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

 

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AKRON COMMUNITY BAND — CELEBRATING 100 YEARS

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

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.

TOWN OF NEWSTEAD BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

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.

HY-WYNNE FARMS AND THE SUTTON FAMILY

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

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.

GETTING DRESSED IN THE 1820S

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

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.

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND PART II

Newstead Town Hall 5 Clarence Center Road, Akron, NY, United States

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.