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2026

New Horror Short Film Premieres at Brookside Museum Oct 15
Saratoga County Stories Three Released Oct 13
Rockets 101 Oct 8
Leaves and Trees: A Children’s Story Time & Craft Oct 1
Fall BBQ at Brookside Sep 22
A Force For Nature: Paul Schaefer’s Adirondack Coalitions Sep 17
Local Makers Sought for Artisans Market Sep 17
Discovering George Foster Peabody, With Glenn Underwood Sep 1
Songs and SSounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York, with Nancy Newman Aug 13
Lavender, Red, White, and Blue: Sites of LGBTQ Revolution in New York State Aug 11
America at 250: History Trivia Night Aug 11
Three Sisters Festival at SCHC Jul 23
The French and Indian War in the Adirondacks Jul 16
History Center Schedules Five 2026 Walking Tours Jul 9
America 250: Colonial Herb Gardens – Gardens That Shaped a Nation Jul 7
A Bastille Day Celebration Jul 7
History Center Issues Call for 2026 Award Nominations Jun 23
Brookside Book Sale Jun 16
Brookside Craft & Antique Fair Jun 5
Olde Time Strawberry Social Jun 4
History Books & Brews PR Jun 2
Charlie’s Heroes: The Charles Siciliano Sr. WWII & Korean War Photo Collection Jun 1
Summer BBQ Fundraiser at Brookside Museum May 19
Exhibition Opening at Saratoga County History Center Apr 21
John Brown in New York Apr 16
Saratoga County History Center Releases New Documentary Apr 14
Sheep to Shawl at Brookside Museum Mar 31
Near the Forest, By the Lake Mar 31
2026 Craft Fair Seeking Local Artisans Mar 17

2025

Shop & Sip at The Artisan’s Market Dec 6
Brookside Museum Holiday Market Opening for the Season Nov 13
SCHC Holding Fall Food Drive Nov 6
Winter Concert Series: Stringwynde Nov 3
The Rise and Fall of Victory Mill Oct 21
Saratoga in the Gilded Age Oct 20
Trunk or Treat Halloween Party Oct 11
Car Show Pop-Up Exhibit Oct 4
When Exotic Plant Hunters Roamed the World Sep 22
History Center Announces Final 2025 Tour Sep 3
Brookside Explorers Club: Fun with Chocolate Aug 28
History Center Announces 2025 Public History Award Winners Aug 28
“Seneca Ray Stoddard and Jesse Sumner Wooley: Kindred Spirits” Aug 16
Miller’s Backyard Barbecue at Brookside Museum Aug 14
Brookside Explorers Club: School Days Aug 5
Three Sisters Festival Jul 29
Native New York at the Turning Point Festival Jul 16
Saratoga County Water Works Jul 15
History Center Issues Call for 2025 Award Nominations Jun 29
12 Years a Widow: Finding the Footsteps of Anne Hampton Northup Jun 27
Brookside Explorers Club: Art Show & Landmark Creations Jun 26
History Center Issues Call for 2025 Award Nominations Jun 24
The Victorian Language of Flowers Jun 21
Olde Time Strawberry Social at Brookside Museum Jun 13
Brookside Summer Book Sale Jun 7
Craft & Antique Fair at Brookside! Jun 5
Brookside Explorers Club: Flag Day Celebration Jun 3
Miller’s Backyard Barbecue at Brookside Museum May 15
2025 History Center Tour Schedule Announced May 14
The Civil War Letters of Captain Luther M. Wheeler May 13
Regional Pre-Contact Archaeology of New York in the Champlain and Hudson Valley Apr 29
Pollinator Partnerships: Advice from the Pollinator Community Apr 21
Sheep to Shawl Community Day Apr 10
Craft Fair at Brookside – Vendors Wanted! Apr 10
Day of Celebration: Portraits, Play & Progress Apr 10
Traveling the Mother Road: America’s Route 66 Event Mar 10
Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Niña in el Mundo Performance Feb 21
New Book on Saratoga’s Black Heritage Feb 20
2025 Historian Tea Talks Feb 13
Winter Concert Series: Lark Strings Jan 22
“Greetings from the Great Camp: a History of the Adirondack Vacation” Jan 16

