Schenectady Colonial Festival 2008

Featured Event

 

IF THE STOCKADE WALLS COULD TALK

*   318 YEARS LATER   *

 

Friday, February 8, 2008, 7:30 PM

First Reformed Church of Schenectady

Northeast corner Union and North Church Streets

Schenectady Stockade Historic District                    

 

Followed by Refreshments and Exhibits in Assembly Hall

 

What do we know of 1690 and the Schenectady Massacre?

 

Schenectady’s First Reformed Church, the church in the Stockade in 1690, and

The Schenectady Heritage Area invite the community

 

Joe Doolittle of Story Circle at Proctors

E. James Schermerhorn of the Dutch Settlers Society

Musicians of Rural Felicity and Signature Brass

Frank Taormina of the Schenectady County Historical Society

Kyle Jenks of American Heritage Living History Productions

And Robert E. Bullock of the New York State

Archives Partnership Trust and New York State Quadricentennial Commission

Will share stories, poetry, music and readings about what took place 318 years ago

 

Publications, maps, illustrations, Minutes of Albany, other items of interest

will be shown by program participants: the Efner History Center, Stockade Association, Colonial Schenectady Project,

Dutch Barn Preservation Society, Holland Society, New Netherland Institute,

New Netherland Museum/Half Moon, Onrust, New York Folklore Society, Schenectady/Nijkerk Council,

SCCC Community Archaeology Program, and others

 

Free-will donation

 

For information contact

 

First Reformed Church of Schenectady

8 North Church Street

Schenectady, NY 12305

518-377-2001 - website: www.frcschdy.org

 

Schenectady Heritage Area

City Hall, Room 14

Schenectady, NY 12305

518-382-5147 – E-mail: mgebert09@yahoo.com