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October 13th, 2023
As a symbol of a simpler time, apple cider has appeared in popular culture, including paintings, songs, and even a Presidential election.
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January 20th, 2023
Overview of record players and records sold in Geneva during the 1920s based on ads in the Geneva Daily Times.
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April 22nd, 2022
Brief biography of musician Jack Bullock.
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March 11th, 2022
The story of Ken Petersen and the Appleknockers
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April 9th, 2021
The musical talents of the Graceys.
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March 19th, 2021
Brief biography of Ella Cripps
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June 23rd, 2017
Brief history of early recorded music
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June 2nd, 2017
In our latest podcast Geoffrey Herd, Hannah Collins, and Eliot Heaton discuss the Geneva Music Festival.
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April 14th, 2017
In our latest podcast David Brent Johnson, jazz director at WFIU public radio in Bloomington and musician Gap Mangione discuss jazz bassist Scott LaFaro.
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March 10th, 2017
Overview of suffrage songs.
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February 17th, 2017
The second in a series about classical music performances in Geneva.
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January 6th, 2017
Excerpts from the Historical Society's zine about youth and music in Geneva.
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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 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 18th, 2016
Chronicling 19th Century bands in Geneva, New York through newspapers.
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October 14th, 2016
Brief history of music stores in Geneva, New York
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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October 17th, 2014
Recently, I got the book Swing Shift by Sherrie Tucker. The book was published in 2000 and Professor Tucker was a professor at Hobart and William Smith when she wrote it. Swing Shift is about the all-women bands of the 1930s and 1940s. I wondered if any of the bands in the book were seen or heard in Geneva. It turns out some of them
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May 16th, 2014
Some of the best history is given to us as stories from the community.
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July 17th, 2013
How music has been incorporated into various activities of the Geneva Historical Society.
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