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Berne Heritage Day 2006
cancelled
(twice) because of rain
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This is what we missed.... |
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Chicken BBQ
provided by the
Friends
of the Berne Library
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2PM~Opening event
Arrival of the Bassler Family
in a 1914 Ford Touring Car |
the Hilltowns Marketplace
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feature of the day:
book signing by Will
Osterhout
Life Along the Way,
a pictorial history of the hamlets of Berne
available to the public for the first time at Heritage Day!
more info |
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Other Festivities at the Park
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Hilltowns Marketplace |
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Classic Car Show |
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Music |
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Food |
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Games |
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Craft Demonstrations |
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Book signing ~ Life Along the
Way
by Will Osterhout
This is a limited edition. To reserve your copy for signing at
Berne Heritage Day, you may e-mail the author,
Willard Osterhout.
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Life Along the Way, compiled and
edited by Willard Osterhout, is a pictorial journey through the
hamlets of the Town of Berne, Reidsville, East Berne, Warner's Lake,
Thompson's Lake, Berne, South Berne, West Berne, Huntersland, and our
neighbors in Gallupville, during the time 1850 to 1950. Also you
will find a section of recollections by a number of Berne residents
about their life and growing up in the town and a selection of items
from the Knowersville and Altamont Enterprise from 1890 through 1930
about the Warner's Lake and East Berne area.
Price: $35.00. 440 pages. Life Along the Way will
be available to the public for the first time at Heritage Days on July
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Berne Heritage Days 2005
Click
here for Schedule of Events
Click here
to enter the Pie Baking Contest!
July 15:
Welcome Dinner &
Guest Speaker Jack McEneny
July
16: Heritage
Events & Festival
July
17: Cemetery Restoration
& Picnic
Click here to make Friday Welcome Dinner
reservations.
Click here to make Saturday BBQ
reservations.
Erin
Willsey, BHD Chair 2005
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Schedule of Events
Reservations necessary for Welcome Dinner and Saturday BBQ
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Opening Events - Berne Reformed Church
Welcome Dinner
6PM Social Hour
Refreshments. Entertainment by the Traditional Strings
7PM Dinner Reservations required. Pre-payment requested.
Click here for price, menu & reservation information.
Guest Speaker
8PM
State Assemblyman Jack McEneny
All welcome. No reservations
required. Church sanctuary.
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Saturday
 Family
Fun
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Historical
Heritage Events |
Town Park
1:00-2:00
Terrell Shoultes: Genealogy Talk
2:30 to 4:30
Veterans Round Table
5:30 Ceremony Honoring Hilltown Vets
All day:
Civil War mini-encampment, WWII exhibits including a TANK,
jeeps, a "Weasel"
Have your photo taken with a Veteran or Living
History Person or on a tank! Staples Store of Colonie will be here with a
digital equipment display and demonstration!
Genealogy - research exhibit including website access via Direct TV. Scan your family's old photos for the Genealogical
Website.
Historical craft demonstrations: Spinning, Weaving,
Blacksmithing, Dutch Barn Preservation, Construction of
a hand-hewn beam. |
Town Hall
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Dutch Barn
Tour (self-guided)
Free. Maps available at Town Hall 8:45-11:00
For more info click here.
William Shultes
barn, 2233 Heldeberg Trail West Berne
Jacob Shultes barn, Rock Road
John Post barn, Bradt Hollow Road
Historical Museum open 12 - 4 |
Family Fun At the Park starting at
10AM:
Kids games and rides Uncle Sam will be visiting during the
day!
Hayrides
Great Food all day!
(Reserve your chicken bbq)
1:30 Pie Baking Contest Judging
& Slice Sale
Berne Marketplace
Live music
12:00--1:00 Knox
Town Band
1:30--2:30 Nite
Train
3:00--4:00 Together Again
4:30 Knox
Town Band
7:00 Live Band: WWII era music and SWING DANCE
Fireworks at dark!
