It’s getting to be that time of year! Teachers are planning lessons, classroom visitors and field trips. If you are a teacher or administrator, consider exploring our assorted educational programs. We love to welcome students to programs here at the museum and we are also happy to travel to your classroom. Native New York (Best suited for 4th and 7th… Read more »
Race Results! Overall Race Results By Age Groups Many thanks to all of our runners, volunteers, staff and sponsors!
Enjoying a sunny summer day at Brown’s Beach in Stillwater today, it is almost possible to imagine oneself in this 100-year old postcard. Remove powerboats, jet skis, and parking lots, and add reams of fabric to your bathing suit, and you’re there!
There is no more beautiful thoroughbred racetrack in America than our own. For more than 150 years, Pink Sheet readers, odds makers, and “favorite-namers” (“Banbury! I live on that street!”) join the roar as each “sure bet” rounds the final turn. Most bets are lost, but fun memories live on!
Brookside Ambassadors Brookside is looking for a few friendly volunteers to staff our new front desk! Brookside Ambassadors are the public face of the museum. They will greet visitors, handle museum store sales, assist with clerical tasks and help keep the public areas of the museum tidy. Interested volunteers would need to be able to commit to 2 three hour shifts per… Read more »
Marjorie Roberts & Lucy Stever walk in Troy, NY on December 9, 1930. (Photograph from the Lucy Stever Collection).
Below is a view of the Elmwood Farm House’s Side Porch. The woman standing on stoop is noted as ”K.S.” who was photographed on December 27, 1933. Get ready for the snow, everyone!
In 1912, Jessey Sumner Wooley shot the Ballston Spa Winter Club’s toboggan slide on a bare winter day. Get prepared for the snow, it’s coming soon!
Enjoy the warmth while it lasts, soon the snow will be back! This black and white snapshot shows Katherine and Abba Newton as babies in a snow carriage in 1908. This photograph is from the Booth Family Album.
Anyone witness that short snow squall this morning? What a sudden mini blizzard! Thankfully it didn’t last long, or Ballston Spa might look like it did in this image, way back when. Winter officially begins in just 4 more days!
