Kids and Teens Spooky Perler Bead Program
Join us in the classroom of the Arkell Museum and Canajoharie Library for a fun afternoon of making spooky scary (and fun) creatures out of Perler beads.
This is a free program for kids and teens.
Teen Locker Art Craft
Bring the tweens and teens and join us as we make art to liven up their lockers!
This is a free program for older kids, teens and tweens.
Elizabeth Hearn Gleich Dinner & Gallery Tours
Join us September 30, 2023, at 3 pm for Arkell Museum’s second annual Elizabeth Hearn Gleich lecture presenting Driving While Black author and scholar Dr. Gretchen Sorin.
Dr. Sorin will examine in depth a number of paintings from the Arkell Museum’s permanent collection through the lens of an historian. She will also sign copies of her book, which is for sale at the Arkell Museum & Canajoharie Library Shop.
Lecture
3pm – 4pm
All are welcome to this free event. Arkell Museum admission will also be free to all visitors on September 30th.
Registration for the talk is requested: Gleich Lecture
Dinner & Gallery Tours
5pm – 8pm
Join us after the talk for a fun meet the speaker dinner and private gallery tours! This is a ticketed event with limited seating.
Dinner will be catered by the Black Cat Café in nearby Sharon Springs, NY, and will feature a bountiful buffet of options (including wine). Dinner is a ticketed event with limited seating. Lecture registration is automatic with dinner purchase.
Elizabeth Hearn Gleich Lecture
Join us September 30, 2023, at 3 pm for Arkell Museum’s second annual Elizabeth Hearn Gleich lecture presenting Driving While Black author and scholar Dr. Gretchen Sorin.
Dr. Sorin will examine in depth a number of paintings from the Arkell Museum’s permanent collection through the lens of an historian. She will also sign copies of her book, which is for sale at the Arkell Museum & Canajoharie Library Shop.
Lecture
3pm – 4pm
All are welcome to this free event. Arkell Museum admission will also be free to all visitors on September 30th.
Registration for the talk is requested: Gleich Lecture
Dinner & Gallery Tours
5pm – 8pm
Join us after the talk for a fun meet the speaker dinner and private gallery tours! This is a ticketed event with limited seating.
Dinner will be catered by the Black Cat Café in nearby Sharon Springs, NY, and will feature a bountiful buffet of options (including wine). Dinner is a ticketed event with limited seating. Lecture registration is automatic with dinner purchase.
Storyteller Laureate to Perform at Schoharie Crossing
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site will host Storyteller Laureate, Karen Pillsworth on Saturday, September 9 at 6pm as part of the 2023 Not Just for Kids Storytelling series.
This program will be held outside the Visitor Center, 129 Schoharie Street, Fort Hunter.
This storyteller asks, “What’s in your basket?”
All of us go through life “collecting” our own stories and stories we love! Come hear Kingston, NY’S Storyteller Laureate, Karen Pillsworth, as she shares stories from her basket. There will be stories of hope and love, stories to make you laugh and cry, and just maybe, stories that will help you discover the stories within yourself.
Karen Sangaline Pillsworth has been sharing her stories with young and old alike for over 35 years. Her stories have taken her from Newfoundland, Canada to Sydney, Australia, and lots of places in between. Whether she is telling on a stage floating on a lake in a cave, or at the top of a mountain, Karen delights her audience with folktales, historic tales, and personal stories. In 2002 she was named Storyteller Laureate of Kingston, NY in perpetuity. Returning to “school” in 2021 she received her Story Practitioner’s Certification from the Storytelling Schools of London.
No matter where she roams to share her stories, Karen’s favorite place to tell is in her own hometown and her favorite words to hear… “That’s Karen, she’s OUR storyteller”!
This is an outdoor event, though weather may send us inside. We ask that you dress for the conditions, bug spray and sunblock are encouraged. Bring a lawn chair or blanket as seating may be limited.
All Not Just for Kids Storytelling events are free and open to the public. The next performance date is Sunday, October 15th at 6pm with Dee and Frank Wind.
About the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the Erie Canal as one of the 19th century's greatest commercial and engineering projects. The Visitor Center exhibit traces the history of the Erie Canal and its impact on the growth of New York State and the nation.
Within the site's boundaries are many structures dating from the three eras of the canal's development. At the eastern end of the site is the Putnam Lock Stand at Yankee Hill that houses an exhibit on Erie Canal stores. The site's largest structure is the remains of the Schoharie Aqueduct, which carried the water of the Enlarged Erie Canal over the Schoharie Creek.
Schoharie Crossing is also the location of 18th century Fort Hunter and the Lower Castle Mohawk village. See artifacts from that portion of our history on display at the Visitor Center.
