CHARLTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWS ______ MARCH 2015 ________________________________________________________________________http://www.charltonnyhs.org COME TO THE MOVEABLE FEAST
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 2015
Time: 6:00 PM
Place: Maple Ave Schoolhouse, Charlton
Sign-up: Call Alice Clotty-399-4153 or Mari Fettke 882-9502 by April 13.
Cost: $20.00/person
On Saturday, April 18th, come to the Charlton Historical Society’s Moveable Feast. This is a
fun and delicious way to spend time with your Charlton friends and neighbors.
Hors d’oeuvres will be served starting at 6:00 at our Maple Avenue Schoolhouse. Small groups
will be assigned to members’ homes for the main meal. Then at about 7:00, we’ll head out to
various local homes for:
• Chicken Française prepared by Marcella’s
• Roasted Potatoes prepared by Marcella’s
• Salad
• Bread
• Beverage/wine
At 9:00 we will rendezvous at the Fettle’s home on Eastern Avenue for scrumptious desserts.
New Volunteer Hosts would be welcomed. We need more volunteer host homes….No need to
cook and bake because this is done for you. All you need to do when you host a dinner at your
home is:
• Set the table
• Make and Toss a Salad
• Provide and Serve a Beverage/Wine
• Clean Up
Best of all, you don’t have to pay $20.00 per person. Food will be delivered to your home. (For
special diet, call Alice Crotty (399-4153)
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MAY AND JUNE PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES
STORIES OF LIFE & LOVE IN CHARLTON COUNTRY
DATE: Wednesday 6, 2015
TIME: 7:00 PM
PLACE: Maple Ave. Schoolhouse, Charlton
PRESENTER: TERI GAY, historian and writer
PROGRAM: Teri will discuss her latest book and memoir, The Wife Who Came with Work
Boots, as well as other stories of life and love in Charlton.
MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY
DATE: Monday 25, 2015
PLACE: TBA
TIME: 2:00 PM
FOUNDERS’ DAY WEEKEND
SATURDAY, JUNE 6 AND SUNDAY, JUNE 7 2015
5K Walk and Run – Saturday
Art Show – Both Days?
Museum Opened – Both days
Parade – Sunday
Farmers’ Market – Sunday (Chairperson is needed.)
Ice Cream Social sponsored by the Saratoga County Dairy Princess Committee-Sunday
FOUNDERS’ DAY 2015 THEME IS CHARLTON VOLUNTEERS
Volunteer, Howie Eskin, designed the Founders’ Day Button. The button will be on sale for $1.00 with the proceeds going to the Charlton Historical Society. 2015 Founders' Day Button
The Charlton Historical Society Volunteers of the Year will be Bill and Elizabeth Herkenham.
For many years, they have generously supported and chaired The Founders’ Day 5K Race. The
Herkenhams will be our parade Grand Marshalls on June 7.
The success of our town organizations and activities depend on our citizen volunteers. We are
requesting that town organization give us names of their volunteers. We will be honoring them
in a museum display.
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Founder’s Day Weekend and summer museum hours will soon be here and volunteers are
needed. Plan to give some time to make the following successful:
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The 5K Race on the morning of Saturday, June 6st will be our largest event to raise
much-needed funds. To help, contact Marty Wilson at 399-0167 or at
[email protected]
To help in the museum on Saturday, June 6 for the 8:30 to 11AM, 11 AM to 1: 30 PM
and the 1:30 to 4 PM shifts, contact Susan York at 399-3797 or at
[email protected]
To help on Saturday evening, June 6 at Party in the Park in the Elmer Smith Park by
selling buttons. Contact Susan York at 399-3797 or at [email protected]
On Founder’s Day Sunday, June 8 by hosting in the museum or selling in the 12
AM to 3:30 PM time period. Contact Susan York at 399-3797 or at
[email protected]
In addition, we will be working in the museum and schoolhouse during May to clean
and get ready for Founder’s Day. Contact Susan York at 399-3797 or at
[email protected]
To help with the parade, contact John Hussey at 557-2410 or at
[email protected].
To enter the Art Show, contact Liz Lis at 842-0720 or [email protected].
To enter or help with the Farmer’s Market on Founder’s Day Sunday, contact Eileen
Stone at 399-9585 or [email protected].
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
Welcome to New Members
The Charlton Historical Society would like to welcome our latest new members. Maria and
Rickey Walker have just moved to West Charlton from Middletown, Delaware, and have
recently joined our Historical Society with a very generous donation, for which we thank them.
