Historic Warwick Blog: Warwick Historical Society's Special Programs for the Spring and Summer 2012 Season

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Warwick Historical Society's Special Programs for the Spring and Summer 2012 Season

Workshops: Members receive a 10% discount

If interested in the following, scroll through blog and find more detailed descriptions of workshops.

Beginning Jewelry with Michele Dixler/Three Wednesdays, 7-9PM/ $120

Make a necklace or earrings, includes materials, tools and instruction

April, 18th, April 25th, & May 2nd, 2012

Blacksmithing Class with Adriaan Gerber/ 2 days, 16 hours, 9-5PM, $375

Learn the techniques, make a few tools. All materials included.
For more information, call 845-781-3729
Saturday, April 28th & Sunday, April 29th

Follow-up to Blacksmithing Class/ 1 Day Make a Tomahawk Class & 2-Day Make a Hunting Knife Class, $125/$225

Format for classes: Forge shape from steel. Fold and weld. Prepare high carbon steel edge and weld to body. Draw out edge. Drift handle eye for tomahawk. Heat treat. Sharpen edge. Make a handle to fit. Throw.

Chair Caning with John Skelton Four Tuesdays, 7-9PM, $120

Bring your own chair frame, make a seat of cane, rush or reed. Materials and tools included.
April 17th, April 24th & May 8th, 2012

Woodworking with Dave Washburn, 2 Days, 10-5PM, $375

Make a shaving horse and a four-legged slab wood bench
Includes: shaving horse kit, vintage draw knife, and wood
Saturday, May 19th and Sunday, May 20th, 2012

Lecture Series/ Thursdays/ $5 --- Members Free

April 19th/7-8:30PM
Francesco Mastalia: "Using 19th Century Photography Methods in the 21st Century".

April 26th/7-8:30PM
Prof. Richard Hull: "A Village Apart in Orange County; History of the Hasidic People of Kiryas Joel".

May 3rd/ 7-8:30PM
Andy Angstrom: "Finding the World in Your Backyard; Archaeological Dig at Ashokan".

WHS curator Michael Bertolini and Prof. Richard Hull: "The Many Faces of Warwick's Architectural Heritage".

May 24th/ 7-8:30PM
Incorporated Orange County Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Society president David Johnson: "What Are We Missing at Our Archaeological Sites About Native American Cultures?"

May 31st/ 7-8:30PM
Robert Schmick, Ph.D., Executive Director, Warwick Historical Society: "Popular Wilderness Imagery in 19th Century Warwick Life".

June 7th/ 7-8:30PM
Glen Rhein, amateur mineralogist:"Giant Crystals of Amity, New York".

Call for additional information: (845) 986-3236; Email: whs@warwick.net

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At our Summer History Camp this year kids will dig up crystals that fluoresce under a special black light. The crystals were actually discovered in the area as early as the 1820s and collectors from all over the United States and Europe came to the specifically places like Amity in the Town of Warwick to find these rare specimens for their museums, universities and their private collections. One of the largest off site exhibitions of these crystals is found in the Ecoles des Mines in Paris; there are over 150 samples of minerals specifically from Amity, NY in that collection which were discovered in large in the 1830s. What is interesting to imagine is that geologist and mineralogists from the greatest institutions of higher learning were traveling by horseback and carriage to the wilds of Warwick in the 1820s and 1830s to find rocks for their cabinets of curiosities.

Wawayanda Furnace ( 19th century ) the furnace that many of us remember seeing on our trips to the New Jersey State Park actually was integral to iron ore production supplied by Warwick mines. On a recent sojourn into the woods we visited some local iron ore mines that would have supplied the mid-nineteenth century Wawayanda Furnace. Of course, these operations were supplanted by the end of the nineteenth century when places with better quality ore that were closer to cheaper forms of transportation, like water and rail shut them down.

Ken Hamilton, "Woodlands Interpreter", will present the early 18th century life of Algonquin-speaking people, like the Minsi people of the Lenape tribe, of what was later named by Benjamin Aske as "Warwick." Here we see a trade camp with historially accurate artifact reproductions produced by Mr. Hamilton by hand; he an accomplished leatherworker, blacksmith and silversmith. As an "historical artifact artist", Mr. Hamilton produces props used in many living history scenarios and museums throughout the country. He will share some of his knowledge with campers at the Summer History Camp 2012. See further details.