Welcome to the 2017 Festival Schedule Festival Kick-Off Party ......................................................................Fri., Sept. 8 • 6 PM-9 PM Forrestel Farms Tours 6 PM - 7:30 PM 11380 Main St. (Shelby Ctr) off South Gravel Rd., Medina Tour historic Forrestel Farms and celebrate our local heritage with a barn dance featuring live music by City Fiddle. Bad Ash BBQ Food Truck, craft beverages available on site. Free Admission • Food & Beverage $ • Restrooms • Wear comfortable footwear for tour of grounds. Ancestors, Legends & Lore ................................. Sat., Sept. 9 GCC Albion Campus Center 9 AM-2 PM 456 West Ave, Albion Lecture: 11 AM-Noon Heritage Victorian Spiritualism: lecture, display and a re-enacted parlor seance. Free Admission • Restrooms Festival Genealogy Workshop (#1 of 2) ............................ Sat., Sept. 9 he Orleans County Heritage Festival is a county-wide GCC Albion Campus Center 9 AM-2 PM Tcelebration of historical and cultural attractions. This year, 456 West Ave, Albion the festival is occurring over an extended period. Participants Members of the Orleans County Genealogical Society will be on hand to help individuals with their genealogical research. can attend a variety of workshops, lectures and programs to Researchers at all levels are welcome. Handouts will be deepen their appreciation of our region’s priceless people, places, available for those researching the WWI service of their ancestor. Mary Todd Lincoln Researchers need not be residents of Orleans County. (Do you see the ghost organizations and assets based on selected themes. The 2017 Free Admission • Restrooms of Abe Lincoln???) Heritage Festival themes include: WWII Victory Garden ..................................................Sat., Sept. 9 • 9 AM-3 PM Guided Tour CCE 4H Fairgrounds Self-guided tour throughout week Erie Canal 12690 Route 31, Albion Celebrating the 200th anniversary of its creation Join Master Gardeners for a tour of a WWII Victory Garden similar to those utilized by US civilians during WWII. They will grow varieties common during that era and hand out copies of authentic Cornell Cooperative Extension 1942 informational Victory Garden leaflets. Plant sale. Military History Free Admission • Restrooms Commemorating Orleans County Veterans throughout history Cobblestone Society & Museum ...................................................Sat., Sept. 9 • 11 AM-5 PM 14389 Ridge Rd., Albion (Childs) Sun., Sept. 10 • 1 PM-5 PM Tours available Wed-Fri • 11 AM-5 PM Cobblestone & Sandstone Join us for a great family experience including guided museum tour, scavenger hunt and “make Appreciating our region’s geological your own Cobblestone building model.” Hands-on fun for all ages! contributions in architecture Admission: Free for members, kids 12 and under with accompanying adult, and Active Military with ID • Restrooms Legends & Lore • Spirits & Supernatural Medina Historical Society ..............................................................Sat., Sept. 9 • 11 AM-4 PM Retelling local tales of the glorious and ghostly 406 West Ave., Medina Unique local heritage items, WWI display featuring Company F 2 www.OrleansNYHeritage.com Free Admission • Restrooms 3 Daughters of the American Revolution .........................................Sat., Sept. 9 • 1 PM-5 PM The Heartland Passage Tour .....................................................Thurs., Sept. 14 • 5 PM-9 PM 249 N. Main St., Albion Erie Canal Basin, Medina (Rain location: Medina Theatre, 603 Main St.) Guided tours of the Patriots House, exhibit of historic military memorabilia, patriots from the 5:00-8:00 pm: Medina Lions Club food stand-come down early for dinner! American Revolutionary War; DAR video. Free Admission • Restrooms 6:00-6:45 pm: Meet Surly Sal, an Erie Canal cook, performed by Gretchen Murray Sepik 6:45-8:00 pm: Canal music by The Dady Brothers & Kit Fallon, Dave Ruch, and stories with WWI Veterans of Orleans .........................................................Sun., Sept. 10 • 7 PM-8:30 PM guest, Dave Gower, canal engineer. (See performers’ profiles on pp. 10-12) Hoag Library • 134 South Main St., Albion 8:00-8:30: Erie Canal Film, “Boom and Bust: America’s Journey on the Erie Canal,” a new Orleans County Historian Matt Ballard will discuss the service of Orleans County residents documentary tracing the cultural riches of the canal through its industrial rise and decline, and during WWI. Company F Memorial Creative Director Lynne Menz and Sculptor Brian Porter will rebirth as a tourist & recreational gem. provide an update on the progress on the bronze statue. Free Admission • Restrooms Free Admission • Food & Beverages $ • Restrooms The Orleans County Genealogical Society meets "2nd Sundays at 7" at the Hoag Library in Albi- on. “Family Tree Fridays” are held on the 1st and 3rd Fridays from 1-3 PM, also at the Hoag. All FREE! For more information, visit www.OrleansCountyGenealogicalSociety.org or follow us on Facebook. 