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2020

2021 Budget Approved Nov 18
Annual Membership Meeting Nov 5
20th Annual Artisan’s Market Nov 3
Virtual Town Hall on Historic Preservation Sep 17
The Saratoga County Historical Society at Brookside Museum to become the Saratoga County History Center Sep 1
Jailhouse Rock and Roll Virtual Race Jul 21
Townhall Discussion of the Removal of the Schuyler Statue Jun 25
A Message from Our Executive Director Jun 9
Virtual Exhibit – Artists Inspired by Their Community: Art by the Ballston Spa Middle School 6th Grade Jun 9
Brookside Museum Listed in Self-Guided Architecture Tour May 21
Local Museums Join Together for Giving Tuesday May 5th! Apr 30
518 Rainbow Hunt Apr 23
Time Travelers Experience Apr 2
Precautionary Measures Mar 13
Craft and Antique Vendors Wanted Feb 27
18th Century Chocolate House Jan 8

2019

See you in February! Dec 26
Artisans’ Market Nov 24
Show Your Support for Brookside Museum Oct 23
Help Feed Our Kids on Weekends Scotties BackPack Program BBQ FUNDRAISER Sep 7
SCHS at Brookside Museum Receives GHHN Grant Aug 15
Jailhouse Rock 5K Aug 6
Chickens!: The Exhibition Jun 25
Abner Doubleday 200th Birthday Party at Brookside Museum May 28
Special lecture J.S. Wooley-The Man, The Photographer, The Innovator Apr 9
The Masquerade at Brookside Feb 7
Reflections Exhibit in the Long Room Gallery Feb 1
The Masquerade at Brookside Jan 17
18th Century Chocolate House Jan 17

2018

Artisans’ Market and Holiday Activity Nov 28
RESCHEDULED – Roundtable Program on Local War Heroes Nov 15
Ceremonial Flag Raising Oct 16
An Evening of Messages with Rev. Kelly M. Ballard, Intuitive Medium Sep 6
Welcome our new Executive Director Aug 23
Brookside’s New Executive Director on the Joe Gallagher Show! Aug 14
Jailhouse Rock 5k: 8/18/18 @ 8:18 am Jul 31
Book Release Presentation Jul 12
Colonel Elmer Ellsworth Jul 4
Ballston Area History Roundtable Jun 26
Brookside Digs Archeology Experience Jun 19
Improved Space for Textile Collection Apr 29
The Art of Basket Making Apr 23
Author Talk: All the Law in the World Won’t Stop Them Mar 27
Author Talk: Milton, New York: A New Town in a New Nation Mar 27
Screening: Harnessing Nature Mar 27
Author Talk: Milton, New York: A New Town in a New Nation Mar 27
Author Talk: All the Law in the World Won’t Stop Them Mar 27
Screening: Harnessing Nature Mar 27
Check out “What is in the Long Room” Feb 18
Chocolate Fest Jan 21
Visions: An Exhibit by Artists from Living Resources Jan 3

2017

Artisan’s Market Dec 6
Happy Thanksgiving Nov 21
Fresh Paint Open House Nov 12
Saratoga Arts in Public Places Oct 18
A Taste Through Time Aug 30
Looking for Volunteers and Runners Aug 9
After Hours Mar 29
Brookside Digs Archeology Experience Mar 27
2017 Spring Programs and Events Mar 27
Visions: An Exhibit by Artists from Living Resources Mar 3
February 13, 1919: Dusty Roads in Ballston Spa Feb 13
Invented in Saratoga County Feb 13

