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December 30th, 2016
Overview of 2016 in photos.
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December 22nd, 2016
Latest additions to our "Geneva Stories" video series and "Music in the Key of Geneva" podcasts.
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December 15th, 2016
The debate on what to call automobiles as seen through local newspapers.
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December 8th, 2016
Advocating the need for volunteers around the community.
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December 2nd, 2016
The first in a series about classical music performances in Geneva.
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November 23rd, 2016
Latest additions to our "Geneva Stories" video series and "Music in the Key of Geneva" podcasts.
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November 23rd, 2016
A brief history of Christmas cards.
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November 18th, 2016
Chronicling 19th Century bands in Geneva, New York through newspapers.
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November 4th, 2016
The Geneva City School District can trace its birth to 1839, the year that the village’s Districts No. 1 and No. 19 merged to form the state’s first union school district. By the 1830s, the community had a College, dozens of private schools, and two public schools for the basic instruction of children of all classes. Yet schooling in the antebellum period here and throughout
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October 27th, 2016
Before electricity, what did Victorian families do in the evenings?
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October 19th, 2016
An ode to autumn in the Finger Lakes
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October 14th, 2016
Brief history of music stores in Geneva, New York
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October 6th, 2016
While touring the Washington Street Cemetery, listen to stories from Geneva's past.
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September 29th, 2016
The journey of a local group of men to the California gold fields chronicled through the newspaper
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September 16th, 2016
When it comes to clothing and fashion, what does modesty mean.
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September 9th, 2016
The first in a series of podcasts for the Geneva Historical Society's Music in the Key of Geneva project.
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September 9th, 2016
A piece from a piano provides a glimpse into Geneva's past.
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August 26th, 2016
The Geneva Gazette chronicles the journey of a local group of men to the California gold fields.
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August 19th, 2016
Reflections on living in Geneva.
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August 12th, 2016
The first in a series about music in Geneva.
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August 12th, 2016
Through National Jukebox, sample sound recordings can be found of various musicians who performed in Geneva in the early 1900s.
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August 3rd, 2016
Spend a day "on the farm" at our biennial Farm Heritage Day at the Johnston House.
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July 29th, 2016
A brief history of purses.
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July 22nd, 2016
A visit to Rose Hill by the Model T Ford Club International provides insights into the Model T.
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July 15th, 2016
Join the Geneva Historical Society for the 100th birthday of our 1916 Ford Model T Canopy Express Wagon!
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July 8th, 2016
Part two of the Geneva Gazette's chronicle of a local group of men's journey to the California gold fields.
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July 1st, 2016
I have been researching music in Geneva for several years. If I found a newspaper article while searching for something else, I saved it. In this way I came across a number of unfamiliar names who performed in Geneva in the 19th century. The advertisements, previews, and reviews certainly made them sound important, but who were they?
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June 17th, 2016
I recently had an opportunity to experience some hand surgery and thought what a different experience citizens of Geneva years ago must have had compared to mine.
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June 10th, 2016
During our Annual Meeting and Dinner Barbara Lamb will be honored as the Volunteer of the Year and Curator John Marks will discuss the new exhibit Music in the Key of Geneva.
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June 6th, 2016
Preview of the 2016 Tour of Homes
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May 27th, 2016
Music is everywhere in Geneva for those with eyes to see. The digital marquee on Seneca Street, event flyers in many downtown store windows, and websites like www.thesmith.org.
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May 20th, 2016
Preview of the 2016 Tour of Homes
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May 13th, 2016
Reports of the California Gold Rush from the Geneva Gazette
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May 5th, 2016
Many years ago, most museums did exhibitions using the time tested tool of the diorama. Dioramas, both life size and in miniature, were used to tell a story
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April 29th, 2016
While looking for information on Rose Hill (called the Boody Farm when Edgar Boody owned it) I found this account. I had heard a little about Klan activity in the 1920s, but had never pursued the subject. Now I wondered about the history of the Klan in Geneva and I started poking around in the local newspapers.
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April 21st, 2016
I have many favorite historical photos of Geneva, but the 1893 Hobart College Banjo & Glee Club is in my Top Ten. Those clothes, those haircuts, those instruments! As a player and fan of banjos and mandolins, I am interested in their popularity at that time.
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April 15th, 2016
Let me start by saying that I LOVE Ice Cream! I guess I am not alone, either
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March 25th, 2016
I have learned more as I work through the Historical Society archives, but there is much history not written down. We have an impressive list of village “firsts”: a hotel, a post office, a church, and a school. However, no one recorded the first person to bring a piano to town, or the name of the fiddler who played the first dance.
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March 18th, 2016
Second part of a two-part series on the impact of 1960s Urban Renewal on Geneva, NY.
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March 11th, 2016
Be in the groove and join us for a 1960s themed party. It's gonna be out of sight!
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March 4th, 2016
In the 1960s, a new phrase came into use: the generation gap. Genevans, like older Americans across the country worried about its young people, their clothes, their manners, and their attitude.
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February 26th, 2016
As we at the Geneva Historical Society look back at the 1960s this year, we cannot ignore the protest movements that sprung out of that decade, particularly the Civil Rights Movement.
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February 19th, 2016
Alice Askins wrote about live music in Geneva in the 1960s . As she pointed out, most groups played the hits of the day. If you wanted to hear the real thing, you bought the record.
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February 12th, 2016
I am not a car buff. My vehicle doesn’t have to be sporty, exotic or sexy, but it just needs to get me from my home to my destination safely and comfortably.
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February 5th, 2016
When Genevans went to the Cinema Theatre, Seneca Drive-In Theatre or Geneva Theatre during the 1960s they could have seen a variety of movies.
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January 29th, 2016
Recently I talked with Geneva's Chuck Agonito about the rock and roll music scene in Geneva during in the 1960s. Since he was part of that scene, he is a wealth of information on the subject and has often written about it in his “Good Times” column for the Finger Lakes Times.
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January 22nd, 2016
A quick view of Hobart & William Smith Colleges during the tumultuous 1960s.
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January 15th, 2016
The first video in a monthly series of short Geneva history stories, beginning with Urban Renewal.
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January 8th, 2016
In 1960 I was 8 years old. Back then everyone attended the neighborhood elementary school, either public or parochial.