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We are glad you enjoyed it. The map is from the 1926 Geneva City Directory but dates from 1916. Unfortunately we do not have a digital version of it available, but you can see many of the streets on the Library of Congress Sanborn Fire Insurance Map for Geneva in 1897: www.loc.gov/item/sanborn05942_003/ .

The map shown in the presentation gives their approximate location. The five nations of the Haudenosaunee are also known as the Iroquois. The nations covered different territory at different times throughout New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, but generally the Seneca were the westernmost ranging from the Rochester area to Seneca Lake in New York. The Cayuga lived in the area around Cayuga Lake, the Onondaga near Syracuse and Central NY, the Oneida in the Rome/Utica region and the Mohawk in the Adirondack region to the north. The Tuscarora were admitted to the confederacy later and granted lands in central New York. Many place names throughout the state were derived from native words or English pronunciations of them, not only the names of the nations, but also Canandaigua, Tonawanda, Coneseus, and Keuka. You can find more information about the Haudenosaunee on the New York State Museum website: www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibitions/ongoing/first-peoples

If you have photos, items, or her story from your aunt's salon to share, we would love to hear from you. We can copy and return photos and paper items. Thanks! info@historicgeneva.org

Thanks, but as I noted for another commenter below, polishing the silver removes a layer of silver, so it is done very judiciously in museums. To keep the tarnish from reoccurring we would need better storage conditions and likely wouldn't be able to put them on display. Most of our building does not provide the climate conditions to prevent tarnishing. If you want to know more, there is a through explanation on the website of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Australia: www.maas.museum/app/uploads/2017/02/looking_after_silver.pdf

Thanks for your comment and the offer to volunteer! We can always use help, but polishing silver is one thing we don't do under normal circumstances. Polishing the silver actually removes a layer of silver, so it is done very judiciously in museums. You must store the polished items properly in order to avoid the tarnish reoccurring. In order to keep our silver items looking new, we wouldn't be able to put them out in our period rooms and in fact, most of our building is not ideal for conserving items like this. If you want to know more, there is a through explanation on the website of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Australia: www.maas.museum/app/uploads/2017/02/looking_after_silver.pdf

We are in Geneva, NY in the Finger Lakes region. To learn more see the links in the description.

Hey, safety first! We don't force visitors to use an outhouse either!

Glad you enjoyed it. Be sure to look at our website (historicgeneva.org/blog/) and those of other local history organizations for exhibits and blog posts that might be relevant to your research. I've written a bit more about agriculture at our sites there. The research is not always in depth, but can provide a good starting point.

I am sorry that you were offended by that. It is not an ideal location for clothing to be stored, but our building is beyond capacity and there are currently very few storage options available to us. The second floor is not open to the public and is normally blocked off. This building is nearly 200 years old and was never intended to be an office, exhibit gallery, or collections storage facility but has to serve as all three. We are in the process of renovating another building to hold excess collections, but it is a long and costly project that will not be complete before next year.

Ouch. We are all so sad and need therapy now because you "clicked out"

You must have a miserable life Mary Cornejo. What type of person gets upset about something as trivial as clothes hanging at the top of the stairs?!! Cybil's mother...

I've taken it to mean that she was a mother of very young children who wanted to restore some social life but was embarrassed because her children would not behave as she expected in front of company. The girls were just 2 and 4 years old. I picture her throwing up her hands despairing of having visitors again. They did have plenty more visitors at the house after this and she eventually had four girls to corral.

We are sorry to have missed you too. Unfortunately with our small staff and the uncertainty all year about capacity restrictions and regulations, we haven't been able to open Johnston House to the public. We can open it by request however, so if you are going to be in the area again in 2021, give us a call at 315-789-3848 and we will try to open it if we have the staff available. Watch this space for a children's tour of the house coming soon.

The first Corps as I remembered was the Garfield Cadets, in 1962 I believe they had two of them. I was not aware of the Geneva appleknockers having them made for them oh, they were definitely one of the more entertaining course Very advanced in their music and Showmanship. I had the recording of them sitting on the stage. Extremely entertaining. I only saw them compete one time in Roosevelt Stadium oh, I believe it was a preview of Champions, I do not remember the year but it was early 60s or late 50s? Former member of the Long Island Sunrisers 1964 through 1968. This post is on March 20th 2022. And thank you so very much for this post.