Blue Moon Walk at Schoharie Crossing
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site Blue Moon Walk, Wednesday, August 30, at 7:30pm at the Visitor Center
Fort Hunter, NY – Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site will hold a Blue Moon Walk on Wednesday, August 30th, starting at 7:30pm from the Visitor Center, 129 Schoharie Street, Ft. Hunter. The second full moon in August will also be a Supermoon.
The August Blue Moon, according to the Farmer’s Almanack, “will be the closest, biggest, and brightest full supermoon of 2023. It’s exceptionally close in Moon miles from Earth (222,043 miles). The next time we’ll have a closer full supermoon is November 5, 2025, when the moon lies 221,817 miles from Earth.” Experience this wonder in the sky with your guide, Michael. This Blue Moon Walk will traverse about a mile of historic Erie Canal towpaths over slightly uneven and grassy trail. We recommend dressing for the weather, comfortable footwear, and bringing a flashlight.
This walk event is free and open to the public. For more information about programs at Schoharie Crossing, please contact the Visitor Center at (518) 829-7516, email SchoharieCrossing@parks.ny.gov, or visit our NYS Parks webpage. The Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site Visitor Center is location at 129 Schoharie Street, Fort Hunter, NY 12069.
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
About the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the Erie Canal as one of the 19th century's greatest commercial and engineering projects. The Visitor Center exhibit traces the history of the Erie Canal and its impact on the growth of New York State and the nation.
Within the site's boundaries are many structures dating from the three eras of the canal's development. At the eastern end of the site is the Putnam Lock Stand at Yankee Hill that houses an exhibit on Erie Canal stores. The site's largest structure is the remains of the Schoharie Aqueduct, which carried the water of the Enlarged Erie Canal over the Schoharie Creek.
Schoharie Crossing is also the location of 18th century Fort Hunter and the Lower Castle Mohawk village. See artifacts from that portion of our history on display at the Visitor Center.
Trolleys of Amsterdam Presentation
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site will host Jerry Snyder to speak about the Trolleys of Amsterdam on August 22 at 6:30pm
The program will be held at 167 Fort Hunter Road at the Town of Florida Hall and Highway Department building.
Fort Hunter, NY – The trolley era arrived in Amsterdam in 1874 with horse drawn cars and less than two miles of track on downtown streets. By the time it departed a comparatively short 64 years later, streamlined aluminum bodied electric coaches were providing first-class mile-a-minute transport to nearby cities and towns throughout the lower Mohawk Valley. Join us to hear the story of the origin, development, and demise of our local part of a now all-but-forgotten transportation system whose abandonment may, in hindsight, well have been premature.
Jerry Snyder was born and raised in Amsterdam, NY where he attended Amsterdam schools, graduating from Wilbur H. Lynch High School in 1972. He then went on to graduate from Union College in 1976 with BS in Mechanical Engineering. Snyder was a Technical Service Engineer for Ingersoll-Rand out of Painted Post, NY (near Corning) and then worked at General Electric as an Engineering Supervisor/Principal Project Engineer until his retirement in 2014.
In 2003, Snyder discovered old postcards on E-Bay as an information source during a research project and began collecting them. His long-time interest in Amsterdam history, mostly from the engineering perspective in their industries, railroads and trolley systems and other infrastructure (dams, canal, bridges, power plants) lead him to become one of the founders of the Historic Amsterdam League in 2010, where he has served in various positions since, including president. Also in that year, he co-authored the Arcadia Publishing issued book titled Amsterdam in their Postcard History Series, showcasing about half of his collection. The book was co-authored with Amsterdam Historian Robert von Hasseln.
Please note that this event takes place off site at the Town of Florida Barn next to the Fort Hunter Library. The program will be preceded by a brief Friends of Schoharie Crossing Meeting and is free to the public.
Not Just for Kids Storytelling at Schoharie Crossing
On Sunday, August 20, at 6pm, Mary Murphy will perform, "Eating Wild & Other Tales of Love, Food, and Woodchucks!"
Fort Hunter, NY – Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site will host Mary Murphy on Sunday, August 20th at 6:00pm as part of the 2023 Not Just for Kids Storytelling series. This program will be held outside the Visitor Center, 129 Schoharie Street, Fort Hunter.
Murphy will perform, "Eating Wild & Other Tales of Love, Food, and Woodchucks!" She is known for her humorous family stories served up in a Murphy Stew full of folktales and seasoned with original tales too. Mary Murphy will leave you hungry for more!
Mary Murphy has performed regionally at Proctors and Story Sundays, as well as at the National Storytelling Festival, the Hawaii Storytelling Festival, and the Clever Gretchen Storytelling Festival at Syracuse University. She has been a teacher/mentor for young storytellers in schools and in Children at the Well, an interfaith storytelling group in the Capital District. Her stories have been published in several anthologies and magazines.
