonderful regional Native artifacts that are not normally on view.
Inside the Collections : A Look at Native American Artifacts
7:00 PM Wednesday, September 24, 2003
BECHS Resource Center, 459 Forest Avenue
$10 general public / $8 Historical Society members
Advance reservation required. Telephone 873-9644 ext. 319 or email programs@bechs.org Visa and MasterCard accepted. Presenter: Anthropologist Neil O'Donnell.
O'Donnell has studied in detail the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society's collection of Native American artifacts. He has selected items from indigenous native Americans and will explain their significance within the collection.
Sally Treanor
Senior Director, Administration & Operations
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
25 Nottingham Court
Buffalo, New York 14216-3199
Tel. (716) 873-9644 Ext. 320
Fax (716) 873-1894
Friday-Saturday, September 26-27
The United States Colored Troops Institute for Local History
and Family Research at Hartwick College, is named for
the Bureau of Colored Troops of the Civil War that was responsible
for the 200,000 black soldiers and their 7,000 white officers
jointly known as the USCT. Established during 1998, the USCTI
has members in 19 states and Canada devoted to the research,
preservation and remembrance of the USCT. Pleased accept the
following updates:
The Congressional Black Caucus Veterans' Braintrust Award
2003 will be bestowed on Harry Bradshaw Matthews, associate dean
and director of U.S. Pluralism Programs, and president of the
USCTI, on September 26th at 6 pm in the Washington Terrace Hotel,
1515 Rhode Island Avenue. The award was established by General
Colin Powell during 1990. Contact number is 202-232-7000.
The USCTI's Civil War Awards Dinner will be held at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY,on Saturday, September 27th at 6 pm. Cost is $20 per person, with several seats still available. Stanton F. Biddle, professor of Administrative Services Librarian, and former Chief Librarian at the William and Anita Newman Library at Baruch College of CUNY, will receive the USCTI's President's Award for Distinguished Service. Professor Biddle is currently vice president of the USCTI. Also receiving the Distinguished Service Award is Ruth B. Anderson, Executive Director of Akwaaba: The Heritage Associates of Rochester. Akwaaba will receive the Preservation Award and perform the reenactment, "A Time in the Life of Frederick Douglass, Shields Green, and a Woman Called Moses." The Daniel A. Payne Gospel Choir at Hartwick College will also perform select songs. For further information call 607-431-4428.
Saturday, September 27
PUBLIC MEETING
KOLBE CENTER ? ACROSS FROM CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH
176 Clark Street, Buffalo
10:00AM
Earlier this year, the Conventual Franciscan Fathers announced that they have decided to conclude their one-hundred five years of service to the East Side at Corpus Christi Church. The Friends of Corpus Christi, a committee of professional and community leaders from the parish, are combining efforts with parishioners, the Diocese of Buffalo and the Franciscan Fathers to build and strengthen Corpus Christi for a hopeful and exciting future.
The Friends of Corpus Christi invite your participation in identifying the needs of the Corpus Christi neighborhood on the East Side of Buffalo and planning for the revitalization of this magnificent place of worship and its surrounding vicinity.
Fall Festival History Weekend At the Town of Fabius,NY
for more information on other towns http://www.ouroldetowne.com/
September 27th & 28th 12noon till 5pm at the Fabius-Pompey High School Auditorium Highlights for each day: Attend one or all.
Saturday 27th · 1pm Early Cars of Fabius by Ron Glasgow. · 2:15pm Fabius Photos by Peter Schlicht. · 3:15pm Apulia Station photo collection. Programs will be displayed in computer digital format using the state-of-the art projection equipment and a 20-foot screen.
Sunday 28th All about the Fabius School System · 1pm From the one room schoolhouses to the Centralization Program. · 2pm Fabius School Memorabilia by Linda Meyers & Jim Conway. · 3pm My Years Teaching at Fabius Central by Bob Ossont. Many historical displays are available during the whole weekend.
Bob Ossont recently donated a lifetime collection of Fabius Schools items.
He will be available both Saturday and Sunday.
If you have items that might interest the community, we invite you to bring them.
Please call Judy Conway at 683-5275 with questions. As always, this is a free event and everyone is welcome.
Posted by Bill Casey Bill Casey PO Box 36 Apulia Station, NY 13020
bill5308@aol.com 315 683-5674
http://www.fabiusny.org http://www.organicmilk.org
Wednesday, October 1
Dear Friends --
Please attend the Ribbon Cutting & Grand Opening of the Edward Frisbee Center for Collections & Research at Historic Cherry Hill.
At the event, Cherry Hill will reveal attic heirlooms to the public and honor the Frisbee family, elected officials and others who made the center possible. The event will include remarks by Historic Cherry Hillís President, Frisbee family members, elected officials and special guests.
