The Saratoga County History Center is thrilled to announce a county-wide craft fair! The family-friendly free event will be held at beautiful Brookside Museum on Saturday, June 20, 2026 from 10am to 3pm.
Guests will be able to shop a wide variety of locally handcrafted collectibles, antiques, and farm products. No mass-produced or commercially-made items will be permitted. This is a terrific opportunity for New Yorker’s to sample and appreciate the best of upstate artisans, farmers, and culinarians.
The event is free and open to the public, and will be held rain or shine.
Interested vendors can download the application HERE.
This fair is for handcrafted, antique/historic collectables and farm products only; mass-produced manufactured items, or commercially-made items will not be accepted.
On Saturday, June 20, between 10 AM and 3 PM, hundreds of out-of-print and rare books and pamphlets about Saratoga County will be on sale at the third annual Brookside Book Sale, hosted by the Saratoga County History Center at Brookside Museum. The Book Sale will run in tandem with our ever-popular Craft & Antiques Fair, and will feature rare books and ephemera donated by friends of the museum. Take home a piece of history from the Brookside Book Sale!
Among the topics included will be books focusing on the history of Saratoga County, Adirondack life and history, the American Revolution, Saratoga Springs, horse racing and horse breeding, genealogy and genealogical research, local towns, cities and villages, neighboring counties, and historical fiction. Rare prints include several 1866 maps of individual towns, and many postcards, brochures, booklets and other printed matter will be arranged by town and subject for browsing.
Among other hard-to-find books, there will be copies of Sylvester’s History of Saratoga County, Grose’s Centennial History of the Village of Ballston Spa, and the 1871 and 1890 directories of Saratoga County. All materials were donated for sale by the museum’s friends, or are triplicates from the museum’s library. For more information about the Brookside Book Sale, and all of our upcoming events and programs, please call SCHC at (518) 885-4000 or email info@brooksidemuseum.org.