Join the SCHS Book Club to take a deep look at a topic we often take for granted: food! Food provides both nourishment and pleasure, of course, but under the surface of each meal lies a series of complex interactions and entanglements. Led by Chris Leonard, Schenectady City Historian, we'll read and discuss nonfiction, novels, and archival materials focused on the issues that lie on our plates. Limited to 12 people. Please contact Marietta Carr, SCHS Librarian, at [email protected] or 518-374-0263 x3 to sign up. All book club discussion meetings will be at 32 Washington Ave, at 6pm. -Wed, 2/15, […]

By reading excerpts of popular new autobiographies in conversation with scholarly essays, this program investigates contemporary Blackness and the impact the Obama family has had on how we envision it.

This will be a six-session series hosted by writer Sheila Isenberg and sponsored by HumanitiesNY and the Woodstock Public Library. We will read and discuss selected essays from Collected Essays by James Baldwin. And we will examine Baldwin’s collaboration with Richard Avedon, Nothing Personal. The aim of these readings and discussions will be to gain a deeper understanding of Baldwin’s America: his thoughts on slavery, racism, relations between black and white citizens, and the continuance of social and cultural behaviors that separate black and white communities.

By reading excerpts of popular new autobiographies in conversation with scholarly essays, this program investigates contemporary Blackness and the impact the Obama family has had on how we envision it.

The Best of Simple and Series Introduction ─ March 22, 2023 The Best of Simple ─April 5, 2023 The Return of Simple ─ April 19, 2023 Simple’s Uncle Sam ─ May 10, 2023 The Langston Hughes Reader ─ May 24, 2023 The Ways of White Folk ─ June 8, 2023

Inspirational stories about women who confront insurmountable odds. Can the young women in these four novels ‘beat the odds’ life presents to them to make a better life for themselves and others?   April 12 How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue May 3 The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré May 24 The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd June 14 The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

This will be a six-session series hosted by writer Sheila Isenberg and sponsored by HumanitiesNY and the Woodstock Public Library. We will read and discuss selected essays from Collected Essays by James Baldwin. And we will examine Baldwin’s collaboration with Richard Avedon, Nothing Personal. The aim of these readings and discussions will be to gain a deeper understanding of Baldwin’s America: his thoughts on slavery, racism, relations between black and white citizens, and the continuance of social and cultural behaviors that separate black and white communities.

Join facilitator Diane Conroy-LaCivita, visiting chefs and food producers for a monthly book club and practicum all about food entitled "Food Glorious Food". We will explore the serious side of food, how it is produced, the economics and politics behind it and the responsibility we have as consumers. This reading and discussion program will also entail local food production including some hands-on opportunities.

The Erie Canal Museum along with Humanities New York presents “Land, Liberty and Loss,” an exploration of our nation’s founding and how its history—or, more pointedly, misapprehensions of that history—often serves as an obstacle to full democratic and civic flourishing. The project is grounded in the historical and ongoing intersections between racial justice, including the centuries-long deprivations endured by Indigenous and Native-Americans, and the evolution of the American landscape. “Liberty, Land, and Loss” is meant to prompt reflection on assumptions about the human connectedness between the natural and built environments, and to allow us to reconsider in a holistic sense […]