In this family-friendly program, you’ll learn the process of making maple syrup, from colonial techniques to later innovations.

In this family-friendly program, you’ll learn the process of making maple syrup, from colonial techniques to later innovations.

Dr. Myra Armstead will discuss the day-to-day lives of enslaved and free African Americans in the colonial Dutch Hudson Valley

Join for an evening of seasonal cocktails and more!

Women 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.

In this workshop, we'll felt an adorable spring animal, using wool from our herd.

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.

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.

Historian 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.