The Town of Webb Historical Association invites all to participate in its inaugural Miniature Golf Tournament on Thursday, July 17 at Nutty Putty Mini Golf on Route 28 in Old Forge.
The event will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. and two-man teams can register to play for $20 per person. The fee includes 18 holes of golf, a hotdog or hamburger, and a beverage. Continue reading
The Town of Webb Historical Association’s summer Lectures on the Lawn series will begin on Tuesday, July 15 with a slideshow presentation, The 1928 Diary of Lottie Tuttle, by Town of Webb Historian Peg Masters and Therese Capone.
The program will illustrate life in Old Forge in 1928 from the perspective of Tuttle, who along with her artist husband Orley, owned the former Bay View Hotel. Lottie was also the first licensed female guide in New York State. Continue reading
Route 28 and Main Street are used interchangeably when residents describe the stretch of road running through the village of Old Forge, but only a few remaining old-timers can recall the days when the road was known as Harrison Ave.
Highway Superintendant, Casey Crofut, left, and director of Town of Webb Historical Association’s Goodsell Museum, Kate Lewis. Photo by Gina Greco
According to Kate Lewis, director of the Town of Webb Historical Association’s Goodsell Museum, earliest records show that the road was named after Benjamin Harrison—the 23rd president of the United States—sometime in 1896 and through January 1927, approximately. Continue reading
The Goodsell Museum is seeking donations for its annual auction to be held on Saturday, July 12 on the museum property located at 2993 State Route 28 in Old Forge.
Items desired are: antiques, memorabilia, collectables, furniture and new or nearly-new household goods.
No electronics, exercise equipment or upholstered items, please. Continue reading
Inlet Common School students celebrated the end of their Parents as Reading Partners program by taking a tour of the Goodsell Museum in Old Forge on Friday, March 28th.
Front row L to R: Grace Heath, Arthur Miller, Shea Sauer, Matt Trumbauer, Gabriel Lutz, Ryleigh Northrop, Thomas Levi, Richie Lutz, Chelsea Clark, Gabby Moreau, Thomas Miller, Diane Tigue, Chloe Clark, Preston Trumbauer, Alayna Nerschook, Ethan Quinn, Joseph Clark. Back row: Charlotte Clark, Olivia Payne, Alexis Heath, Cory Hansen, Amanda Miller, Matt Newman, Ashley Heroux, Deb Daiker, Rachelle Manzi, Katie Kelly, Maria Lutz, Chris Holt, Natalie Brownsell, Zack Quinn.
Museum Director Kate Lewis provided the students with general information and explained museum etiquette prior to conducting the tour. Then the children were separated into two groups: kindergarten through second grade and third through sixth, with Administrative Assistant Kristy Rubyor handling the younger students.
Lewis took charge of the older group who had the opportunity to view the historic files, maps and photographs in the research room. Continue reading
This year’s event dedicated to memory of Bob Lowenberg
Goodsell Museum’s Kate Lewis, left,
and Kristy Rubyor try out some vintage typewriters, part of the “Wired to Wireless” exhibit. Photo by Gina Greco
The event, which will be held at the Goodsell Museum at 2993 State Route 28, will mark the official opening of the organization’s featured exhibit, “Webb: Wired to Wireless-Technology Comes to Town,” which chronicles the technological changes brought to the area in the last hundred years.
Refreshments will be served.
The trustees of the Town of Webb Historical Association are inviting all members and the public to its annual Holiday Open House on Sunday, December 8.
In this file photo from 2008, Bob Lowenberg, right, helped dismantle Jon Martin’s railcar exhibit that had been displayed that year on the Goodsell Museum’s front yard.
The event, which will be held at the Goodsell Museum at 2993 State Route 28, will mark the official opening of the organization’s featured exhibit, “Webb: Wired to Wireless-Technology Comes to Town,” that illustrates the techological changes brought to the area in the last hundred years. Continue reading