Calendar

  • May 17

    10am - noon
    Junior Historians
    grades 2-6
    A step back in time - an architectural tour of the southside of Jamestown. Find out about the people who lived in the great houses and worked at some of our most important businesses.

  • May 17

    2 pm & 5pm
    Project Runway 1880
    in the elegant Fenton
    Drawing Room
    See and learn about
    the beautiful and
    interesting formal
    clothing in the
    Fenton textile collection.
    Free for members
    or $10 for non-members.

  • June 6

    Exhibit Opening for
    "In the Good Ole Summer Time"
    Refreshments, music
    and memories - open
    to all members for free,
    non-members - small
    admission fee.

  • June 7

    "In the Good Ole Summer Time" What was it like to
    vacation on
    Chautauqua Lake
    in the golden age
    from 1875 to 1920?
    What was it like
    to work on
    Chautauqua Lake
    serving the vacationers?
    Artifacts, photographs
    and many other interesting pieces of our wonderful history will be on exhibit for the summer.

  • June 14

    7pm
    Red White & Blue
    A Patriotic Tribute to
    our Hometown Heroes.
    The evening will be
    filled with live music
    and local stories about our soldiers from the Civil War, World War I and World War II.
    $15 per person,
    $10 for Fenton members

  • July 19

    Fenton Institute - Our County's Bicentennial The Bicentennial Celebration of Chautauqua County begins in 2008! Join us for an informative time to learn about our earliest history as a County. Noon to 2 PM
    Members at certain levels are free, other levels only $5, non-members $10.

  • July 21-25

    Camp Brown
    A Call to Arms...Life as a Civil War recruit. Students in grades 4-6 will experience the life of a Civil War private preparing to march into history. Limited spaces, 1-4 PM each afternoon, please register early. $50 fee

  • August 4-8

    History Detectives:
    "In the Good Ole Summertime" Grades 1-3. Have fun learning about life around Chautauqua Lake in the golden age of steamboats and trolleys. The week will finish with a field trip to New York State's newest historic park, Midway! Great fun! 9-12 noon each morning, limited space available, please register early, $50 fee.

  • August 9

    4th Annual Old Fashioned Day NEW this year!! A Civil War encampment of living history by the 9th Calvary NY Volunteers! Hopefully with horses, campfires, firearms and a surgeon. Join a basket weaver, spinners, weavers, antique engines, food, fun and much more. More details to come!!
    9 AM to 3 PM

  • August 18-22

    History Detectives:
    "In the Good Ole Summertime"
    Grades 4-6. Fun and learning come together at the Fenton Mansion and Long Point State Park! What was life like around Chautauqua Lake when the trolleys and steamboats were running? What was it like to vacation or work at the #2 vacation spot on the east coast in the last 1800s? Find out at the Fenton History Center Summer Camp. 1-4 each afternoon, limited space available, please register early, $50 fee.

Samplers of Western New York

The Chautauqua Region Textile Study Group invites you to


"Samplers of Western New York"

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The Chautauqua Region Textile Study Group invites you to our Spring meeting "Samplers of Western New York" which will be Saturday, May 10, 2008 at the Fenton History Center at 67 Washington Street, Jamestown, New York at 1:30 pm.

Wilma Townsend, Curator at the Ontario County Historical Society in Canandaigua, New York will be our speaker. In 2006-2007 she curated an exhibit entitled "Samplers of Western New York". Wilma has been a museum curator for over twenty years at various institutions including the Landmark Society of Western New York, Granger Homestead, and Sonnenberg Gardens. She considers herself a generalist, with a great interest in textiles and needlework. She received her Master's Degree in History with a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Delaware. Wilma resides in Victor, NY with her husband, teenage daughter and son and three cats.

We have re-scheduled this presentation, which was originally going to be held at our fall meeting. Due to unfortunate circumstances, the speaker was unable to appear, so we are scheduling it for May 10. Because of this, those who attended in the fall and paid the fee for the meeting and lunch will be admitted to this meeting free of charge. For all the new members there will be a charge of $10.00 to help cover expenses.

We encourage those in attendance to bring all their friends who are interested in textiles and needlework, and also to bring 'show and tell' items for our pleasure and education.

We will be planning our fall meeting, for which we have some ideas, and possibly for a field trip to the Alling Coverlet Museum in Palmyra, NY.

Please RSVP to the Fenton History Center at 716-664-6256, fax 716-483-7524 or email information@fentonhistorycenter.org

We hope to see you there!!