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  • BENEFIT CONCERT featuring THE MARC BLACK BAND and SABRINA & THE GEMS with RENNIE CANTINE

    Mescal Hornbeck Community Center 56 Rock City Rd., Woodstock, NY, United States

    featuringThe Marc Black Band features the wonderful vocals of Amy Fradon, joyous Eric Parker on drums; and psychedelic inventor and Blues Magoos founder Mike Esposito on bass. Their wildly danceable blues has led to Marc’s induction into the New York Chapter of the Blues Hall of Fame, and his recent album, Everybody Wants My Hat, reached the top ten on the International […]

  • Woodstock Art Colony Works On Paper

    Historical Society of Woodstock 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY, United States

    Time: 1–5 p.m. Opening reception Saturday, June 10, 3–5 p.m. with talk by Bruce Weber at 3:30 p.m. William H. Arlt’s Flowers David Huffine Library FairFlorence Hubbard Overlook MountainKonrad  Cramer Self Portrait Gallery talk by Bruce Weber on July 8, 3 p.m.  Admission: Free The public is invited to “In Care of the Historical Society of Woodstock,” which highlights the […]

  • The Tools they used— A History of Woodstock Through Tools

    Historical Society of Woodstock 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY, United States

      Two talks illustrating the use of tools throughout the history of Woodstock. Richard Heppner, the author of six local history books and the Town Historian, will talk on life in early Woodstock from 12:30 to 1:15. His presentation will cover farming, blue stone quarrying, ice harvesting, and woodworking. At 1:30, Graham Blackburn, a master woodworker, […]

  • 1. Arriving at Rose’s Store on Tinker Street - circa, 1900
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    Goin’ to Town…A Celebration of the Woodstock Village

    Historical Society of Woodstock 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY, United States

    The Historical Society of Woodstock announces the opening of a new exhibition Goin’ to Town… a Celebration of the Woodstock Village Saturdays & Sundays, August 5 through September 17, 1–5 p.m. Opening reception Saturday, August 5, 3–5 p.m. 20 Comeau Drive Woodstock, N.Y. Admission: Free The Historical Society of Woodstock announces the opening of a […]

  • Anthony Robinson, in conversation with Tad Wise Father of the Man

    Historical Society of Woodstock 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY, United States

    Anthony Robinson, in conversation with Tad Wise Father of the Man, A Novel about growing up on the Maverick Book signing, Free The sons of famous men are notoriously hobbled by their fathers’ reputations. This was not the case, however, here in Woodstock, when one of The Maverick’s first writers, the struggling poet Henry Morton […]

  • Levon Helm: Rock*Roll*Ramble

    Historical Society of Woodstock 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY, United States

    John Barry, in conversation with Barbara O’Brien Book signing, Free Hudson Valley music journalist John W. Barry will be at the Eames House, Woodstock, on Saturday, Aug. 19, to discuss his book, “Levon Helm: Rock, Roll & Ramble—The Inside Story of the Man, the Music and the Midnight Ramble.” Levon Helm, a more than 40-year-resident […]

  • Murder Mystery at the Art Colony – Sept 9

    Mescal Hornbeck Community Center 56 Rock City Rd., Woodstock, NY, United States

    To be performed as a fundraiser for the Historical Society of Woodstock It's 1902 and you're invited to dine at the new Byrdcliffe Art Colony. You’ll socialize with Ralph Whitehead and his wife Jane Byrd McCall. Artist Bolton Brown and hotelier Elizabeth Reynolds will also be present along with college professor Percy Longfellow. You'll be […]

  • Murder Mystery at the Art Colony – Sept 10

    Mescal Hornbeck Community Center 56 Rock City Rd., Woodstock, NY, United States

    To be performed as a fundraiser for the Historical Society of Woodstock It's 1902 and you're invited to dine at the new Byrdcliffe Art Colony. You’ll socialize with Ralph Whitehead and his wife Jane Byrd McCall. Artist Bolton Brown and hotelier Elizabeth Reynolds will also be present along with college professor Percy Longfellow. You'll be […]

  • Woodstock Meets the Sixties with historian Richard Heppner

    Historical Society of Woodstock 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY, United States

    Saturday, September 16, 3 p.m. Admission: Free On Saturday, September 16 at 3:00 p.m., the Historical Society of Woodstock will present a talk by Woodstock Town Historian Richard Heppner titled Woodstock Meets the Sixties. Heppner, who has written extensively on Woodstock history, will discuss how, at the time, a decidedly conservative town “greeted” an influx […]

  • 1937 truck that once belonged to theTinker Street tinker.

    Woodstock’s Farming Story

    Historical Society of Woodstock 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY, United States

    Opening reception Saturday, September 30, 3–5 p.m. Admission: Free The Historical Society of Woodstock announces the opening of a new exhibition, Woodstock’s Farming Story, on Saturday September 30 2023 at 20 Comeau Drive Woodstock, N.Y. with an opening reception on September 30 at 3 pm. The exhibition, through images and artifacts, looks at how farming […]

  • Annual Meeting

    Historical Society of Woodstock 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY, United States
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    Family Tales of Farming and Country Life Around Old Woodstock

    Historical Society of Woodstock 20 Comeau Drive, Woodstock, NY, United States

    Would you want to hear the story about the farmer who kept bears as livestock? How about the woman who had a fried rattlesnake recipe and a special skillet just for it? These and many other Woodstock family stories have been handed down through the generations. Please join with some members of Woodstock families as […]