Brookside Museum will host an Olde Time Strawberry Social on Sunday June 22 from 2:00-4:00 P.M. This family friendly event will include games, children’s crafts and music performed by Simon Elijah. There will be homemade strawberry shortcake available for a fee of $5.00. Please order your shortcake in advance HERE In addition to the day’s festivities an optional strawberry pot… Read more »
Have you been searching for an out-of-print book on Saratoga County history? The annual book sale at the Saratoga County History Center may be the answer. Hundreds of books will be arrayed on the iconic front porch of Brookside Museum during the Craft Fair on Saturday, June 21. Categories include histories of towns and villages as well as the county… Read more »
The Saratoga County History Center is thrilled to announce our annual county-wide craft and antique fair! This family-friendly free event will be held at the beautiful Brookside Museum on Saturday, June 21, 2025 from 10am to 3pm. Guests will be able to shop from dozens of vendors with a wide variety of locally handcrafted collectibles, gifts, antiques, farm products, food… Read more »
Join us here at the Saratoga County History Center at Brookside Museum for the very first meeting of the Brookside Explorers Club, a new history and learning club for kids. The meeting will be held on Saturday June 14 at Brookside Museum between 10:00A.M. and Noon. Explore the history and fun of Flag Day through story time, crafts, and play… Read more »
Include Brookside Museum in your dinner plans for Friday, May 30th. Order some delicious Miller’s Backyard Barbecue and pick up from Brookside Museum, 21 Fairground Ave., Ballston Spa, between 3pm and 6pm. Chicken and pulled pork dinners are available for $15.00 and beef brisket dinners for $20.00 (beef brisket by pre-order only). All dinners include baked potato, coleslaw and corn… Read more »
The Saratoga County History Center at Brookside Museum has announced their seasonal schedule of Historical Tours for 2025. Over the last four years the History Center has joined with local historians to offer tours throughout Saratoga County. “Our intent is to bring the past to life by focusing on the people and places that are not really known to most… Read more »
Author David Handy will be presenting the riveting story of Captain Luther M. Wheeler on Wednesday, June 11, at 7pm at Brookside Museum in Ballston Spa. Based on his latest book, I Think I Shall See a Hundred Battles: The Civil War Letters of Captain Luther M. Wheeler, Handy will recount the tale of the young captain Wheeler using correspondence… Read more »
The Saratoga County History Center at Brookside Museum is pleased to announce an upcoming presentation on the fascinating archeological and environmental history of the region on May 15 at 7:00 P.M. at Brookside Museum. The discussion will be led by Ph.D. candidate and Hartgen Archaeological Associates researcher John Garbellano. Mr. Garbellano will also discuss two projects completed in Malta and… Read more »
Come and join the Saratoga County History Center at Brookside Museum for an afternoon of celebrating and learning about the essential role of pollinators on Sunday, May 18, at 2:00 P.M. Listen as a lively panel of guests from the area’s community of masterful pollinator gardens discuss their efforts to create habitats for the pollinator communities that play a vital… Read more »
The long-running interactive “Sheep to Shawl” program at Brookside Museum returns to the Saratoga County History Center on May 10, beginning at 1:00 P.M. Sheep, lambs, farmers, herders, the famous Fred the Shearer, and the Rock Day Spinning Guild will assemble on Brookside Museum’s front lawn to demonstrate every facet of sheep raising, shearing, and spinning to produce the wool… Read more »
