Barbara Warner Deane is an awarding-winning author of 4 published novels and a public speaker on the role of American women in World War II. Her books feature strong women and small towns.

Every year since 1987, March has been designated as Women's History Month by presidential proclamation. The Frontenac Museum will have a grand opening of a new exhibit honoring women who have served in the military from our communities. Twenty-one (21) have been identified who have served since WWII through the Afghanistan Conflict.

Please come and recognize the importance of women's achievements during World War II and those wars or conflicts that followed.

Fred Horning will make another visit to the Frontenac Museum to talk about training service dogs for children with autism. Last year, Fred spoke to us on "Tales of Lake Salvage." Fred is an engaging speaker and will leave you with smiles and tears.

Fred breeds Chocolate Labs on his farm in Union Springs every two years and picks two out of every litter to train as service dogs. He works with an organization called Paws 4 Ability that chooses the children who receive the service dogs. Fred has his own PTSD service animal who will be with him during this presentation. Fred has a quote on his refrigerator at home saying: "The meaning of life is to find your gift, and the purpose of life is to give it away." (article from The Citizen)

Molly Newman will speak about the priceless lake we have at our front doors. What is being done to protect Cayuga Lake from invasive species, protect sites for fishing, manage environmental challenges from run-off, and need for volunteers to monitor lake quality?

July is a perfect month to learn more about how we can help so that fish remain edible, beaches stay open and boating and swimming can be pleasurable.

Henry "Mac" MacDonald of Finger Lakes Scuba in Auburn, NY invites you to explore "Our World Underwater". Henry will share the vast species, corals, wrecks and underwater areas of the Caribbean, Indo-Pacific, and right here at home in the Finger Lakes of Central New York.

Plan to be with us to see the indescribable beauty of a world most of us will never see, except through divers who are willing to share this wonderful venture.

Jane Oakes has been teaching people history for over 40 years. She lives in western NY and gives talks on her areas of interest, among which are Opera Houses, Graham's Crackers and Circuses. Jane Has been described as "one of the area's most popular historical speakers whose well-illustrated programs are always lively and engaging."

Oh, the excitement of seeing a poster announcing that a circus was coming to your town! Many a young person dreamed of running away with the circus, and some did. NYS has many interesting connections with American circus history. From 'Yankee Robinson', who gave the Ringling Brothers their start, to P.T. Barnum's "Ossian Giant," you'll meet some New Yorkers who followed the lure of the sawdust circle.

Sydney Fischer will speak on the history of Willard Memorial Chapel taking us on a picturesque tour. The interior of the Chapel was designed and handcrafted entirely by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co. of NYC. It is the only complete and unaltered totally Tiffany designed religious interior known to exist in the world.

Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ Kurt A. Jordan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Cornell University, will speak on his research which resulted in a book as titled above. A part of the history of the Cayuga Lake region has been romanticized or forgotten altogether. It began at the end of the last ice age 13,000 years ago and traces The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ people up to the reoccupation of their traditional territory.

His history relies mainly on the written record, archaeological evidence, and some community based oral histories that The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ people shared with him.

Sally Roesch Wagner will share how women of the Haudenosaunee people influenced the women's suffrage movement. "What inspired the suffragists to think they could create a world where women could be agents of their own being? Sovereign women of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy of six nations in Upstate NY, who showed their settler neighbors how a society that empowered women worked." (SRW)

Geoff Clough of G&L Music Studio in Baldwinsville plays your favorite songs of the season with the unique arrangements and shares a bit of history and trivia as well. It's sure to get you into the spirit!

The Frontenac Museum wants to remember Christmas and the caroling that once happened in our village. Bring your voices and enjoy Christmas refreshments of hot chocolate and Christmas cookies!