HIstorical Society of Woodstock

Head Back to a Different Time - Debut of Video "Vanishing Village"
2025-11-01 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
The Historical Society of Woodstock is pleased to present the debut of the short video Vanishing Village, narrated by Lewis Arlt and co-produced by Janine Fallon Mower and Richard Heppner.
Saturday, November 1, 2025, at 3 p.m., at the Historical Society’s Eames Museum at 20 Comeau Drive in Woodstock, N.Y.
The suggested donation for the event is $20.00 per person (which will include a copy of Will Rose’s book The Vanishing Village).

(Note: Due to limited parking, if able, please park in the Lower Comeau parking lot and take the path at the end of the lot to the Historical Society. Accessible parking is available at the museum.)

Holiday Market Fair - Dec 5-7
2025-12-05 - 2025-12-07
Sleighing, Jean White watercolor from the book, Sarah of Overlook Mountain

The Historical Society of Woodstock, located at 20 Comeau Drive in Woodstock, is pleased to announce its annual Holiday Market Fair.
Beginning Friday December 5, from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m., the fair continues…
Saturdays and Sundays, December 6, 7, 13, and 14 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. each day.
Shop local crafts, holiday cards, local books, original artwork, delectable treats, handknit items and more.

Our Historical Society Bakers are busy at work preparing for our ever-popular cookie tins. This year, on Saturday December 6, we will be selling “lunch to go” – homemade soup and bread. As always, our wonderful hot cider will be available each day for all our shoppers and holiday greens and holly will be waiting on the front porch… free to all visitors.

Lunch to Go
2025-12-06 10:00 - 16:00
Sleighing, Jean White watercolor from the book, Sarah of Overlook Mountain

This year, on Saturday December 6, we will be selling “lunch to go” – homemade soup and bread.
As always, our wonderful hot cider will be available each day for all our shoppers and holiday greens and holly will be waiting on the front porch… free to all visitors.

Holiday Market Fair - Dec 13 & 14
2025-12-13 - 2025-12-14
Sleighing, Jean White watercolor from the book, Sarah of Overlook Mountain

The Historical Society of Woodstock, located at 20 Comeau Drive in Woodstock, is pleased to announce its annual Holiday Market Fair.
December 13 and 1410:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. each day.
Shop local crafts, holiday cards, local books, original artwork, delectable treats, handknit items and more.

As always, our wonderful hot cider will be available each day for all our shoppers and holiday greens and holly will be waiting on the front porch… free to all visitors.

"Nothing of Insignificance" Concludes our Season
2025-12-20 15:00 - 17:00
The Historical Society of Woodstock Presents:
A Talk with Brian Hollander
When: Saturday December 20 at 3:00 p.m.
Where: Historical Society of Woodstock

On Saturday December 20 at 3:00 p.m., the Historical Society of Woodstock will wrap up the year with a special discussion between author Brian Hollander and town historian Richard Heppner focusing on Hollander’s new book, Nothing of Insignificance: Adventures in Journalism, as well as their shared reflections on Woodstock, past and present.

Brian Hollander has been at the center of local life for several years, serving as Woodstock Times editor for 19 years, as a founding DJ at WDST and Woodstock town supervisor for two terms. Countless audiences have also come to know Brian through his music, having played in local bands since he arrived in the early 1970s. Throughout the years he has gathered, and now has published, the unexpected stories that give our community its character.
The Historical Society invites you to join in on what promises to a free-wheeling discussion between the two authors on Woodstock, writing, local history, the state of journalism and whatever else comes to mind.
Admission to this event is free and Brian’s book will be available at the talk for signing. The Historical Society of Woodstock is located at 20 Comeau Drive in Woodstock. Additional parking is available in the lower Comeau parking lot – just take the path at the rear of the lot up to the Society.

Making Her Mark: Fifty Women Artists of the Historic Woodstock Art Colony, now on display at the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College.
2026-02-01 - 2026-04-11 | Schmucker Art Gallery, 300 N Washington St, Gettysburg, PA, 17325, United States
The Historical Society of Woodstock’s 2025 exhibit, Making Her Mark: Fifty Women Artists of the Historic Woodstock Art Colony, now on display at theSchmucker Art Galleryat Gettysburg College.

The Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition, Making Her Mark: Fifty Women Artists of the Historic Woodstock Art Colony, curated by independent scholar Dr. Bruce Weber. On loan from the Historical Society of Woodstock, the exhibition celebrates the work of 50 women artists who were active in the historic Woodstock art colony. The paintings, drawings and prints are drawn from the permanent collection of the Historical Society of Woodstock. The display ranges from women who arrived during the first decades of the 20th century as students at the Art Student League’s Woodstock School of Landscape Painting to those who came in the wake of the end of the second World War through the 1970s, with subjects ranging from portraiture, landscapes, and still lifes to abstraction. The exhibition explores the American art colony movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as an alternative space for women who desired a life outside of the mainstream.

The exhibit will run at the Schmucker Art Gallery until April 11, 2026.
