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Paul Smith’s Students Create the Akwesasne Mohawk Mobile Cultural Center

May 24, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Akwesasne Mobile Cultural CenterPaul Smith’s College students have completed construction of the Akwesasne Mobile Cultural Center. This new cultural center is a result of a partnership between Paul Smith’s College and the Nia’s Little Library – a nonprofit that promotes literacy and preserve the Mohawk language. [Read more…] about Paul Smith’s Students Create the Akwesasne Mohawk Mobile Cultural Center

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, History Tagged With: Akwesasne, Cultural History, Education, Haudenosaunee, Indigenous History, Iroquois, Mohawk, Museums, Nia’s Little Library, Paul Smith's College

Grant Cottage Master Plan Meeting Set for May 23rd

May 17, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

grants cottageThe Friends of Grant Cottage are in the beginning stages of developing a Site Master Plan for the Ulysses S. Grant Cottage State Historic Site & National Historic Landmark it’s hoped will provide a roadmap for a comprehensive set of “improvements to enhance visitor engagement, accessibility and safety, and circulation while expanding the site infrastructure for increased visitation and grand events,” according to an email sent to supporters. [Read more…] about Grant Cottage Master Plan Meeting Set for May 23rd

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: Grant Cottage, Historic Preservation, Museums, Parks and Trails NY, Saratoga County, State Parks, Ulysses S Grant, Wilton

$1M for Museum Study Act in NYS Budget

May 12, 2023 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

New York State CapitolThe 2023/24 New York State Budget included $1M in funding for The Museum Study Act. The department of economic development, in conjunction with other departments and entities, are expected to conduct a comprehensive study of public and private museums and report their findings and recommendations. [Read more…] about $1M for Museum Study Act in NYS Budget

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, History, Nature Tagged With: Museum Association of New York, Museums, NYS Budget, politics

Historic Saranac Lake’s Trudeau Building Construction Begins

May 8, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Trudeau building renderingConstruction on the Trudeau Building in Saranac Lake has begun. The building will undergo complete rehabilitation for expansion of Historic Saranac Lake’s museum at the neighboring Saranac Laboratory. [Read more…] about Historic Saranac Lake’s Trudeau Building Construction Begins

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Adirondacks, Essex County, Franklin County, Harrietstown, Historic Preservation, Historic Saranac Lake, Medical History, Museums, Saranac Lake

Military Material Culture Conference Call for Papers

May 7, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Material Matters LogoThe vast majority of participants in the military events of the long 18th century left no written traces of themselves. Fortunately for scholars, and the public, evidence of their presence survives in material form. [Read more…] about Military Material Culture Conference Call for Papers

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: American Revolution, Archaeology, Conferences, Fort Ticonderoga, French And Indian War, King George’s War, King William’s War, Material Culture, Military History, Museums, Queen Anne's War

The Migration of European Modern Art to New York: Solomon Guggenheim & Karl Nierendorf

April 27, 2023 by Jaap Harskamp Leave a Comment

SS Europa prior to her maiden voyage in March 1930Born on April 18, 1889, in Remagen am Rhein into a Catholic family, Karl Nierendorf was educated in Cologne. He worked as a banker before World War I, but his career was disrupted in 1913 by the social upheaval in the Weimar Republic. One of his acquaintances, an art collector, introduced him to the Swiss-born German painter Paul Klee who persuaded him to attempt a career as an art dealer. The two would remain close. When Klee died in June 1940, Nierendorf published Paul Klee Paintings Watercolors 1913 to 1939 (New York: Oxford UP, 1941) as a tribute and an act of friendship. [Read more…] about The Migration of European Modern Art to New York: Solomon Guggenheim & Karl Nierendorf

Filed Under: Arts, History, New York City Tagged With: Architecture, Art History, Film History, Frank Lloyd Wright, French History, German-American History, Guggenheim Museum, Jewish History, Manhattan, modernism, Museums, New York City, painting

Saratoga Battlefield Acquires Stolen Surrender Cannon

April 24, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Cannon #102The National Park Service’s Saratoga National Historical Park has accepted a donation of a light six-pound British cannon from the Department of the Army. The park will permanently preserve Cannon #102 as a part of its museum collection. [Read more…] about Saratoga Battlefield Acquires Stolen Surrender Cannon

Filed Under: Capital-Saratoga, History Tagged With: American Revolution, Battle of Saratoga, Crime and Justice, Material Culture, Military History, Museums, Saratoga, Saratoga County, Saratoga National Historical Park, Saratoga Springs, Schuylerville

Getting There: Rivers, Roads, Rails Exhibit in Rockland County

April 20, 2023 by Clare Sheridan Leave a Comment

crossroads of rockland historyThe latest episode of the Crossroads of Rockland History podcast explored “Getting There: Rivers, Roads, Rails,” the new exhibition opening at the The Orangetown Historical Museum & Archives on April 23rd, 2023. Mary Cardenas, Orangetown Historian and museum director; Elizabeth Skrabonja, exhibition curator; and Steve Schwinn, member of the Board of the Friends of the Orangetown Museum were the guests. [Read more…] about Getting There: Rivers, Roads, Rails Exhibit in Rockland County

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits, New York City Tagged With: Historical Society of Rockland County, Museums, Orangetown, Orangetown Historical Museum, Podcasts, Rockland County

There Were Giants in the Earth in Those Days

April 17, 2023 by Jack Kelly 3 Comments

Cardiff GiantMy first brush with the artifacts of history came when I was a youngster on a family vacation to Cooperstown, Otsego County, NY. I found the famous Baseball Hall of Fame, with its baggy uniforms, battered bats and flattened fielders’ mitts, decidedly ho-hum. I couldn’t wait to get to the nearby Farmers’ Museum and see something that I had heard of with wonder: the Cardiff Giant. [Read more…] about There Were Giants in the Earth in Those Days

Filed Under: History, Western NY Tagged With: 1901 Pan-American Exposition, Archaeology, Cardiff Giant, Circus, Cooperstown, Farmers' Museum, Fossils, Geology, Museums, Onondaga County, Otsego County, Paleontology, PT Barnum, Religious History, Science History, sculpture, Syracuse

New Mini Railroad Starts Running at Copake Iron Works June 7th

April 11, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Pomeroy Family Railroad at the Copake Iron WorksCopake Iron Works has announced the inauguration of the Pomeroy Family Railroad at the Copake Iron Works at Copake Falls in Columbia County, NY is set for Wednesday, June 7th. [Read more…] about New Mini Railroad Starts Running at Copake Iron Works June 7th

Filed Under: Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Columbia County, Copake Iron Works, Industrial History, Iron Industry, Mining, Museums, railroads, Transportation History

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