2016

Happy New Year & January Update Dec 30
Slider 2 Dec 29
What’s New Dec 29
Artisans Market Hours Nov 28
Brookside Museum Artisan Market Oct 27
Fall Programs at Brookside Oct 15
Brook’toberfest 2016 Oct 10
Journeys Art Exhibit Coming to Brookside’s Long Room Gallery Sep 7
Horses! Exhibit Now Open Jul 7
A Toy Cannon for July 4th Jul 4
Archeology Camp at Brookside Museum Jun 17
A Small but Important Artifact for Memorial Day May 27
April 2016 Long Room Lectures Mar 31
Brookside Gown Featured in New Book on Regency Clothing Mar 23
Saratoga County Leap Year Observations Feb 29
Teething, Nineteenth Century Style Feb 26
Frederick Douglass Visits Saratoga County in 1849 Feb 1
A “Happy Family” of Squirrels in Ballston Spa in 1883 Jan 21
“A Dollar and a Dream” in the Early 19th Century Jan 12
Happy New Year & January Update Jan 1

2015

Exhibit – An Artist’s Way: Oils and Mixed Media by Pat McEvoy Nov 5
Long Room Lecture Series – Thursdays in November Nov 3
Brook’toberfest 2015 was a success!! Oct 5
It’s that time of year- planning for school programs! Aug 26
Race Results! Aug 20
Bathers on the Beach, Saratoga Lake Aug 14
Aaaaand they’re off! Aug 6
New Volunteer Opportunities! Feb 25

2014

Winter in Troy, 1930 Dec 16
Snowy Stoop Dec 9
1912 Toboggan Slide Dec 2
1908 Carriage Ride Nov 24
Snow Then, Snow Now Nov 18
96 Years Ago Today Nov 11
83 Years Ago Nov 4
“Ballstonians in Disguise” Oct 28
Saratoga Monument Oct 22
102 Years Ago This Week Oct 14
Jack Johnson, 1910 Oct 7
Touring the Town of Saratoga Sep 30
Utopian Club’s Parlor Room Sep 23
Saratoga Battlefield Monument Sep 16
Remembering Ralph B. Post Sep 9
Labor Day Flashback Sep 2
Famous trotting ostrich ‘Oliver W,’ harnessed for a spin record 2.02 Aug 27
American Hide and Leather Company Snapshot, 1939 Aug 19
Jailhouse Rock 5k Results! Aug 18
Elmwood Farm House Aug 12
The Sylvester C. Shaeffer Meat Market Aug 6
Saratoga Springs, 1898 Jul 29
Booth Family Album Photos Jul 22
Eagle Hotel Fire Jul 16
Strike Sabotage in 1910 Jul 1
The Verbeck House Jun 24
Sunny Front Street Jun 17
The Soldiers and Sailors Monument Jun 10
The Major General’s House Jun 3
Memorial Day May 27
Brookside in Path Through History May 21
Carriage Drive on a Sunny Day May 20
Discoveries on the Jonathan Filer Homestead. May 13
Almost Time for the Farmer’s Market! May 6
Ballston Boys Apr 29
Trolley Drives By the Old Iron Spring Apr 22
Looking Good! Apr 21
The Galway Grist Mill Apr 15
Tank Travels through Downtown Apr 8
Little Sleep for BSHS Seniors in 1916 Apr 2
April’s Patriotic Parade Apr 1
The Old Iron Spring Mar 25
The Grist Mill Mar 11
The Importance of Local History and Community Resources Mar 6
The Aftermath of a February Storm Feb 25
Snow Then, and Snow Now Feb 18
The Blizzard of 1914 Feb 11
On the Tracks Jan 28
Snow on Milton & Malta Jan 21
Tobogganing in January Jan 14

2013

What Once Was – The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Rock City Falls Dec 31
Thank you… Dec 31
Snowy Pine Dec 17
Historic Photographs in the Gift Shop! Dec 11
Fire on a Cold Day Dec 10
Buy a Bit of Brookside! Dec 8
D.A. Foote’s Work Horses Dec 3
Snow on Front Street Nov 26
Dress Up Isn’t Just For Kids! Nov 25
Malta Avenue School Building Renovations Reveal Time Capsule Nov 19
Thanks To Everyone Who Supported the McDonald’s Gravesite Restoration Project! Nov 5
Eagle Mattlee Fire Department Nov 5
George Crum and the Potato Chip Oct 29
The Schuyler House Oct 24
White Sulphur Spring Hotel Oct 15
1914 Auto Race Oct 1