We look forward to meeting the Walkers at the Moveable Feast, for which they were quick to
sign up. Even though Maria has just moved here, she has generously offered to make a dessert
for the Moveable Feast, a Williamsburg recipe for a pumpkin cake with bourbon, pecan, cream
cheese frosting. Sounds good to me! The Walkers are originally from New York State. Rickey
is from Plattsburg and Maria grew up in Troy. They seem to be very interested in history, based
upon the beautiful note cards that Maria has sent, depicting early American kitchen scenes.
We are saddened by news of the deaths of longtime Charlton Historical Society members,
Orville Curtiss and Ralph Rudolph.
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Chuck Latham’s Charlton History—Facts and Legends
(Early 1800’s)
[REPUBLICAN YOUNG MEN] AT A MEETING OF THE republican young men of the town of Charlton, held at Zephen Weeks, in said town, in pursuance to a meeting held the 16th of March. MANFIELD BARLOW, Chr’mn, Wm Anderson, Sect’ry, resolved that Wm Anderson, J.L. Boyd, I Wilse, H. Betteys, and J. Maxwell, be a committee to draft resolutions, and an address. [We omit the Resolutions, only because they have been deferred till the election has passed, which circumstance has rendered them not so immediately interesting as otherwise they would have been.] ADDRESS By Henry Betteys. FELLOW CITIZENS, Never in an age witnessed so many revolutions as the present—the Emperor of France by adding one conquest to another has subjugated the nations of continental Europe—
Broke down the boundaries of ancient kingdoms and held nothing sacred to impeded his course—
He abolished the monarchy to become a Monarch—He proclaims himself the advocate of neutral rights, but destroys neutrals. The King of Great Britain, on the other hand, by adding one violation of national law to another has driven our merchantmen from the Ocean, and established a system of commercial restrictions as destructive as it is unjust; Each of these nations burning with keen resentment against the other have wantonly infringed on our rights insulted our nation and destroyed our property. The ocean, the highway of nations has been converted into a scene of robbery and bloodshed, and the British and French Courts of Admiralty have legalized rapine and plunder. America has suffered most from Great Britain, because her means of annoying us have been the greatest. Fellow citizens need I recapitulate our sufferings to rouse a manly spirit in the youthful breast—need I call your attention to the impressment of our seamen, the capture and condemnation of our property, the murder of our citizens within our own waters, the infamous conditions of which Great Britain would consent to treat with us—she says we must relinquish our carrying trade—must authorize the British Navy to execute the laws of this country, must give up tyrannical power, all our naturalized citizens, and our free born citizens have been compelled by the most cruel treatment, to enlist on board of his Majesty’s ships, after having been impressed from American vessels. Need I call your attention to the infamous course pursued by Francis James Jackson, in his diplomatic correspondence with our Secretary of State, in which he impeached the veracity; of our government, and added wanton insult to a long catalogue of injuries previously sustained from his royal master! Still there are among us professed Americans, who adhere to his Majesty’s government and calumniate our own. Men who are tremblingly alive to the interests of George the third, but careless of the honor and prosperity of the United States—Men who have had the unblushing effrontery to nominate and recommend to your suffrates. Jonas Platt for instance—His precepts and example are truly republican. My friends let us be vigilant—Our political enemies are constantly on the alert—
Every story which falsehood can invent, is adopted for our deception. Pamphlets, handbills and newspapers, pregnant with grossest misrepresentations, are distributed among us. Let us read and examine for ourselves, and at the ensuing election, we will convince the minions of George the 3rd, that however large the British Party may be in America, the British party in Charlton is very small. 4 CHS NEWSLETTERS VIA EMAIL
In order to save some cost for the Charlton Historical Society, we are attempting to build a list of
members who are happy to receive the newsletter via Email and skip the printed copies that need
to be mailed (except November’s which will go to everyone via mail). Some members with
Email have chosen to receive printed newsletters, which we will gladly mail. Some members
paid their dues but did not make a selection, so I will continue to mail copies unless I receive an
Email that indicates that Email-only is fine. Some members have overlooked their dues, so I will
mail newsletters with the dues reminder to them. If you receive the newsletter via Email-only
and decide that you want printed copies to be mailed, just let me know that too.
Sue at [email protected]
Officers and Trustees
President Alice Crotty Vice-‐President John Hussey Founders Day/Building and Grounds Secretary Nancy Bellamy Cor. Sec. Stacey Fenton Treasurer Susan York Curator Open Trustee Ken Crotty-‐ Web Site /Buildings and Grounds Trustee Chuck Latham Genealogy Buff Trustee Carolyn Setzer Trustee Marv Schorr Trust Fund 399-‐4153 557-‐2410 399-‐8508 882-‐6009 399-‐3797 399-‐4153 384-‐0130 882-‐9740 399-‐4161 Please call any member of the Board of Directors with questions and comments. 5 CHARLON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2009 Maple Avenue Charlton, NY 12019