This is an outdoor event, though weather may send us inside. We ask that you dress for the conditions, bug spray and sunblock are encouraged. Bring a lawn chair or blanket as seating may be limited.
All of the Not Just for Kids Storytelling events are free and open to the public. The next performance dates are Joe Doolittle, Sunday, September 3rd at 1pm; Karen Pillsworth, Saturday, September 9that 6pm; Dee and Frank Wind on Sunday, October 15th at 6pm.
About the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the Erie Canal as one of the 19th century's greatest commercial and engineering projects. The Visitor Center exhibit traces the history of the Erie Canal and its impact on the growth of New York State and the nation.
Within the site's boundaries are many structures dating from the three eras of the canal's development. At the eastern end of the site is the Putnam Lock Stand at Yankee Hill that houses an exhibit on Erie Canal stores. The site's largest structure is the remains of the Schoharie Aqueduct, which carried the water of the Enlarged Erie Canal over the Schoharie Creek.
Schoharie Crossing is also the location of 18th century Fort Hunter and the Lower Castle Mohawk village. See artifacts from that portion of our history on display at the Visitor Center.
ROCK the LOCK
The Friends of Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site are excited about Saturday's ROCK the LOCK music event at 3pm, Yankee Hill Lock on Queen Anne Road.
Fort Hunter, NY – Yankee Hill is an historic Erie Canal lock that will be the location for the amazing Hold On Honeys performance, Saturday, August 5th at 3:00pm.
Hold On Honeys is an indie folk minimalist vocal trio based in Troy, NY offering tight knit harmonies to nourish the soul & invigorate the senses and is made up of Emily Curro, Raya Malcolm, Shannon Rafferty, Connor Armbruster, Michael Gregg, and Matt Malone.
This is a free event open to the public. Saratoga Arts made this program possible through the Community Arts Regrant Program, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
For more information about this event or programs at Schoharie Crossing, please contact the Visitor Center at (518) 829-7516, email SchoharieCrossing@parks.ny.gov, or visit our NYS Parks webpage. The Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site Visitor Center is location at 129 Schoharie Street, Fort Hunter, NY 12069.
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation oversees more than 250 individual state parks, historic sites, golf courses, boat launches and recreational trails, which are visited by 78 million people annually. For more information on any of these recreation areas, call 518-474-0456 or visit www.nysparks.com, connect on Facebook, or follow-on Twitter.
About the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the Erie Canal as one of the 19th century's greatest commercial and engineering projects. The Visitor Center exhibit traces the history of the Erie Canal and its impact on the growth of New York State and the nation.
Within the site's boundaries are many structures dating from the three eras of the canal's development. At the eastern end of the site is the Putnam Lock Stand at Yankee Hill that houses an exhibit on Erie Canal stores. The site's largest structure is the remains of the Schoharie Aqueduct, which carried the water of the Enlarged Erie Canal over the Schoharie Creek.
Schoharie Crossing is also the location of 18th century Fort Hunter and the Lower Castle Mohawk village. See artifacts from that portion of our history on display at the Visitor Center.
Wild Edibles the Topic for Schoharie Crossing’s Wildlife Wednesday
Author Anita Sanchez will be exploring wild medicinal and edible plants August 9 beginning at 6pm
Fort Hunter, NY – Schoharie Crossing will host award winning environmental educator and author Anita Sanchez for an exploration of wild medicinal and edible plants. This free Wildlife Wednesday program will start at 6pm on August 9th outside the Schoharie Crossing Visitor Center, 129 Schoharie Street in Fort Hunter.
Anita Sanchez’s award-winning books sing the praises of unloved plants and animals: dandelions, poison ivy, bats, tarantulas. She loves to explore the under-appreciated wild places of the world, from glaciers to mud puddles. Sanchez worked for many years as an environmental educator for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation at education centers across the state, teaching classes and developing curricula for thousands of students. She now is a free-lance educator, providing programs for schools, libraries, and museums as well as botanical gardens and arboreta. Years of field work and teaching outdoor classes have given her firsthand experience in introducing students to nature.
About the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the Erie Canal as one of the 19th century's greatest commercial and engineering projects. The Visitor Center exhibit traces the history of the Erie Canal and its impact on the growth of New York State and the nation.
Within the site's boundaries are many structures dating from the three eras of the canal's development. At the eastern end of the site is the Putnam Lock Stand at Yankee Hill that houses an exhibit on Erie Canal stores. The site's largest structure is the remains of the Schoharie Aqueduct, which carried the water of the Enlarged Erie Canal over the Schoharie Creek.
Schoharie Crossing is also the location of 18th century Fort Hunter and the Lower Castle Mohawk village. See artifacts from that portion of our history on display at the Visitor Center.