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Arkell Museum

The Remarkable, Irresistible Erie – A Musical Performance Set For Sunday

September 22, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Arkell Museum at CanajoharieThe Arkell Museum, The Friends of Schoharie Crossing, and the Canajoharie Library have collaborated to bring “The Remarkable, Irresistible Erie” to the Great Hall at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie on Sunday, September 25th.

This performance includes some well-known canal songs and some lesser known. [Read more…] about The Remarkable, Irresistible Erie – A Musical Performance Set For Sunday

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Arkell Museum, Schoharie Crossing

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth’s ‘Humoresque’ Cavorting at Canajoharie

July 29, 2021 by Bill Orzell Leave a Comment

Humoresque FountainThe Arkell Museum and the Canajoharie Library were created by Bartlett Arkell, the founder and president of the Beech-Nut Packing Company as a gift to that community in 1927.

Arkell collected art work for the facility, much of it having a Mohawk Valley theme, with a zeal which can only be admired. His generous gift remains a very accessible collection to be appreciated by a grateful posterity. [Read more…] about Harriet Whitney Frishmuth’s ‘Humoresque’ Cavorting at Canajoharie

Filed Under: Arts, History, Mohawk Valley, Western NY Tagged With: Arkell Museum, art, Canajoharie, Manhattan, Putnam County, sculpture

Civil War Word and Music at the Arkell Museum

November 3, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Wanda Burch and John KenosianArtists Wanda Burch and John Kenosian will perform concert at The Arkell Museum, Friday evening, November 10, at 7 pm.

Home Voices: the American Civil War Experience through Words and Music will feature guest artist, soprano Gisella Montanez-Case Wanda Burch, historian and writer, Glen, NY, and singer/songwriter John Kenosian, Clifton Park.

Providing perspective on the human side of the Civil War, this program explores the dreams and imaginings of those who fought the war as recorded in their letters, journals and memoirs.

Sometimes published as poems or songs or printed in newspapers, these rarely acknowledged writings reflect the personalities and experiences of their authors. Some expressions of fear, pain, loss, homesickness and disappointment are related with grim fatalism, some with glimpses of humor. [Read more…] about Civil War Word and Music at the Arkell Museum

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, Civil War

Podcast: The Mohawk Valley History Conference

May 15, 2015 by Bob Cudmore 1 Comment

The Historians LogoThis week “The Historians” podcast features coverage of the American Revolution in the Mohawk Valley Conference held May 1-3. The half hour episode features interviews with conference participants Jim Kirby Martin, co-author of Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution (Hill and Wang, 2006); Jack Kelly, author of Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence (Macmillan, 2014); and Don Hagist, author of The Revolution’s Last Men: The Soldiers Behind the Photographs (Westholme Publishing, 2015). [Read more…] about Podcast: The Mohawk Valley History Conference

Filed Under: Events, History, Mohawk Valley Tagged With: Academia, American Revolution, Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, Conferences, Fort Plain Museum, Military History, Mohawk River, Montgomery County, Podcasts

Unique Winslow Homer Exhibit At Farmers Museum, Arkell Museum

June 5, 2014 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Winslow_Homer_-_MoonlightTomorrow, June 6th, the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown will present the opening of Winslow Homer: The Nature and Rhythm of Life, from the Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, featuring over 23 original works including oil paintings and delicate watercolors collected by Bartlett Arkell, the founder and first President of the Beech-Nut Packing Company.

This marks the first time these exceptional Homer paintings will be displayed as a complete collection. The exhibition contains two works now in other collections, including a painting owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The exhibition was organized by the Arkell Museum at Canajoharie and is on view at the Fenimore Art Museum from through August 24, 2014, and at the Arkell Museum at Canajoharie from September 2, 2014 to January 4, 2015. [Read more…] about Unique Winslow Homer Exhibit At Farmers Museum, Arkell Museum

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Arkell Museum, Art History, Fenimore Art Museum, Natural History

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