9-11 Heroes Memorial Service ............................................................Mon., Sept. 11 • 10 AM Elks Lodge, 428 West State St., Albion Join local dignitaries and veterans for a memorial service to honor the Heroes of 9-11. Heroes Candlelight Vigil ........................................................................Mon., Sept. 11 • 6 PM Courthouse Square, S. Main St., Albion Join local fire departments, rescue squads and law enforcement at the 9-11 Memorial Stone for a candlelight vigil in memory of both local and 9-11 heroes. About The Heartland Passage Tour: The Heartland Passage tour is a unique new Hart House Hotel Spirits ............................................................. Tues., Sept. 12 • 7 PM-9 PM performance event that will travel on the Erie Canal September 2 – 23* to celebrate 113 West Center St., Medina its bicentennial and demonstrate its cultural and historic impact through songs, Guided Ghost Tours of Hart House Hotel and the former Newell Shirt Factory, led by Chris stories and the documentary film “Boom and Bust. “ The tour is funded by the Busch. Free Admission National Endowment for the Arts and a Regional Economic Development Grant through the New York State Council on the Arts. The Tour is sponsored by City Maplewood Cemetery ..................................................................Wed., Sept. 13 • 7 PM-8 PM Lore (www.citylore.org), the Erie Canal Museum (www.eriecanalmuseum.org) and Route 237, South of Clarendon Livingston Arts (www.livingstonarts.org). For more information and tickets see Guided walking tour led by GCC history professor Derek Maxfield. One of the oldest cemeteries www.citylore.org/heartland-passage-tour. in Orleans County, Maplewood Cemetery is the resting place of some of the area’s earliest pioneers. Two Revolutionary War soldiers are buried here as well as Thomas McManners, About the Sponsors: Founded in 1986, City Lore’s mission is to foster New York City an escaped slave who fought for the Continental Army and was said to be a servant to Gen’l – and America’s – living cultural heritage through education and public programs. George Washington during the Revolution. Free Admission The Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse provides engaging educational experiences that champion an appreciation and understanding of the Erie Canal. The mission Hurd Orchards Canal Boat Kitchen Luncheon & Siphon Tour ...................Thurs., Sept. 14 of Livingston Arts is to enrich the quality of life in Livingston County and Western 17260 Ridge Rd., Holley Luncheon: 12:30-2 PM New York by encouraging and promoting the arts and cultural activities. Siphon Tour: 4 PM – 5 PM Experience an Erie Canal Boat luncheon, the Canalboat Kitchen featuring early 19th century See full schedule at: fare for lunch, sharing artifacts and story telling that brings the canal to life. They will also share www.citylore.org/heartland-passage-tour the vital role that the canal plays in modern agriculture. Weather permitting, they will lead a tour to their siphon on the Erie Canal to show how the waterways supply agricultural needs. Luncheon: $31.75 + tax • Call for Reservations at 585-638-8838 Siphon Tour: 4 PM – 5 PM • Free Admission 4 www.OrleansNYHeritage.com 5 WWI Era Music Concert ..............................................................Fri., Sept 15 • 1 PM-2:30 PM Medina Historical Society ............................................................Sat., Sept. 16 • 11 AM-4 PM Stroyan Auditorium, Lyndonville High School • 25 Housel Ave, Lyndonville 406 West Ave., Medina The Elementary Summer Honors Band (Albion, Medina & Lyndonville) and choral groups will Unique local heritage items, WWI display featuring Company F. Free Admission • Restrooms present a concert with music from the World War I era. Exhibits will be available for review featuring clothing from the era and presentations will be shown between musical selections. Daughters of the American Revolution ......................................Sat., Sept. 16 • 10 AM-4 PM Free Admission • Restrooms 249 N. Main St., Albion Guided tours of Patriots House, exhibit of historic military memorabilia, patriots from the Mount Albion Walking Tour ........................................................Fri., Sept. 15 • 6 PM & 7 PM American Revolutionary War; Video on the DAR. Free Admission • Restrooms 14925 Telegraph Rd. (Route 31), Albion Join Orleans County Historian Matt Ballard at the historic Mt. Albion Cemetery for two 50 minute Sandstone Society Hall of Fame .................................................Sat.,