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Council-Sponsored Events in New York State
Experience the humanities in action - take in an exhibition, attend a lecture series, or join a discussion group this month! The events listed here are either presented by the Council or by organizations that have been awarded Council grants or Speakers in the Humanities funding; all are open to the public. Please note that times and venues may change. Please contact the sponsoring organization to confirm event details.
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| Sep 9 2010 | Granville | Common Threads: Adirondack Quilts Tell Their Stories | More > |
| Sep 10 2010 | Syracuse | Syracuse Forum with Urban Institute Scholar Maria Rosario Jackson | More > |
| Sep 11 2010 | Fishkill | Patroons and Plowmen, Pietism and Politics: Dutch Settlers in the Hudson Valley in the 17th and 18th Centuries | More > |
| Sep 14 2010 | Binghamton | Reading Between the Lines Book Discussion: New York Burning by Jill Lepore | More > |
| Sep 14 2010 | Rochester | Exploring Other Cultures through Literature Reading & Discussion Program | More > |
| Sep 14 2010 | Endicott | New York's Missing Link: The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, Then and Now | More > |
| Sep 15 2010 | Forest Hills | Where Comedy Went to School | More > |
| Sep 15 2010 | Plainview | The United States and China: Friends or Enemies? | More > |
| Sep 16 2010 | New Lebanon | Seats of Shaker Innovation: the Design, Manufacturing, and Marketing of Mount Lebanon Shaker Chairs | More > |
| Sep 18 2010 | Chittenango | Erie Canal: Glitz & Glory | More > |
| Sep 18 2010 | Tuckahoe | Celebrating the Manteo Sicilian Marionette Tradition in New York | More > |
| Sep 19 2010 | Caledonia | Trunks and Travel... a 19th Century Journey | More > |
| Sep 22 2010 | Rosendale | From Founders to Farmers: An Archaeologist's View of 19th Century Homes in the Hudson Valley | More > |
| Sep 22 2010 | Long Island City | Reading Between the Lines Book Discussion: Towards An Understanding of Today's Activism | More > |
| Sep 24 2010 | Port Washington | The Ethnic Musicals: Assimilation and Integration | More > |
| Sep 24 2010 | New York | "I'm Right, You're Right, He's Right Too": Multiple Perspectives in Jewish Humor and Folklore | More > |
| Sep 24 2010 | Greenport | Feet, Hooves, and Rails: Transportation in Nineteenth Century America | More > |
| Sep 25 2010 | Hyde Park | Art in Food and Food in Art | More > |
| Sep 25 2010 | Ithaca | Alluring Androids and Robots in Film, Photography and Art | More > |
| Sep 25 2010 | Babylon | George Washington’s Long Island Spy Ring | More > |
| Sep 26 2010 | Granville | Rus'kyj Muzikanty Folk Music & Dance | More > |
| Sep 28 2010 | Tonawanda | Buffalo's Grand Celebration: The 1901 Pan-American Exposition | More > |
| Sep 29 2010 | Woodhaven | Patroons and Plowmen, Pietism and Politics: Dutch Settlers in the Hudson Valley in the 17th and 18th Centuries | More > |
| Sep 29 2010 | Oceanside | The Ethnic Musicals: Assimilation and Integration | More > |
| Oct 1 2010 | Richmond Hill | A Peek at the Underside of American Victorian History: Murder Most Foul! | More > |
| Oct 1 2010 | Rochester | "Panic and Pandemics: The Continuing Influence of George Goler” | More > |
| Oct 2 2010 | Syracuse | Trunks and Travel... a 19th Century Journey | More > |
| Oct 2 2010 | Lake Placid | Sojourner Truth and the Peculiar Institution in New York | More > |
| Oct 3 2010 | Setauket | Grand Opening, "Spies! How A Group of Long Island Patriots Helped George Washington Win the Revolution" | More > |
| Oct 3 2010 | Glen Cove | Italian Americans and the Media: Cinema, Video, Television | More > |
| Oct 3 2010 | Galway | The American Revolution: Iroquois Indian Perspectives | More > |
| Oct 3 2010 | Brooklyn | Neighborhoods of Brooklyn | More > |
| Oct 4 2010 | Stony Brook | Breakfast, Lectures, Lunch, and Letters at Stony Brook University | More > |
| Oct 4 2010 | Rochester | You Say You Want A Revolution: John Lennon, The Beatles, and the Politics of the 1960's and 1970's | More > |
| Oct 5 2010 | Cape Vincent | From Muscles to Motors on the Farm: Henry Ford and the Great American Tractor Wars, 1910-1930 | More > |
| Oct 5 2010 | Wellsville | The Wild, Wild East: New York's Drama of Westward Expansion | More > |
| Oct 5 2010 | Cornwall-on-Hudson, | Native Americans and the Natural World in the Hudson Valley | More > |
Exhibitions and Ongoing Events
| Jan 4 2009 Dec 31 2010 |
Albany | Hudson River Panorama: 400 Years of History, Art, and Culture | More > |
| Feb 14 2009 Dec 31 2010 |
Mt. Vernon | Exhibition Opening "Chief Executives on the Village Green: St. Paul's and the Presidents" | More > |
| Dec 4 2009 Dec 31 2010 |
Ballston Spa | Moving Forward: Exploring Our Routes in Saratoga County | More > |
| Jan 15 2010 Oct 31 2010 |
Youngstown | "Anglo-Native Relations on the Niagara Frontier, 1759-1764" | More > |
| Apr 15 2010 Mar 31 2011 |
Elmira | "Mark Twain in Elmira" Exhibition | More > |
| Apr 25 2010 Oct 11 2010 |
Blue Mountain Lake | Common Threads: 150 Years of Adirondack Quilts and Comfort | More > |
| May 1 2010 Dec 23 2010 |
North Tonawanda | Herschell-Spllman Motor Company | More > |
| May 28 2010 Oct 17 2012 |
Blue Mountain Lake | "Let's Eat! Adirondack Food Traditions" | More > |
| Jul 1 2010 Oct 2 2010 |
Voorheesville | Ellis Island, History and Memory: Book Discussion & Field Trip | More > |
| Jul 4 2010 Oct 11 2010 |
Garrison | Currier & Ives on the Hudson | More > |
| Sep 14 2010 Oct 26 2010 |
New Paltz | Public History in the Public Library: World History for Non- World Historians | More > |
| Sep 17 2010 Jan 9 2011 |
New York | Nueva York 1613-1945 | More > |
| Sep 21 2010 Sep 25 2010 |
Rochester | The Sixth Generation: Symposium on the New Wave of Chinese Cinema | More > |
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