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Educational center to open
Art exhibit to be first attraction for historical society

BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter

    The Schenectady County Historical Society’s $3.2 million educational center in Rotterdam Junction will open Sept. 23 with an art exhibit featuring the works of Len Tantillo.
    The event is a fundraiser for the society, with proceeds going to help it operate the newly constructed George E. Franchere Educational Center, the nearby Mabee Farm and the nonprofi t organization’s museum and library on Washington Avenue in Schenectady. Construction on the center begin a year ago.
    About 40 paintings by Tantillo will be on display during the fundraiser, including several canvases he completed within the last year. Tantillo paints scenes of New York’s Colonial period. One of his prints is called “Schenectady Town,” a view of Schenectady, circa 1690, from Cowhorn Creek. The artist, who lives in southern Rensselaer County, will attend the event.
    Historical society Curator Ryan Mahoney said Tantillo’s prints will remain on display at the center through December, when the society will present an exhibit on Colonial-era farming.
    When the center opens, the society will step up programming and exhibits there, said its president, Edwin Reilly Jr. “It is our mission to do everything within our ability and financial area to promulgate Schenectady County’s rich historical heritage,” he said.
    Patricia Barrot, Mabee Farm Historic site manager for the last nine years and the longest serving of the Historical Society’s fi ve professional employees, said that “the greatest advantage of the new Franchere center is that it will enable the Mabee Farm to be open all year long, not just seasonally. Additionally, we desperately needed the added storage room and much larger gift shop.”
    The year-round operation of the center will allow schools to visit throughout the school year, rather than just visiting the Mabee Farm during the summer and fall. The Mabee Farm, a Dutch farmhouse that is more than 300 years old, closes for the winter.
    Reilly said the society has hired an associate curator and archivist to help develop programming to be used in local school districts to teach about the area’s history. In addition, Mahoney said the educational center gives the society more space to show exhibits and allows it to move its operations out of the Mabee home, which is recognized as the oldest house in the Mohawk Valley. ............................>>>>............................>>>>....................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00103&AppName=1
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will this count as credit earned and will there be classes for the school kids?


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will this count as credit earned and will there be classes for the school kids? not only do we get to pay once for kids education but twice.....


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Huh ?
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more bS
a small group making a niche for themselves


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Oh, at first I thought it was Muzzie center that was setting up an "educational" center. Learning to make bombs would have been in the second semester when people stop paying attention.


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a small group making a niche for themselves


yup....which is fine....I just hope they aren't taking other people's (non-donated) money to carve it.


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Gb how do you come up with such bullshit.....you have to be some old grouchy a**hole living over by crane street somewhere....lovely eastern rotterdam
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At least it's an education center and not a plex project....although neither would pay taxes!


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