The Corinthian May-June 2012

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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 Greece Town Hall, 7:00 p.m.THE ARCHITECTURE OF JAMES JOHNSON with Mr. James Johnson

LOCATION: St. Johns the Evangelist Church, 2400 W. Ridge Rd.Local architect, James Johnson is known for his many outstanding designs in thecommunity, including Temple Sinai, Penfield PresbyterianChurch, the mushroom house, the Liberty Pole and in theTown of Greece, Our Lady of Mercy Rectory and St. John theEvangelist Church. Using videos and images from past projectsMr. Johnson will discuss many of his local projects and theconstruction techniques used.

Public welcome; GHS members, free. A suggested donation of $5.00from others. Reservations are not necessary. For more information call

the Greece Historical Society 585-225-7221.

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Programs 1

Museum Exhibits 2

Museum Education 5

Historians File 8,9

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Presidents Message 2

Directors Message 3

Museum Happenings 5

Contact Us 10

Annual Strawberry & Dessert Tasting FestivalMonday, June 18th, 2012

4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.595 Long Pond Rd.

Museum open with special exhibit

Free parking on the Museum lawn or at the Town Hall.


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"President's Message"Your support is needed

Its been nearly a quarter cen-tury that our home has been at595 Long Pond Rd. Like any home,a few repairs, maintenance andupgrades are needed now and

then, and our home is no excep-tion. The old farm house needs anew roof (Newcomb exhibit hall roof was replacedtwo years ago), some windows require repairs orreplacement, the back exit stairway needs to be re-built, the front porch needs painting and recentlywe had an emergency plumbing issue in our sec-ond floor bathroom. Our dedicated volunteers cando some of the work, but unfortunately all theseprojects take money and as everyone knows, gov-ernment grants are few and far between. So this

year our Strawberry & Dessert Tasting Festival willplay a major part in raising funds for our capital im-provements projects.

Join us on Monday, June 18th. For the small feeof $6.00 you will enjoy strawberry shortcake, andvisit area vendors who will be offering samples oftheir dessert products. D-J Paul Anken will be ourMC, Flying Brian and Miss Understood will keepthings going with adult and childrens activities,singing couple Music & Memories will perform

lively entertainment and a Karate demonstration

will be featured during the evening. Door prizes willbe given out throughout the evening and thepopular Chinese raffle will return with chances towin fabulous prizes. Hots, burgers, etc. will also beavailable for purchase.

We will also feature information displays fromseveral local organizations, including the GreeceCommunity & Senior Center and the Veterans Out-reach Center. The museum will be open with a spe-cial Civil War exhibit from the Military History Soci-ety of Rochester. Last year nearly 500 of our guests

enjoyed, what we considered, the Towns bestneighborhood festival.

Your support is crucial to maintain our standardof quality programs & events and continue to pre-serve our artifices and documents for future genera-tions. We sincerely hope that you will join on June18th and help us preserve the past for the future.BillSauers, President

Museum NewsSunday museum hours are 1:30 - 4p.m.

The office hours are Mondays 10 a.m. to Noon

12th Annual Plant SaleSaturday, May 19, 2012 - 9 am until Noon

See more on page 3

GPAS Notable Garden TourSaturday, June 16th 10am 4pm

See more on page 6

Strawberry/Dessert FestivalMonday, June 18th 4-8pm

NEW EXHIBITS OPENING in JuneGreece and the Civil War

Celebrating 100 years of Girl Scouting

Vi White, Museum Committee

Meet Our Newest Team VolunteerMeet Maureen Whalen, our newest volunteer.You may already know her as librarian at the

Rochester Public Library, Charlotte Branch. Morecently, Maureen has co-authored the 100thanniversary book recently published and avail-able for sale, The Rochester Public Library 10years of service.

Pictured here, she is busily entering membershdata into our new software called PastperfectMuseum Software. As you can see, her bubblycheerful personality shines through the tediotask.

She will alsohelp bring lo-cal history pro-grams foradults andchildren to ourown GreecePublic Library.


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From the Desk of the Executive Director

Please support our current business members and affiliates

We want to thank

them for their

continuing support:

**** Can You Help Us? ****We are in need of Docents for our Museum 1 or 2 Sunday afternoons a month. Call Kathie Firkins, 621-2869.

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We are currently seeking an Executive Director.

Save the Date!12th Annual Plant Sale

Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 9 am until Noon Featuring five local garden clubsMembers own hostas, dahlias, lilies and other perennials, as well as annuals and garden relateditems will be available for sale, rain or shine, on the grounds of the Greece Historical Museum.In event of severe weather, the sale will be held on Sunday, May 20th. We will have coffee &

donuts available for purchase and our museum gift shop will be open.

STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED !Mark your calendars for our annual strawberry & dessert tasting festival on Monday, June 18th.This festival, our main fundraiser for the year, takes the work of many volunteers for traffic control,ticket sales, set-up & take-down, entertainment, food purchasing, and dozens of other small jobs.Last year nearly 500 of our guests enjoyed, what we considered, the Towns best neighborhoodfestival.

If you are willing to help us with this important fundraiser, please give us a call at 225-7221or e-mail: [email protected].

Bowlin's Remodeling 585-944-9234

Butler Insurance 585-392-8006

Canandaigua National Bank www.cnbank.com

Flower City Printing www.fcp.biz

Greece Chamber of Commerce www.greecechamber.org

Long Pond Auto Body www.longpondautobody.com

Long Pond Family Restaurant www.longpondfamily.com

North Ridge Glass 585-458-4041

Northwest Savings Bank www.northwestsavingsbank.com

Pettis Pools www.pettispools.com

Sonitrol Security System http://www.sonitrol.com

Memorial Day ParadeThe colorful parade put on by the Town of Greece is held on Memorial Day and the best "seat inthe house" is in front of your Greece Museum. Bring your chairs, park your cars in our lot, and ifthe weather is nice, you can enjoy a picnic lunch near the gardens out back. This is a new idea -

it's free and fun. Bring friends, too. Call Lorraine Beane for more details. 225-4041
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Museum ShopSpring is coming! Join us on Saturday, May19th for

our Plant Day. In addition to the beautiful plants

offered by our local garden clubs, we will have our

annual Spring Cleaning Sale on merchandise in our

Museum Shop. We also have several new books in our

Shop about hiking, local places of interest, and more.Buy your beautiful spring plants and check out the

Museum Shop. All sales support the Greece Historical Society & Museum.

Hope to see you there!

Wendy Peeck, Museum Shop CoordinatorMuseum & Museum Shop hours: Sunday 1:30-4:00 pm

Officers & Board of Trustee

For newsletter input, please contact:

[email protected] Shevlin, EditorThis newsletter is published bi-monthly by the ed

for the Greece Historical Society and Museum.

Please RememberThe Greece Historical Society in your tand estate planning. We are a non-pro

organization supported by your

*gifts and endowments.

We sincerely appreciateyour donations.

*Tax deductable per (Section 501(c)(3) of the

Internal Revenue Code

A special thanks to ScottV. DeLucenay ofJohn D.Foy Plumbing for a greatjob fixing a recent

plumbing problem in oursecond floor bathroom

President Bill SauVice President Wendy PeSecretary Sandy PTreasurer Jack WallenhExecutive Director NEEDHonorary Trustee Don NewcoTrustees: Sue Ho

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Committee Chairs:Grounds, Building NEEDHistorian Office Alan MueMembership B. WallenhMuseum Viola WMuseum Shop Wendy PeNewsletter Editor Cyndie ShePlanning NEEDPrograms Bill SauPublicity Marge ZeRegistrar Betty FeTours, Education Kathie Fir

Community Garage SaleSaturday, July 28th 10am-4pmOne mans junk is another mans treasure

Join us for a fun community day.Grab a friend and rent a booth or come and search for treasures.

If you would like a booth to sell your wares, contactCyndie Shevlin (230-8218, call/text ) or email: [email protected] note, I am not available until May 15th.

February 26th

the history of theRochester Public Library withMaureen Whalen


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Happenings at the Greece Museum

Kathie Firkins, Education CommitteeChairperson and Tour Director

What Is It ?

GHS UpdatesCams PizzaOn March 15thCams Pizza on Long Pond Rd. gave us a portion of their profits from the days sales whicused our coupons. We are grateful to all who purchased nearly $500.00 in pizzas that day and helpedraise $100.00 for the Society.New RefrigeratorA special thanks to Phyllis & Paul Wadsworth of Hilton for donating a newer, larger and more efficient refrigerator for our kitchen. Also thank you John Plumber for driving to Hilton to retrieve it and Bill Peeckfor removing the old one.This Past Seasons Sunday ProgramsOur special Sunday programs are now over and everyone who came enjoyed the variety of subjects covered. There was something for everyone: from Father Bradshaw of Mother of Sorrows, genealogy tips,stories of early local aviators to apple samples and an art show. Wehad our usual visitors along with a few new faces each week.This Past Seasons Monthly ProgramsOur Tuesday evening lectures have averaged 85

guests, with one more scheduled for this season.

On Tuesday, May 8th

we will feature local architectJames Johnson. This program will be inside one of

Mr. Johnsons designs, St. John the Evangelist

Church on W. Ridge Road.

What year wasthis photo

taken? Come toour May 8th pro-gram at St. John

the EvangelistChurch to find

the answer.

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Education and Tours Committee Autumn Lane School visited the Greece Museum in March,

and Longridge School visited in April.We also visited Longridge School to present a program telling

the 2nd graders what they would be seeing during their

museum tour. Kathy Firkins will be happy to arrange scout or

school tours and you may call her at 621-2869 or email her at

[email protected]

Do you know what this

is? Have you used one?

Clue: for use when

things are too hot

to handle. Call 225-7221or 227-5305 with your

guess.

