BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Schenectady County Historical Society - ECPv6.3.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Schenectady County Historical Society REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221206T185940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T214504Z UID:23795-1711566000-1711571400@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: "Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the 19th Century" DESCRIPTION:This virtual program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all SCHS members before the program.  \nIn his recent work form University of North Carolina Press\, Professor Aston Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned. The fight for racial equality in the 19th century played out not only in marches and political conventions\, but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated by African Americans\, as Black artists produced images that advanced campaigns for equal rights. \nAston Gonzalez is Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University. He focuses on 19th century African American history\, politics\, visual culture\, and material culture\, using a broad variety of original documents to examine the complex histories of African American communities and activism. For the 2019-2020 academic year\, Gonzalez was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow based at New York University where he finished his first book\, Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century\,  published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2020. Visualizing Equality was a finalist for two major book prizes. Other publications include: \n“Reading the Emancipation Proclamation’: Viewing Race and Freedom during the Civil War Era.” Civil War History 68\, no. 2 (June 2022): 194-209. \n“Claiming Space\, Bearing Witness: The Portraits of Early African American Ministers” in Jasmine Nichole Cobb\, ed.\, African American Literature in Transition\, 1750-2015: Volume 2\, 1800-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2021): 288-315. \n“Stolen Looks\, People Unbound: Picturing Contraband People during the Civil War.” Slavery & Abolition 40\, no. 1 (2019): 28-60. \n“William Dorsey and the Construction of an African American History Archive.” Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies 45\, no. 1 (2019): 138-155. \n“Stealing Freedom: Robert Smalls and Modeling Citizenship” in Kathleen Diffley and Benjamin Fagan\, eds.\, Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image (Athens\, GA: University of Georgia Press\, 2019). \n“The Art of Racial Politics: The Work of Robert Douglass Jr.\, 1833-46.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 138\, no. 1 (January 2014)\, 5-37. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/gonzalez/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2024-01-08-at-4.44.25-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T153000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221206T185940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T184135Z UID:23798-1711202400-1711207800@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Mainstream Radicalism: Labor Organizing in Schenectady 1886-1906 DESCRIPTION:This in-person program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented at Mabee Farm.  \nHistorian Catherine Haag’s 2023 dissertation explores the confluence of Schenectady’s Socialist history\,  local workers’ adoption of direct labor action practices at the point of production\, and the commitment of local labor leaders to industrial unionism to reveal how radicalism became mainstream among Schenectady’s workers. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/haag/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2024-01-08-at-4.42.14-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20240116T191319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T192106Z UID:27112-1710961200-1710966600@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Theodore Burr's Two Early 19th Century Schenectady-Scotia Bridges: New Evidence with Ron Knapp DESCRIPTION:This virtual program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all SCHS members before the program. \nIn a richly illustrated presentation\, author Ron Knapp will discuss his new book\, “Theodore Burr and the Bridging of Early America.” In this important work on covered bridges\, Knapp explores Burr’s local creations: the Schenectady-Scotia bridges. Knapp will delve into a good deal of new information about Burr’s two local bridges\, filling in gaps in Schenectady history. During his lifetime\, Burr claimed to have built forty-five bridges — these however were not like the ordinary covered bridges commonly seen today that are identified with his patent\, but include some of the most challenging and superlative bridges in American history. But\, despite Burr’s herculean efforts\, part of his legacy sadly includes an obscure and ignominious demise in 1822 at the age of 51\, possibly by then penniless and without even an obituary lauding his work. He was buried in an unknown grave. Burr deserved better. Knapp’s work rectifies this. \nRon Knapp is the author\, editor\, or contributor of more than 20 books. He taught from 1968 through 2001 in the Department of Geography and Asian Studies Program at the State University of New York\, New Paltz\, where he holds the rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Knapp enjoys hiking and ‘reading the landscape\,’ and since 1987\, he has served on the Board of of Mohonk Preserve\, New York’s largest not-for-profit nature preserve. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/knapp/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_5973-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240320T190000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20240205T214956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240205T214956Z UID:27470-1710955800-1710961200@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Luxe Skin Lab: Crafting Hand + Body Scrubs with Sweet Sprig DESCRIPTION:Dive into the world of indulgent skincare! Join us for a hands-on experience where you’ll learn to craft exquisite body scrubs using the perfect blend of salt and sugar\, leaving your skin feeling refreshed and pampered. Leave with two completed jars of scrubs to gift or keep for yourself. Taught by Leah LaFera of Sweet Sprig\, located in the historic Brouwer House Creative. Price includes all supplies.