The Rensselaer Land Trust is sponsoring a Wild Flower Walk with Tom Phillips at the Bear’s Den Preserve in Cherry Plain on Saturday, May 24, from 10 am to 1 pm. Enjoy both well known and less common spring wildflowers. We’ll also hike to a rock shelter cave. Tom Phillips, a well versed botanist, will help us find and identify the area’s wide variety of flowers. There will be only a couple of miles of walking but with one steep hill. Register in advance; space is limited. Contact Francille Egbert at 518-674-3214 or fran.egbert@gmail.com. The cost is $5, free for RLT members.
Great Strides Walk At GLSP
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will be holding its annual Great Strides Walk at Grafton Lakes State Park on Sunday, May 18, at 12 noon, registration begins at 11 am. The Kempf Family will be walking in honor of their son Mathew on the team “Miles 4 Mathew.” Call 518-573-9790 for more information. Please come out and support the walk or consider making a donation. Checks made out to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation can be mailed to 26 Snow Street, Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090.
Insect Day At The Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center
The Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center is offering an Insect Program on May 25 from 1 to 3 pm. This program for all ages will take you throughout the fields and forests of Dyken Pond Center in search of interesting insects. We will also make bug hotels for your gardens at home. A $1 suggested donation is asked to cover the cost of materials. A complete list of programs can be found at www.dykenpond.org. Pre-registration is encouraged to help with planning, but not required and can be done by contacting the Center at dykenpond@fairpoint.net or 658-2055.
Lisa Ann Barnhart
Hoosick Falls – Lisa Ann Barnhart, 51, daughter of Linda (Siemens) McClellan and the late Bernard L. Barnhart, Jr. was born in North Adams, MA, on December 28, 1962. She passed away at home at Pathfinder Village, Edmeston, NY, on May 13, 2014, surrounded by her family, following a long illness.
Lisa received her education in Shaftsbury, VT, and Bennington, VT, and began her working career at the Ramada Inn in Bennington prior to moving from her home in Hoosick Falls, NY, to Edmeston in 1991. She worked in Oneonta, NY, while living in the very special community of Pathfinder Village, Edmeston.
Lisa was an avid sportswoman and enjoyed many sporting achievements through her participation in Vermont and New York Special Olympics at local, national and international levels winning many medals for track and field, swimming and cross country skiing. Lisa enjoyed bowling, music, dancing, motorcycle rides, travel, celebrations with her family and her many friends.
In addition to her mother, Lisa is survived by her step-father, Harold McClellan of Hoosick Falls, her sister, April Maxwell and partner Stuart Murdoch of England, her nieces, Brittany DeWitt and partner Daniel Boyland of Hoosick Falls and Lydia Maxwell of England, her great-nephew, Nathaniel Boyland of Hoosick Falls, her aunts, Marion Cipperly and Wilma Gutermuth of Hoosick Falls, and several wonderful cousins from across the United States. Lisa is pre-deceased by her step-father, R. Gordon Russell, who held a very special place in her heart for the love and care he provided.
Funeral services will be Saturday, May 17, at 11 am from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Main Street in Hoosick Falls. Burial will follow the service at the Hoosick Rural Cemetery, Hoosick, NY. A reception will follow committal services at St. Mark’s Church Hall.
Relatives and friends may call at the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street, Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090, on Friday, May 16, from 4 to 7 pm. Memorial contributions may be made to either the Pathfinder Village Incorporated or the Bennington Area Special Olympics through the funeral home.
Special thanks to the loving staff at Pathfinder Village who took such great care of Lisa in her time of need, especially Jamie Miner, Robin and Sherry.
Lillian Ruth Brandi
LaGrange – Lillian Ruth Brandi, 91, passed away on Monday, May 12, 2014, in LaGrange, Kentucky. Devoted wife of the late Joseph Brandi and loving mother of her children, Jay Brandi and wife Mary Ellen, Terry Brandi and wife Terry and Kathleen Francis and husband Bill, she lived a full and satisfying life.
Lillian was born in Bennington, VT. on March 5, 1923, to Jon and Alta Docherty. She was their youngest child and was preceded in death by her brother, Paul Docherty, and sisters, Edna Stanley and Opal Lindsay.
Lillian was a talented artist working both in canvas and ceramics with a special talent for dogs and landscapes. For many years she raised and trained and showed dogs, with her entries winning many events, including Best of Breeds at the famed Westminster Kennel Club show in New York, NY. She served for many years as officer for her local Kennel Club in New Jersey. In addition to painting and working with her dogs, she loved bowling and playing bocce, especially with her husband Joseph. Lillian is survived by her children, 16 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.
