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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Our Newest Exhibit “Fashions from the Collection” features a nostalgic nod to the past as living historian and dressmake Anneliese Meck opens the season with a small presentation on fashion […]
Learn about the historic journey of the Whiting Door Manufacturing Company. From the humble beginnings of a father and two sons staring a local business—with grit and determinaion—that later burned […]
The Akron/Newstead area has an extensive history staring in 1834 with the Medina and Darien horse-drawn railway. Followed by the NY Central “Peanut” branch in 1853, and finally the NY […]
Explore the history of a third and fourth generation farm which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Find out the background of this local farm that now has global […]
On July 4th the Knight-Sutton Museum (123 Main St.) will be open from 10-4 pm. There is no admission charge and everyone is welcome. Our annual pie sale will take […]
This program will take the audience from the first ideas of a canal to the building and the problems faced. The role of DeWitt Clinton will be stressed and how […]
