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Madison County Historical Society

Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored With Black Heritage Postal Stamp

January 29, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Lewis StampThe United States Postal Service will issued the 45th Black Heritage stamp on January 26th, 2022 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. in honor of Edmonia Lewis, a Black and Native American sculptor who gained international recognition.

Edmonia Lewis was born in 1844 to an Ojibwa/Chippewa woman from Albany and a former enslaved man from Haiti. Both parents died when Wildfire, as she was called, was young. She went to live with her mother’s sisters. In later years her brother Samuel supported her and in 1856 she entered New York Central College. She then went to Oberlin College in Ohio from 1859 to 1863. [Read more…] about Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored With Black Heritage Postal Stamp

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, History, Western NY Tagged With: Abolition, Albany, Art History, Black History, Cortland County, Cultural History, Edmonia Lewis, Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, Haiti, Indigenous History, Madison County Historical Society, McGraw Historical Society, sculpture, womens history

19th Century Hops Collections at Madison County Hop Fest

September 17, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Hop Sampling Kit courtesy Albert BullardCollecting tools and household wares associated with 19th century hop farming has been a hobby of Al Bullard and Dot Willsey for decades.

Bullard and Willsey will share and demonstrate items of their collections as part of the 25th Annual Madison County Hop Fest in Oneida on Saturday, September 18th. [Read more…] about 19th Century Hops Collections at Madison County Hop Fest

Filed Under: Events, Food, History, Western NY Tagged With: Madison County Historical Society, Madison County Hop Festival

Hop Houses, Barn Tax Credit Focus of Madison Co Hop Fest

September 16, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

madison county hop festThe 25th Annual Madison County Hop Fest is set for Saturday, September 18th and will feature Senator Rachel May (NYS District 53), who will describe the tax credit for the rehabilitation of historic barns bill introduced in the New York State Senate (S.6042) by Senator Michelle Hinchey of Saugerties on March 31st, and by Assemblymember Didi Barrett (A.6947) from Hudson on April 14th. [Read more…] about Hop Houses, Barn Tax Credit Focus of Madison Co Hop Fest

Filed Under: Events, Food, History, Western NY Tagged With: Madison County Historical Society, Madison County Hop Festival

Hop House Programs at 25th Annual Madison County Hop Fest

September 15, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Stearns cobblestone common hop houseMadison County Hop Fest volunteers who have raised awareness of the agricultural hop houses have called the region of New York State that raised hops “The MMOOOSCH Country” to recognize the counties of Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Onondaga, Otsego, Schoharie, Chenango, and Herkimer, which produced most of the hops exported from the United States in the 19th Century.

With regard to these counties, the Hop Heritage programs for the 25th Annual Madison County Hop Fest will present programs on hop houses at 11 am, 12:30 pm, and 1 pm on Saturday, September 18th at the Oneida Public Library. [Read more…] about Hop House Programs at 25th Annual Madison County Hop Fest

Filed Under: Events, Food, History Tagged With: Madison County Historical Society, Madison County Hop Festival

1850 Fugitive Slave Law Convention Being Remembered

July 12, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Madison County Historical Society daguerreotype of the 1850 Cazenovia Convention courtesy Madison County Historical SocietyThe newly incorporated Cazenovia Heritage organization has announced its plans for “A Remembrance of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law Cazenovia Convention” to be held on Saturday, August 21st, at the Cummings Theatre in Cazenovia, Madison County, NY. [Read more…] about 1850 Fugitive Slave Law Convention Being Remembered

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Cazenovia, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia Heritage, Madison County Historical Society

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