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

“Attacks on Charlotte in the War of 1812”

by Jim Fisher

Charlotte was attacked four times by the British fleetduring the War of 1812. Jim will describe those events andthe details of those attacks which occurred on Oct 1,1812, June 15, & Sept 11,1813 and May 14,1814.

Sponsored by Mary Lee Strauss

November 2009 Program

Program Events 1Museum Events 2Greece History 7Community Christmas Tree 5

G R E E C E H I S T O R I C A L S O C I E T Y a n d M U S E U M

T h e C o r i n t h i a n

Nov.

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Dec. 2009

olume 30, Issue 6

January 2010 Program

In every issue: Points of Interest:

President’s Message

Director’s Message

3Museum Shop 4Contact Us 8

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Greece Town Hall 7:00 p.m.

“

Greece, from a Rural Communityto a Booming Modern Town

”

by Don Riley, Town of GreeceSupervisor 1972

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1989(Please note: There is no December program)

"President's Message"

We at the Greece Historical

Society strive to ―preserve the pastfor the future‖ and that involves

more than just collecting & stor-ing old artifacts and documents.We also have the responsibility tothe community to display theseitems and to use them to educateour visitors while preserving them for future gen-erations.Collecting, archiving, preserving, displayingand educating takes the time and talent of ourdedicated volunteers. Our collection contains thou-sands of items, but our biggest asset and some-times our biggest liability is our home at 595 LongPond Rd. Unlike most small museums in the area,which are owned by the local municipality, weown and operate our museum on land leased fromthe Town of Greece. We are responsible for thecare and upkeep of the building, both inside andoutside including the grounds immediately sur-rounding the building.Besides utilities, security system, insuranceand general inside and outside maintenance,something is always in need of repair or replace-ment. This year alone we replaced the phone sys-tem, painted doors and the north porch, replacedsome carpet, fixed a plumbing problem, purchaseda new dehumidifier for the basement, and havereplaced the back doors on our exhibit hall. Evenwith our dedicated volunteers, building mainte-nance and upkeep is not free. But thanks to yourmembership, business contributions, local gardenclubs, help from the Town of Greece and a few grants, we are able maintain our museum. With your continued support and the support from thecommunity we will remain a local asset for you andfor the future generations of our town.

Bill Sauers

**Museum Happenings**

Christmas Open-House

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November 15

Community Christmas Tree

See our Community Christmas Trees decorated

with ornaments that depict our community‘s

businesses, service organizations, churches andresidents. It is a way to represent our diversity while sharing the meaning behind each orna-ment. A Christmas Open-House is planned forNovember 15

which will include refreshments.Decorations throughout the house and museumwill add to the festivities. To participate, use ourregistration form on page six.Christmas Tree Display is open for viewing onSundays Nov. 15th-Dec 13th from 2-4:30 pm.

Vi White, Curator

Coming Soon:

an exhibit commemorating the found-ing of

The Boy Scouts of America

1910-2010 will beon view in our museum. Rob Cunningham, long as-sociated with scouting will assist us in setting up thisvenue with artifacts from his personal collection.Check the next issue of for further details.

Alan Mueller

See The Corinthian in color.

Look online at our website,greecehistoricalsociety.net

We are looking for people like you!

We need

MUSEUM DOCENTS

able to volunteer a little bit of time!!

We are looking for new docents to show our guests the Museum. It is fun and interesting because we meet alot of great peo-ple who come through for tours. It is easy to learn about the Museum and we will train you on how to docent. We docent onSundays from 2-4:30 p.m. You will be able to choose which Sunday 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 Appreciation 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)

LorraineBeane andSandy Peckat the Hilton Apple Festival

Thank you all for supporting the Society and the Museum through yourmembership renewals, visits to the museum and attendance at our popularmonthly programs at the Greece Town Hall on the 2nd Tuesday each month.

As our first Book of the Month, we are featuring ―Ellis Island –

Famous

Immgrants‖ (Images of America Series) by Barry Moreno. You are sure to enjoy

photos and sketches of the famous people who immigrated through Ellis Island. As you know, immigrants landed and were processed by officials before being allowed on themainland to finally begin their search of future life in America. Ellis Island was opened in 1892 andclosed in 1943. Today it is a beautiful park and restored visitor center.We are anxious to hear your stories about your ancestors. Tell us about what they experienced at EllisIsland. With your help we will develop a small booklet of such stories.

For the first time we are offering a 15% discount on our Greece history book ―Eight Miles Along theShore‖ The book makes a great Christmas present for anyone who enjoys history. The sale lasts

through the end of December.Sincerely,

Lorraine Beane

“

From the Desk of the Executive Director “

Please support our local business members and affiliates

We want to thank them for their support:

Flower City Printing, Greece Chamber of Commerce, Long Pond Auto Body,Wolfert-Butler Agency, Carolyn Stiffler Realty, Pettis Pools, Straight Line Contractors,Fedele's Restaurant, Long Pond Family Restaurant, Savage & Son Roofing,

Vay, Schleich and Meeson Funeral Home and Greece Lowe’s.

Tuesday, Feb 9, 2010

―The River Ramble –

Revisited‖

By Jeff Blackwell and Max Schulte,Democrat & Chronicle journalists

UPCOMING PROGRAMSPAST PROGRAMS

Our Oct 13

Program,

―

The Arts & Crafts Movement in New

York State‖

by Dr Bruce Austin, was recorded by EducableCommunications. A DVD copy of that program is available fromEducable for $12.50. Call them at 227-7710 for moreinformation about obtaining a copy or copies of some of our other programs which they have recorded.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

―History of the Erie Canal‖

By Nellie Gardner

―the Rose Lummis‖

Promote your business and support the Greece Museum

For information on being a part of our new ―Society SponsorBoard‖, email Cyndie Shevlin at: corintheditor@yahoo.com