Join us for our next meeting of the Brookside Explorers Club, a new history and learning club for kids! This meeting of the Brookside Explores Club will be held on Saturday, August 23, from 10AM-12PM. History Scouts will travel back in time and learn what school was like long ago. Through a pop-up exhibit, storytime, learning activities, crafts, and play,… Read more »
Join us for the Three Sisters Festival, a celebration of Native American culture that will be held at Brookside Museum, 21 Fairground Ave. Ballston Spa, on Sunday, August 17, from 2-4pm. Our guest is Dr. Joseph Bruchac the Saratoga Springs’ Poet Laureate, a storyteller and writer of short stories and novels with a focus on northeastern Native American lives and… Read more »
Our Education Department is excited to be joining the Turning Point festival this year at the Champlain Canal Region Gateway Visitors Center for Native New York. On Wednesday August 6th from 11A.M. to 2P.M. Families are invited to stop in for a hands-on and self-paced exploration of Saratoga County’s earliest inhabitants, the Haudenosaunee people. Participants can try a hand at… Read more »
On Friday August 8th from 11A.M. to 2 P.M. the Education Department here at the Saratoga County History Center will be joining the Turning Point festival this year at the Champlain Canal Region Gateway Visitors Center for Saratoga County Water Works. Families are invited to examine how water was, and continues to be an important natural resource in Saratoga County… Read more »
The Saratoga County History Center at Brookside Museum has issued a call for nominations for its fourth annual Saratoga County Public History Award. Each year the SCHC confers the award on two individuals who have made a significant contribution in preserving, interpreting, researching, publishing, promoting or otherwise extending knowledge and understanding of the history of Saratoga County. Isobel Connell, President… Read more »
The Saratoga County History Center (SCHC) at Brookside Museum announces a presentation by Yale historian and Middlebury College teacher, Connor Williams, on Anne Hampton Northup, the wife of the famed Solomon Northup, entitled “12 Years a Widow: Finding the Footsteps of Anne Hampton Northup”. This will take place at 7pm on Thursday, July 24th at Brookside Museum in Ballston Spa…. Read more »
Join us for our next meeting of the Brookside Explorers Club, a new history and learning club for kids! Artwork from the “Artists Inspired by Their Community” program, an exciting collaboration with Ballston Spa Middle School, will be displayed in the History Hunters Hangout from July-September. In tandem with the display on Saturday July 19, anytime from 10A.M. to Noon,… Read more »
The Saratoga County History Center at Brookside Museum has issued a call for nominations for its fourth annual Saratoga County Public History Award. Each year the SCHC confers the award on two individuals who have made a significant contribution in preserving, interpreting, researching, publishing, promoting or otherwise extending knowledge and understanding of the history of Saratoga County. Isobel Connell, President… Read more »
The Saratoga County History Center at Brookside Museum invites you to join us for a presentation on the Language of Victorian Flowers. The event will be held on July 20th from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M. at Brookside Museum. Dr. Catherine J. Golden will lead the presentation and discuss the intricate and fascinating custom of communicating through flowers that flourished in… Read more »
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 »
