Category: Events

Join us for the 5th Annual Outdoor Movie/History Night at T. Spencer Knight Canal Park on Thursday, August 18, at 8:00 p.m.

John Zornow will present “The GreatSherman Opera House Fire of 1925”. This will be a Powerpoint program with dramatic
images.

John is a columnist for the Times of Wayne County, past president of the Newark-Arcadia Historical Society, writes for the Society’s newsletter and serves as a museum docent.

Please bring your own lawn chair.  Refreshments will be served. We hope to see you!

Summer’s here, and with it comes the 26th Annual Strawberry Social.  Mark the date, June 26^th from Noon to 3 PM at the museum on High St.  Social regulars know what an enjoyable time this is.  You get to enjoy a dish of strawberries, shortcake and ice cream with friends and neighbors on a nice summer’s day.  You can even get a takeout tray if you’re on the run.  But if you decide to linger, Fred Burgess and Jim Shear, aka The Loose Marbles, will be playing familiar songs on their acoustic guitars.

If you just want to stop by to enjoy the music and the museum, there’s no charge.  But while you’re here, you owe it to yourself to get the strawberry shortcake ($5.00 – $2.00 for children under 12).  You see, the Burnap’s in Sodus supplies our strawberries, Bee Tee’s donates the ice cream, and several of your fellow members have volunteered to make the shortcakes.  So most of your money will go to help fund Historical Society operations, and you get to enjoy strawberries in season!  How can you lose?

Hope to see you on the 26^th.

Michael Keene, frequent speaker at many New York libraries and museums and producer of several award-winning history programs, has announced his latest offering, “The Psychic Highway”, scheduled for viewing on YouTube Premier, Thurs. April 1st, 2021, at 11:00 a.m.

It delivered people to important places for important reasons, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Seneca Falls for history’s first women’s convention, to Rochester to meet and support abolitionists Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman, to witness the Fox Sisters summon spirits, or maybe people on the temperance bandwagon hurrying to the Burned Over District so Charles Finney could save their souls.

The Psychic Highway intertwines the origins of the Erie Canal with the historical, religious, and social issues of the day.

The program is free but registration is required at michaeltkeene.com/registration