There will be a special feature, from 7 to 9 pm on June 14, at the Music and Art Café in the Petersburgh Veterans Memorial Community Center. CarolLynn Langley will sing and play traditional and original music on mountain dulcimer, accompanied by her husband, Gene, on autoharp. They will bring several mountain dulcimers, assembled from kits, for the audience to try playing, and they will explain the assembly process as well.
If you are interested in learning to play and in building one of these dulcimers, a medium-sized stringed instrument held in the lap, you can sign up for an upcoming 3 to 4 session workshop. The workshop can be a family activity, since no experience is necessary and anyone from fourth grade through adult can participate.
Stay tuned for workshop details – dates, times, etc. Meanwhile, come join us for the performance on Friday, June 14, at 71 Main Street (Rt. 2) at the Petersburgh Veterans Memorial Community Center. Admission costs $5 for adults and $8 for couples. Kids under 18 enter free, courtesy of the Stewart’s Holiday Match Grant. For more information, call Jeanne at 518-658-3953.
Rev Tor Performs At New Lebanon Library
Berkshire musician Tor Krautter will perform at the New Lebanon Library on Thursday, June 13, at 6:30 pm. With the use of a looping unit, Rev Tor creates tasty yet infectious grooves and performs a large repertoire of well crafted original tunes and classic rock/folk covers.
Krautter (aka Rev Tor) is best known as front man for the popular Rev Tor Band. Since the early 90s he has been a powerful presence on the east coast club and festival circuit, performing in venues from Maine to Florida. Rev Tor has worked with members of The Grateful Dead, Phish, The Allman Brothers and New Riders of the Purple Sage and has performed at concerts with The Jerry Garcia Band, Los Lobos and Leon Russell. He has toured regularly with Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten.
This event is free and open to the public. For further information, please call the Library at 518-794-8844. The Library is located at 550 State Route 20, ¼ mile north of the yellow blinking light at the intersection of Routes 20 and 22.
Cheney Library Events
On June 8 Pam Fricke will present a scrap-booking workshop at the Library at 10 am. Please register for this program and make a payment of $5 so that we have enough material for everyone.
On July 9 Michael Russert will be at the Library at 7 pm to talk about the Battle of Gettysburg and the involvement of Hoosick Falls in the Civil War. Michael is a former elementary teacher at Hoosick Falls Central School who has studied the Civil War in depth. Be sure to join us for his talk.
Cheney Library is open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 1 – 8 pm, Tuesday 10 am – 5 pm, Friday 11 am – 4 pm and Saturday 8 am – 1 pm. Our phone number is 686-9401.
HAYC3 Texas Hold’em Tournament
Shuffle up and deal! Join us at the Hoosick Falls Armory for the Texas Hold’em Tournament on Friday, June 7. Texas Hold’em is every first Friday of the month at the HAYC3 Armory. The doors for the Tournament open at 6 pm, and play starts at 6:30. The buy-in is $35.
Whether you are new to the game or not, come and have a great time! The Armory is located at 80 Church Street, Hoosick Falls.
For further information, visit the website HAYC3.org or contact HAYC3 at 518-686-9050.
Hoosick Has Talent
No doubt there is plenty of talent in the Hoosick area. Often there is nowhere to exhibit that talent. You are invited to bring your best voice, instrument, comedy, poetry, art or skits to the Immaculate Conception Church dining hall, 67 Main Street, Hoosick Falls, on June 7, from 6 to 9 pm.
Talent can’t shine without an audience, so bring friends and family along to enjoy a great night out and enjoy some laughs and good wholesome fun. There is no charge for this event, and there will also be free raffle prizes.
Sullivan-Jones VFW Monthly Breakfast
The Sullivan-Jones VFW Post 7466 will be holding its monthly buffet breakfast on Sunday, June 9, from 8 to 11 am in Poestenkill. Breakfast includes eggs, home fries, sausage, pancakes, French toast sticks, fruit, toast, juice, tea, coffee and milk.
The cost for adults is $7, $3 for children 6 to 12 years old and free for children 5 years and under. Please come and enjoy!
Freihofer Runner Visits HFCS
by Bea Peterson
“Find something you really love and do it well,” Freihofer runner Libby James told the audience of Hoosick Falls Central School students in grades three through six gathered in the elementary cafeteria Friday morning, May 31. James is from Colorado, and, for the second year in a row, she was invited to participate in the Freihofer’s Run for Women on Saturday, June 1.
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Scholarships For Children’s Nature Camp
The Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center announces that scholarships are available for children aged 6 through 9 to attend a one week nature camp. The “Summer Outdoor Learning Adventure” is held from 9 am until 3 pm, with after care hours available. Children spend the entire day outdoors learning about nature and having fun. Each day is spent hiking, exploring and discovering things about the natural world around us. The scholarship covers the full cost of the one week session. Paid registrations are also still being accepted. Please visit our website at www.dykenpond.org or contact the Center at dykenpond@fairpoint.net or 518-658-2055 for an application and more information.
The Life Of George Holcomb – A Death From A Wagon Accident
Thursday October 25, 1827: Today my wife took the wagon and rode to Hancock to Rodman Hazard’s. On this day cold and some snowy. This morning Mr. Wm Haskett went to Lebanon to shoemaking and took the leather to make Samuel a pair of shoes and mend mine towards his board and we reckoned for his board up to now, which was three dol and reckoned with his wife for her work up to now, which was ten weeks work for spinning, washing, and milking at 62 cts per week excepting one week’s pay in apples at eight cts per bushel that week. She dried apples for us that she has her pay in apples and the rest of the time she washes one day in a week and milks for her board.
Sunday: Today I took the single wagon and carried my wife and sister Eleanor to Elder Jones meeting house to the funeral of old Mr. Jeremiah Landon and said Jones preached. On the way home we were stopped at Calvin Carpenter’s to see the sight of Benj Carpenter’s son Henry that was hurt by a horse running away and turning the wagon over. He was badly jammed.
Thursday, November 1: This morning I told Mr. John Russel that I had a pile of wood to the school house and that wood I should not make use of there as he was going to work round said school house. I told him not to meddle with it nor let no one else, but as near as I can find out he and others cut up my wood and put it into said school house and put a lock on the door, all this for what purpose I know not.
Wednesday, November 7: Today quite stormy, snow and rain. This morning Henry Carpenter died with the wound from falling from the wagon on Sunday the 28th of last month. Said boy had his skull broken in and Doctor Batcheler trapanned him. He was wounded mortally otherwheres about the head.
Thursday: Today I took the single wagon and carried my wife and Mother Holcomb and Miriam Newton to the funeral of Henry Carpenter, the son of Benj Carpenter. A sermon was preached by Elder Jones at the Seventh Day meeting house.
Friday: I carried my children to school and I chopped and knocked up old wood in my wood on the hill, and I took on a load onto my horse sled and broke down in the woods, and I took off the horses and came home. This evening, tonight my son George P was quite restless with a stoppage on the lung.
Saturday: I began to help brother Wm kill hogs, but I was called home and went after Doctor Graves. Tonight I sat up with my son George Pease, he continued quite sick, a stoppage in the stomach.
Sunday: Tonight my son quite restless, I went to Doctor Graves and I got more medicine, for he continues distressed at the stomach.
Monday, November 16: Today I carried my children to school and we laid up rail fence round the orchard and turned our swine into said orchard and we took Wm’s ox team and got down the broken sled and two loads of wood, and at night I took the wagon and rode over to Doctor Graves’ and got more medicine for my child, but we did not give it tonight, for the child was a little better.