Stephentown Historical
Society
Monthly Meetings & Events
Monthly Meetings & Events
This list of meetings is a historical review of past events, plus a list of planned upcoming events.
For upcoming events, be sure to check the Calendar
for
current details.2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- July 2 @ 6:30 pm
- Summer Potluck Supper
& Naming of Area Roads.
Audience Participation - August 6
- Stephentown Businesses
Tape and Audience Participation - September 10
- Importance of the
Civil War in Berkshire County
Slides by Stuart Murray - October 1
- Dutch Culture in the
Upper Hudson Valley
Slides by Ruth Piwonka - November 5
- Barns of the Hudson
Valley
Slides by Ted Hilscher - December 3 @ 6:30 pm
- Holiday Potluck Party
and Stephentown Hotel Interviews
Audience Participation
2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- January 7
- Geologic History of
12168
Dick Hamilton - February 4
- Nostalgia Night
Audience Participation - March 4
- Popular Culture of the
1840’s and 1850’s
Gregg Berninger - April 1
- Sand Lake from Mills
and Hotels of the 1800’s and 1900’s
to Suburbia 2000
Mary French - May 6
- Shape-Note Music
Greg and Jean Seiler - June 3
- What’s New
in Farming
Larry Eckhardt - June 30 @ 12 pm - 4 pm
- 21st Annual Strawberry Festival
The Berry Patch of Stone Wall Hill Farm (formerly Koepp’s Farm), Route 22 - July 1 @ 6:30 pm
- Summer Potluck Party
Bring a Dish to Share
- August 3 @ 10 am – 4 pm
- 13th Annual Juried Craftfest
Fire Department Muster Field & Pavilion, Grange Hall Road - August 5
- "The Honor of Command:
General Burgoyne's Saratoga Campaign"
author Stuart Murray - August 31 @ 9 am – 3 pm (Rain Date - Sept 2)
- Tag Sale
Gardner’s Field, Route 22 - September 9
- Stephentown Churches
Prelude to Exhibit
Slide Presentation by Pat & Don Bowman - September 21 to Oct. 21 (Fridays & Saturdays 1 - 4 pm)
- Exhibit:
Stephentown Churches
Heritage Center - October 7
- Local Genealogy Files
Eric Shyer - November 4
- Meneely Bells
Eugene Burns - December 2 @ 6:30 pm
- Potluck Party and Sinterklaus
2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- February 3
- Guess Who?
Bring a Childhood Picture - March 3
- Glass Bottles
David Buddenhagen - April 7
- Beads and Furs
Ken Kullman - May 5
- Bent and Broken Rocks
with Dirt on Top
Reinhard "Bud" Wobus - June 2
- Ropemaking in America
Mike Speranza - June 29 @ 12 - 4 pm
- 22nd Annual Strawberry Festival
The Berry Patch of Stone Wall Hill Farm, Route 22 - July 7
- Summer Potluck Supper
Bring a Dish to Share - August 2@ 10 am - 4 pm
- 14th Annual Juried Craftfest
Fire Department Muster Field & Pavilion, Grange Hall Road - August 4
- Violin Making
Ross Sterantino - August 30 @ 9 am - 3 pm
- Tag Sale
Gardner's Field, Route 22 - September 8
- Rutland Railroad
Keith Steltz - September 20 - October 25 @ 1 - 4 pm Fridays & Saturdays
- Exhibit:
Rutland Railroad - Corkscrew Division
Heritage Center, Garfield and Staples Road - October 6
- Troy’s Irish
History
Jack Casey - November 3
- Restoring Old Glass,
Ceramics, Metal
Heidi Miksch - December 1
- Christmas Potluck
Supper and Party & Kitty Hawk Centennial
Bring a Dish to Share / Airplane Stories / Audience Participation
2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- January 5
- Nursing’s
Legacy at Albany Medical Center: 1897 - 2003
Mary French - February 2
- Laugh-In: Funny
Stories from the Past
Audience Participation - March 1
- Shaker Life
Sharon Koomler - April 5
- The Moffit Family
Barbara Urban - May 3
- The Van Rensselaers
& their Tenants
speaker - June 6
- Special Program:
A Scattered People
Gerald McFarland - June 7
- The Eberle Brothers
Alfred Eberle - June 27 @ 11 am - 4 pm
- 23rd
Annual Strawberry Festival
The Berry Patch of Stone Wall Hill Farm, Route 22 - July 12 @ 6:30 p.m.
