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

Trunks and Travel... a 19th Century Journey

A lecture by

Mary Jeanne Bialas

Experience the sights and sounds of travel in NewYork 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 Victorianindustrialist 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.

September 2010 Program

Program Events 1Museum Exhibits 2Museum Happenings 5,7Greece History 6

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

July-August-Sept 2010

olume 31, Issue 4

October 2010 Program

In every issue: Points of Interest:

President’s Message

Director’s Message

3Museum Shop 4Contact 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 workersand finally used as a POW camp during World War II, the Hamlin camp closed in 1946 and the buildingswere destroyed. Ed and his volunteer crew have exca-vated the site and will share with us the story of theCCC and the camp he re-discovered 70 years after itsclosing.

Ed Evans is a retired teacher, a historian and an advocate who conducts tours, giveslectures, distributes history DVD's and organizes volunteer work crews.

"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 our

Board 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 featuringbathing 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 exhibit, please call 225-3760.

“

Doll and Teddy Bear Appraisals

”

Doll appraiser,

Helene Marlowe

, will be here onSunday, Aug. 22nd, 2-5pm. She will be apprais-ing dolls, paper dolls andteddy bears. The fee is $4.00per 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 wewill hand out new docent booklets.

THE NOTIONS OF SEWINGSPECIAL EXHIBIT

Dubbed "The Queen of Inventions" by Gody'smagazine in 1860, the sewing machine offeredwomen a relief from the countless hoursand tedium of hand sewing.See a collection of sewingmachines and accessoriesfrom the 1860's to presentday at our

"Notions ofSewing"

exhibit fromSeptember 12th throughOctober 3rd.

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 beveragebooth 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 facepainting, balloons and more from

Flyin' Brian & Miss Understood

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/