Museum Seeks Local Native American Artifacts for New Exhibition
February 9, 2011 by The Catskill Chronicle
GRAHAMSVILLE, NY (February 9, 2011) – This spring, Time and the Valleys 
Museum will open a new museum facility in Grahamsville, New York. As part of this brand new facility, multi sensory interactive exhibitions on local history are being created. Lives of the early settlers, farming, industries and the early Native Americans will be highlighted.
The Museum is currently seeking old photos, artifacts and interesting stories of the Rondout and Neversink watershed areas, and is especially in need of artifacts and information pertaining to the local Leni Lenape Native Americans.
“While our collection is full of information, photos and artifacts from the 19th and 20th century, we have much less information that tells of Native life in the area.” says Donna Steffens, Executive Director of the Museum. “This exciting new exhibition needs to reflect the past of everyone who lived here.”
The rare wooden mortar and pestle shown in the photo was originally from a Leni Lenape Native American group in Warwarsing. It was donated to the Museum by Frank Carlsen of Grahamsville, and will be an important part of our new exhibition. Standing alongside the mortar and pestle is Teri Lockhart, Town of Neversink employee who is descended from a full-blooded Seneca.
Anyone with local Native American information or artifacts to loan or donate can call 845 985-2262 x 313, write to the Museum at P.O. Box 307, Grahamsville, New York 12740, or e-mail historian@townofneversink.org. Please share what you have and add to the story of our past, so that others may learn though this exciting new exhibition!
The Time and the Valleys Museum is a living and interactive resource that preserves the past, educates the present and ensures the uniqueness of the Rondout and Neversink watersheds for all generations. Currently located in the Neversink Town Hall, the Museum provides educational programming for the public and is actively raising funds to install exhibitions in the Museum’s future home, co-located in the new addition to the Daniel Pierce Library.
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Museum Seeks Local Native American Artifacts for New Exhibition
February 9, 2011 by The Catskill Chronicle
GRAHAMSVILLE, NY (February 9, 2011) – This spring, Time and the Valleys
Museum will open a new museum facility in Grahamsville, New York. As part of this brand new facility, multi sensory interactive exhibitions on local history are being created. Lives of the early settlers, farming, industries and the early Native Americans will be highlighted.
The Museum is currently seeking old photos, artifacts and interesting stories of the Rondout and Neversink watershed areas, and is especially in need of artifacts and information pertaining to the local Leni Lenape Native Americans.
“While our collection is full of information, photos and artifacts from the 19th and 20th century, we have much less information that tells of Native life in the area.” says Donna Steffens, Executive Director of the Museum. “This exciting new exhibition needs to reflect the past of everyone who lived here.”
The rare wooden mortar and pestle shown in the photo was originally from a Leni Lenape Native American group in Warwarsing. It was donated to the Museum by Frank Carlsen of Grahamsville, and will be an important part of our new exhibition. Standing alongside the mortar and pestle is Teri Lockhart, Town of Neversink employee who is descended from a full-blooded Seneca.
Anyone with local Native American information or artifacts to loan or donate can call 845 985-2262 x 313, write to the Museum at P.O. Box 307, Grahamsville, New York 12740, or e-mail historian@townofneversink.org. Please share what you have and add to the story of our past, so that others may learn though this exciting new exhibition!
The Time and the Valleys Museum is a living and interactive resource that preserves the past, educates the present and ensures the uniqueness of the Rondout and Neversink watersheds for all generations. Currently located in the Neversink Town Hall, the Museum provides educational programming for the public and is actively raising funds to install exhibitions in the Museum’s future home, co-located in the new addition to the Daniel Pierce Library.
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