The Annual Christmas Tea...

Photos from Sunday-Dec. 4th, Open House at the Walden House

History of the Walden Fire Department...
Thank you to Lt. George Brown of the Walden Fire Department, Orange Hose Company. Enjoy photo highlights from the Oct.19th talk on the History of the Walden Fire Department.

 

Congratulations to Trustee Lisa Melville and our Historical Society!
Lisa received one of seven Awards of Excellence from Greater Hudson Heritage Network for her recent book The Grace Murder Case, presented at West Point on Oct. 14 to Lisa and our Historical Society of Walden and the Wallkill Valley. (Photo courtesy GHHN website)

 

 

Enjoy a slideshow of paintings and art in our Silent Auction...
Some of the work begun during our "Art on the Lawn" event. Winning bids were determined at Harvest Fest on October 1st.
Winning bids will be posted shortly...

 

Walden Harvest Fest -- Saturday, October 1, 2011

Wonderful participation in spite of cool weather and rain. Thank you for your donations and visiting our booth.

 

Lt. Col. (R) Sherman L. Fleek on "MacArthur at West Point"
The Historical had a very special guest on September 21st at the Walden Municipal Building. Lt. Col. (R) Sherman L. Fleek, author and command historian at West Point was our guest speaker. The talk was followed by a book signing of his book, Place the Headstones Where they Belong. If you missed our event, you can still order his book at Amazon.com.

 

Standing Room Only at Dave Lustig's Book Signing! Wednesday, August 17th.
Dave Lustig's new book, Capers and Cameos was a very big hit! And, Thank You, Dave! As former Trustee of the Historical Society, Dave is graciously donate $5 from the sale of everycopy of his new book to our society!

 

 

Photos from our first 'Art on the Lawn' event - Sat., July 23rd
Be sure to see the paintings for our upcoming Silent Auction. If you missed them, they will be on display again several times between now and the announcement of winning bids at Walden's Harvest Fest.

 

 

Photos from our Annual 'Picnic on the Porch' - Wed, July 20th

 

 

Photos from a recent Guest Visit & Talk
by Robert H. Score on "The Ghose Whistle"

The Annual Spring Tea - April 30th & May 1st, 2011

 

 

 

Local History Day 2011

Guest Speakers:
Lisa Melville on her book, The Grace Murder Case, and Chief Jeff Holmes of the Walden Police Department.
If you took photos at this event and would like to share them, we would love to add them to our slide show.

The Annual Christmas Tea - December 5, 2010

 

Annual Yard Sale, September 25, 2010
 

 

Mickey Millspaugh's Talk on History of Walden Water

Jordan Olhmer, Trustee Marcus Millspaugh, Trustee David Olhmer

 

Knife Industry in the Hudson Valley by Rich Langston, May 19, 2010

 Thank you to Rich Langston for his great talk, displays--and a gift to attending members of a Walden Map of 1905 Reprint!

Annual Spring Tea
at the Jacob T. Walden House, April 25, 2010

 

 

Tree Dedication Ceremony
Honoring Samuel B. Phelps, Jr., April 21, 2010

 

 

 Hudson River Steamboats, Robert Jordy Guest Speaker, April 21, 2010

 

 

 

9th Annual Walden Local History Day, April 11, 2010
Program topic: Genealogy

 

 

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 The 2009 Annual Christmas Tea -- December 5, 2009

 

 

Earlier Events and Guests

Guest Speaker and long time journalist, Chris Farlekas, November 18, 2009 held our audience spellbound with wonderful first-person stories of his meetings with some of the amazing people of our world from the Pope and Mother Theresa to Michael Jackson, to a local young fellow diagnosed with cancer. All incredible and moving! Thank you!

 

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Carl Aiello, Editor and Publisher of the Wallkill Valley Times was our Guest Speaker on the 21st of October.
His talk and slide show was on the history of our local area newspapers. Thank you, Carl--it was a wonderful presentation.

Other events:
Picnic on the Porch in July
Yard Sale in September
Walden Harvest Fest in October
and Other Guest Speakers visited during the summer and early Fall. If anyone has pictures they would like to contribute, please e-mail them to
adprose@earthlink.net Thank you!

 

 Guest Speaker & Author, Vincent Dacquino, presented a rousing overview of his book Sybil Ludington: A Call to Arms
There have been several events and guest speaker, but no photos yet.

 

Photos of Local History Day 2009

Walden's 8th Annual Local History Day - March 29, 2009

We will be adding the Talk, Slide show and some of our research material resources soon.

 

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2008 was a Fabulous Year!

The Annual Christmas Tea at the Jacob T. Walden House
December 6, 2008

 

 

 

 

Bottle Show October 2008 at the Walden House--guest speaker John Gruini on Orange County Bottle Collecting

 

Enjoy Photo Albums of Earlier Events

Open House--Anniversary Weekend
September 21, 2008--Jacob T. Walden House, Walden, NY

Special guests: sisters Dale Caldwell and Barrie Bailey
descendants of Jacob T. Walden's brother, Thomas Walden.

 

 

The Play--Walden: Yesterday and Today--Anniversary Weekend
September 20, 2008--New Rose Theatre, Walden, NY

Enjoy a slide show of the play and reception immediately following the performance. Flash wasn't allowed during the performance so movement was captured during the shots making some blurry.

 

 

Eagle Scout Project--Work on the Shaffer House
August 2008

With their new project, we will have ample safe and dry storage areas. Thanks guys!

 

 

World War II Memorabilia--Ray Devoe--Guest Speaker
June 18, 2008

 

Annual Spring Tea was a Great Success!
May 8, 2008

 

QUILTS! Guest Speaker--Sharon Waddell
April 16, 2008

 

Slides displayed during Annual History Day were an overview of the past year and Walden in Bloom in Spring08

Slides taken at Annual History Day
by Vito Imbasciani

Please enjoy some of our earlier events at this link...Earlier Event Photos

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