- Summer Potluck Supper
& Swim Program
Bring a Dish to Share
Norma Shaw - July 29
- Field Trip:Olana
and American Museum of Firefighting
- August 2
- Inns of Rensselaer
County
Kathryn Sheehan - August 7 @ 9 am - 3 pm
- Tag Sale
Gardner's Field, Route 22 - September 13
- The Shaping of New
York: Muscle, Wind, Water
Robert Arnold - September 18 - 19
- Exhibit:
Hooked Rugs
Barbara T. Peterson - September 19 @ 11 am - 4 pm
- 1st
Annual Fall Festival
The Berry Patch of Stone Wall Hill Farm, Route 22 - October 4
- Legends of Rensselaer
County
John Roy - November 1
- Richmond Iron Works
William Edwards - December 6 @ 6:30 pm
- Holiday Potluck Supper
& "Off the Record"
Wallace Stock
2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- January 3
- Working with Wool
Isabel Krebs - February 7
- History of the
Bennington Museum
David Cass - March 5 – April 16
- Exhibit:
Hand Planting to Satellite Technology
– Agriculture Since the Early 1800s
- March 7
- My First Job
Audience Participation - April 4
- The American Civil War
Paul W. Marino - May 2
- The French and Indian
War
Guilliem Aubert - May 17
- Field Trip:
Bennington Museum
- June 6
- Stephentown Veterans
Panel Discussion - June 26 @ 11 am - 4 pm
- 24th
Annual Strawberry Festival
The Berry Patch of Stone Wall Hill Farm, Route 22 - July 11
- Summer Potluck Supper
& “Yankee
Doodle”
Bring a Dish to Share
Stuart Murray - August 1
- The Kansas Crisis:
Before Lincoln’s 1860 Nomination
Drew Gibson - August 6 (Rain Date August 7) @ 9 am - 3 pm
- Tag Sale
Gardner's Field, Route 22 - September 12
- Elroy Face Night
- September 18
- 2nd
Annual Fall Festival
The Berry Patch of Stone Wall Hill Farm, Route 22 - October 3
- History of East
Greenbush
Josephine Schweigert - November 7
- Barns, Mills &
Farmhouses
David Larkin - December 6 @ 6:30 pm
- Holiday Potluck Supper
& Stories from my Family History
Audience Participation
2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- January 9
- From Pole to Pole
Ed Kueppers - February 6
- Quilts and Quilting
Beverley McClave & Donna Mullet & Audrey Foody - March 6
- The Fur Trade and
Trapping, Then and Now
Ronald W. Alund - April 3
- A Mingo Warrior in the
Ohio Valley
Timothy Case - May 2
- The French and Indian
War
Guilliem Aubert - May 1
- Estes Mill in Hancock
Perry Whitman - June 5
- Carriage Driving
Jeffrey Morse - June 25 @ 11 am - 4 pm
- 25th
Annual Strawberry Festival
The Berry Patch of Stone Wall Hill Farm, Route 22 - July 10 @ 6:30
- Summer Potluck Supper
and "A View From the Hollow"
Bring a Dish to Share
David Jacobs - July 26
- Field Trip:
Bennington area: Barnett Homestead, Bennington Battlefield, and
Park-McCullough House
- August 5 @ 9 am - 3 pm (Rain Date August 6)
- Tag Sale
Gardner's Field, Route 22 - August 7
- Ballooning
Dawn Morin - September 11
- Women in Medicine
Clellie Lynch - September 17 @ 11 am - 4 pm
- 3rd
Annual Fall Festival
The Berry Patch of Stone Wall Hill Farm, Route 22 - October 2
- Immigration,
