The Corinthian Jul/August/Septemer 2010

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October 12, 2010 Greece Town Hall 7:00 p.m.

Trunks and Travel... a 19th Century Journey

A lecture by Mary Jeanne BialasExperience the sights and sounds of travel in New

York State during the 1800s! Whether traveling by rail,canal or road, there’s no such thing as packing lightly

for a wealthy Victorian. This multi-media program

brings the audience into the life of a Victorian

industrialist and his wife as they prepare to travel (1870-1900). Transportation methods, etiquette and rules of the road, proper attire,

social expectations, and hardships and joys become the main focus.

Sponsored by Speakers in the Humanities, a program of the New York Council for the Humanities.

S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 0 P r o g r a m

Program Events 1

Museum Exhibits 2

Museum Happenings 5,7

Greece History 6

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October 2010 Program

In every issue: Points of Interest:

President’s Message 2

Director’s Message 3

Museum Shop 4

Contact Us 8

Tuesday, Sept 14, 2010 Greece Town Hall 7:00 p.m.

Hamlin's CCC & POW Camp

with Ed Evans

Established in 1942 as a Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC) camp and later housing migrant farm workers

and finally used as a POW camp during World War

II, the Hamlin camp closed in 1946 and the buildings

were destroyed. Ed and his volunteer crew have exca-vated the site and will share with us the story of the

CCC and the camp he re-discovered 70 years after its

closing.

Ed Evans is a retired teacher, a historian and an advocate who conducts tours, gives

lectures, distributes history DVD's and organizes volunteer work crews.



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"President's Message"

It's midsummer now and most of our activities are over for the sea-son. Our eight monthly programs forthe 2009-2010 season had a total of 825 guests. The "word" is certainly getting out that we have some excel-lent and enlightening educationalprograms.

I hope everyone enjoyed our strawberry & desserttasting festival on June 21st. Great desserts, great enter-tainment, great volunteers, door prizes, music, activitiesfor the kids and truly great weather made this our mostsuccessful strawberry festival ever. Nearly 500 peopleenjoyed the afternoon and our first ever dessert tastingevent. I want to take this opportunity to thank all thevolunteers and vendors who helped. We could not havehad such a successful event without all the generoushelp.

For the upcoming season our museum curatorialcommittee has been busy setting up and planning many new exhibits. (See Museum Exhibits, column 2.)

In the past few months we had the pleasure of twocollege students help us. Kirstin Rose, a junior at Lycom-ing College majoring in Archaeology of the AncientNear East and History, has assisted the education com-mittee. Stephanie Bench, a grad student at SUNY Brock-port finishing her Masters of Public Administration,wrote a Management Analysis Report for our organiza-tion.

Our gardens are looking beautiful again thanks to allthe hard work by our local garden clubs. We value yoursupport at the Garden Clubs Plant Sale this past May.

We always need volunteers. If you have the time,and/or talent please give us a call. Work needs to bedone on the back porch and our garden benches needto be re-finished. New docents are always welcome andwe need a treasurer.

MANY THANKS to Phyllis Brown, Bill Coe, Alan Muel-ler and Lucia McEntee for their time they spent on ourBoard of Trustees. Their presence on the board will bemissed but I am sure they will continue offering theirtime and talents to the Greece Historical Society.

Bill Sauers

**Museum Exhibits**

A display honoring Gordon Howe’s years of public service and accomplishments as GreeceTown Supervisor is now open at the GreeceHistorical Society home, formerly the “HoweHouse”.

Our new “Fun at the Beach” display featuring

bathing suits of the past is opening in August.

Watch for our sewing exhibit in September. If you have any interesting sewing machines or accessories you would like to loan us for this exhibi

please call 225-3760.

“Doll and Teddy Bear Appraisals” Doll appraiser, Helene Marlowe, will be here onSunday, Aug. 22nd, 2-5pm. She will be appraising dolls, paper dolls andteddy bears. The fee is $4.00

per item, limit 3 items per per-son. Bring your beloved dollsto this popular event. Whilewaiting to be called by num-ber, you will be able to visit ourMuseum Shop or our newestMuseum exhibits.

Vi White, Curator

Docents: All docents are invited to a meeting onTuesday, August 17th at 9:30 a.m. at which time w

will hand out new docent booklets.

THE NOTIONS OF SEWING

SPECIAL EXHIBIT

Dubbed "The Queen of Inventions" by Gody'smagazine in 1860, the sewing machine offered

women a relief from the countless hoursand tedium of hand sewing.

See a collection of sewingmachines and accessoriesfrom the 1860's to presenday at our "Notions ofSewing" exhibit fromSeptember 12th throughOctober 3rd.



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Perfect summer weather and desserts tastings from seven local businesses brought our Strawberry/DessertFestival a lively, friendly crowd of almost 500 people. There was fun, food, and entertainment for all ages.

