Join us Sunday, August 7 at 3pm for a Free Music at the Museum Concert.  A saxophone quartet comprised of Tracy DeRagon, Ali DeRagon, Frank Conti and Dennis Searles, three veteran North Country professional musicians and a recent Ithaca College graduate.  The quartet will be playing a variety of light classical and unique arrangements of familiar melodies.  The musicians will... Read more »

Join us Wednesday, August 10 at 6pm Off The Northway Presentation and Book Signing at Northshire Books. Longtime local journalist Stephen William will talk about some of the tales that make Saratoga Springs unique, how the $15 billion GlobalFoundries chip plant came to Saratoga County, and how the construction of the Northway has changed the county. He will also sign... Read more »

Join us Friday, August 12 at 2pm for Fridays in the Herb Garden: there’s more to an herb than its name. The Saratoga County History Center invites you to join Kathleen Royka, Master Gardener, and Thymly Herb’s lead gardener at the museum’s Colonial Herb Garden. This week’s theme “Plants to dye for – plants, both for dyeing and healing. Meet... Read more »

Join us Saturday August 13, 10am – 4pm  for Spin Till You Dye day.  Representatives from the Saratoga County-based fiber spinning group The Rock Day Spinners will gather at Brookside Museum to dye wool using natural dyes and demonstrate fiber spinning. This is an in-person event that will take place at Brookside Museum.

Join us Sunday, August 14 at 3pm for a Free Music at the Museum Concert.  A concert band under the direction of Dennis Searles, an area music teacher with over 50 years of experience directing and performing in many musicals, concert bands and the Glens Falls Symphony.  The band is comprised of professional Musicians from the entire capital district and... Read more »

  Join Saratoga County Historian Lauren Roberts Monday, August 15 at 10am for a one-hour walking tour along the county’s popular Zim Smith Trail. Leaving from the parking area in Round Lake on Curry Road, learn about how the route of one of New York ‘s earliest railroads changed over time to become designated a National Recreation Trail. Abandoned by... Read more »

Join us Wednesday, August 31 at 10am . As part of the Historians' Walking Tour series, Rick Reynolds, Ballston Town Historian, will lead a tour of the site on Ballston Lake, which from 1901-1927 was home to the Forest Park Amusement Park.  This was a “destination vacation” for people of the time as well as a popular place for locals.  The tour will... Read more »

The Saratoga County History Center at Brookside Museum is pleased to sponsor a presentation by Professor Myra B. Armstead of Bard College entitled “From Slavery to Freedom: Blacks in Saratoga from the Colonial Period through Gradual Manumission.” Dr. Armstead has a deep understanding of African-American social and cultural life and is well known for her first book, ‘Lord, Please Don’t... Read more »

Join us Saturday, September 17 at 10 am. As part of the Historians’ Walking Tour series, John Scherer, Clifton Park Town Historian, will lead a tour of Vischer Ferry, one of Saratoga County’s “Forgotten Crossroads.” The Tour will explore the Vischer Ferry Historic District, learning about its Greek Revival and Victorian homes, its heyday during the canal era, and it’s time as a summer... Read more »

Wednesday, September 21, join Dr. Michael Green, Associate Professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Trustee of the Mob Museum in Las Vegas via Zoom, as part of the Expert Next Door series. Las Vegas is famous for its gangster history, but … so is Saratoga County! Hear about these underworld connections.   Reserve you free tickets HERE!

Join us Saturday, September 24 from 1-4pm for ice cream, face painting and a bounce house from Stewart's Shops to celebrate 100 years of ice cream! Visit https://www.stewartsshops.com/news/celebrating-the-stewarts-century-of-ice-cream-exhibit-at-the-brookside-museum/ for more information.

Join us Thursday, September 29 at 1 pm. As part of the Historians’ Walking Tour series, Russ VanDervoort, Waterford Town Historian, will lead a tour of the Champlain Canal in Waterford. This section of the canal opened in 1823, some parts remain unchanged.  Along the tour route we will pass a swing bridge, a basin, a change bridge, several waste... Read more »

Join us Friday, October 7th at 10:30am for an Off The Northway Presentation and Book Signing at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library. Local journalist Stephen Williams will talk about the long rollercoaster history of the dream, design, negotiations for, and construction of the $15 billion Global Foundries semiconductor facility in Malta.  He will also sign copies of Off the Northway,... Read more »