Followed by a Year End celebration!

Presented by Dodie Gearing, Canaan Town Historian and Historical Society Curator.

Movie and Q &A by Frank Kehn, Collier

*This event will take place at The Society of New Concord, 2689 County Route 9.

Presented by Jack Steffek of Hancock Shaker Village.

Music, Food and Family Fun! Celebrating Canaan’s historic vote for independence - ten days before the Colonial Declaration of Independence!

Join us for the Canaan Historical Society’s annual membership meeting, followed by a year end celebration. 

Heidi Bock, Director of Land Stewardship and Community Partnerships at the land Columbia Land Conservancy will give a presentation.

Unfortunately this event has been canceled.

Share your stories of growing up in Canaan. The event will be coordinated by Shirley Billings Flierl.

Max Cane, an “archeo-detectorist,” will give a presentation of history’s treasures hiding just below the surface.

This event will take place indoors at the Society of New Concord Meeting House at 2689 County Rte. 9, Canaan, N.Y.

Heather Bruegl, Oneida/Stockbridge-Munsee, is a historian and Indigenous Consultant. She will give a presentation titled: “The Original New Yorkers: An Indigenous History of Land.”

(Note: the Canaan Historical Society’s Meeting House will be closed on this weekend.)

Join us for our summer kickoff event! There will be a parade, speeches, historic plaque unveiling and family fun.

We’ll be celebrating the local area’s declaration of independence from Britain made 11 days before the rest of the colonies in 1776.

All members of the historical society are encouraged to attend our annual meeting. The Canaan Shakers program will be presented by Jerry Grant.

This event will be held rain or shine. Masks and social distancing required.

Presented by: Pieter Lips.

This event will be held indoors. Masks and social distancing required.

This event will take place at 53 Whiting’s Pond Road in Canaan, NY.

Rain date: July 25.

Presented by: Jack Steffiak.

Event will be held inside the church rain or shine.

Facilitated by Patricia McDonald and Allie Middleton.

Rain date: July 11.