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SUMMARY:WCHS Local History Book Club
DESCRIPTION:August meeting of WCHS Local History Book Club  \nWashington County Historical Society’s local history book club will meet at noon on Friday\, August 12\, at the society’s Wing-Northup House\, 167 Broadway\, Fort Edward.  The club usually meets on the second Friday of the month.  Historical Society membership is not required.  \n  \nThe August meeting of the book club will be discussion of The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper\, published in 1826.  Alternative reading is Steele’s Betrayal\, Fort William Henry & The Massacre; or Fort William Henry\, Digging Up History.   \nCooper’s historical romance is set in 1757 during the French and Indian War.  The siege of Fort William Henry is imminent.  Chingachgook and Uncas are “the last of the Mohicans\,” Hawkeye is their close friend\, Natty Bumppo is a frontiersman.  They are part of the contingent shepherding Alice and Cora Munroe to their father\, Colonel Munroe\, commander of Fort William Henry.  Commander Webb at Fort Edward refused to send reinforcements to the Colonel so the fort at Lake George is doomed to fall.  Our book club’s discussion is in Fort Edward.                                                                      \nFuture sessions of the club will include books about the larger Adirondack area as well as some works by local authors.  The proposed list includes works on Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River\, Benedict Arnold’s building of the first Navy in Whitehall\, and Robert Rogers’ writing of the rules for rangers in Fort Edward.  For additional information\, email Connie Harris Farrington at connieandlee@roadrunner.com. 
URL:https://wchs-ny.org/event/wchs-local-history-book-club-4/
LOCATION:Wing- Northup House\, 167 Boadway\, Fort Edward\, NY\, 12828\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tours of the Museums at Penope Farms
DESCRIPTION:Washington County Historical Society is pleased to be hosting our third open house at The Museums at Penope Farms located at 56 Scotch Hill Road in the Town of Jackson. This is a pop-up program that wasn’t on our original schedule. There was so much interest after last years event at the farm that we decided to do it again. The museums will be open to the public on Sunday afternoon\, August 14\, 2022 from 1 – 4 p.m. Owner\, Dick McGuire would  like to invite the public to tour his museums on the hill. Bring a picnic lunch and a chair to sit on and enjoy the amazing view of the Route 22 valley below. \nThe museums have expanded over the years and there are now 12 theme museums. They include: a library and music museum\, Post Office\, antique tools\, large and small (2 museums) \, household utensils\, a collection of artwork by the older sister of McGuire’s father\, Jennie Mae McGuire Bennett (an early 1900s artist)\, a dairy museum\, a chainsaw museum\, and a museum of Dick’s personal mementos. \nDick enjoys having visitors at his museums and recently shared the history of how the museums came to be. In the 1970s\, his father and three other retired farmers began to collect old farm equipment so that future generations would see tools from when horses were still used to plow the fields of Washington County. These men started the Washington County Farm Museum at the fairgrounds in Easton. \nDick\, himself\, merged four small farms to create Penope Farms. Stored in the barns were plenty of antique tools and equipment so he decided to start his own museum right on his farm. \nIt started with 4 rooms in two barns about 1978. Over the years\, individuals have given him items\, some were purchased at auctions and sales greatly expanding his collection. He added new buildings\, the most recent in 2019 which houses his personal mementos. \nThe main farm containing 3 museums was built in 1790. Meander leisurely back into yesteryear. The museums feature hundreds of items from 1800 to the early tractors of the 1930s and 40s There is something of interest for all ages from equipment for working the land with horses to classic automobiles of the 1920s and 30s. \nThis event is free  and open to the public. Donations are gratefully accepted. The event will be held rain or shine. If you have never been there\, come and bring the kids or grandkids. It is a great way to spend an afternoon. Please join us!
URL:https://wchs-ny.org/event/tours-of-the-museums-at-penope-farms/
LOCATION:Penope Farms\, 56 Scotch Hill Road\, Jackson\, NY\, 12816\, United States
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