This state-of-the-art center was constructed to eliminate the weight of storage loads from Cherry Hillís wood-frame 1787 historic structure, and to preserve the museumís diverse collections of 20,000 objects, 30,000 manuscripts, 7,500 textiles, 5,000 books, and 3,000 photographs.
Many collections have been moved to the climate-controlled facility and the museum has raised more than $525,000 of the total $625,000 project cost.
Cherry Hill will offer a sneak preview of attic treasures, behind-the-scenes tours of the Frisbee Center, and free house tours throughout the afternoon.
When: October 1, 2003 at 11:00 a.m. -- the press is encouraged to attend.
Where: The Edward Frisbee Center, Cherry Hill Street, Albany,
New York. Historic Cherry Hill is located at 523 South Pearl
Street in Albany, New York, just off of Interstate 787, Exit 2.
The Edward Frisbee Center is located behind the museum on Cherry
Hill Street. From Cherry Hill turn
right, turn right up McCarty Avenue, and right onto Cherry Hill
Street. The center is on the right side of the street.
Please call Historic Cherry Hill at 518-434-4791 to RSVP or for more information.
Colleen M. Ryan
InterCom
335 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY 12210
ph.518/462-1900 * fx. 518/465-2436
LOWER HUDSON CONFERENCE
of Historical Agencies & Museums
25th Anniversary: Keepers, Progress
Annual Meeting & Awards for Excellence
October 3, 2003, 9:30 am - 2:30 pm
At the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York.
Together Is Better !
Please accept this invitation from Lower Hudson Conference to
join in celebration of 25 years of service to the museums, historic
sites and heritage organizations of the Hudson Valley and greater
metropolitan region, as we take the measure of "Keepers,
Progress" in this National Heritage Area, through our Annual
Meeting, Field Forum, and Awards for Excellence, October 3, 2003.
Keynote Address: "Preserving Regional Heritages," J.
Winthrop Aldrich, retired NYS Deputy Commissioner for Historic
Preservation Field
Forum:"Embracing Mission," forum led by LHC Trustee
Stephen Long,
Curator & Director of Education, Lower East Side Tenement
Museum, NYC
Address queries to:
Dianne Macpherson Hudson Valley DHP <lowerhudson@MSN.COM
Saturday, October 4
10:00 am -4:00 pm, in the Dunckel/Spencer Dutch style barn owned by Paul Spencer, 105 Simons road, Ancramdale, NY. Admission is free. Brown bag lunches will be available ranging from $5.00 to $7.00. List of Panelists
Please RSVP to spencer212@aol.com or 518-329-2616.
Sunday, October 5 (rain date October 12)
Tours begin at 1 PM inside the Museum, 25 Nottingham Court. No
reservations are required, but if the weather is questionable,
call 873-9644 Ext. 301 to confirm.
COST: $5 includes the souvenir map, A Guide to the Pan-Am Grounds.
Sally Treanor
Senior Director, Administration & Operations
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
25 Nottingham Court
Buffalo, New York 14216-3199
Tel. (716) 873-9644 Ext. 320
Fax (716) 873-1894
Gary Hack (October 8), Dean and Paley Professor of the Graduate
School
of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches, practices
and
studies large-scale physical planning and urban design. He has
prepared
plans for over thirty cities in the United States and abroad,
including
Boston, NY City, and Bangkok in Thailand. He is working as the
planning
advisor for the development of the World Trade Center site in
New York City.
Nasrine Seraji (October 15), is professor and Chair of Architecture
at
Cornell University and an architect working in private practice.
A
graduate of the Architectural Association in London, she has designed
hew housing in Paris and Vienna and recently won a competition
to design
an extension to the School of Architecture in Lille.
Toshiko Mori (October 18 at the Albright Knox Art Gallery,
7:00 p.m.) is
the principal of Toshiko Mori Architect and the Robert P. Hubbard
Professor in Practice of Architecture and Chair of the Department
of
Architecture at Harvard University. Current work includes houses
in
Maine, Florida, and New York, and the Darwin Martin House Visitors,
Center in Buffalo. In 1992 she was the Eero Saarinen Visiting
Professor
at Yale University.
Robert Campbell (October 19 at the Albright Knox Art Gallery,
7:00 p.m.)
has been the architecture critic of the Boston Globe since 1973.
A
regular contributor to international architectural journals, he
is a
Pulitzer Prize winning writer and an advisor to the Mayor,s Institute
for City Design.
Mark Jarzombek (October 29) is the Director of the Doctorate
program at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he has taught
since
1995. The author of numerous articles and publications, his most
recent
book, The Psychologizing of Modernity, Art, Architecture and History,
was published by Cambridge University Press. He was a resident
fellow
at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 2002.
James Carpenter (November 12) is the founder of James Carpenter
Design
Associates, a design studio in New York City. The primary focus
of JCDA
is the exploration of the natural phenomena of light in transmission,
reflection and infraction as they influence architecture. Working
in a
collaborative studio, James Carpenter is currently working with
Foster
Associates, Arup and SOM on projects worldwide.
