Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Greece Town Hall 7:00 p.m.

Journey in the footsteps of Arch Merrill some 60+ years after his journey along the Genesee River as

related in his book ―A River Ramble‖. See how the

Genesee River has fared over the past 60 years andwhat the future may hold for the Genesee and thepeople who live and play on it

January 2010 Program

Program Events 1Museum Events 2Vietnam Veterans Exhibit 5Greece History 7

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

January-February 2010

olume 31, Issue 1

January 2010 Program

In every issue: Points of Interest:

President’s Message

Director’s Message

3Museum Shop 4Contact Us 8

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

“Attacks on Charlotte in the War of 1812”

by Jim Fischer

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

Sponsored by Mary Lee Strauss

―Rediscovering the Rambling River‖

by Jeff Blackwell and Max Schulte

,Democrat & Chronicle journalists

"President's Message"

It takes many volunteers to run ourorganization. While some may loanus a treasured heirloom, fix a brokenchair, help with a single event orguide visitors through our museumon Sunday afternoons, still othersspend literally hundreds of hoursduring the year to keep the placegoing. The following are the some of the volunteers who gave their time or talent this past year to help the Greece Historical Society and Museum.Cathy Anderson, Doug Angold, Jim Beane, LorraineBeane, Carolyn Brewer, Phyllis Brown, Sue Bryant, James Butts, Pat Butts, Edie Coe, Bill Coe, Faye Cole,Edith Crawford, Jim Dirks, Dory DeJaeger, Sally Dickerson, Tracie Doerner, Linda Evans, Betty Fetter,Kathleen Firkins, Pat Flugel, Evelyn Gardner, JohnGeisler, Lester Haines, George Haines, Pat Haines, Barry Hartley, Mary Lou Hartley, Jack Heller, Sue Hodge, Terry Hogan, Allison Hopkins, Eleanor Kanous, Bill Keeler, Jack Kemp, Paula Koerner, Paula Kosioriek, Lucy Kraemer, Keith Kroon, Gary Leary, Dick Lewandowski,Lois Janiak, Lorna Logan, Sharon Logan, Dean MacGre-gor, Alex MacWilliam, Bob Martin, Bonita McClure, LuciaMcEntee, Ed McKeown, Mary Lee McWilliams, MikeMcManus, Bethann Merrideth, Beth Mitchell, Lee Mo-relli, Alan Mueller, Pat Palumbo, Dave Pandina, PegParadise, Holly Pearl, Sandy Peck, Bill Peeck, Wendy Peeck, Andrea Peeck, Ann Pepe, Craig Ristuccia, VirginiaRobinson, Carol Riesenberger, Joe Riesenberger, ReneeSanger, Sue Sauers, Bill Sauers, Tom Schommer, Doro-thea Schommer, John Schroedl, Betty Schmidt, CynthiaShevlin, Betty Smith, Dee Stein, Don Stilson, FredStock, Mary Lou Straub, Heidi Strauss, Richard Strauss,Lee Strauss, Jeremy Tuke, Beverly Tulloch, Marcia Tur-pyn, Jack Wallenhorst, Bernice Wallenhorst, Rene Ward, Anna Wemes, Vi White, Carline Wiley, Scott Wiley, JoshWoodland, Roberta Young. The Charlotte GeneseeLighthouse, GPAS, the Greece Chamber of Commerce,the Shorewood, Woodside, Thyme in the Garden, Lake-shore garden clubs, the Signery sign shop, Vay Schleich& Meeson and the employees of the Town of Greece.To each of you (and those we may have missed), Wetruly appreciate all that you have done for us.THANK YOU.

Bill Sauers

**Museum Happenings**

Coming Soon:

an exhibit commemorating thefounding of

The Boy Scouts of America

in 1910.It will be on view in our museum from February to July 2010. Rob Cunningham, long associatedwith scouting will assist us in setting up thisvenue with artifacts from his personal collection.Were you a Boy Scout? Do you have Scoutingmemoralbia? We would appreciate the loan of scout related items or photos for this exhibit, es-pecially of Greece related cub packs ortroops. Presently the town of Greece has 15scout troops and almost an equal number of cub packs. Please contact us if you have items of interest at:greece.historian@froniternet.net or call Alan at 663-1706.

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 volunteera little bit of time!!

Congratulations to our 2 new volunteers who re-sponded last month. Welcome to the Museum!

We are looking for 2 more new docents to show ourguests the Museum. It is fun and interesting becausewe meet alot of great people who come through fortours. It is easy to learn about the Museum and wewill train you on how to docent. We docent on Sun-days from 2-4:30 p.m. You will be able to choosewhich Sunday each month works best for yourschedule.We are a fun group and the more docents we have,the more fun we have! Earlier this year our volun-teer docents had their annual Appreciation Lunch-eon 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)One of our visitors left a digital camera at themuseum in November. If you think it is yoursgive us a call and identify the camera and wewill arrange to have it returned.

3Volunteers are the lifeline of every non-profit organization, but especially ours because we are opento the public. We need help to greet visitors and escort them through the house and museum, which isnot only a very pleasant job but your time helping here is also very rewarding!Our visitors enter through the front door and immediately admire our beautiful farm house, now anhistorical center. Greeters are necessary to guide and welcome them. As they proceed to the exhibit hall,

they are very impressed and often say “I didn’t know that we have such a great museum in Greece!”

No one is expected to be here every Sunday; however, even once a month on Sunday afternoons from2 until 4:30 pm would be great! Some groups come by appointment on other days and people who have flexible availability find thisappealling. Special events that draw visitors and a great museum shop are also opportunities to welcome people. You can choose yourhours to volunteer and training is quick and easy. We also have an annual Volunteers Luncheon which we all enjoy.We truly value our volunteers and have initiated an annual Volunteer of the Year award in honor of Dorothea Schommer, whopassed away this year. Dorothea was the epitome of what a volunteer should be. She was cheerful and optimistic, had great skills inrelating history to adults and children, loved to meet people, was expert at creating exhibits and was always very willing to work asneeded in many aspects of our Greece Museum. The Volunteer of the Year award will be presented at our annual May meeting.

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, March 9, 2010

―History of the Erie Canal‖

by Nellie Gardner ―the Rose Lummis‖

UPCOMING PROGRAMSPAST PROGRAMS

Our November 10

program

―Greece

-from a Rural Community

to a Booming Modern Town‖

by Don Riley, was recorded by Educable Communications. A DVD copy of that program isavailable from Educable for $12.50. Call them at 227-7710 formore information about obtaining a copy or copies of some of our other programs which they have recorded.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

―

The Powers Art Gallery

–

In Search of the Lost Orchestrion‖

by Craig Smith

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