Our loyal volunteers spent months of planning and hours working on site. Sixteen volunteers prepared andserved over 400 delicious strawberry shortcakes. Lakeview Garden Club staffed the beverage

booth and Barton's Parkside Hots of Spencerport cooked to satisfy hungry customers. Loyalmember Edith Crawford held our annual Baked Food sale privately and donated over$200. “Sweet Sensations” is the new name of the festival with local chefs serving free tastingsof luscious desserts. Long Pond Family Restaurant served seven sheet cakes of their famous“Rainbow Cake” while Upstate Niagara Corporation provided refreshing samples of theirflavored milk drinks. The Legacy at Park Crescent served a tasty strawberry soup. The Villagesat Unity had chocolate rum pudding over a brownie with whipped cream on top! The IceCream Hut on English Road, and Sweet Dreams on Dewey Avenue also served their specialty desserts. Do you want another tasting next year? Let us know your thoughts.

The entertainment ranged from a great D.J. Paul Anken, to the Tuesday Celtic Band, to the karate demonstra-tion by Arikata Marshal Arts Studio (that had the audience clapping and cheering), to a busy kids tent for face

painting, balloons and more from Flyin' Brian & Miss Understood of Party Productions.

Museum and house tours with the surrounding gardens were an added attraction. The flowers were at thepeak of perfection and the five Greece Garden Clubs should be proud. Thanks to the talented Lakeview, Shore-wood, Woodside, Thyme in the Garden, and Lakeshore Garden Clubs for all their efforts.

If I have failed to name all the volunteers, it is due to lack of space. Pat yourselves on the back! Believe me, youwere needed and appreciated!

Lorraine Beane

“From the Desk of the Executive Director “

Please support our current business members and affiliates

We want to thank them for their support:

Hose 22 Firehouse Grill; Sarah R. Taylor; Wolfert-Butler Agency;

Long Pond Family Restaurant; Vay, Schleich and Meeson Funeral Home,

Brook House Restaurant; Greece Chamber of Commerce.

LIFE MEMBERS

Presently there are 30 life members. Thank you for your support.

See our photo page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/greecehistoricalsociety/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/greecehistoricalsociety/





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Museum Shop

Summer is a time for outdoor activity or just relaxing and read-ing a good book. We have many great books about our locale.Books about lighthouses, Lake Ontario, the Manitou trolley, mythsand ghosts, historic lakeside resorts, hiking, and even shipwrecksof the Great Lakes. You will find our own “Eight Miles Along theShore” now on sale.

We are offering many children’s books. Our latest, by SusanGately, is about three kittens adrift on Lake Ontario. The kids willlove it!

Need a gift? Stop in for a quick visit of browsing or to select thatspecial gift or book.

Wendy Peeck, Museum Shop Coordinator

Museum Shop hours: Sunday 2:00-4:30 pm

Officers & Board of Trustees

Newsletter “News”

If you have any questions, comments, or other important information for

the Corinthian, please email me at: [email protected] .

Thank you for your input.

Cyndie Shevlin, Editor This newsletter is published bi-monthly by the editor for the Greece Historical Society.

Please Remember

The Greece Historical Society in yourand estate planning. We are a non

profit organization supported by

your *gifts and endowments.

We sincerely appreciate

your donations.

*Tax deductable per (Section 501(c)(9) of th

Internal Revenue Code

WELCOME NEW DOCENTS

Congratulations to our newest volunteer Pam Lombardo who

responded last month. Welcome to the Museum!

We are looking for m ore people like you!

Docents show our guests the Museum. It is fun and interesting because

we meet so many great people who come through for tours. It is easy to

learn about the Museum and we will train you on how to docent. We

docent on Sundays from 2-4:30 p.m. You will be able to choose whichSunday each month works best for your schedule.

We are a fun group and the more docents we have, the more fun we

have! Earlier this year our volunteer docents had their annual Apprecia-

tion Luncheon at Adams Basin Inn. It was a wonderful time getting

together and being the “tourists”.

Call me now to join our group for just a few hours once a month. You’ll

be glad you called and you’ll be helping us, too.

Paula Koerner (227-5365)

President: Bill Sau

Vice President: Wendy Pe

Secretary: Sandy P

Treasurer: Jack Wallenho

ExecutiveDirector: Lorraine Bea

Honorary Trustee: Don Newco

Trustees: Sue Hod

Sandy Pe

Wendy Pe

Bill Sau

Cyndie Shev

Lee Stra

Jack Wallenho

Viola Wh

Roberta You

Marge Zer

Committee Chairs:

Grounds,Building NEED

Historian Office Alan Mue

Membership B Wallenho

Museum Viola Wh

Museum Shop Wendy Pe

Newsletter

Editor Cyndie Shev

Mailing Betty Fet

Office Tech Jack WallenhoPlanning NEED

Programs,Publicity Bill Sau

Tours Kathie Firk



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Look online at our

website,

greecehistoricalsociety.net

Tours and Education Committee

We are always looking for new people to join our committees. If you are interested please call the museum at 227221, leave your number and one of us will contact you as soon as possible.

