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Town Historian
Linda Sagendorf
Town Historian
Please be aware, the Office is located in the lower level of the Town Hall
Do you have your Town of Poestenkill book yet?
This book can be purchased at the Town Hall or the Town Library.
The cost of the book to the left is $22.

Each piece of artwork, print, poster, postcard & book, has their
price listed below them. If your interested in purchasing anything below.
You may do so, by seeing the Town Historian.
Meet:   Every 4th Tuesday of the month, except July and August

Place:   Town Hall Meeting Room

Time:   7:00 PM
               There is a short business meeting followed by an interesting program.
                                Refreshments are served after the program

Membership:   Single person is $7.00
                        Family (1 address) is $10.00

Address:   PO Box 140
                 Poestenkill, NY 12140

Contact person:   Town Historian


Poestenkill Historical Society

Historical Society Events
Historical Society Publications & Prints
 
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From the Great Cooks Among Us $4
Farming in Poestenkill
$3
The Dutch Settlement Church $3.50
Remembering Three Churches
$3.50
Memories-ELCP Sesquicintennial
$3
The Poesten Kill
By John Warren
$19.99
Wings of Fortune
By Ed Chevrette Jr.
$16.95
38 Davis Dr. / P.O. Box 210    Poestenkill, NY 12140    (518) 283-5100
Marcus Peck
$9
Along the Erie Canal
By Marvin Bubie
$25
Poestenkill Map from 1876 Atlas of Rensselaer County
$5
Black & White Postcard
5 for $1.
Poestenkill Winter 11x17 Artwork
$6
Hidley's Poestenkill
Large print
$20
Postcards
1 for 25¢ or 5 for $1
Hidley's Noah's Ark
Large print
$20
On the Trail of Henry Hudson & Our Dutch Heritage
By Marvin Bubie
$24.95
Poestenkill Summer 11x17 Artwork
$6
Buy Winter & Summer Artworks together $10
 
April 24th, 2012 - The Cowee’s of Berlin and their Gladiola business is the topic of this program. Sharon Klein, Berlin historian will present the history of the Cowee Gladiola business.
May 22nd, 2012 - We will celebrate our local Fire Company.
We will have a speaker giving us the history of the Poestenkill Fire Company.
June 26th, 2012 - Our Annual Concert-on-the-Green.
This year we will feature Martha VonSchilgen of Berlin who plays with a fiddler’s club. The club will present a 1 ½ hour program of French Canadian Fiddle tunes. The time will be 6:45 pm on the library lawn (rain location in the Town Hall). Bring the whole family, your lawn chairs and sit back and enjoy the music.