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Sunday
10 AM Cemetery Restoration & 2
pm Potluck Picnic
Wright Family Cemetery: Willsey Road just south of the intersection
with Irish Hill Road.
Arrive between 10 AM and noon with
1. gloves and work tools: shovel, trowel, etc.
2. beverage to last all day!
A community picnic will begin about 2 PM. Bring a chair if desired,
your table setting, a dish to share & your beverage.
For more
information contact Ralph Miller, 872-0212. Sponsored by the Berne
Historical Project at www.Bernehistory.org,
and the Town of Berne.
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Pie
Baking Contest
Saturday, July 16, Town Park Pavilion. $3
entry fee.
- Bake your favorite pie/s
- Write the recipe on a 3x5 card & attach to the bottom of
the pie pan/s.
- Deliver the pie/s between
Noon & 1PM to the kitchen area of the Town Park pavilion.
- Pay $3 entry fee per pie.
- Judging will be at 1:30 for 1st, 2nd and
3rd prizes. Slices will be sold afterwards.
- Be sure to retrieve your pie pan/s if
necessary.
Click
here to e-contact Erin
about volunteering, involving your organization, being a vendor. Or call
Erin at 518 872 9081.
Volunteers
needed:
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Welcome Dinner
Berne Reformed Church
Friday, July 15
Click here
for reservations & menu.
Berne
Auxiliary Chicken BBQ, Saturday, July 16, 4 - 6 PM, Town Park
Prepaid Reservations Required
Click
here for menu & order form
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Wanted:
Hilltown WWII Vets
Click
here for easy registration form.
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WANTED
WWII
Service Men and Women of the Berne, Knox, Westerlo,
Rensselaerville, and surrounding areas are respectfully invited to
participate in Heritage Days 2005, to be held July 15, 16 and 17th.
We will be honoring our WWII Veterans in recognition of the
60th Anniversary of the end of WWII.
Please contact Erin Willsey, Coordinator of Heritage Days
2005, at (518) 872-9081.
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Past Heritage Days
BHD
2003 BHD 2004
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Berne Heritage
Days 2004
July 9, 10, 11
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At The Berne
Town Park
Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 11am
– 10pm
The park is located on Rte 443 just west of the hamlet of Berne.
Berne Heritage Day 2004 will include historic demonstrations and
displays, exhibits of home and farm crafts, food vendors, fireworks, live
music, hayrides, and a country marketplace with crafts, baked goods &
produce. Have fun with the entire family! See a genealogical
workshop, working draft horse team, barbershop quartet, or play
old-fashioned games. The Berne Historical Society Museum will be
open. Chicken BBQ starts at 3:30 pm.
Featured Entertainment:
3 pm - Hilltown Players – Historic characters & songs
4 pm – Knox Traditional Strings – Traditional and old-time music
7 pm – Hilltown Ramblers – Bluegrass and more
8 pm – Radically Sheep – Geezer rock for the New Millennium
9pm – Fireworks!
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Historic District Forum
Friday, July 9, 2004 - 8pm
A Historic District Forum sponsored by the Berne
Historical Project and the Town of Berne will be held in the Hamlet of
Berne, at the Berne Reformed Church sanctuary, on Friday June 9th at 8 pm.
The Forum is intended as a means to educate the community about the
advantages and disadvantages of historic districts in general. To be
followed by dessert and beverages in Friendship Hall.
Huge Benefit Garage Sale
Saturday, July 10,
9 - 3
A
“HUGE GARAGE SALE” sponsored by the BKW CSEA for the benefit of Anthony Hill, a 15-year-old BKW
student with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma will be held on July 10 at the BKW
High School Gym from 9AM to 3 PM. Donations accepted and
appreciated. Call 872-9811 or 0355, or 295-7310 to contribute.