Kathie Firkins , Education Committee

Events at the Greece Museum

DOROTHEA SCHOMMER AWARD TO MARY LEE STRAUSS

At our annual meeting and program presentation on May 11, 2010 Mary Lee Strauss was presented wiour first annual "Dorothea Schommer Volunteer of the YearAward". Dorothea, who passed away this past year, was a longtime dedicated volunteer. It was felt that an award in her name

would honor her commitment to the Greece Historical Society and be an inspiration to all our wonderful volunteers. Mary Leewas chosen as the first recipient of the this award because of hercontinued dedicated service to the Greece Historical Society. Sheis our bookkeeper, business manager and grant writer. She workswith the education and curatorial committees, and fills in as a do-cent when needed. She also initiated and continues to manage aprogram of photographing and digitizing our entire museum col-lection. We appreciate her dedication and inspiration and wouldtruly be lost without her.

Tours: The months of April, May and June were very busy with students (and many parents) from Pinebrook,Autumn Lane and the Greece Christian School. With the Town Hall no longer conducting tours, the teachers wevery impressed that we continue our tours. We had almost an hour which was wonderful - we were able to showthem almost all of the displays. The Greece Christian School students walked here on their last day, so they werevery excited. We were very happy to have been a part of their learning experience.We had a steady stream of visitors to the Museum during the Strawberry/Dessert Festival. I would like to thankRenee Sanger, Lucy Kraemer, Faye Cole and Jack Heller for their help.

Education Committee: In May, Kirsten Rose, a college student home schooled for her entire education, inquired ifwe had any "paying“ summer jobs. She agreed to volunteer here because we are all volunteers. Through her effor

we were invited to have a display at Hope Lutheran Church during the Home School's Used Curriculum Sale. LeeStrauss and I, with help from Alan Mueller, Jack Heller and Linda Evans handed out information to many, many people. They all were very interested in calling for future tours. This was a great way to inform the public about althe information the Greece Museum offers our community.Dory DeJaeger and Linda Evans are working on our Native American Display.

Peggy and Serge Mandrick

and Richard Evans from th

Woodside Garden Club

prepare our front garden.



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Photos supplied by

Alan Mueller, Greece Historian's Office,Greece Historical Society

FROM THE HISTORIAN'S FILE

Strawberry festivals most likely originated as church socials with each church taking a turnannually.

Early in the morning the children were sent out with pails to gather juicy wild berries along therailroad track, where – for some reason – they seemed to grow best. After being picked over, rinsedand sugared, they were served on squares of shortcake slathered with fresh butter and sweetenedwhipped cream. They generally sold for 25 cents.

While the ladies, in shirtwaist and corseted, sweated out the whipping and serving, the men, alldressed in collarless white shirts with rolled-up sleeves, lounged in the shade smoking pipes and talk-ing serious men’s talk. Their work had been limited to setting up the trestle serving tables.

The children, now washed, combed and dressed in their Sunday best, amused themselves in seg-regated groups. The girls played decorous games, such as Ring Around the Rosy, seemingly not

paying any attention to the boys. The boys, engaged in more rough stuff, were often known tohave pockets full of little green frogs, probably gathered along the strawberries, which would betossed into the girls’ hair whenever the opportunity arose. This would be sure to shatter the compo-sure of the young ladies and turn them into shrieking wretches.

One summer, a church acquired a new-fangled ice cream machine. It was a big covered,

wooden tub that wiggled and jiggled while the men cranked it. So, to steady it, they surrounded

the tub with big blocks of river ice and sat the fattest child on the top of it. The ice cream was a

huge success, and everybody looked forward to having it again the next year – everybody but the

fattest child.

Cooling off (?) in Summer

STRAWBERRY FESTIVALS OF YORE



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Thank You to all the following vendors, community organizations, volunteers and businesses that

helped make our 2010 “Sweet Sensations” Strawberry & Dessert Tasting Festival a success.Nearly 500 people enjoyed the afternoon.

Long Pond Family Restaurant, Ice Cream Hut, Legacy at Park Crescent, Sweet Dean's, Villages at Unity,Blaze Entertainment, Upstate Niagara Corporation, Greece Special Police, Friends of the Greece Library,Journey Home, Two Doors Community Center, Greece Chamber Erie Canal Committee, Greece Community & Senior Center, Party Productions, Genesee/Charlotte Lighthouse, Greece Volunteer Ambulance,

Dave Luciona's Buckman Dairy display, Russ Ryan’s 1951 Army Jeep, Tuesday Celtic Group, ARIKATA Matial Arts, Barton's Parkside Hots, Staples, NorthWest Bank, Blanchard's Florist, Green Acres Farm, GreenAcres Farm & Nursery, The Signery, the Town of Greece and the many, many valued volunteers.

Vendors and Guests

enjoyed our

“Sweet Sensations”

Dessert Festival



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