Lillian’s family would like to thank the kind women at The Cottages of LaGrange where she was cared for so lovingly in her last days.
Visitation was at Heady-Radcliffe Funeral Home in LaGrange on Thursday, May 15, from 4 to 8 pm with a Memorial Service at 6 pm. There was also a Mass of Remembrance at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY, on Friday, May 16, at 9:30 am. A World War II veteran of the U.S. Navy Lillian will be interred next to her loving husband Joseph at the Veterans Cemetery at Fort Knox, KY, on Tuesday, May 20.
Online condolences can be made at www.heady-radcliffefuneralhome.com.
The Life Of George Holcomb – Military Training Season
Saturday, August 20, 1831: This morning I took the single wagon and carried Mother Holcomb and my wife over to I Newton’s on a visit and at night I went after them. On this evening my hired girl Fanny Roberts rode my bay mare home on a visit.
Wednesday: Today I had Platt Wylie’s single wagon and rode to Canaan to what is called Whiting’s Pond and took dinner with Munson. I then tried to bargain for a chance to peddle to camp meeting but I did not find a place. This morning my wife was going to Canaan with me, she got ready but she was taken unwell. I fetched up old Mrs. Morey, she told her her journey was too hard.
Wednesday, September 7: Today I went to Williamstown to commencement peddling. I cleared six dol and twenty five cts and John Dean went with me and peddled to the halves. He got for me one dol and ten cts and Sylvester went with me and he got for me one dol and seven cts. I Newton went with me but he peddled for himself.
Thursday: I took the covered wagon and carried my wife and daughter Charlotte and hired girl Martha Kittle to camp meeting to Canaan on the bank of Whiting’s Pond. I paid six cts for cake.
Friday: We gathered apples. On this evening I put up apples into bags for market.
Saturday I went to Pittsfield with apples and two small kegs of cider. I got four dol and 50 cts.
Sunday: Today I took the covered wagon and carried my wife and two daughters Charlotte and Angeline and cousin Aseneth Newton and my two hired girls Fanny Roberts & Martha Kittle to Camp meeting to Canaan at the before-mentioned place.
Friday, September 16: This evening I rode over to Doc Elijah Graves and he gave me a certificate to clear me from Military duty, and I carried it to Capt. Johnson Brown and he signed it.
Saturday: We gathered apples and I made cider, and said John Dean helped which pays up for his rent. I Newton helped and I am to let him have cider to peddle and carry him to training.
Sunday: This evening at nine I started for old Hoosic.
Monday: This morning I got to Hoosic Four Corners where I continued through the day peddling to training. Asa Sheldon went with me and peddled to the halves, and I carried John Dean and a barrel of cider for him that he agrees to give me one dol for and I carried I Newton and two kegs cider for him. Tonight we came on towards home and stayed on the river near the narrows to one Gary Forks. I paid 25 cts for my horse keeping and lodging.
Tuesday we came on to Petersburgh and their training was again we peddled tonight we came home by eleven o’clock, and I found that I had got seventeen dols for the two days works.
Wednesday I went to training in our own town to S. Cranston’s. I made about four dols and John Dean peddled on shares, I got ninety cts for my share.
The Medicinal Blue Cohosh And The Love Tree
Love Your Village Spring Clean Up Shows Community Spirit In Hoosick Falls
submitted by Deb Alter
HAYC3 and the Village of Hoosick Falls would like to thank everyone who pitched in to make Love Your Village Spring Clean Up Day this past Saturday another huge success.
It was pretty cold for a May day, and drizzly off-and-on, but about 200 volunteers came out anyway to help spruce up the Village. They got 50 Church Street, the Kid’s Community Garden, ready for planting, cleaned up and weeded in Wood Park and at The Wood Block, around our churches and more. They also helped out some of our senior residents.
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Solar Panels Start Going Up At The Petersburgh Town Hall
The Patriot Flight Is This Saturday
submitted by Tyler Sawyer
The Patriot Flight, Inc. is a local organization that flies local WW II and Korean War Veterans free of charge to visit the respective war memorials in Washington, D.C. The cost for the Guardians who accompany the Veterans is covered by the Guardians themselves. The cost is $350 per Guardian. The flight departs the Albany Airport this coming Saturday, May 10. There will be over 50 Veterans on the flight.