Annual international juried quilt show featuring traditional and innovative quilts, wall hangings and wearable art, $5 adults/seniors, members & children under twelve FREE
Saturday, June 14 at 1pm, FREE and open to the public. Come out for a peek at the great blue herons sharing the rookery work with their mates and feeding the fast growing young. Naturalist Jim D'Angelo will led a walk about Great Blue Herons and the rookery at the Sterling Nature Center.
10AM - 4PM, fine art and craft booths and antique dealers join forces for this joint event organized by Community Preservation Committee and Cayuga County Arts Council. Music and food also available. Free admission.
A new presenting and production company offering plays, comedy acts, fine arts shows, dance, film and musical productions. The space includes a café, art gallery, black box theater and cinema.
Housed in the Willard-Case mansion (built in 1836), the museum offers permanent and changing exhibits on local figures, events and items pertinent to the development of Cayuga County. The Case Research Lab is the site where the first successful system of sound on film was invented. Gift shop offers local memorabilia
This one-room schoolhouse is furnished to represent the period of 1920-1930. Open Sundays, July - August. New exhibits, programs and demonstrations offered weekly. Group tours by appointment.
The history center will feature two main exhibits: One chronicles the school system's development from a one-room school house to its current structure. The exhibit will include old school desks, chairs and other classroom items. A display of vintage farm equipment will also be featured at the museum. A horse-drawn milk cart used in Cato in the 1800s will be among the tools included.
Vinifera and hybrid grapes grow on the rolling hillside. The Scholomiti family produces fine Finger Lakes table wines, specializing in Riesling and Chambourcin. Tasting room open Saturday and Sunday, April - December, or by appointment. Opening their tasting room on April 5th.
Dozens of exhibits showcase historic race cars, classic autos, unique racing memorabilia and rarely seen photographs. The gift shop offers a wide variety of collector items.
Set on a hill overlooking Auburn, this site was used for burial mounds by Native Americans as early as 1100 A.D. It includes the burial sites of William Seward, Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, Col. Myles Keogh who fought with Gen. Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, and a monument to Indian orator Chief Logan.
Located in an historic Presbyterian church, the Frontenac Museum has exhibits dedicated to local history and culture. Open weekends, April - October, or by appointment. Call for guided tours and general information.
Known as “The Moses Of Her People,” Tubman settled in Auburn after the Civil War and operated this home for aged and indigent blacks. As a conductor on the Underground Railroad-a network of abolitionists that helped slaves escape to freedom-she made a dozen trips south over a period of 11 years. Tubman died in 1913 at her South Street property, and is buried at Fort Hill Cemetery.
Former family business of noted educator and Quaker abolitonist Emily Howland (1827 - 1929), this museum displays historic items from the family's world-wide travels, and memorabilia honoring Howland's accomplishments.
The School House Museum showcases a blacksmith shop and old-time kitchen, Indian lore artifacts, documents, military and industrial items and decorative arts. Open Saturdays, June - August or by appointment
Located at the Little Red School House Museum, Sterling Center. Featuring the movie "Getting up Stema," including railway songs and stories, oil painting, model train exhibits and railway display. Open Saturdays June - August or by appointment.
Set on a picturesque farm overlooking Cayuga Lake, visitors can tour the restored Victorian Farmhouse and see the beautiful hand-decorated ceramic tableware and home furnishings produced by MacKenzie-Childs. See a video of the production process at the tourist center, browse through the retail shop and enjoy the country gardens.
Known as “Broadway in the Finger Lakes,” the Playhouse is Upstate New York’s most popular professional theatre performing favorite Broadway musicals from May - September. The Playhouse is located in a historic carousel building in picturesque Emerson Park.
This water-powered gristmill has been operating since 1823. The mill offers a country store featuring New Hope Mills pancake mixes. Country store open year-round, Monday-Saturday, guided mill tours by appointment. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Visit New Hope Mills second retail location at 181 York Street in Auburn.
Permanent displays of local business signs, tools and a turn-of-the-century kitchen. A large collection of genealogical files and local historical information is also available
This museum is dedicated to preserving local history and agricultural traditions. Annual Wheat Harvest Festival and Parade presented the first Saturday in August. Opne Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, weekends by appointment.
Contemporary exhibitions feature local and national artists. Year-round adult and youth classes, concerts, special events and gift shop. “Quilts=Art=Quilts” each November - January.
For over 50 years, the Seward House was the home of William Henry Seward (1801-1872), Governor of New York, United States Senator, Secretary of State to Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, and a leading figure in the Republican Party and the purchase of Alaska. Enjoy a guided tour through 17 rooms at this registered National Historic Landmark.
This spectacular 1400-acre site, with nearly two miles of Lake Ontario shoreline, features glacially formed bluffs with scenic vistas of Lake Ontario. Hiking and cross-country ski trails available. Sterling Nature Center has 700 acres of no hunting and 700 acres of open hunting. Call for listing of nature classes, exhibits and events.
Experience an authentic Elizabethan festival in 16th-century Warwick, England. The professional theater company combines with arts and crafts, jousting, games and refreshments in an entertaining atmosphere set in a shady forest. Weekends only July - August.
Step back in time to the turn of the century and life on the farm. See tools made from the 1800s to the 1940s, spanning the years of farming’s greatest changes — from hand-held to horse-drawn tools, and later to tractor power. Open mid May - mid September.
Wells College, established 1868, has a mission of advancing students through quality liberal arts programs. The lovely historical campus sits on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake and offers conference and meeting facilities, a 9-hole public golf course partially designed by Robert Trent Jones, and cultural enrichment events throughout the year
Designed by Louis C. Tiffany and Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co., one of the few unaltered Tiffany chapels known to exist. Available year-round for weddings, concerts and special events.
10AM - till dark ,come join us for our celebration of Fair Haven's heritage and history through her wooden boats, both on land and in the water. There will be food, drink and music to go along with all the great stories, so plan to make a day or stay the weekend and celebrate with us.
Foodies will delight in the fresh produce here in the Finger Lakes! Our restaurants get the pick of fruits and vegetables grown at nearby farms: tomatoes still warm from the garden, sweet strawberries, corn so good you can skip the salt and butter -- and much more. Our restaurants and farm markets update these seasonal delights daily depending on what's ripe. Click here for more info.
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