\n\nClass length: 75 minutes\nMax number of participants: 8\nAge range: Teen-Adult URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/luxe/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-05-at-4.48.51 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T120000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20230420T205804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T191713Z UID:26131-1710583200-1710590400@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Workshop: Felt a Spring Animal DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, we’ll felt an adorable springtime animal\, using wool from our herd. This craft makes a great gift for friends\, family\, or even yourself. \nOur experts will guide you through the process from start to finish\, and we’ll provide all materials and equipment. This craft is recommended for anyone 12+. It involves using sharp needles which can puncture skin if not used properly. Participants should possess good manual dexterity\, hand-eye coordination\, and ability to work with focus and care. \n  \n  \n  URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/feltspring/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screen-Shot-2024-01-08-at-2.14.56-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240313T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20231122T193630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T233615Z UID:25708-1710356400-1710361800@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: "Skeletons in the Cabinet" with Andrew Beaupre DESCRIPTION:This virtual program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all SCHS members before the program. \n“Skeletons in the Cabinet: Memory and the Human Remains Attributed to the Schenectady Massacre of 1690s” with Andrew Beaupre \nThe Stockade’s story of the “massacre” has been venerated through first-hand accounts\, ballads\, memorials\, and even re-enactments. While this metanarrative is ever present\, the aftermath of the event remains buried under both the soil and political obfuscation. Beaupre will discuss the skeletal remains recovered in the neighborhood\, many of which have been falsely attributed to the massacre\, and examine the role of archaeology in collective historical memory. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/skeletons/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240309T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240309T153000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20231122T193630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T213409Z UID:25704-1709992800-1709998200@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:"Finding Women’s Voices in the Archives" with Jane Wilcox DESCRIPTION:This program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented in-person at SCHS\, 32 Washington Ave. Advance tickets are available here\, or you may purchase them at the desk when you arrive. \nWomen from the 17th-20th centuries are challenging to uncover\, but we may hear their voices in the documents that recorded their lives. With many examples from the speaker’s own New England\, New York and Wisconsin family history\, learn where to look for womenfolk in letters\, diaries and journals\, newspapers and various court records. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/wilcox24/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2024-01-08-at-4.38.36-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240307T200000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221019T184713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240202T201209Z UID:26193-1709834400-1709841600@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Drink the Seasons: March DESCRIPTION:Join for an evening of tiki cocktails at Schenectady Historical. Led by historian John Gearing\, we’ll make — and sample — a variety of historic tiki libations! \n$33; pre-registration required. Must be 21+ with valid ID. \nAll ticket sales are final. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/dtsm/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/drink-the-seasons-1-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20231122T193630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T213746Z UID:25702-1709751600-1709757000@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: "Lifestyles of Enslaved and Freed Peoples in the Hudson Valley" with Myra Armstead DESCRIPTION:This virtual program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all SCHS members before the program. \nDr. Myra Armstead will discuss the day-to-day lives of enslaved and free African Americans in the colonial Dutch Hudson Valley\, including how they were employed and utilized\, how they acquired property and accumulated wealth\, Black identity\, and more. Dr. Armstead is the Vice President for Academic Inclusive Excellence and the Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies at Bard College. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/lifestyles/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2024-01-08-at-4.37.18-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240302T120000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20211221T205210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231122T182403Z UID:25698-1709373600-1709380800@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Mabee Maple Day DESCRIPTION:This is an in-person program at Mabee Farm.  \nAs winter cold begins to recede\, the ground unfreezes and the sap starts to run. On a New York farm\, the first harvest of the year was always maple syrup. In this family-friendly program\, you’ll learn the process for yourself from colonial techniques to later innovations. And of course\, we’ll be able to taste the results! This is an outdoor event in so be prepared for winter temperatures! \nTickets are $5 for members / $10 for non-members. Under 5 is free. \n\n  URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/maple/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Mabee-Maple-Day.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221206T185940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T213243Z UID:23792-1709146800-1709152200@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: "Taverns in Upstate New York" DESCRIPTION:This virtual program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all SCHS members before the program.  \n\nUsing research from over 500 primary accounts of patrons of  upstate inns and taverns\, Gerald Baum will dig into the valuable contribution the inn made to the development of upstate New York. He will also discuss what a 19th century patron might have experienced staying the night at a roadside inn. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/baum/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2024-01-08-at-4.30.52-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240224T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240224T193000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221211T182800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240223T184748Z UID:23770-1708797600-1708803000@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Snow Moon Walk & Tavern Night DESCRIPTION:Join us this night of the full Snow Moon for a candlelight walk through the woods of the Woestyne. Afterwards\, we’ll make a fire in the Inn’s historic fireplace\, and storytellers will share colorful tales from our area. Warm drinks will be served to fight off the night’s chill. \nAdmission is $10 for non-members\, and $5 for members. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/snow/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/MCM-copy.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T120000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221211T182800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T194725Z UID:26758-1708682400-1708689600@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Winter Family Day at Mabee Farm DESCRIPTION:Spend the winter break with us! Today the Mabee Farm will host special winter educational activities. Baking on the hearth\, colonial crafts and even a behind-the-scenes tour of our artifact collections. \nTickets are $10 for everyone 5 and up; free for SCHS members at Family+ levels\, but RSVP required. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/familyday/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Earth-Night-Mabee-Farm.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221206T185940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240207T152728Z UID:23789-1708542000-1708547400@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: "Calvinists and Indians in the Northeastern Woodlands" DESCRIPTION:This virtual program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all SCHS members before the program.  \nStephen Staggs\, PhD is the author of the forthcoming book Calvinists and Indians in the Northeastern Woodlands. He will discuss intercultural relations between the two groups in the 1600s: Native Americans and New Netherlanders hunting\, eating\, drinking\, smoking\, and fighting with each other\, sharing their faith while traveling in canoes\, and sleeping in each other’s bedrooms. Such details emerge in documents written by New Netherlanders like Megapolensis\, whose work provides a window into the influence and limits of the Dutch Reformation upon the dynamic\, multifaceted relationships that developed in the early modern Northeastern Woodlands. Megapolensis came of age when Dutch Reformed theologians looked to the Bible to incorporate Indians into a Reformed worldview. In so doing\, they characterized Indians as “blind Gentiles.” This characterization ultimately informed the instructions given to those heading to New Netherland\, raised expectations among the clergy and lay chaplains who served in the colony\, and prefigured the reciprocal\, intimate relationships that developed between Indians and New Netherlanders. \nStephen Staggs is an independent historian who holds a PhD and graduate certificate in Ethnohistory from Western Michigan University. His research focuses on the impact of the interactions and interrelations between Indigenous\, African\, and European peoples in early modern Europe\, colonial North America\, and the Atlantic World. His recently published book is Calvinists & Indians in the Northeastern Woodlands. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/staggs/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2024-01-08-at-4.29.29-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T153000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221206T185940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T212838Z UID:26739-1708178400-1708183800@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:"Preserving Family Papers and Photographs: Digitization and Digital Preservation" with Marietta Carr DESCRIPTION:This program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented in-person at 32 Washington Ave. No advance tickets. \nPreserving your family’s papers and photographs is vital to tracing and understanding your family’s history and connections to local and community history. Digitization and digital tools can be enormously helpful\, but how do you know where to start? Marietta Carr\, librarian and archivist at the Schenectady County Historical Society\, will introduce you to digital preservation tools and techniques you can use for your family’s archives. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/digital/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Foodtank2021booklistfeaturediamge-1024x683-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240213T193000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221211T182800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240212T212059Z UID:26753-1707847200-1707852600@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Canceled: A Schenectady Valentine DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, this event has been CANCELED due to the threat of winter storms. \n  \nThe Museum will be open late for date-night! Join us as we delve into our archives of historic love letters to tease out the passion penned on the pages. So inspired\, guests will be invited to hand craft a valentine of their own. Of course\, we’ll have chocolate and wine on hand to celebrate Valentine’s Day  appropriately. \n$12/$5 for SCHS members URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/valentine24/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/lost-voices.