EVENTS AT THE MANSION HOUSE JULY – OCTOBERSome events require preregistration!
Call 315-363-0745 to register
click here to download the document
July
Mansion House Summer Camp, July 11th through 15th, 9:30 am – 1:30pmdaily
Week-long Mansion House Summer Camp is for inquisitive kids, ages 8-12. Campers will explore the themes of community, nature & the environment, work & industry, and art-making, and how these practices have changed from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Camp fee for the week is $40 for OCMH members and $50 for non-members. Space is limited and registration closes on July 6. Children must bring their own lunch for a daily picnic; mid-morning snacks are provided. No refunds will be made after the first day of camp.
Camp week culminates on Saturday, July 16th with the Mansion House fair, an old-fashioned country fair open to the public.
To register, call 315-363-0745, during business hours.
Mansion House Country Fair, July 16th, 10am-12pm
Step back in time to enjoy an old-fashioned country fair with classic fair games and entertainment from years past.
Families: $7
Author Reading: Ellen Wayland-Smith and Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table, July 26, 7pm
Ellen Wayland-Smith reads from her just-released book about the Oneida Community, followed with a book signing. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. The event is co-sponsored with the Oneida Public Library.
$5 donation requested
Gallery Talk: The Art of the Ad: Coles Phillips and Oneida, Ltd., July 31st, 3pm
Coles Phillips’ unique style distinguished him as one of advertising’s most creative artists. Learn more about his work with Oneida, Ltd and create your own Oneida ad for hands-on fun.
Members: $5 Non-Members: $7 Students (ages 8 & up): $3.
August
Gallery Talk: Mansion House Architecture: The Lost Drawings, August 27th, 3pm
Speaker: Dr. Anthony Wonderley
Recently discovered architectural drawings provide new information about how the Mansion House was built, and how it reflected and encouraged the Oneida Community’s distinctive way of life. Featured graphics of the Mansion House central building (1862) and two additions (1869, 1878) illuminate the visions of their architects for the first time. They also show how the original designs were altered by the client Community and then further changed in response to practical use and construction requirements. New architectural information clarifies how the pragmatic communards ended up with fashionable structures that followed the Italian Villa, Second Empire, and High Victorian Gothic styles. The presentation coincides with the exhibit of newly conserved architectural drawings.
Members: $5 Non-Members: $7 Students (ages 8 & up): $3.
October
Welcome to Silver City: Sherrill Manufacturing’s Liberty Tabletop Tour,October 1st, 10am-12pm
Since 1914, silverware has been made in Sherrill, New York. From Oneida Community, Ltd. to Sherrill Manufacturing, discover the history of the craft that made Madison County known throughout the country. Go behind the scenes for a first-hand glimpse of America’s only silverware manufacturers, Sherrill Manufacturing’s Liberty Tabletop, located in the historic Oneida factory.
Guests will meet at the Mansion House before the factory tour.
Members: $5 Non-Members: $7. Students (ages 8 & up): $3.
International Archeology Day: Settlement Pattern of the Oneida Community, 1848-1880, October 15th, 10am-12pm
Celebrate International Archeology Day with us as we uncover and explore Community life in the nineteenth century. Dr. Anthony Wonderley, curator of collections, will describe the settlement pattern around the Mansion House and lead visitors on a tour of the Mansion House site exploring the several phases of site use as shown in the landscape, in the standing structures, and in the documentary evidence.
Members: $5 Non-Members: $7. Students (ages 8 & up): $3.
Oneida Community Cemetery Tour, October 29th, 10am
Join Dr. Molly Jessup, curator of education, in a discussion about mourning culture in the 19th century followed with a tour of the Oneida Community Cemetery and the gravesites of notable Community members.
Members: $5 Non-Members: $7. Students (ages 8 & up): $3.
Greetings,
I am a former resident of Sherrill (class of ’57), and was a good friend of Pat Bolles and his mother Barbara. Was in charge of the NYSED print and audio visual communications and moved on to several Albany Ad Agencies, then on to the SUNY-Wide Central Administration p Designer (65 campuses). Finally formed a corporation dedicated to marketing communications as owner, creative director. What kept me going was the diversity in interpretation of marketing objectives.
I am not a current member but keep in cyber contact with the Community. Recently I took note of your upcoming Coles Philips event offering on July 31.
I would love to attend however my wife is enduring spinal surgery recovery and pain management which keeps us close to home here in the Cap. District. ((Schenectady).
My wife and I have enjoyed a pretty good life (now retired), in advertising, sales promotion, marketing communications for local, regional, national and international clients.
While my client base centered around ‘Industrial markets’ such as GE Power Generation and GE Plastics along with GE Corporate Research and Dev. In addition to a host of clients ranging from standardbred horses to mop wringers, nuclear reactors and-on-and-on.
My wife was a technical translator for GE International during our child rearing days. She later formed an international import/export company. Imports of ship container loads of flat glass from Romania and fine pewter ware from the former East Germany. (We presented to OC back around 1982).
I would like to suggest that your moderator contact the Dean of Advertising and Sales Pro option at MVCC (could be another ID since I attended). Invite the summer term class to this event. As a former ad designer, I would have made ever effort to attend such an historic event,
I regret that I will be unable to attend due to health reasons. If our situation changes corse for the better we will make every attempt to attend.
Keep the interest alive. Sincerely,
Michael and Gisela Koen