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Historic House Tour
Saturday, July 10, 2004
pick up free map
9am - 11am
at B-K-W
The Berne History
Project is sponsoring a drive-it-yourself circular tour up West Mountain
and back. The tour will visit five historic structures and take
about an hour and a half. There is no charge. Map and tour
information will be available at the Berne-Knox-Westerlo school on Rte 443
from 9 until 11 am.
Book Sale to
benefit Berne Library
Saturday, July 10,
9 - Noon
at the
Old firehouse in the hamlet of Berne |
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5k Race
8:00
AM, Sunday, July 11, 2004
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Cemetery Restoration &
Picnic
Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 10am +
The Berne History Project is sponsoring the third
annual cemetery restoration project and picnic at the small abandoned Zeh
Family Burying Ground on Simons Road .3 mile east from Turner Road on the
left. There are 17 known stones, and undoubtedly some to be found.
Volunteers should bring gloves, shovels, clippers, etc. There will be a
community picnic at the grounds starting around 2 pm. Bring a dish or
beverage to share.
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Berne
Heritage Days 2003
BHD
2003 Album |
July 18, 19,
20, 2003
Sponsored
by the Town of Berne and organized by the Berne Heritage Days
Volunteer Committee, M. Helen Lounsbury, Chair. Supported in part by the
NY Council for the Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment
for the Humanities. |
March
2004: Heritage Days
2003 receive statewide award
Click
here to read press release |
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photo from the Berne
Historical Society Archive
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Events & information
Click
for
a PDF of the Heritage Days flyer with the schedule of events or
scroll down for events
and information.
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Friday
Berne History Project Exhibits &c.
Welcome ceremonies Social hour, Dinner,
Keynote by Bruce Dearstyne
Click
for
a PDF of the Heritage Days flyer with the schedule of events.
[If you do not have PDF/Reader software, click on
Home for a link to the download
site.] |
Saturday
Berne History Project
Information tables
Parking, Food, Restrooms
Bus tour of hamlet with Assemblyman McEneny
House & Garden tour
Marketplace, entertainment,
FIREWORKS!, Contra dance
Town wide events
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Sunday:
Unity Church Service, interdenominational
service, 8AM, Berne Reformed Church
Cemetery
Restoration & Picnic Closing events.
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Information
Tables
Information tables in the Elementary School
and the Town Park will provide up-to-date information during BHD. Hours
for the Elementary School table are Friday, 12PM-4PM, & Saturday,
10AM-2PM. The Town Park table will be open Saturday only 10AM-7PM.
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Welcome
Ceremonies -- Friday in the
sanctuary of the Berne Reformed Church, 8PM. Keynote speaker, Bruce
Dearstyne, Ph.D., Berne native and Dean of the College of Information
Studies at the University of Maryland. A social hour (all welcome, 6PM)
and community dinner (7PM) (reservations required)
will precede these ceremonies in the church hall.
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Restrooms & Food
Services Saturday:
Restrooms will be open in the BKW Elem.
School. Food vendors will be in the Town Park and along Route 443 near
shuttle stops.
Free Parking & Shuttle Service
Saturday: Parking
along Route 443 between the Fox Creek Park and the Town Park will be
restricted to designated areas only. Bus and hay wagon shuttles will
provide transportation to all Sat. events. Parking
and shuttles are free. Parking for the disabled at the Town Park.
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House
& Garden Tour
Maps at the Information
Tables
10AM -
5PM Saturday. This is a self-guided tour of privately owned, early
houses and contemporary gardens throughout the town.
Drive-by
only: Friday PM.
After 5PM Saturday. All
day Sunday.
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Entertainment,
Marketplace, Contra Dance & Fireworks
Saturday at the Town Park
Live music all day.
Marketplace with crafts, garden produce, baked goods and collectibles.
Exhibits and demonstrations of traditional home & farm crafts: lace making, beekeeping, maple syrup making, weaving, spinning,
blacksmithing. Contra Dance, 7PM, for beginners & beyond (partners not
required; for all ages). Fireworks at 9PM Contra dance to continue
after fireworks.
Pie
Contest Find out all about it. Enter your heritage pie!
