Spring - Summer 2012 Exhibitions/Events:Exhibition: June 29 - September 2, 2012 Opening reception Friday, June 29, 7:00 pm: "An evening remembered ..." Perry Beekman, jazz guitarist & vocalist will be performing.
"After the war was over - post WW II Woodstock - the growing of a community" This exhibition will explore the emergence of Woodstock from a small town into a thriving, growing community. As men and women returned from the war, Woodstock experienced soaring population, increased property values, increased tourism, and the revival of the art colony as new artists settled into this community. With the arrival of Rotron, IBM and other new modern businesses, came the development of such institutions as banks, a supermarket, a new elementary school, new churches, restaurants, bars, and shops, as post World War II Woodstock began to take shape. There was an increase in the number of out-of-towners who came to Woodstock, especially on summer weekends. As the Woodstock "Weekly Window" commented in 1948, many of these people (labelled "trudgers") "trudged purposefully about the village in search of something or other which they never seem to find."
Events:
"The Architectural History & Guide", May 19, 2:00 pm
On Saturday, May 19th at 2 p.m. William B. Rhoads will be giving a talk
and reading selections from his book Ulster County, New York, The
Architectural History & Guide. This book is a guide to 325 sites in all 20
Ulster County townships and the city of Kingston. The profusely illustrated
376-page guide captures the variety and changing architectural styles that
have appeared over nearly 300 years in the Hudson River Valley and Catskill
Mountains, from the 17th century Dutch limestone houses of the colonial
era, through the Federal and Victorian periods, up to the Modernist
architecture of the mid-1950s. This free event is part of the
New York State Heritage Weekend Promotion and will take place at the
Historical Society of Woodstock/Eames House, 20 Comeau Drive,
Woodstock, NY.
Refreshments will be served.
For more information call 845-679-8111. Press release
"Woodstock Roads: A History – What's
In A Name?", May 19-20, 2-4 pm
That's exactly what the two fifth grade classes at Woodstock Elementary
School set out to discover. Jill Olesker, storyteller and oral historian, and
JoAnn Margolis, Historical Society of Woodstock archivist, created this
project. They collaborated with Kenneth Behling, Woodstock Elementary
School librarian, to help students explore the history of their town. Art
teacher Roberta Ziemba worked with her classes to create paintings
inspired by the roads they researched, which will be used as road signs at
the exhibit.
Students researched information on local roads using books, photos,
documents from the Historical Society archives, and talks with local
historians. They created Wiki sites and annotated Google maps with assistance from Mr. Behling. More information on the project
will be available on the websites of the Historical Society of Woodstock www.historicalsocietyofwoodstock.org and the Woodstock
Elementary School.
The students’ work, together with relevant pieces from the Historical Society’s archives, will be exhibited from 2-4 pm on Saturday,
May 19 and Sunday, May 20 at the Historical Society’s Museum, 20 Comeau Drive (just above the municipal parking lot) in
Woodstock. In celebration of the project, students will give a presentation of their work on Sunday from 2-4 pm.
Come and satisfy your curiosity about the roads we pass every day and support the work of young historians.
Refreshments will be served.
For more information call 679-2143 |
