Calendar of Events  - 2002

April

10                      Albany Heritage Kickoff – Commemoration of Founding of Beverwyck

13                     Slide Illustrated Talk :  Trade in Fort Orange and Beverwyck (at Albany Visitors Center)

20                     Lecture - “John Tayler: Trader and Politician (Barbagallo) For information call 584-7860

21                     Underground Railroad tour

24                     Concert – U-Albany Musicians of Maalwyck

25                     Lecture  - Meet the People of Colonial Albany (Bielinski)

May   

1                       Festival: Hudson-Mohawk May Day Labor Festival

5                     Fair: 3rd Annual Albany History Fair, Visitor's Center

5, 19                   Tour: Underground Railroad Tour

9-12                 Festival: 54th Annual Tulip Festival

                        Exhibit:  Political Cartoons of Hy Rosen

22                     Opening event:  “Political Cartoons and Albany Politics” (Hy Rosen at SUNY Plaza)

                        Followed by opening reception at Sawchuk Brown Assoc.

Summer

                        Talks/walks: Art & Religion Series - 6 weekend events

                        --Albany Rural Cemetery – Art & Death (Rice)

                        --Albany Stained Glass Windows (Callanan/Pratt)

                        --All Saints Cathedral (Garber)

                       --Cathedral of Immaculate Conception (Wilson)

                        --Gothic Revival Churches in Albany (Pratt)

                                   --The Albany Cathedrals (Pratt/S.A.H.)

                                   --Art of Synagogues & Churches (Roberts/Pratt)  

                Talks/walks: Architecture Series

                                    --Academy Park (Roberts)

                                --Albany’s Great Streets (Bray)

                                --Arbor Hill (Opalka)

                                --Pastures and Mansions (Opalka)

                                --Places and Styles (Pipkin/Roberts)

        Talks/walks: Environmental Heritage series

                                --Pine Bush Bird Watching

        --Thacher Park Bird Watching

June

2, 22                   Tour: Underground Railroad Tour

20                      Tour: Hidden City Home and Garden Tours

 July

July-Aug.               Tours: Trolley tours of historic downtown Albany

7, 14                       Tour: Underground Railroad Tour

19                         Event: Archeological Open House at Ten Broeck Mansion

27                      Before the City: Site and Topography of Albany

August

3                         Lecture: Spaces and Styles (Pipkin/Roberts)

4, 18                   Underground Railroad Tour

10                      Event: Hudson River Way Opening (for information call 465-2143)

17 ( tentative)         Lecture: Albany and the Architecture of Historicism (Roberts)

24                                Walking Tour and Lecture: Academy Park (Roberts)

31 (tentative)          Lecture: Shaping the Skyscape of Albany: Hooker and Reynolds (Roberts)

Fall

                            Lecture:  A Boundless Wealth and Commerce: Albany After the Revolution (Balla)

                            Lecture: The Landscape that Defined America: Hudson River School Paintings at AIHA (Groft)

                            Lecture: Len Tantillo’s Albany (Roberts)

September               

9/7/02 – 1/11/03        Exhibit: City Neighborhoods: Picturing the People and Places of 20th Century

                             Albany, Albany Institute of History and Art (AIHA)

        Talks/walks: Neighborhood Tour series, to be linked with AIHA exhibit

                                --Neighborhood Associations of Albany

                                --Albany’s Center Square (Yates)

                                --West Albany

8, 22                   Underground Railroad Tours      

9/13 - 11/10            Exhibit: State Street Stories – 350 Years of Albany’s Heritage, University Art

                            Museum

13                                                    Opening Reception for “State Street Stories” Exhibition, University Art     

                                                       Museum (5-8pm)

29                      Talk: "State Street and the Hudson River Basin".  L.F. Tantillo Gallery

                       The University  Art Museum will sponsor a "Sunday Afternoon Series"  of  

                          Public Programs during the course of the exhibition, ending on November

                         10th. Kindly call the museum at 442.4035 for additional information and

                dates.

9/17 – 12/7             Exhibit: Matters of Taste, Albany Institute of History and Art

21, 28                  Events: Art and Math workshops for children, University Art Museum

21, 22                  Event: 3rd Annual Hudson River Valley Ramble

21, 22, 28 ,29          Tours: Half Moon Tours

22                     25th Rensselaerswijck Seminar—presented by the New Netherland Project

                            and co-sponsored by AIHA.  For  information call 474-6067

 October

Ongoing         Exhibit: Matters of Taste, Albany Institute of History and Art

Ongoing         Exhibit: City Neighborhoods: Picturing the People and Places of 20th Century

                             Albany, Albany Institute of History and Art

Ongoing         Exhibit: State Street Stories – 350 Years of Albany’s Heritage, UAlbany

                         Lecture series with State Street Exhibit

                        Lecture: Dorothy Lathrop, Albany Illustrator (Roberts)