If you guessed an egg weighing scale,you are right. The fastest winners areRichard Freemesser, who had achicken farm on North Greece Rd;Rodger Burkart, and Jacqueline Ho-gestyn. Congratulations and thank

you for participating! Mr. Freemessergave us a Jiffy Way scale that is over 60 years old to displayin our museum.
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Police SgtChrisBittners programabout the History of

the Greece PoliceDepartment with

an extensive displayof artifacts andphotographs.

Amy MachamerofHurd'sOrchards with

an originalVick's Seed

Company oilpainting. On

March 18thAmy & SueMachamergave a wonder-

ful talk on thehistory of apple& fruit farming

and the sixgenerations ofHurd's. Every-one enjoyedsample pies

and jams.

SPOTLIGHT ON SOCIETY GARDENS!For several years, the Greece Historical Society and Museum has welcomed the Greece Performing Arts

Society (GPAS) Notable Garden Tour as it sets up its Garden Market in the big tent on our grounds. This hasbeen a great partnership for both the Society and the GPAS. Every year, the our gardens have been admired

from a distance by Garden Market shoppers. This year those gardens will be a stop on the Tour!

Four garden clubs, including Lakeview Garden Club, Shorewood Garden Club, Thyme in the Garden andWoodside Garden Club each have taken on the responsibility of planting and caring for an area on the Mu-seum grounds. The White family has also developed a garden sitting area in the rear. As the tour visitors roamour property, each club will have members stationed at its particular garden to discuss their garden plans and

to answer questions about their garden and their club.

We are very excited about this chance to welcome the larger community onto the grounds of the Mu-

seum, and are happy to host the Garden Clubs and the Tour. For the first time, the Museum and Gift shop will

be available to tour guests all day allowing for many people in our community to experience who we are and

why we exist.

The 16th Annual GPAS Notable Garden TourNeighbors and Neighborhoods will be rain or shineon Saturday, June 16 from 10 am to 4 pm. For tickets and more information, call the GPAS Hotline

at (585) 234-5636.***************************************************************************************

March 4thOrleansCountyCountry

Quilt BarnProject withLora Partyka

Jan Hewitt Towsley of theWeavers Guild of Rochester

explaining weaving tech-niques to Sandy Peck andRuth Curchoe on Sunday

March 25th.


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" Treasures from the Past "

Photos, data supplied byAlan Mueller,Historian's Office.

FROM THE HISTORIAN'S FILE

If you have any information on our photos, call Alan at 663-1706.

More than a few years ago our society was given a chair that had once been used by theHowe family in what was their home for twenty some years. After a move from Latta and LongPond Road, it is the older section of our museum complex. For a time the chair was used in vari-ous places in the facility but gradually the fabric (not the original) wore through. The arms lost

their finish and the frame became weak. It was then relegated to the storage loft.Last year we decided it needed to be brought back to life and again returned to the main

floor of the old house. After some research we found an old local furniture store folder and acatalog of the late 1920 period with several examples of a similar style chair being offered.A furniture rebuilding and upholstering company in Bloomfield (who does work for the Sonnen-berg Mansion in Canandaigua) took on the job, and helped us pick out the proper fabrics. Theresult is a now sturdy chair with the appropriate covering for a chair style of eighty years ago. Itis the only piece of furniture we have that was actually used in the house through its many own-ers. Take a look at it in living color when you next visit the museum.

This chair for$12.75 isalmost identi-cal to ours.An inflationcalculatorfigures the$12.75 costin1929 wouldbe $160.76 in2010 money.


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1. October 19632. New Town Board 19333.May Dance19564. Radio Press Conference 19675. Halloween 19586. First Meeting 1958

A few weeks ago a call came in from the son of a former town politician. He had retrieved afairly large group of photo albums from a man's estate that was being dispersed. Might he bringthem over as a possible donation? We have many, many local political photos, but there might possi-bly be some in this collection of interest. He arrived carrying a rather large blue suitcase from the1950s. Popping the sturdy latches revealed six albums, each featuring a former Town Supervisorfrom Gordon Howe to Don Riley. An additional album was from 1995 of a special recognition din-

ner for those former officials.A Greece Post article from that year covering the special dinner also had several paragraphs

about a Mr. Holden Miller as follows:Holden Miller? Miller was never elected to public office in Greece, but his name was on the lips

of almost every presenter and honoree at Monday's dinner. He has been collecting photographs ofand keepsakes from all of Greece's former supervisors for the past 40 years. His picture books andcollages were displayed for interested guests. "It's the first time my collection has ever been seen inpublic", Miller said. Miller plans to someday donate his collection to the Greece Historical Society.

The rather worn suitcase contained most of that collection. The Town Historian's Office ac-cepted the albums and will eventually put the collection in proper acid free folders and boxes. Un-

fortunately, the albums are from the period of self adhering pages. Who doesn't have such an albumcontaining family photos? They can create a nightmare for preservation if the materialsaren't removed before discoloration and sometimes permanent adhesion occurs. HoldenMiller would be pleased his collection will be preserved and given proper care.

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