Friday, July 16, 2010

Malone Skating Rink

From the 1868 Malone City Directory:


From the collection of the Franklin County Historical & Museum Society

From Seaver (1918), page 435:
"In 1867 and for a few years immediately following ice skating was as much a craze as roller skating became forty years later.  An ice rink was built on Catherine street in 1867 by Jerome and Russell Wentworth, Benj. Webster and L.R. Townsend, and did a great business."

Friday, July 9, 2010

More Malone Businesses

From the collection of the Franklin County Historical & Museum Society:
Malone, NY business receipts






Thursday, July 8, 2010

Hotel reservation, 1886-style

From the collection of the Franklin County Historical & Museum Society:


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History Events

Please take note of these upcoming local history events in Franklin County:

Who Were the Fenians?  and why did they want to invade Canada?  Constable town historian Martha Gardner and renowned Chateauguay, Quebec writer/historian Robert McGee will compare facts and shrae stoires of this international crisis in its 140th anniversary year.  Constable Adult Center, July 12 at 7pm.   The public is invited.  Contact Elaine Clary at 518-483-2461 for more information.
Historical Photo Exhibit of Chateaugay Lakes, including views of the old hotels, boats and areas of interest, as well as local memorabilia.  July and August, Chateaugay Memorial Library, Mon.&Wed. 9am-6pm, Tues 9am-1pm and Sat. 9am-noon.
17th Annual Brighton History Days, Saturday and Sunday, July 21 and August 1, 1-5pm at the historic barn at Tucker Farms, 112 Hobart Rd., Gabriels, NY (1/2 mile from Rt. 86, west on Hobart Rd).  History Days activities include history and family exhibits and wagon tours of Tucker Farm. Food is available for purchase to benefit the Paul Smiths-Gabriels Volunteer Fire Department.  History days are free of charge; corn maze at same location is $6 ages 4-12, $8 adults, free under age 4.   Persons wanting to contribute pictures or stories of life in Brighton, please contact Mary Ellen Salls at 518-327-3509 or Pat & Tom Willis at 518-327-3433.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Malone Businesses

From the collection of the Franklin County Historical & Museum Society:
Receipts from businesses in Malone, NY in 1886-7

Looks like someone used the old sales slips!





Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Howard House Menu

From the collection of the Franklin County Historical & Museum Society:

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Dinner menu from the Howard House, Malone, NY
March 25, 1887

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Captain Brown’s Birthday Party



Join Historian Amy Godine for a lecture about John Brown on Sunday, July 11 at 4:00pm at the Adirondack History Center Museum. From 1922 into the 1960s, black pilgrims from northern cities joined ranks with white Adirondackers to honor the May 9 birthday of militant abolitionist John Brown. With speeches, concerts, sermons and prayers, the birthday commemorations earned Lake Placid a reputation as an oasis of interracial tranquility in the age of Jim Crow. How was each group able to find common cause in John Brown? How did each group use the other to promote its own agenda? And whose version of John Brown prevails at his home and gravesite in North Elba, a state-managed historic site since 1897? Come hear Amy Godine answer these questions and examine the struggle it both enabled and concealed over John Brown's public image and the meaning of freedom itself.

$5 Museum members, $8 Non-members. The Adirondack History Center Museum is located at 7590 Court Street, Elizabethtown, NY 12932. Reservations are recommended. Call 518-873-6466.