Overpopulation, and Abandoned Children
Nancy Payne - November 6
- Underground Railroad
Scott Christianson - December 4 @ 6:30 pm
- Christmas Potluck Party
Audience Participation
2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- January 8
- Arthur Cowee, the
Gladiolus King
Sharon Klein - February 5
- Funeral Customs
Kathy Sheehan - March 5
- Native Americans in
Berkshire and Columbia Counties
Lion G. Miles - April 2
- Laura Secord: Heroine
of the War of 1812
Gary Leveille - May 7
- Kristie –
movie featuring local people
Isabel Krebs - June 4
- Mame Fay’s
Place
Ann Marie Lanesy - July 2
- Summer Potluck Supper
Program - Bring a Dish to Share
- August 6
- Albany Silver
& Silversmiths
Walter Wheeler - September 10
- Fireworks
Paul Guilbeault - September 12
- Field Trip:
Crailo and Schuyler Mansions
- October 1
- The Story Walker on
the Appalachian Trail
Kathleen Gill - October 20 @ 1 pm - 4 pm
- Scavenger Hunt and
Harvest Dinner
Bev McClave, organizer - November 5
- 14th Century Armor
Jeff Mann - December 3
- Christmas Potluck
Supper - (optional gift exchange) & "Early Breweries"
Roger Savoy
2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- January 7
- How Has Stephentown
Changed?
Audience Participation - February 4
- Stone Walls
Terry Lamphere - March 3
- The WPA
David Larkin - April 7
- Vintage Snowmobiles
Charles M. Ballard - May 5
- Stephentown Heritage
Center - 20th
Anniversary
Audience Participation - June 2
- "On This Site Was ..."
- Rensselaer County Historical Markers
Kathryn Sheehan - July 7 @ 6:30 pm
- Summer Potluck Supper
& "Bread Through the Ages
Jennifer Fenander - August 4
- Vintage Trail Bikes
James Hoellerich - September 8
- Music of Yesteryear
Wallacy Stock - October 6
- Growing Up in Nazi
Germany
Stephen Sell - November 3
- Native American Cuisine
Lisa Ballantyne (aka, Little Wolf) - December 1 @ 6:30 pm
- Potluck Supper
& Christmas Decorations
Kathryn Sheehan
2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- January 5
- One Room Schoolhouses
Photographer Paul Rocheleau - February 2
- What Is It? - From an
Antiques Expert
Tom Carpentier - March 2
- Salem Mass. of 1692
Author M. E. Kemp (aka, Marilyn Rothstein) - April 6
- 17th
Century Dutch Clothing
Ericka Nuckles - May 4
- The Colonial Physician
Reenactor Stuart Lehman - June 1
- Filming ‘Taking
Woodstock’
Audience participation - June 28 @ 11 am - 4 pm
- Strawberry Festival
Shortcake, ice cream, good company, and more ...
The Berry Patch of Stone Wall Hill Farm, Route 22 - July 6
- Potluck Supper
& 225th Anniversary of Stephentown
Lorri Parisi - July 25 @ 9 am - 3 pm (Rain Date July 26)
- Community
Tag
Sale
Start the weekend off right. Exchange your castoffs for someone else's treasures - or vice versa.
Field south of Gardner's Coffee Shop on Rte. 22 - August 3
- Light on the Past -
300th Anniversary of the Hudson River
Stuart Lehman - September 13 @ 11:30 am - 1 pm
- Community
Chicken
Bar-B-Q
Giffy's Bar-B-Q with Eckhardt's Corn and homemade desserts.
Fire Pavilion, Grange Hall Road - September 14
- The Rent Wars
Michael Barrett - September 16 @ 8:45 am
- Field Trip:
Bronck Museum in Coxsackie
- October 5
- Echoes of the Echo
Tom Bleezarde - November 2
- TBA
speaker - December 7 @ 6:30 pm
- Holiday Potluck
& Herman Knickerbocker - ‘The Prince of
Schaghticoke’
Steve O’Connor
2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- January 4
- Saving History
Matthew Carr - February 1
- The Life of a Limner:
Folk Art Painting, Portraits and Decorations in Upstate New York
Matthew McKeeby - March 1
- The Tradition of Oxen
Driving
Ralph Hartzell - April 5
- Restoring Cemeteries
Joseph Ferrannini - May 3
- The First Female
Photographer
Joanne Jennings - June 7
- Historic Wedding
Dresses
Anne Kiely - June 27 @ 11 am - 4
pm · Details
Here
- Strawberry Festival
Shortcake, ice cream, good company, and more ...
The Berry Patch of Stone Wall Hill Farm, Route 22
Print your own color poster: 8.5x11 or 8.5x14 - July 12
- Potluck Supper
& 17th Century Dutch Vernacular Architecture
Walter Wheeler - August 2
- On the Trail of Henry
Hudson and Our Heritage through the Municipal Seals of New York State
Marvin Bubie
Presented jointly with the Stephentown Memorial Library
Location change: Stephentown Fire Hall - August 28 @ 9 am - 3
pm (Rain Date August 29) · Details Here
- Community
Tag
Sale
Start the weekend off right. Exchange your castoffs for someone else's treasures - or vice versa.
Field south of Gardner's Coffee Shop on Rte. 22 - September 13
- The Story of Mum Bett
David Levinson & Emilie Piper - September 19 @ 12:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Chicken Bar-B-Q
at Fireman's Muster
Giffy's Bar-B-Q with Eckhardt's Corn and homemade desserts.
Fire Hall, Grange Hall Road - September 21 @ 9:30 am
- Field Trip:
Firefighters Museum in Hudson Olana
See calendar for detils. - October 4
- The Shaker Museum and
Library: The First 60 Years and the Future
David Stocks - November 1
- The Munsee and the
Mahicans in the Time of Henry Hudson - New York State Council for the
Humaities
Dr. Laurence Hauptman - December 6
- Pot Luck Supper follow
ed by : Penny Whistles or Tin Whistles
Marilee Urbanczyk
for details and late changes on upcoming events. 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- January 10
- A Tour of the SHS
Website
Dick Rhindress - February 7
- Morgan’s
Artillery
John "Mac" McEvilly - March 7
- "Tell me about it..."
The Stephentown Memorial Library’s Story Telling Project
Laurenne Teachout and Friends - April 4
- The Hudson-Mohawk
Region: Silicon Valley of the 19th
Century
P. Thomas Carroll - May 2
- The Restoration of the
Heritage Center Ceiling
Adam Squires - June 6
- Historic Indian
Clothing of the Northeast Woodlands
Jennifer Lee - June 26 @ 11 am - 4 pm · Details Here
- Strawberry Festival
Shortcake, ice cream, good company, and more...
The Berry Patch of Stone Wall Hill Farm, Route 22 - July 11
- Potluck Supper
& The Postenkill: Waterfalls to Waterworks
John Warren, Jr. - August 1
- subject
speaker - September 12
- subject
speaker - October 3
- subject
speaker - November 7
- subject
speaker - December 5
- subject
speaker
2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020
- February 4
- Reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg
this Summer
Mac McEvilly and Bob Shuey - March 4
- Berkshire Glass Works
Presented by Julie Sloan - April 1
- Covered Bridges
Presented by Lloyd Schliesser - May 6
- W. J. Cowee: the Man and the Company
Presented by Sharon Klein - June 3
- The 18th Century Woman: Her life and
Her Needlework
Presented by Pamela Strousse - June 23 (Tentative)
- Strawberry Festival
Shortcake, ice cream, good company, and more ...
Details coming soon. - July 1
- Potluck Supper at 6:30 PM
Birds and Wildlife: How Times have Changed
Presented by Gayle Tardif-Raser - July 27
- Community
Tag
Sale
Start the weekend off right. Exchange your castoffs for someone else's treasures - or vice versa.
Details and location information coming soon. - August 5
- The Knickerbocker Mansion
Presented by Stana Iseman
for
details on upcoming events.