On September 17 and October 22, from 9 am to 12:30 pm there will be a workshop on Planning For The Future Of Your Woodlands. The workshop will be held at the Petersburgh Veterans Memorial Community Center, 71 Main Street in Petersburgh.
This workshop will explore Succession Planning – the human side of estate planning. It will focus on maintaining family ties to the land from generation to generation, on building awareness of the key challenges facing family businesses and on motivating families to address these challenges.
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Old Chatham Union Cemetery Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Old Chatham Union Cemetery Corporation will be held on Saturday, September 17, at 2 pm in the Vedder Hall of the Malden Bridge Community Center located at 1087 Albany Turnpike in Malden Bridge.
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Civil War Sesquicentennial Dinner In Sand Lake
A Civil War Sesquicentennial Dinner co-sponsored by the Town of Sand Lake Bicentennial Planning Committee and the Sand Lake Historical Society will be held Saturday, September 17, at the Church of the Covenant. The buffet dinner has been generously donated. [Read more…] about Civil War Sesquicentennial Dinner In Sand Lake
SYC Community Day Float
The SYC Summer Program will be designing and decorating a float for the Community Day/Muster Parade. Join us on Friday, September 16, at 5 pm at the Stephentown Town Garage to decorate the float and have fun. Stay for a pizza party; adults and children needed. Please RSVP to stephentownyouth@aol.com by September 13.
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Katherine Stevenson Graduates From Cedar Crest College
Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA, held commencement exercises for approximately 430 Bachelor’s and Master’s degree recipients on May 14. Graduates included students from the traditional women’s college as well as men and women from the School of Adult and Graduate Education. Katherine E. Stevenson of Hoosick Falls graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education.
Labor Day at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village – Last Day to Visit
Mount Lebanon Shaker Village closes for the season on Labor Day, September 5. This is the last weekend to visit. Village hours are 11 am to 4 pm Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Free guided tours will be offered at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm each day and leave from the North Family Granary. Visitors will learn the history of the Shakers at Mount Lebanon and what the Museum is doing to restore the North Family.
The complete schedule of these tours and other Museum events and programs can be found at www.shakermuseumandlibrary.org.
Stephentown Library – Museum Pass Program
Did you know that your library card is the key to free admission at local area museums? Use your Stephentown Memorial Library card to check out a pass to the following local museums: The Berkshire Museum, Hancock Shaker Village, Norman Rockwell Museum, MASS MoCA and The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. [Read more…] about Stephentown Library – Museum Pass Program
Learn To Clog
Come, have fun and learn clogging with the Hill Country Cloggers of Hoosick beginning Tuesday, September 20, at 7 pm at the Hoosick Falls Central School, Route 22, Hoosick Falls, or at the Brittonkill Central School in Brunswick. For more information, call Margaret Pine at 686-7769.
Texas Hold’em In Stephentown
The Veterans of Stephentown will hold a Texas Hold’em Tournament on Saturday, September 10, in the Stephentown Fire Hall, located on Grange Hall Road in Stephentown. The doors will open at 5 pm and close at 6 pm. Play begins at 6:15 sharp.
A free buffet will be served at the first break.
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The Civil War – Letters From A Stephentown Navy Man – Fort Pulaski
compiled by David Flint
During the Civil War, Stephentown resident Charles F. Chapel was a Landsman, a seaman recruit, aboard the USS Wabash, Flagship of Admiral Samuel F. du Pont, Commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
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