Past Programs/Events

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Date Time Description
September 17 7:00pm Anderson Falls Heritage Society presents Louis Riel—A Rebel Comes to Keeseville. Louis Riel was the founder of the Canadian province Manitoba, and a leader in the independence movement for Saskatchewan. A century and a half after his death, he remains one of the more controversial figures in Canada's history.
Guest Speaker: Rich Frost, author of several books on regional travel and history, most recently Rich in History: A Lake Champlain Reader
Keeseville Fire Department, 8 Pleasant Street, Keeseville, New York
See flyer for more information.
August 26 1:00pm The Commemoration of Women's Equality Day in Clinton County commemorates the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920 which ensured that no one was barred from voting due to their gender.
Our history update will be on the struggle for women to get the right to serve on a jury. Our current issues will be some the League is working on. Additionally we will hear the events and activities that each of our collaborating organizations have planned, and all attending will have an opportunity to find out more information on each.
Refreshments will be served. The public is encouraged to attend.
Kent-Delord House Museum, 17 Cumberland Avenue, Plattsburgh, New York
See press release for more information.
August 20 7:00pm Anderson Falls Heritage Society presents The Estes: a Family and Business Through Centuries and Generations. The Estes' saga is a true American story. The family history dates back to the 1600s immigrating from England.
Guest Speaker: Doug Estes was raised in Glen Ridge, NJ and graduated from RPI in 1985, joining the family business the same year. He's the great-great-great grandson of Benjamin Hall Estes, and great-great grandson of Elihu Beech Estes.
Keeseville Fire Department, 8 Pleasant Street, Keeseville, New York
See flyer for more information.
August 12 9:00am–
5:00pm		 Timbuctoo Educator Institute: People, Place, and Purpose. Three-day program open to educators at all levels and disciplines.
Enliven your connection to backyard history, find community, and bring a love of place back to your students in September.
Keynote address by historian Nell Irvin Painter. Site visits and workshops led by Dr. Hadley-Kruczek Aaron, Dr. Holly Marcolina, scholar Amy Godine, Dr. Jacqueline Simmons, and others.
Registration required.
See flyer for more information.
August 11 9:00am Timbuctoo Educator Institute: People, Place, and Purpose. Three-day program open to educators at all levels and disciplines.
Enliven your connection to backyard history, find community, and bring a love of place back to your students in September.
Keynote address by historian Nell Irvin Painter. Site visits and workshops led by Dr. Hadley-Kruczek Aaron, Dr. Holly Marcolina, scholar Amy Godine, Dr. Jacqueline Simmons, and others.
Registration required.
See flyer for more information.
August 10 4:00pm Timbuctoo Educator Institute: People, Place, and Purpose. Three-day program open to educators at all levels and disciplines.
Enliven your connection to backyard history, find community, and bring a love of place back to your students in September.
Keynote address by historian Nell Irvin Painter. Site visits and workshops led by Dr. Hadley-Kruczek Aaron, Dr. Holly Marcolina, scholar Amy Godine, Dr. Jacqueline Simmons, and others.
Registration required.
See flyer for more information.
August 2 9:00am The 15th Annual Peterboro Emancipation Day will be held at the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, 5304 Oxbow Road, Peterboro New York.
Each year the committee replicates activities that ancestors began in 1925 to commemorate the abolition of enslavement.
Registration and morning refreshments begin at 9 am. See flyer for more information and full schedule of activities.
July 16 7:00pm Anderson Falls Heritage Society presents Port Kent: A Virtual Walking Tour. Over its nearly 200 years of existence Port Kent has progressed through several stages: a hopeful commercial center venture to the residential community of today.
Guest Speaker: Don Wickman—retired director of the Kent-Delord House Museum in Plattsburgh and the author of A Very Fine Appearance: The Civil War Photographs of George Houghton.
Keeseville Fire Department, 8 Pleasant Street, Keeseville, New York
See flyer for more information.
June 21 1:00pm–
3:00pm		 New York City tried to confiscate the home of Mama Joy at 227 Duffield. She fought back—and WON. In the process, she created a movement to respect the Black history of Downtown Brooklyn. Come join the Mama Joy's Abolitionist Juneteenth Tour to hear stories of countless heroes and sheroes, and see how their stories have been erased from our streets.
404 Albee Square Brooklyn, New York
For more information and to purchase tickets ($25), visit the event website.
June 21 9:00am–
4:00pm		 The Juneteenth "Colors of Freedom in the Adirondacks" tour will feature different stops with reenactments, food, entertainment, and celebrations of the freedom spirit in Clinton and Essex Counties.
The tour begins at the North Star Underground Railroad Museum (1131 Mace Chasm Road, Ausable Chasm, NY)
For those wishing to use their own transportation, the charge to participate in the tour is $10 per person or $20 for a family pass.
There is also an option to ride the tour bus, the cost of which is $10 per person (round trip). The bus will pick up passengers at the North Star Museum and return to the museum to drop passengers off at the end of the day.

Pre-registration is required by June 20.

For more information, see the flyer.
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