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240210T123000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221211T182800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231223T205827Z UID:26740-1707562800-1707568200@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Lost Voices Tour of Mabee Farm DESCRIPTION:Not everyone at the Mabee Farm was free to live and pass down their stories for posterity. The Farm was also home to generations of enslaved people like Sam\, Bate and Cato whose voices have been lost to history. In this tour\, we try to see the Mabee Farm as they would have known it- we hope to understand the experiences of hundreds of other enslaved people in Schenectady’s history. This program is offered as part of Black History Month. \nAdmission is $10 or $5 for members. \n  URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/lostvoices24/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/disappear-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240208T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240208T200000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20230629T183233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231205T190531Z UID:26135-1707415200-1707422400@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Schenectady Wine Society: February DESCRIPTION:Join us for curated wine tastings by and for local wine lovers. Wine connoisseur Buffy Leonard and city historian Chris Leonard will lead us on a tasting and history tour of their favorite wines for the season. \n$33; pre-registration required. Must be 21+ with valid ID. All ticket sales are final. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/swsf/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/My-project-1-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240207T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221206T185940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T212749Z UID:23786-1707332400-1707337800@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: "Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the US\, 1850–1900" DESCRIPTION:This virtual program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all SCHS members before the program.  \nDiscover the stories of long-overlooked American women who\, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home\, became commercial photographers and shaped the new\, challenging medium. Professor Katherine Manthorne will fill in the gaps in photographic\, American\, and women’s history and discuss the parallels between the growth of photography and the late-19th-century women’s movement. \nKatherine Manthorne is an art historian at the Graduate Center\, City University of New York committed to the study of the art of the Americas (1800-1940) in its hemispheric dimensions. Landscape imagery is a special passion\, embodied in publications from Tropical Renaissance. North American Artists Exploring Latin America\, 1839-1879 (1989) and Traveler Artists: Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection (2015) to California Mexicana: Missions to Murals\, 1820 to 1930 (2017) and The Rockies and the Alps: Bierstadt\, Calame and the Romance of the Mountains (2017). The Caribbean figures in Fern Hunting Among These Picturesque Mountains. Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica (2010); Nueva York (2010); and Caribbean Crossroads (2012). Working toward the internationalization of American art\, she taught courses at the University of Copenhagen\, Denmark; Ca’ Foscari\, University of Venice\, Italy; and the Freie Universität\, Berlin; and co-organized transnational conferences including Landscape Art of the Americas: Sites of Human Intervention Across the Nineteenth Century at the Universidad de los Andes\, Bogotá\, Colombia (2021). Women’s contributions to visual culture constitutes another theme in her work featured in two books: Women in the Dark: American Female Photographers 1850-1900 (2020) and Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex (2020). Intermediality is another interest explored in Film and Modern American Art: The Dialogue Between Cinema and Painting (2019). She received fellowships from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art\, Fulbright and Smithsonian Institution. Currently projects include Sweet Fortunes: Sugar Plantations\, Art Collecting and Enslaved Labor; and Fidelia Bridges: Between Fine Art & Popular Culture. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/manthorne/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Elmira-Hurley-two-sisters-Cabinet-Card.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T130000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20240116T181753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T182037Z UID:27109-1707220800-1707224400@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:A History Lost DESCRIPTION:This program will be presented by SCHS Historian\, Michael Diana\, at SUNY Schenectady in honor of Black History Month. It is free and open to the public\, and will be held in room Stockade 101. \nIn 1827 slavery was abolished in the state of New York granting freedom to a whole segment of Schenectady’s population. Newly freed\, Schenectady’s black residents would still face many obstacles as they sought to establish a new place for themselves. Over the following decades\, much of this community would vanish from our records and from the city altogether. This presentation seeks to shed light on this little known chapter of local history. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/a-history-lost/ LOCATION:SUNY Schenectady ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screen-Shot-2024-01-16-at-1.16.39-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221206T185940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240126T150219Z UID:23783-1706727600-1706733000@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: "Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry" DESCRIPTION:This virtual program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all SCHS members before the program.  \nIn her recently published work from Cornell University Press\, Professor Nicole Maskiell connects developing Northern networks of merit to the invidious institution of slavery. During the first generations of European settlement in North America\, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires. Maskiell argues that slavery was a crucial component to the rise and enduring influence of this emergent aristocracy. \nProfessor Maskiell is associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina. She specializes in early American history\, with a focus on overlapping networks of slavery in the Dutch and British Atlantic worlds. Her current book project entitled “Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry” compares the ways that slavery shaped the development of elite Northern culture by examining the social and kinship networks that intertwined enslavers with those they enslaved. Professor Maskiell is a recipient the John Carter Brown\, Gilder Lehrman\, and Huntington Mayers research fellowships\, and her dissertation was nominated for the 2014 Allan Nevins Prize URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/maskiell/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SF15.05.GP08_G03025.