Annual Meeting and Dinner

Jim Kimball and Karen Canning

The NAHS annual dinner meeting will be held Thursday, April 18 at the American Legion August Mauer Post, 200 E. Union Street.

Social hour will begin at 6:00 with dinner at 7:00.  Tickets for the dinner will be $35/person. Dinner will be a buffet which includes Chicken French, Roast Beef au jus, Tortellini Primavera, Scalloped Potatoes, Green Beans w/Craisins, tossed salad, bread and butter and cake.

Please RSVP by April 12 either by sending payment to N-AHS, 120 High Street, or you can pay at the door by calling 315-331-6409 and letting Chris know how many are attending. We will have a short business meeting after dinner to elect officers, trustees, and a nominating committee.

You will not want to miss this year’s program. We are very pleased to have folklorists and musicians Jim Kimball and Karen Canning with us. Mr. Kimball plays fiddle, button accordion, keyboard, musical saw, jaw harp and bones. He is a favorite performer at the Farmer’s Museum in Cooperstown and Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, where he specializes in 19th century popular and folk music traditions.

Mr. Kimball is a noted ethnomusicologist, who teaches music history, world music and classes on American folk music at SUNY Geneseo. He is also the director of the Geneseo String Band.

Hope to see you all there!

2024 Calendar

Calendars are now sold out.
The Newark-Arcadia Historical Society’s 2024 Historic Calendars are now on sale!  This year’s theme is Automobile Row, with 20 photos of Newark automobile filling stations, dealerships, trucks, cars, a few downtown scenes and more!  The now $5 calendar ties in with our Transportation Exhibit this year.
The calendars are available at the Museum Gift Shop (Saturdays, 1-3 p.m.), or by calling (315) 331-6409 most mornings.
For mail orders, please send a check to: Newark-Arcadia Museum, 120 High St., Newark, NY 14513. Please add postage as follows: $2 for one, $3 for two, $4 for three and $5 for any number above that. Thank you.

Dec. 14th Lecture for the Holiday Season

Gerald & Lillie Ghidiu

For our annual December lecture, Gerald Ghidiu will present a slide show entitled “Toy Trains Under the Tree: A Look Back”. He will examine the how, when, where and why toy trains came to be operated on a setup under the tree, with an emphasis on how New York State was a key component of this history.

Gerald is a member of N-AHS and lives in Newark. He has been a member of the Train Collectors Assoc. since 1988, and the Ives Toy Train Society since 2004.

The lecture will be held at the museum on Thursday, Dec. 14 at 7:00 p.m.

We hope to see you!