Meet in the Ulster & Delaware Railroad Station for these Presentations:

 

11:30 Saving St. Mary's Church in Hunter

Speaker: John Ham

Old Edwardsville Preservation Society

 

12:30 The Beginnings of Twilight Park

Speaker: Joanne Ainsworth

Twilight Park

 

1:30 Resorts and Boarding Houses

Speaker: Roy Davis

Windham Historical Society

 

2:00 The Hessian Soldier

Lexington Historical Society

 

2:30 A Musical Interlude

Carver Blanchard on the lute

 

3:30 The Anti-Rent Wars

Speaker: Suzy Walsh

Zadock Pratt Museum

 

 

 

 

 

Exhibits in the Red Barn

 

Ashland Historical Society

 

Black Dome Press

 

Empire State Railway Museum

 

Greene County Historical Society

 

Haines Family Association

 

Larry Tompkins, Out Windham Way

 

Lexington Historical Society

 

Old Edwardsville Preservation Society

 

St. John the Baptist Ukranian Catholic Church

 

Windham Historical Society

 

Zadock Pratt Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

AROUND THE CAMPUS

 

“Women in Mountain Top History” Photo Exhibit in the Railroad Station, sponsored by GCCA with CIP funds and curated by Mara Lehmann and Johanna Titus

 

Hstoric Quilts in the Railroad Station

 

Rip Van Winkle Puppet Show: 12:15 p.m.and 1:15 p.m. at the east end of the Railroad Station

 

Tours of the Haines Family Cemetery: 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.

 

Children's Activities in the tent near the Railroad Station

 

WRIP!!!

 

Check out the Archives in the Visitors' Center with Debbie Fromer

 

The Calico Indian Showdown at 4:00 p.m.

Join in the dance recreating a chapter in our history!

 

 

 

Local History Day On Saturday, August 15, 2015

The MTHS campus on NYS Route 23A will be the place to be for all things historical on the Mountain Top and beyond.  Beginning at 11:00 a.m. exhibits will be set up in the Red Barn by the Zadock Pratt Museum, the Ashland Historical Society, the Lexington Historical Society, the Old Edwardsville Preservation Society, the Eastkill Valley Association, the Empire State Railway Museum, Black Dome Press, the Greene County Historical Society, the Haines Family Association, the Windham Historical Society, and others.

The Greene Room Players will present the Rip Van Winkle puppet show as it was presented at Rip's Retreat in the 1950s at 12:15 p.m. and 1:15 p.m. 

The Women in Mountain Top History photo exhibit curated by Mara Lehmann and Johanna Titus sponsored in part by the GCCA with funds from the Greene County Cultural Initiative Program will be on view in the U&D Train Station along with quilts from the MTHS archives.

There will be presentations by speakers from some of the historical groups represented in the barn and one from Twilight Park beginning at 11:30 a.m.
A schedule of the speakers will be posted on the MTHS website and around the campus on August 15. 

Tours of the Haines Family Cemetery, featured in our latest issue of The Hemlock will be given at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
At 4:00 p.m. the Calico Indian Showdown, a part of the American Masquerade celebration taking place throughout Greene County, will be presented.  The Visitors' Center will be open with demonstrations of the system we use to access the archives, sales of MTHS merchandise, and Larry Tompkins signing copies of his book Out Windham Way. In addition, there will be food and drink sales in the Train Station, children's activities, a 50/50 raffle, local crafts vendors, and Jay Fink from WRIP to keep us all smiling from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

Mark your calendar and plan to be in Haines Falls on August 15