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T153000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221206T185940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240126T150448Z UID:26737-1706364000-1706369400@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:POSTPONED "Schenectady County Clerk’s Office: Records and Research" with Cara Ackerley and Jesse McGuire DESCRIPTION:Postponed due to illness\, to be rescheduled soon. \nThis program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented in-person at 32 Washington Ave. No advance tickets. \nThe records kept by the County Clerk are essential to genealogy\, house history research\, and many significant life events. Join County Clerk Cara Ackerley and Deputy County Clerk Jesse McGuire to learn about the functions of the clerk’s office\, what kinds of records are kept at the clerk’s office\, and how to access those records and other services provided by the clerk’s office. \n  \nFree for members\, otherwise $10. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/clerk/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/schs.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240127T120000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20230106T184431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T153745Z UID:25118-1706349600-1706356800@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Winter Paint pARTy DESCRIPTION:Instructor Karen Anthony of Karen’s Paint pARTies will teach us to paint a bright winter scene.  No artistic experience necessary — you will be lead step by step to produce your very own masterpiece! Price includes 11×14 stretched canvas\, all painting materials\, and a selection of munchies — plus mimosas\, of course! Feel free to BYOB\, as well.\n\n\nAges 10+ only\, please. All ticket sales final. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/paintparty/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image0-1-rotated.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240125T193000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221211T182800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240118T191322Z UID:23759-1706203800-1706211000@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Full Moon Wolf Walk & Tavern Night DESCRIPTION:January brings the full Wolf Moon\, named for wolf packs circling icy villages\, howling out in the night. Join us for the Wolf Moon with a short\, illuminated walk in the woods of the Woestyne at Mabee Farm. Afterwards\, we’ll make a fire in the Inn’s historic fireplace\, and storytellers will share colorful tales from our area. Warm drinks will be served to fight off the night’s chill. \nAdmission is $10 for non-members\, and $5 for members. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/wolfmoon24/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/MCM-copy-1-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221206T185940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240116T201851Z UID:23780-1706122800-1706128200@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: "Schenectady and the Regional Transportation Rivalry\, Canals and Railroads\, 1815-1860" DESCRIPTION:This virtual program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all SCHS members before the program.  \nAll aboard for a journey through 19th-century Schenectady history\, with Dr. Michael Wheeler as your guide! We’ll delve into the complexities of a gripping transportation rivalry\, and explore the clash between private railroads and the State-owned canal system. Join Dr. Wheeler as he uncovers the intricacies of transportation competition among New York\, Boston\, and Montreal. As a cartographer\, Dr. Wheeler has developed extensive maps to illustrate this important period in New York State history. He’ll discuss his findings\, shed light on the transportation rivalries that shaped the region in the 1800s\, and discuss the critical transportation and settlement results in the Hudson\, Mohawk\, and Lake Champlain valleys. \nDr. Wheeler has undergraduate degrees in history and computer science. He has worked in Information Technology (IT) for 25 years\, primarily in defense\, finance\, and geovisualization. Among other professional roles\, he worked as IT manager of a U.S. hedge fund in Tokyo\, Japan\, and served as co-architect for a worldwide trading and hedging software system for a Big Oil customer. For the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)\, he helped to improve the Counter/IED problem (“roadside bombs”) for the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan\, modelled possible cyber vulnerabilities in U.S. critical infrastructure for the Air Force\, and worked on safe drone flight in the National Air Space (NAS). Most recently\, he has been working in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied to Multi-INT fusion. Dr. Wheeler earned a master’s degree in strategic studies at Johns Hopkins – SAIS\, where\nhe wrote a thesis on Union military cartography in the Civil War. He returned to academia in 2000 where he worked on his PhD at Syracuse University developing 3D animated maps of New York State canals and railroads. This talk is largely derived from that dissertation work. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/wheeler/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/416305284_1378346429697953_1382760299001662960_n.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240115T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240115T235959 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20231024T214226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231210T160942Z UID:25025-1705276800-1705363199@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:All sites closed DESCRIPTION:All SCHS sites will be closed on the following holidays in 2024: \nNew Years Day\nMLK Day: January 15\nMemorial Day: May 27\nJuly 4\nJuneteenth: June 19\nLabor Day: September 2\nThanksgiving Weekend: November 28-30\nChristmas Eve\nChristmas Day\nNew Years Eve \n  \n  \n  URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/closed24/2024-01-15/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SCHS-closed.