All program meetings are free of charge and open to the public. Meetings are held at the Newstead Town Hall, 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY unless noted otherwise. Download a 2023 Program here
This year the Akron Community Band is celebrating its 100th season. The name has changed over the years, but the desire for performing good music has lasted a century. Long time band member Marilyn Kasparek, will discuss the long history of the band.
The Rich-Twinn House Museum and Knight-Suton Museum will be included in the various activities planned for this celebration. Watch for details on our Facebook page and the Akron Bugle.
Both the Rich-Twinn Octagon House & Knight Sutton Museum will be open. Our annual Amish quilt raffle and Baked Pie sale will take place on the lawn of one of our museums and the drawing for the quilt will take place after the parade. Both museums will be open for visitors—come and celebrate the day …
From its early days as the home of Louis H. Sutton, owner at the age of 20 of Wheat's Ice Cream Company, to its current incarnation as a horse breeding, raising, training and stabling facility, this Akron-based farm has history spanning three generations to share. You will be surprised by what you learn.
Stays and petticoats, chemisettes and spencer jackets—discover what it took for a lady to be fashionable in the year of Newstead’s beginning! Living historian and dressmaker, Anneliese Meck will describe all the details while getting dressed in a historical reproduction of an 1823 ensemble, complete with the proper undergarments, day dress, and accessories.
Don Shonn will continue a discussion of local land titles that will highlight the battle of the Tonawanda Senecas to avoid removal to the west and to preserve their ancestral land. Don is a long- time member of the NHS, former Village attorney, and real estate lawyer.
