2015 Board of Directors Sandra Brennan, President Sally Wood, Vice President Jon Perkins, Treasurer Jeanne Galbraith, Secretary Ford Best, Research Secretary Cathy Adams Bill Brum
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2015 Board of Directors
Sandra Brennan, President
Sally Wood, Vice President
Jon Perkins, Treasurer
Jeanne Galbraith, Secretary
Ford Best, Research Secretary
Cathy Adams
Bill Brummett
Liz Collins
Joe Cope
Tom Maimone
Tom Macauley
Bee Perkins
Liz Porter
Helen Wadsworth
Anna Kowalchuk
Museum Administrator
March 2016
Native American
Collection
Abbey of the Genesee 1
2016 Programs
Dollhouse Raffle
Attic Treasures 2016 2
Holiday Recetpion
Quiz Bowl 3
Exhibit Desigh 4
Inside this issue:
Livingston County Historical Society
30 Center Street, Geneseo, NY 14454 585-243-9147
April 3rd Program Moved to Museum
Join us on Sunday April 3rd at 1:30pm at the Museum for a program about the Abbey of the Genesee Please note that the program will NOT be at the Abbey as previously advertised Presenter Brother Anthony will share about
a community of more than two dozen contemplative monks located near Piffard They are a member of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, commonly known as the Trappists
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A Stone is not just a stone!
Dr Paul Pacheco did not have to travel more than a few blocks from his Chair’s office in the Anthropology Department on the SUNY Geneseo cam-pus to find a treasure trove of worked stones, artifacts, and 18 different types
of arrowheads from Native people Thebes arrowheads and Big Sandy
points in the Museum’s collection are dated to be be-tween 8,000-10,000 years old!
With a specialization in prehistoric North American ar-chaeology, Pacheco is just the right advisor for intern
Ad-am Pease Together they have worked to sort and
identi-fy pieces in the Na-tive American col-lection Samples from this collec-tion, as well as sev-eral D.C Lithgow paintings depicting the mythical story
of Hiawatha, will be on display when the Museum reopens on May 1, 2016
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Dollhouse Raffle
A new raffle fundraiser is underway to support educational programming at the Museum! Raffle tickets will be for sale during open hours at the Museum as well as during the Geneseo and Avon
summer festivals
winner will be announce the first Friday in December just in time for Christmas! The dollhouse comes with furnishings and people for
each room!
2016 Museum Programs
Abbey of the Genesee-Brother Anthony
Semi-annual LCHS meeting and Opening Reception for
“Our Towns: The History of Livingston County in 25
Objects” exhibit
Movie on the Green-Co-sponsored with Friends
of Wadsworth Library Rain date August 20
Attic Treasures Sale
Donations graciously accepted throughout the year
Women Entrepreneurs in Livingston County-
Amie Alden
Digging up Memories of Main Street-Dick Hatheway
Co-sponsored with APOG
Semi-Annual Meeting and-History of the National
Guard in – Bob Kelsey, Major US Army retired
Member and Donor Reception
Attic Treasures Sale Items!
LCHS will be hosting our annual Attic Treasures fundraiser on August 27th, 2016 We would be happy
to accept your donations until then to sell at this fundraiser LCHS looks for donations of quality and historic items that will then be offered for sale to the public Profits support LCHS’s care of collections Please note that no museum objects will be sold at these sales
Starting May 1, 2016 the Museum will be open on Thursdays and Sundays from 2-5pm, or by appoint-ment Thank you in advance for your contributions
Do you want to rent a space to sell your wares? A 10 x 10 foot space is available for purchase Please contact lchistory@frontier.com or 585-243-9147
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COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS-May 20th
Have a glass of wine while watching Bee Perkins prepare dinner for you Make a few notes on the recipe cards made for the evening and then sit down and enjoy the meal that you have just learned how to create Bee has considerable experience at putting on intimate cookery demonstrations both here and in England To ensure that everyone has a good view tick-ets are strictly limited to 10 people per demonstration and cost $50 per per-son If you are interested in purchasing a ticket please contact Bee Perkins directly at beep@fd-usa.com or 519-4209 to reserve your spot Likely, this event will be so popular, that Bee has already agreed to conduct another demonstration in October
May 1, 2016
New Exhibit Opening &
Semi-Annual Meeting
Join us for the unveiling of our new exhibit
which has been several years in the making,
“Our Towns: The History of Livingston County
in 25 Objects.” Exercise your historical
imagina-tion as you encounter the stories and objects left
behind by the generations of people who have
called the seventeen towns of Livingston County
home This exhibit will introduce you to a
hand-ful of the stories that contribute to the mosaic of
life in Livingston County, Representatives from
all towns in the County have contributed objects
and stories that help tell us about early
inhabit-ants, communities, industry, enterprise, and
eve-ryday life in Livingston County
Stay for a brief semi-annual meeting After all,
as a LCHS member, you help to determine the
direction of the Livingston County Historical
So-ciety and Museum
Volunteers & Docents Gear Up for 2016 LCHS is so very fortunate to have approximately
30 docents and volunteers who help to keep the doors open between May 1 and October 31
Docents training for this year begins on Friday April 1st and runs each Friday in April from 4-5pm Docents, and interested potential docents, should know that attendance for all sessions is not required Docents this season will be trained about the new exhibits and will also have oppor-tunity to meet with Tourism Director Elissa Leuer to receive “service training for the public.”
Image of the McPherson Steamer on Conesus Lake included in the exhibit Courtesy of Lore DiSalvo
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DANA FIEL
I am a sophomore Economics major and Museum Studies mi-nor at SUNY Geneseo I’m from Syracuse, New York and have two siblings At the museum I’m in charge of running social media and advertising events Among these responsibilities are creating flyers and mass emails, researching pieces in the mu-seum to post on facebook, and cataloging inventory into the museum database I would like to someday work in a museum either doing marketing/ social media, creating exhibits, or do-ing somethdo-ing with finance I love to travel so the dream job for me would be working in a museum abroad
CALEB WEISSMAN I’m a Junior History major at SUNY Geneseo with a minor in Museum Studies I am from Elwood, Long Island and I have one brother who has graduated college I have always enjoyed studying and writing about history, which fits perfectly with
my position here which is focused mainly of collections man-agement and making signage I primarily work with the mili-tary collection of the Livingston County Historical Society My hobbies include watch movies and amateur fencing
ADAM PEASE I'm a junior History Major with minors in anthropology and museum studies at Geneseo I come from Watertown, which is
up north of Syracuse, I first became interested in working at the museum after my visit last semester when I heard about the internship opportunities Here at the Museum I work with the Native American collection and am currently working to have an exhibit finished by the end of the semester I have al-ways had an interest in all things Native American, and after working with the archaeology field school through Geneseo last summer my interest increased to an even higher degree
Meet the SUNY Geneseo Spring Interns