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T133000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20231203T195132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231221T185741Z UID:26086-1705060800-1705066200@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Liberty Flag Raising DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to present the first event in our local commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of America. Join us on January 12 at noon to raise the Liberty Flag in Schenectady! \nSCHS will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the raising of the Liberty Flag in Schenectady. We’ll meet at the Schenectady Historical Museum\, and then walk to the corner of Church and Union to relive the raising of the Liberty Flag. We’ll erect a flagpole\, raise a replica flag\, and enjoy brief remarks on the importance of liberty. Afterwards\, attendees are invited inside the First Reformed Church to enjoy refreshments and sign a “liberty board” with discussions of what freedom means to them. \nChris Leonard\, City of Schenectady Historian\, and Michael Diana\, SCHS Historian and Director of Education\, explain the significance of the event\, and what it commemorates. “What is liberty and what must we do to secure it? These questions have both united and divided Americans throughout history. On the anniversary of the raising of the Liberty Flag\, we invite the community to relive that historic moment and reflect on the essential questions of freedom. Indeed\, one of Schenectady’s earliest and most significant reckonings with the idea of liberty was on January 12\, 1774. On that day\, an angry crowd of 50 citizens gathered in the center of town to raise a flag emblazoned with the word “LIBERTY.” This was a hugely confrontational form of protest. Their supporters applauded them as patriots. Their detractors derided them as a riotous mob. But thus did Schenectady enter the bitter controversies of a Revolution that would forge the modern United States of America.” \nSCHS owns the only surviving “Liberty” flag from the Revolutionary War. \nThis event is free and open to the public. As the event is outdoors and will take place in the middle of January\, please dress accordingly. This is the first of many events that SCHS will sponsor over the next two years leading up to and beyond the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Please follow https://schenectadyhistorical.org/rev250/ to keep up with events for the city and county. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/libertyflag/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-03-at-2.50.33-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T235959 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20240112T012450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T012645Z UID:27084-1705017600-1705103999@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Mabee Farm Closed DESCRIPTION:Mabee Farm will be closed on 1/12/24 as we commemorate the raising of the Liberty Flag at SCHS. We apologize for any inconvenience. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/mabee-farm-closed-6/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Layer-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20221206T185940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T212327Z UID:23777-1704913200-1704918600@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: "The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America\, 1500–1800" DESCRIPTION:This virtual program is part of our Winter Speaker Series\, and will be presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be emailed to all SCHS members before the program.  \nProfessor Wayne Lee of UNC-Chapel Hill will discuss his new publication from University of North Carolina Press\, “The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America\, 1500–1800\,” which recasts Indigenous warfare in a framework of the lived realities of Native people rather than with regard to European and settler military strategies and practices. \nWayne Lee specializes in early modern military history\, with a particular focus on North America and the Atlantic World\, but he teaches military history from a full global perspective. He also teaches courses on violence as well as on the early English exploration of the Atlantic. As a kind of additional career\, he works with archaeology projects in the Balkans and has numerous publications in that field. Notable publications include: \n\nThe Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America\, 1500-1800 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press\, 2023)\nWayne E. Lee\, David L. Preston\, David Silbey\, and Anthony E. Carlson\, The Other Face of Battle: America’s Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat (New York: Oxford University Press\, 2021).\nWaging War: Conflict\, Culture\, and Innovation in World History (New York: Oxford University Press\, 2015).\nEditor\, with Michael Galaty\, Ols Lafe\, and Zamir Tafilica\, Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press\, 2013)\nBarbarians and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare\, 1500-1865 (Oxford University Press\, 2011).\nEditor\, Warfare and Culture in World History (NYU Press\, 2011)\nCrowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence in Riot and War (University Press of Florida\, 2001)\n“Fortify\, Fight\, or Flee: Tuscarora and Cherokee Defensive Warfare and Military Culture Adaptation\,” Journal of Military History 68 (2004): 713–770 URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/lee/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/416174868_1378344389698157_5690949851644838726_n.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T235959 DTSTAMP:20240328T145031 CREATED:20240106T014538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240106T021517Z UID:26905-1704499200-1704585599@schenectadyhistorical.org SUMMARY:Mabee Farm Closed DESCRIPTION:We apologize for any inconvenience but due to unforeseen circumstances\, Mabee Farm will be closed on January 6. URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/mabee-farm-closed-5/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR