Regional Interests
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The Catskill Center for Conservation And Development The Catskill Center is a non-profit organization working to protect the cultural, historic, and natural resources of the Catskill Mountains. Marrying both environmental protection and sustainable economic development they advocate for the region’s vibrant main streets, valuable natural resources, artistic and historic assets, and working landscapes. They offer a variety of lectures, events, and programs, to learn more please visit their website. |
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Delaware and Ulster Railride Step back in time as you board the historic D&U. Your journey will include an ever changing landscape of quaint villages, rolling fields, majestic mountains and pastoral farms while you enjoy a leisurely ride along the pristine waters of the East Branch of the Delaware River. The Arkville depot offers a terrific exhibit chronicling the important role the railroad played in the development of the region. There’s a gift shop that offers a unique shopping experience that will help commemorate your trip or delight someone special who is waiting for your return. |
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Erpf Gallery The Erpf Gallery offers five annual exhibits, lectures, and workshops on the rich cultural, and artistic heritage of the Catskills area. |
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Friends of Music of Stamford, NY Friends of Music presents various chamber musicians, soloists, and groups, with a focus on classical and semi-classical music. Celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2006, this organization strives to improve the culture of the community with outstanding international musicians. |
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Greater Fleischmanns Museum of Memories This museum has a collection of items from the town of Fleischmanns along with many facts about the region. |
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New Century Jazz, Inc. This not-for-profit organization promotes the awareness of jazz music trhough concert series, clinics, music scholarships and more. |
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Open Eye Theater Through dedication and professional training, the Open Eye Theater presents to the community an array of dramatic performances each year. |
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Plattekill Mountain For almost 10 years, Plattekill has been one of the Northeast's premier destination for downhill mountain biking and freeriding. The technical terrain is among the best on the East Coast and has helped Plattekill earn a worldwide reputation as a mountain biking paradise. The trails at Plattekill range from fast, open runs to tight rocky single-track. Plattekill Mountain offers winter activities as well, please visit their website for more information. |
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Roxbury Arts Group, Inc. The Roxbury Arts & Cultural Center is open year-round and offers workshops, live performances, and art exhibits. |
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Stamford Performing Arts Center This center offers year-round events and arts programming for the Catskill community. |
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| Bear Pond Wines Bear Pond Winery is a New York State Farm Winery nestled on a gentle hillside in the heart of the Leatherstocking region of Central New York. The winery offers exhibits, tours, wine tastings, a gift shop and a beautiful setting to enjoy good food and wine. |
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Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad Take a trip back in time on vintage rail cars and locomotives through the scenic wilderness of the Upper Susquehanna River Valley. |
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Delaware County Historical Association The Delaware County Historical Association was founded in 1945 to preserve and present the rich history of Delaware County. DCHA is home to 7 historic buildings including the 1797 Frisbee House and barn, blacksmith shop, nineteenth-century gun shop, school house, turnpike tollgate house, Christian Church at Fitch's Bridge a well as two exhibit galleries, research library and archives, gift/book shop, nature trail and much more. |
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Hanford Mills Museum Explore America's industrial past. Situated in the northern Catskills, Hanford Mills Museum is a working saw and grist mill powered by a Fitz overshot waterwheel. The Museum also features tours of the John Hanford Farmstead and a gasoline powered engine and dynamo. Whether you are visiting on your own or with your family, Hanford Mills Museum offers something for everyone. Explore the mill at your leisure or take a guided tour. Walk the nature trail, and view exhibits of local and regional history in the exhibit gallery. Visit the gift shop filled with items made by local craftspeople, children's items, and great books for young and old on related topics. Overlooking the mill pond is a beautiful picnic area, and you are welcome to bring your lunch and enjoy the site. For your convenience the Museum operates a snack shop during the Museum's special events. |
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| Healing Waters Farms Healing Waters Farms is a working farm and museum that is home to Animal Land, which features domestic and exotic animals, as well as the Walton Carriage Museum. | ||
Honest Brook Music Festival The Honest Brook Musci Festival presents four first-rate classical music concerts in the rural settong of a preserved dairy barn. |
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| Hunting Tavern Museum Hunting Tavern Museum is a fully restored 1840’s tavern that features exhibits, demonstrations, and guided tours. |
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Howe Caverns, Inc. Howe Caverns offers guided cavern tours year round. Traditional tours include a quarter-mile boat ride on the underground lake of Venus. The tour takes approximately 80 minutes. |
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Irish American Heritage Museum The Irish American Heritage Museum is dedicated to the preservation and promulgation of Irish American cultural traditions. We devise projects and develop programs focusing on the unique heritage of the sons and daughters of American Heritage. |
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Iroquois Indian Museum
The Iroquois Indian Museum is an educational institution dedicated to fostering understanding of Iroquois culture using Iroquois art as a window to that culture. The museum is a venue for promoting Iroquois art and artists, and a meeting place for all peoples to celebrate Iroquois culture and diversity. As an anthropological institution, it is informed by research on archaeology, history, and the common creative spirit of modern artists and craftspeople. |
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National Soccer Hall of Fame & Museum Informational exhibits reveal the history of soccer and the museum’s “Kicks Zone” lets players test their skills and strategy with a variety of challenges. |
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Oneonta Tigers The Tigers, a member of the New York Penn League, are a Class A-short season affiliate of the Detroit Tigers and play baseball games from June through September. |
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Orpheus Theatre Orpheus Theatre offers three Mainstage musicals September through May as well as other periodically scheduled special theatrical events. We also offer Musical Theatre workshops throughout the year for children and adults and have an Arts In Education program that brings literally thousands of students to live theatrical productions. |
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The Science Discovery Center of Oneonta
State University The discovery center is a diverse and engaging hands-on science museum appealing to children and adults of all ages. |
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Stone & Thistle Farm and Kortright Creek
Creamery Farm Tours Visitors to this working, pasture-raised livestock farm are invited to see and pet the animals, tour the goat dairy, milk a goat, see the egg laying cabins, and watch border collies at work. |
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The West Kortright Center Nestled in the Catskill Mountains, this historic Greek Revival building now houses artistic events from dramatic presentations to poetry readings. |
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Windham Vineyard & Winery Come visit a picture perfect mountaintop vineyard and micro-winery. We produce small batches of hand crafted wines for every taste. |
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| Brewery Ommegang Based on traditional Belgian farmhouse architecture and set on a former hop farm in upstate New York, Brewery Ommegang was born with the philosophy that truly unique ales must be built from the ground up. Now brewing five award-winning Belgian-style ales and offering daily tours and tastings, plus a full calendar of special events, Brewery Ommegang is the place where brewing is an art and partaking is a passion. |
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Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum The Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to teaching visitors about the heritage, science and art of fly-fishing. Exhibits feature famous people in fly-fishing history, as well as a variety of rare angling equipment, art, and artifacts that demonstrate the tradition, and techniques of fly-fishing. They offer educational programs in river ecology, angling history, stream craft, fishing etiquette, fly tying, fly casting, aquatic entomology, and stream improvement. |
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Charlotte’s Vineyard |
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The Cherry Valley Museum Built in 1832, the Cherry Valley Museum features a collection of furniture, quilts, equipment and dioramas that display much of the history of the Cherry Valley and surrounding areas. |
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Cooperstown Art Association The Cooperstown Art Association was formed in 1928 by a group of six professional artists to serve and maintain interest in the applied and fine arts and to provide the means to increase the communities’ awareness and participation in the arts. The CAA exhibits approximately 18 shows a year, featuring a cross section of styles and abilities and bringing in a multitude of artists and patrons. They offer classes, demonstrations and lectures throughout the year along with an ongoing figure drawing class. |
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Cooperstown Bat Company The Cooperstown Bat Company has been making bats for players and collectors since 1981. Guided tours of the factory are available throughout the summer. |
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Cooperstown Brewing The Cooperstown Brewery offers premium ales, porters and stouts, plus one soft drink, a home style root beer. Tours are available daily, followed by an informal tasting session. |
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Cooperstown Fun Park The Cooperstown Fun Park offers visitors attractions such as a go-karts, bumper boats, batting cages, miniature golf, and arcade games. |
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The Farmers’ Museum The Farmers’ Museum is a recreated 1800s village where people are dressed in the parts and guests can walk through the village an visit an old store, schoolhouse, pharmacy, doctor’s office, and much more. |
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Fenimore Art Museum The Fenimore Art Museum features fine collection of American art in a neo-Georgian structure with terrace gardens overlooking Otsego Lake. |
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Fly Creek Cider Mill and Orchard, Inc. This turn-of-the-century water-powered mill is a fascinating family attraction located in the heart of New York State just minutes from Cooperstown, New York, the home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Sample a wide variety of tasty treats in the Snack Barn featuring old-fashioned cider mill donuts, hearty chili, daily soup specials, hot spiced cider, hot dogs, apple pie a la mode, cider floats and more. Take home a pound of their famous aged cheddar or bagged cheese curds, farm-fresh produce and- of course - fresh sweet cider. |
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Franklin Stage Company The Franklin Stage Company offers innovative productions of plays from the classical repertory and new works created for its international company of actors. The Company is celebrating a new season of free admission performances in the historic Chapel Hall. |
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Glimmerglass Opera Since 1975 the Glimmerglass Opera has provided outstanding opera performances to visitors and area residents. |
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Hero’s of Baseball Wax Museum America’s only Baseball Wax Museum features over 30 figures of famous players and a full length Bloopers Movie catching the funniest moments in baseball history. |
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Hyde Hall, Inc. Hyde Hall is a house museum and regional cultural center offering visitors the uniwue oppurtinity to tour a true restoration in progress. |
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Leatherstocking Theatre Company The Leatherstocking Theatre Company has produced high quality contemporary American theatre in a beautiful summer environment since 1990. |
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Mabee Farm Historic Site In a storybook setting of productive fields and a matchless Mohawk River landscape sits the Jan Mabee Farm - the oldest in the Mohawk Valley. The stone house was owned by the same family for nearly 300 years. Coupled with the Inn and Slave Quarters buildings as well as a New World Dutch Barn and other outbuildings, the site provides a memorable visual encounter with a former frontier outpost. Programs, activities, and school field trips at the Farm demonstrate the traditional values of rural life: the way a household was run, farming methods, and Colonial life. But the Farm's longevity also makes it a prime example of the economic and social changes associated with wars, the construction of the Erie Canal, and the advent of the railroad. |
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Mohawk Valley Heritage Corridor The Mohawk Valley is a grand mosaic of legendary places where great events and heroic people shaped the course of early American history. Today, this rich and distinguished past is a source of immense regional pride and tremendous economic potential. The State of New York has established the Mohawk Valley Heritage Corridor Commission to preserve and develop this priceless legacy. |
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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Since 1939 this museum has stood asa definitive repository of the game’s treasures and asa symbol of the most progound individual honor bestowed on an athlete. The museum fewtaures nearly 130,00 baseball cards, 35,000 bats, glves, balls and equipment. |
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Northeast Classic Car Museum Museum frequenters will see the history of the automobile on this large diverse collection of over 100 vintage cars. |
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Petrified Creatures Museum of Natural History The Petrified Creatures Museum of Natural History was established in 1934. It is one of the oldest museums in New York State and is chartered by the New York State Board of Regents as an "Educational Museum of Science and Nature". The Museum is a hands-on discovery center where you can actually learn about fossils, then dig for fossils and keep what you find free. All this while roaming through a nature path filled with life sized Dinosaur statues. |
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Proctors Theatre Since 1926, Proctor's Theatre, a historic, beautifully restored theatre located in the heart of downtown, has presented the very best in entertainment for New York's Capital Region. Proctor's Theatre is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
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Roscoe O&W Railway Museum The museum complex consists of the O&W refurbished Caboose, the original Trout Weather Vane, Train Order Signal and many other O&W artifacts. |
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Smithy-Pioneer Gallery The oldest building in Cooperstown, built in 1786, this art gallery/sculpture garden was once used as a blacksmith shop. |
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“Where it all Began” Bat Company Visitors are allowed to watch through a 60-foot glass wall as craftsmen create a Little League, Major League and Pro-Model bats from select northern white ash. |
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The Yager Museum of Art & Culture
The Yager Museum of Art & Culture has impressive holdings of Upper Susquehanna Indian artifacts, Southwestern pottery, baskets and rugs, and South American pre-Columbian artifacts. Five exhibition galleries, featuring permanent and changing exhibits, are located in the museum. |
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Albany Institute of History & Art Founded in 1791, the Albany Institute of History & Art, one of the oldest museums in the United States, is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and promoting interest in the history, art and culture of Albany and the Upper Hudson Valley. The museum achieves this mission through its collections, exhibitions, education programs, library, research projects, publications and other programs offered to the general public. |
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Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception St. Mary's Parish Church located at what is now the corner of 15th and Stout streets was the first Catholic Church in Denver. Father Joseph P. Machebeuf celebrated the first Mass on Christmas eve of 1860. |
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The Children's Museum of Science and Technology The Children’s Museum of Science and Technology is dedicated to introducing children of all ages to a wide spectrum of science and technology topics, integrated with history and the arts, in a fun and friendly environment. |
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Crailo State Historic Site Crailo State Historic Site is a museum of Colonial New Netherland history in the upper Hudson Valley. Originally a part of the vast landholding called the Manor or Patroonship of Rensselaerswyck, the Crailo farm was named after the Van Rensselaer's estate in the Netherlands, variously spelled Crayloo or Cralo in the 17th century, and meaning "crows' wood" in Dutch. Crailo today tells the story of the early Dutch inhabitants of the upper Hudson Valley through exhibits highlighting archeological finds from the Albany Fort Orange excavations, special programs, and guided tours of the museum. |
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Deposit Historical Society Museum Built in 1874, and formerly the Knapp Brothers Bank, the museum offers an insight into the history of Deposit through exhibits, information and artifacts. |
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Historic Cherry Hill Your tour of Cherry Hill will tell the poignant story of Catherine Bogart Putman Rankin (1857-1948), the great-granddaughter of Philip and Maria Van Rensselaer, and fourth-generation owner of Cherry Hill. It was she who was most responsible for the preservation of this Albany landmark and its contents through her deep and abiding love for her ancestral home, an affection that she passed on to her children. |
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New York State Military & Veteran's Museum The museum houses the state's collection of more than 10,000 military artifacts, some dating back before the Revolutionary war. The museum, at 61 Lake Ave., is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Admission is by donation. New York State Museum The New York State Museum is a major research and an educational institution dedicated to preserving New York's rich artistic, social, historical, and environmental legacies under the leadership of the New York State Education Department. |
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Pruyn House This beautifully restored home situated on 5 acres is a connection to the Dutch heritage of this area. Built by Casparus Pruyn about 1830 as a country home for his wife, Ann, and their eight children, it is a blend of Federal and Greek Revival architecture. Along with his job as land and business agent for Stephen Van Rensselaer III, the last patroon, Mr. Pruyn used a portion of his over 170 acres for farming. In 1982, the Town of Colonie purchased the home, began extensive repairs and opened it to the public in 1985 as a historic and cultural center. |
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The Red Barn The Red Barn is a bar, restaurant and dance hall in a beautiful country setting. Open weekends from May through October, it features live bands and dinner theater. The Red Barn is also available for weddings, parties, banquets, reunions, etc |
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Shaker Heritage Society The Shaker Heritage Society, founded in 1977, is a non-profit historic preservation group which runs interpretive educational programming about the Shakers and their influence on the region; it is also actively concerned with preserving the integrity of the Watervliet Shaker Historic District, America's First Shaker Settlement (Listed on the National Register of Historic Places). |
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Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site Schuyler Mansion was home to Philip J. Schuyler, the renowned Revolutionary War general, US Senator, and business entrepreneur. Today, visitors can enjoy a guided tour of the mansion as well as an orientation exhibition in the Visitor Center focusing on Philip Schuyler's life. Temporary exhibitions and public programs are scheduled year-round. Tours for school and adult groups, as well as outreach programs, are available by reservation. Group tour rates are available for 10 or more people. |
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USS Slater The Slater is a Cannon Class Destroyer Escort. Of the 565 destroyer escorts produced in World War II, USS SLATER (DE-766) is the only one remaining afloat in the United States, and the only one with original battle armament and configuration. These trim but deadly warships had the duty of looking out for enemy submarines and kamikazes as they escorted ship convoys across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Visitors have a chance to see what life was like for the sailors who manned these vessels when they come aboard this Cannon Class destroyer escort in Albany, N.Y. |
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