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Stories
& Crafts, Bazaars, Yard Sales, Ice Cream Social, Fly Fishing, Trap
Shooting
In addition to events and
activities at the Town Park, there will be a variety of happenings along
Helderberg Trail (Route 443) and throughout the Town. The BHD flyer
has a detailed schedule of Town, Park, and Fox Creek Park offerings.
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Hamlet
Bus Tour & BHD Award Ceremonies -- Saturday
State Assemblyman and historian Jack
McEneny will provide commentary on a bus tour of "downtown"
Berne starting at the Town Park at 2:30. Reservations required.
Mr. McEneny will open the BHD Awards Ceremony at the Town Park at 5PM.
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Unity Church Service
-- Sunday
Interdenominational service at 8AM at the
Reformed Church. All welcome.
Cemetery Restoration
& Picnic
Sunday The
Turner Cemetery on Bradt Hollow Road is the focus of this year’s
restoration efforts. Helpers should bring hand and/or gas-powered lawn
tools. Restoration 10AM-2PM. Picnic 2PM; bring a dish to share. Everyone
is invited to pitch in with this project or just come for the closing
picnic.
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Reservations
required for: (click on event to make reservations on-line)
Community Dinner -- 7PM Friday at the Reformed Church.
Chicken
Barbecue, Saturday, 3:30-5PM & after Awards Ceremony (6-7:30PM), at
the Town Park
Filled
Historic Sites Bus Tour of hamlet with Assemblyman McEneny, Saturday
The
Berne History Project,
organizer of the first Heritage Days in 2002,
will provide historical exhibits
and genealogical information in the Elementary School Friday and Saturday.
It has also taken the lead in two on-going efforts, restoration of old
cemeteries and an inventory and history of early houses, farms and
businesses in the Town. Register your 19th c. house during BHD.www.BerneHistory.org.
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March 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Berne Heritage Days & Berne History Project
Honored
The Town of Berne has received the announcement that both The Berne Historical Project, and the Berne Heritage Days Project have recently been awarded 2004 Certificates of Commendation from the Upstate History Alliance
(UHA). These Certificates are handed out annually by UHA as part of its Award of Merit program, which recognizes outstanding work in the regional history and museum community. The Projects are two of only six organizations to receive a certificate in 2004
The Upstate History Alliance, located in Oneonta, NY is a non-profit organization which provides support, advice, and training to historical societies, museums, historians and others interested in history in upstate New York. Each year its Award of Merit program recognizes outstanding and innovative projects in the history and museum community. Projects selected to receive a Certificate of Commendation represent excellence within the context of available means and regional standards. This year's Awards will be presented to winners at a special reception in New York City on April 18th.
The Berne Historical Project which was started in 2001, by Project coordinator Harold Miller and Town Historian, Ralph Miller to provide information on the Internet to people researching their ancestors from Berne, Albany County was expanded in 2002 to include preserving and presenting the history of the people of this small, rural community. 2003 saw tremendous progress towards achieving these objectives. The website now includes sections on Berne Families Genealogy; church, cemetery and census records; land records; a dynamic version of an 1866 map of the Town; history pages for each hamlet in the town; and extensive search capabilities. The Project has also begun work on an inventory of 19th Century houses in the town which will be posted on the website upon completion.
Award reviewer’s commended the project for: "Excellent site! Innovative and the hard work shows." "Very ambitious project for an all-volunteer organization: shows great pride in roots and local history, clear goals and attractive web site--easy to navigate."
The Berne Heritage Days Project commended project coordinator, Helen Lounsbury and committee members for the strong cooperation between the scholars and the community, and the laudable participation of town government and citizens of all ages. The reviewers also praised the good volunteer base, great speakers, excellent planning and evaluation/follow-up for an ambitious project.
For more information on the Upstate History Alliance click
here or contact them at (800) 895 1648 or info@upstatehistory.org. For more information on the Berne Historical Project
click here.
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