Ken Greenberg (November 19) is a city planner who founded and
directed
the Division of Architecture and Urban Design in the City of Toronto.
In 1994, his practice received the Toronto Arts Award for Architecture.
Currently he is a principal of Greenberg Consultants Inc., a consultancy
that has advised on urban development in Canada, USA, and in Europe.
Sponsoring Organization: Historic Documents Library in the
Office of the Suffolk County Clerk
Date and Time of Event: Sunday, October 12, 2003, 11:00 a.m. to
6:00 p.m.
Location: Westfield South Shore Shoppingtown, Bay Shore, NY
Web
Site:
<http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/suffolkarchivesweek/HisSufCo.html
Contact Name: Sharon A. Pullen
Phone Number/E-Mail: (631) 852-2015/ <Sharon.Pullen@co.suffolk.ny.us
Type of Program(exhibit, tour, lecture, etc.): Exhibition/display
Title of Program: Historic Suffolk County
Brief Description of Program: An event where the many organizations dedicated to preserving the unique history of Suffolk County will gather to raise public awareness of the documentary resources they have available. Public libraries, genealogy groups, historical societies, and school classes are all taking part in this celebration of Suffolk County history.
Additional Information/Comments:
This event is being sponsored by Washington Mutual. Greenpoint Bank has also contributed toward the cost of the event.
Genesee Valley Civil War Roundtable - October 15, 7:30 PM
The talk will be at 7:30 PM at the American Legion in Le Roy, New York.
For details call Donna Payne at 585 584-3358.
Barnes & Noble - Tuesday, October 21 - 7 PM
The history book discussion group, meeting at the Monroe Avenue store in Rochester, will discuss
2nd floor meeting room
Free - All welcome. You do not have to have read the book to attend.
Books may be purchased at the Monroe Avenue store at a 20% discount
Johnstown, NY: Johnson Hall State Historic Site will host a lecture and dramatic presentation on Wednesday, October 22, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. at the Fulton-Montgomery Community College Theatre on Route 67, 2 miles east of Johnstown. Two outstanding presenters will take you on a haunting trip through the dreams that opened the "first gateway to Heaven" to Harriet Tubman and inspired her almost flawless journeys of freedom for hundreds of slaves. One slave, in a narrative, described his personal journey as one that felt like he was shrouded in an invisible vale that protected him on his trip into Canada.
The first presenter, Robert Moss, will tell the story of Harriet Tubman's dreams from her own journals. Robert Moss' presentation, "Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad of Dreams," is taken from his larger study of Tubman's dreams. Robert has authored a number of books on dreaming, Conscious Dreaming, Dream Gates, Dreaming True, and historical fiction including the extraordinary exploration of Sir William Johnson's life in Fire Along the Sky, and The Firekeeper.
Robert Moss takes you on an exploration of one woman's dreams turned to waking reality. She dreamed and, in honoring those dreams, brought hundreds of slaves to a place where they could experience their own dream of freedom. "I ain't seen no railroad car; I don't know nothin' but my master's land" one slave was recorded as saying. The railroad stretched across America to Canada, the "first gateway to Heaven," and the conductor of dreams was the remarkable woman called "Moses," Harriet Tubman.
Robert Moss' 7:00 presentation will be followed by a brief intermission and then at 8:15 p.m. Carolyn Evans will present her remarkable first person performance, "My Spirit Sings." Carolyn's performances have been extolled in newspapers across New York State. Her dramatization of the life and work of anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman has been described as multi-faceted, heroic and as a program that needed to be experienced. Carolyn is a highly spirited poet, performing artist and motivational speaker. She received her dramatic training at Syracuse University and York College. She is the author of Bouncing Back: Dialogues with the Soul." Carolyn will present a haunting performance of music and drama based on the first person accounts of Harriet Tubman and some of the 800 slaves she led to freedom. In those extraordinary journeys to freedom called "magic" by some, not a single slave was lost or re-captured.
For further information please contact Wanda Burch at 518-762-8712 or Wanda.burch@oprhp.state.ny.us
Save the Date
October 26
Brooklyn Works: 400 Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn will
open to the public on Sunday, October 26th with a community reception
from 1-5 pm. The day will include performances and activities
for children and families.
LINKS
Antique Wireless Association Radio Museum
Museum of the City of New York
New York State Historical Association - 2 West 77th Street at Central Park West (212) 873-3400
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery
Tully Area Historical Society - Updated 5 /31 / 02
Brooklyn Historical Society - fbush@brooklynhistory.org
Chester Historical Society - Meetings are normally the
First Wednesday of each month. The Chester Depot is located at
1915 Erie Station 845-469-2591
CHS Office 845-469-2388 Tuesdays 9 am - 11 am
chester.historical@frontiernet.net.