BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Schenectady County Historical Society - ECPv6.15.19//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Schenectady County Historical Society
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:20220313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20221106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
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:20230204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230204T153000
DTSTAMP:20260407T205810
CREATED:20221205T213720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221206T194721Z
UID:18165-1675519200-1675524600@schenectadyhistorical.org
SUMMARY:Schenectady Aflame: The Great Fires of the 19th Century with Chris Leonard
DESCRIPTION:During the 19th century\, four major fires burned significant portions of Schenectady\, changing the face of the City forever. Join City Historian Chris Leonard as he explores the causes of the 1803\, 1819\, and 1861 fires and the physical changes they wrought on the city. Leonard will also cover the largely forgotten rash of arson that took place from 1883-1886. Additionally\, the talk will commemorate the 333rd anniversary of the burning of Schenectady in 1690\, which occurs later in the week. \nChris Leonard has served as the City Historian of Schenectady since 2018. He is also an SCHS Trustee\, the Historian of the GE Plot\, and a trustee of Historic Vale Cemetery. \nThis is an in-person program hosted at SCHS\, 32 Washington Ave. Light refreshments and coffee will be served. Admission is free for members\, otherwise $8 the day of the program. No advanced tickets. \n 
URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/aflame/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Speaker-2023-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T205810
CREATED:20230123T173218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230123T190339Z
UID:18982-1675882800-1675888200@schenectadyhistorical.org
SUMMARY:The Underground Railroad Revisited
DESCRIPTION:The Underground Railroad\, often remembered as being characterized by tunnels\, dark of night escapes\, coded language\, and hidey-holes\, was far more extensive and complex than these ideas have led us to believe. In the midst of significant pro-slavery sentiment\, New York State was home to many abolitionists working to abolish the institution of enslavement in our state and nation and it was visited by many who had escaped enslavement and sought a life of freedom. Join with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart\, independent researchers and co-founders of Underground Railroad Education Center as they share a new interpretation of a very old story and explain the various initiatives in which Underground Railroad Education Center is engaged as it works to connect the public with this empowering local history and its relevance for us today. \nCosponsors of this important event include Messiah Lutheran Church\, Trinity Community Center\, Schenectady County Human Rights Commission\, and the Schenectady County Historical Society.
URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/underground-2/
LOCATION:Trinity Community Center\, 705 Curry Road\, Rotterdam\, NY
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Web-Graphic.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230209T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T205810
CREATED:20221206T185940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221206T194702Z
UID:18185-1675969200-1675974600@schenectadyhistorical.org
SUMMARY:John Bradstreet's Raid with Ian Macpherson McCulloch
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual program\, presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent to SCHS members before the presentation.  \nJoin us for a virtual presentation by Ian Macpherson McCullock\, discussing his new book\, “John Bradstreet’s Raid\, 1758: A Riverine Operation of the French and Indian War.” In this first comprehensive analysis of Bradstreet’s raid\, Ian Macpherson McCulloch uses never-before-seen materials and a new interpretive approach to dispel many of the myths that have grown up around the operation. The result is a closely observed\, deeply researched revisionist microhistory—the first unvarnished\, balanced account of a critical moment in early American military history. McCulloch will provide the most detailed\, thoroughgoing view of Bradstreet’s raid ever produced. \nLieutenant-Colonel Ian Macpherson McCulloch is a native of Halifax\, Nova Scotia. Educated in Scotland and Switzerland\, he holds an honors degree in Journalism (1977) from Carleton University and Masters degrees in War Studies (1996) and Defence Studies (2010)\, both from the Royal Military College of Canada. A former Canadian Army officer\, he served in a variety of regimental and staff appointments in Canada\, Germany and the USA which included command of Canada’ famous Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (1993-96) and first Deputy Director of History & Heritage for the Canadian Forces. He retired as Director of the Centre for National Security Studies at the Canadian Forces Staff College in Fall 2014 and moved to Kingston\, Ontario to write this book. A military historian and author specializing in the Seven Years War in North America\, McCulloch has published numerous books and articles on that subject in various international journals and magazines. He has authored two books for Osprey Publishing (UK) in their WARRIOR series: British Light Infantryman of the Seven Years War\, 1756-1763\, North America\, (Oxford\, 2004) and Highlander in the French & Indian War (Oxford\, 2008) and has authored four books for Robin Brass studios (Toronto/Montreal)\, Canada’s foremost military history press and Purple Mountain Press (NY\, USA).
URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/mcculloch/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/speaker-2023-5.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230210T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T205810
CREATED:20221211T182800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230210T164511Z
UID:18332-1676052000-1676057400@schenectadyhistorical.org
SUMMARY:A Schenectady Valentine
DESCRIPTION:With Valentine’s day around the corner\, this program will explore the ways in which Schanactadians past courted their sweethearts.  Over a glass of wine (or hot chocolate)\, we’ll 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. Bring a date — we’ll have plenty of hot chocolate and wine on hand to celebrate the season in proper fashion!
URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/valentine/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/barn-raising-3.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230211T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230211T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T205810
CREATED:20221207T184043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221207T184043Z
UID:18249-1676111400-1676120400@schenectadyhistorical.org
SUMMARY:Workshop: Spring Wreath
DESCRIPTION:Welcome the first signs of spring with a beautiful\, custom deco mesh wreath! Tavia Hoover\, proprietor of Tavia’s Wreath Boutique\, will lead us in creating a wreath perfect for celebrating the arrival of spring’s earliest flowers! The class will teach from start to finish how to create a deco mesh wreath\, including completing the wreath frame\, cutting and attaching mesh\, and installing your custom signs and embellishments\, including your bow. \nPrice includes materials fee.
URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/springwreath/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Teal-Blue-Green-Floral-Wreath-Plant-Logo-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T205810
CREATED:20221206T185940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221206T194633Z
UID:18190-1676574000-1676579400@schenectadyhistorical.org
SUMMARY:The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America with Colin Calloway
DESCRIPTION:This is a virtual program\, presented on Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent to SCHS members before the presentation.  \nJoin us for a virtual presentation by Dartmouth Professor Colin Calloway discussing his new book\, “The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America.” Indian people spent a lot of time in early American cities\, primarily on diplomatic or trade business\, but also from curiosity and adventurousness. Colin Calloway\, National Book Award finalist and one of the foremost chroniclers of Native American history\, has gathered together the accounts of these visits and from them created a new narrative of the country’s formative years\, redefining what has been understood as the “frontier.”Calloway’s will discuss what Native peoples observed as they walked the streets\, sat in pews\, attended plays\, drank in taverns\, and slept in hotels and lodging houses. In the Eastern cities they experienced an urban frontier\, one in which the Indigenous world met the Atlantic world. Calloway will reveal not just what Indians saw but how they were seen. Crowds gathered to see them\, sometimes to gawk; people attended the theatre to watch “the Chiefs now in this city” watch a play. \nTheir experience enriches and redefines standard narratives of contact between the First Americans and inhabitants of the American Republic\, reminding us that Indian people dealt with non-Indians in multiple ways and in multiple places. The story of the country’s beginnings was not only one of violent confrontation and betrayal\, but one in which the nation’s identity was being forged by interaction between and among cultures and traditions. \nColin G. Calloway is John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of several books\, most recently The Indian World of George Washington (OUP 2018)\, which was a National Book Award Finalist\, and which won the Excellence in American History Book Award from the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the George Washington Book Prize.
URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/calloway/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/speaker-2023-6.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T123000
DTSTAMP:20260407T205810
CREATED:20221211T182800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221211T184343Z
UID:18324-1676718000-1676723400@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\, and to understand the painful\, dehumanizing experiences of hundreds of other enslaved people in Schenectady’s history. This program is offered as part of Black History Month. \nMembers are free. Just let us know you’re coming below. Not a member? Admission is $10. \n 
URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/lostvoices/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/barn-raising-2.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T205810
CREATED:20230207T183243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230207T183243Z
UID:19185-1676727000-1676736000@schenectadyhistorical.org
SUMMARY:AAHRP Family History Workshop and Community Scanning Day
DESCRIPTION:Black history matters! Join members of the Schenectady African American Historical Records Project team to learn about preserving your family’s history and passing historic materials on to future generations. Archivists will be available to digitize photographs\, letters\, pamphlets\, postcards\, and other materials that speak to African American heritage in the area. Attendees will also have the opportunity to complete a survey about their items and their personal or familial experiences as members of the Black community in Schenectady. This program is free to all. For more event details\, visit https://schenectadyhistorical.org/aahrp/ \nThis project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Schenectady County Legislature.
URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/aahrp-family-history-workshop-and-community-scanning-day/
LOCATION:SCPL Bornt Branch\, 948 State Street\, Schenectady\, NY\, 12307\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230222T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T205810
CREATED:20230105T225029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230202T223223Z
UID:18680-1677088800-1677096000@schenectadyhistorical.org
SUMMARY:Book Club: The Serious Side of Food
DESCRIPTION:Join the SCHS Book Club to take a deep look at a topic we often take for granted: food! Food provides both nourishment and pleasure\, of course\, but under the surface of each meal lies a series of complex interactions and entanglements. Led by Chris Leonard\, Schenectady City Historian\, we’ll read and discuss nonfiction\, novels\, and archival materials focused on the issues that lie on our plates. Limited to 12 people. Please contact Marietta Carr\, SCHS Librarian\, at librarian@schenectadyhistorical.org or 518-374-0263 x3 to sign up.\n\n\nAll book club discussion meetings will be at 32 Washington Ave\, at 6pm.\n\n\n-Wed\, 2/22\, 6pm – Third Plate by Dan Barber\n-Tues\, 3/14\, 6pm – Food Politics by Marion Nestle\n-Wed\, 4/12\, 6pm – Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle\n-Tues\, 5/16\, 6pm – Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé\n-Wed\, 6/14\, 6pm – In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/bookclub2023/2023-02-22/
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:20230225T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230225T153000
DTSTAMP:20260407T205810
CREATED:20221205T213720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221211T174458Z
UID:18303-1677333600-1677339000@schenectadyhistorical.org
SUMMARY:A History Erased: Free Black Schenectadians of the 19th Century
DESCRIPTION:At the turn of the 19th century\, hundreds of enslaved people in Schenectady became free. In the following decades they built a community separate and unequal from their white neighbors. In this program we’ll screen SCHS’ 2022 documentary\, “A History Erased\,” which is based on extensive research utilizing 19th century censuses and records. The filmmaker (and our Historian and Educator)\, Mike Diana will then lead a discussion about how this community\, and how/why it ultimately disappeared from our city. This program is offered as part of SCHS’ Black History Month celebration. \n  \nThis is an in-person program hosted at 32 Washington Ave.  Admission is free for members\, otherwise $8 the day of the program. No advanced tickets.
URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/erased/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/diana.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230227T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T205810
CREATED:20230207T184318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230207T184343Z
UID:19188-1677524400-1677529800@schenectadyhistorical.org
SUMMARY:Celebrating Black Educators in Schenectady: A Virtual Black History Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Education is crucial to preserving and sharing the history and heritage of communities. Recognizing the significant contributions of Black educators in developing our community’s youth\, we invite you to join us for a conversation with several local educators about their lives\, experiences\, and memories as Black Schenectadians. This event is free to all and will be livestreamed on the SCHS Facebook page. This event is part of the Schenectady African American Historical Records Project\, a public history project focused on preserving the heritage and historical records of African Americans in Schenectady. For more event details\, visit https://schenectadyhistorical.org/aahrp/ \nThis project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Schenectady County Legislature.
URL:https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/celebrating-black-educators-in-schenectady-a-virtual-black-history-discussion/
LOCATION:Online on Facebook
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR