Hoosick Falls

Any local Hoosick Falls girl in grades 1 through 6 in September are able to attend the Hoosick Falls Girl Scout Day Camp held August 5-9 at the Hoosac School Sports Center. Mystery Detectives is the theme this year. Crafts, games, hikes and singing are among the fun activities girls will experience. Camp hours are 9am to 3 pm, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. On Thursday a themed dinner is held for all campers with pick up at 6 pm. Girls in grades 4, 5 or 6 will enjoy an overnight camp out in the open fields, weather permitting. This day camp operates under Rensselaer County Health Dept. guidelines.
The cost is $50 per girl for the week. Registrations may be picked up at and returned to 63 Wilder Avenue, Hoosick Falls. Call Marion at 686-4576 with any questions.
All completed registrations are due by July 30 with payment.

The North Hoosick Fire Department will be holding its Ninth Annual kids pool dance at the Town of Hoosick community pool on Barton Avenue in Hoosick Falls on Friday, July 12. Students ages 9 to 15 in the area schools are invited to attend the festivities which will begin at 7 pm. Students will be able to swim until dark and then dance to music until 10 pm. Tickets for the dance can be purchased at the door on the day of the event. A rain date of Saturday, July 13, has been set in case of inclement weather. Parents must sign their child out after the dance.

Meet the painter Alessandro Keegan and Hoosick Falls Artists Guild artists and view their work at the Opening Reception on Friday, July 12, from 6 to 8 pm downstairs at The Armory, 80 Church Street, Hoosick Falls. Music will be performed by The Brewsters in The Owls Nest at 7 pm.
The 120Gallery90 is showing recent landscape paintings by emerging New York artist Alessandro Keegan in Gallery90 and an exhibit called “Seeing Through,” works on beveled glass panes, by Hoosick Artist Guild artists in 120Gallery. This exhibition, the Gallery’s fourth, will run from July 12 to August 9.

Michael Shaara wrote The Killer Angels, a novel that some consider the best fictional account of the Battle of Gettysburg ever written. How did Shaara become so interested in this battle and why did he write this novel? What books and historical events influenced him? Come to the Cheney Library in Hoosick Falls on Tuesday, July 9, at 7 pm to find out. Local Civil War historian and former Hoosick Falls Central School teacher, Michael Russert, will examine Shaara’s troubled life and his approach to teaching and writing. The program will also explore the differences between the actual battle and Shaara’s fictional treatment of the people and events that were part of the Battle of Gettysburg. The program is being offered as part of the Friends of the Cheney Library Love Your Library Series.
Although they were present, but not treated in Shaara’s book, the role of the local Civil War regiment, the 125th New York Volunteer Infantry and their involvement in the Battle of Gettysburg will be discussed. The evening will be both entertaining and informative.
Russert has a Master’s Degree plus sixty hours in Nineteenth Century American Studies. He is a member of the Company of Military Historians, a book reviewer on the staff of The Civil War News and has served as Coordinator of the New York State Veteran Oral History Program.

The Cheney Library in Hoosick Falls is sponsoring their First Saturday Book Sale on July 6 from 8 am to 1 pm. Stock up for Summer Reading. All books, both hardcover and paperbacks, are four for $1. There is a large selection of non-fiction and fiction for both adults and children. So come and take advantage of this great sale.
The Cheney Library is located on Classic Street, NY 22, in the Village of Hoosick Falls. We are open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 1 – 8 pm, Tuesday 10 am – 5 pm, Friday 11 am – 4 pm and Saturday 8 am – 1 pm.

The North Hoosick Fire Department will hold the last regular kids dance of its 15th season on Friday, June 28, from 7 to 10 pm at the fire station on Rt. 22. Students ages 9 to 15 and who attend the locals schools are invited. The admission fee for attending the last dance is only one dollar.
At this dance, one of the students will become the 55,000th student to attend the firehouse kids dances since they began back in December of 1998.
Pool Dance
The final dance of the school year will be the annual pool dance at the Town of Hoosick community pool in Hoosick Falls on Friday, July 12. Tickets for the pool dance can be purchased at the regular dance this Friday. The Department would like to thank the students and parents for making our 15th season a success. Dances will resume on Friday, September 6.

120Gallery90 at The Armory in Hoosick Falls is pleased to announce its fourth exhibition, which will run July 12 to August 9. The Gallery is excited to be showing recent landscape paintings by emerging New York artist Alessandro Keegan in Gallery90 and an exhibit called “Seeing Through,” works on beveled glass panes, by Hoosick Artist Guild artists in 120Gallery. Each of the first three shows in this exciting art space has been very successful, and this one should prove to be also.
Opening Reception July 12
Everyone is invited to meet the artists and view the work at the Opening Reception on Friday, July 12, from 6 to 8 pm. Music will be performed by The Brewsters. 120Gallery90 is downstairs at The Armory, 80 Church Street, Hoosick Falls.
Alessandro Keegan is a painter, writer and independent curator living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and has exhibited his work in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other cities throughout the country. Most recently, his work has appeared in the journal Helvete (Punctum Books), and as the album cover for “Sinews” (Load Records) by the New York based band, White Suns.
Writing about the work in this exhibit, Keegan says, “The spaces that I paint may seem to have a familiar relationship with the world, but they are made entirely from imagination and memory.” Stylistically influenced by late nineteenth century and early twentieth century modernism, his paintings hang in the blurred boundary between representation and abstraction. Light, line, form and mystery pull the viewer into the spaces the artist has created on his canvasses. Keegan’s images are evocative and strangely familiar, suggesting a larger picture that the viewer must complete in his or her mind. They are a visible manifestation of the artist’s inner psyche, a window into something seemingly inaccessible: the natural and fantastic spaces that lay hidden within each of us. The viewer must bring his/her own associations to the work. Critics have called his work “simply transporting.”
The exhibition in 120Gallery is a collection of works on antique beveled glass panes. Local artists were challenged to interpret and explore both the different meanings of the theme, “Seeing Through,” as well as the process and effects of working with, or on, a glass surface. The results are remarkable and varied.
The Brewsters, Hoosick Falls’ very own von Trapp family, will be performing in The Owls Nest at 7 pm on July 12. Husband and wife, Mike and Cindy, and their sons Mike, Matthew and Levi, will entertain with popular songs.