                        Lecture and Organ Recital : Adelaide Strong – at First Presbyterian Church (Roberts)

                       Lecture: From Mississippi to the Promised Land: The Story of the Rapp Road community in Albany                      (Lemak)

                Lectures: Political History Series

2                --Roundtable on the Corning Years – kickoff event

16             --Martin VanBuren and Albany (West)

                --Gay & Lesbian Albany and City Politics (Marnin)

23            --Gov. Thomas E. Dewey – the Gangbuster Gives Up (Ottman)

23            --Purging Demons and Rabble Rousers – Tales of Cold War Albany (Zahavi)

 5,6,12,13                Tours: Half Moon Tours

5, 12, 19, 26           Events: Children’s workshops - Art and Math, University Art Museum

6, 20                   Tours: Underground Railroad Tours

TBS                     Tours: NY State Capitol

                                Mansion Series          

                                --Lecture: The Four Albany Mansions (Roberts)

                                --Cherry Hill Mansion (separate events calendar)

                                --Schuyler Mansion (separate events calendar)

                                --Ten Broeck Mansion (separate events calendar)

                        Talk and Tour: Pine Hills & Westward Expansion (Weiss)

                        Talk and Tour: Preservation in Albany (Griffin)

November

Ongoing         Exhibit: Matters of Taste, Albany Institute of History and Art

Ends 11/10              Exhibit: State Street Stories – 350 Years of Albany’s Heritage, UAlbany

Ongoing         Exhibit: City Neighborhoods: Picturing the People and Places of 20th Century

                             Albany, Albany Institute of History and Art

Lectures: Neighborhood Stories

                                --Germans in Albany: Their Golden Age, 1871-1917 (Reimer)

                                --Immigrants & Minorities in Albany Neighborhoods, 1880—2000 (Logan)

                                --The Black Churches of Albany (Ballard)

                                --The Underground Railroad in Albany (Mary Liz and Paul Stewart)

                                --Meet the People of Colonial Albany (Bielinski)

                                --Lives of Women in the 19th Century (Lewis)

                                --Boarding Houses and Public Health on Albany’s Waterfront (Bouchard)

                        Lectures: Neighborhood Stories cont.

                                --The Irish Famine & Irish Immigration (McEneny)

                                --Irish Famine Relief Efforts in Albany (Strum)

1 - 2                           Conference: Monumental Visions and Urban Transformations

                                Lectures related to conference:

                                --Albany’s Megastructures: Public Spaces & Institutional Realms (Pipkin)

                                --The Impact of Urban Expressways & Arterials on Albany and

                                the Surrounding Region (Bromley)

                                --Suburbanization and Demographic Change in Albany (Logan)

3, 17                   Tours:  Underground Railroad Tours

21 - 22                Conference: Researching New York

                            Lectures related to conference:

                            --The Rockefeller Years: Transforming Albany (Persico)

                                --African American Women’s Clubs in Albany (Williams)

                                --Albany’s Entrepreneurial Women in the 19th Century (Lewis)

                                --Albany Civil Rights Movement & the Founding of the Brothers (Keough)

                                --Local Bells, Time and Society in Albany (Carroll)

                                --The Civil War Era in Albany (McEneny)

11/26 - 12/10           Lectures: Transportation & Technology series

(dates are tentative)           --History of Albany’s Water Supply (Cross?)

                            --Joseph Henry                  

                            --Mohawk & Hudson Railroad (Larkin)

                        --Railroads & the Great Strike of  1877 (Stowell)  

                                --The Capital Region as Silicon Valley of the 19th Century (Carroll)

                                --The Erie Canal Technology (Wolfe)

                                --Regional Impact of the Erie Canal (Williams)

        --Empire of Cars? Suburban Sprawl in the Capital Region (Fabozzi)

        --Development of a global transportation system (Opalka)

December                        

Ends 12/7               Exhibit: Matters of Taste, Albany Institute of History and Art

                                Lecture series with exhibit??

Ongoing         Exhibit: City Neighborhoods: Picturing the People and Places of 20th Century

                             Albany, Albany Institute of History and Art

6, 7                    Holiday Candelight Tours at Schuyler Mansion

8                       Holiday Open House at Schuyler Mansion

15           Concert: Albany Pro Musica’s An American Heritage Christmas, in Albany (other dates

             in Saratoga and Schenectady)

Calendar of Events – 2003

January

Ends 1/11               Exhibit: City Neighborhoods: Picturing the People and Places of 20th Century

                             Albany, Albany Institute of History and Art

1/18                    Event: Albany Heritage Political and Historical Memorabilia Road Show

1/27-3/2                Exhibit: Albany’s Jewish Community (at Sage’s Rathbone Gallery)

                            Will include lectures and panels

(Jan.-Feb.)             Exhibit: University at Albany Alumni, University Art Museum

February

6                     Exhibit: Reception, Albany’s Jewish Community (at Sage’s Rathbone Gallery)