Museum Monday Programs Planned for Schoharie Crossing

Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site is excited to announce the return of Museum Monday programs this winter. Each month the museum at the Visitor Center will be open from 11:00am to 1:00pm on a select Monday and a brief discussion on a relevant topic will be offered.

Bygone Little Falls winters of skiing and sledding by Jeffrey Gressler

Decades before there was a Pine Ridge ski center in Salisbury or a Shu-maker Mountain ski area outside Little Falls, generations of Little Falls winter sports enthusiasts skied and sledded down the vertical drops that typify our steep, narrow Mohawk Valley topography. Others enjoyed skating on the frozen canal and ice rinks. Times were different in the age before television and computers provided time diversions and snowmobiles proved to be so popular.

The Mayfield Historical Society 2023 Calendar now available!

Attention Mayfield residents and those who enjoy our lovely community!

These high-quality calendars make great stocking stuffers and are only $15 with all proceeds going to the Mayfield Historical Society for activities to promote and conserve our area’s history.

Support this historical society with a gift perfect for loved ones who may have moved away or the history buff in the family.

Available for sale in the following locations:

  • Mayfield Town Clerk at the Municipal Building
  • Food-n-Fuel
  • Hart’s Motorsports
  • Powerhouse Motorsports
  • NACs Meat Market
  • Nanny and Pops
  • The L.A.B. Shack
  • Or call 518-857-2820

More locations to be announced. For additional information email mayfieldhistoricalsociety@gmail or call 518-857-2820.

Celebrate the Holiday Season with the Caroga Lake Music Festival!

World-class musicians from the Caroga Lake Music Festival return to Caroga this December 15-17, 2022, to celebrate the holiday season. Enjoy this very special week of musical festivities featuring works by Tchaikovsky, Handel, holiday singalong favorites, and more!

A visit to the Fort Plain Museum and Historical Park

This week MVEDD visited the Fort Plain Museum and Historical Park to learn about the exhibits along with their vision for the future.

Mohawks and the Dutch in the Mohawk Valley

View a video from the Friends of the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site featuring historian and scholar, Paul Gorgen, as he takes a close look at the relations between the Mohawk People and the Dutch settlers in the Mohawk Valley.

Native Cinema Showcase

The online program includes a total of 35 films (six features and 30 shorts) representing 30 Native nations in eight different countries: US, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia and Sweden. There are 10 Indigenous languages spoken in the films.

Colgate University Repatriates More than 1,500 Funerary Objects to the Oneida Indian Nation

On Wednesday, November 9, the Oneida Indian Nation and Colgate University held a repatriation ceremony during which more than 1,500 funerary objects and cultural artifacts were transferred to the Nation from the collections of the university’s Longyear Museum of Cultural Anthropology.

1882: The Year of Pestilence, Death and Solutions in Little Falls

The summer of 1882 was a bad time to be an inhabitant of Little Falls as sickness and death raged throughout the village.

“A Christmas Carol” Live Performances at The Farmers’ Museum

The Farmers’ Museum announces the return of its annual live performances of Charles Dickens’ beloved classic “A Christmas Carol” on Friday, December 16 (7:00 p.m.), Saturday, December 17 (3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.), and Sunday, December 18 (3:00 p.m.) in the museum’s Louis C. Jones Center.