Saturday, October 12, 2019

Orange County Chapter's 2019 Annual Banquet

Orange County Chapter's 2019 Annual Banquet
Saturday, November 16, 2019 at 11:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Fountains at the Wallkill Golf Club. 40 Sands Rd Middletown, Orange County, New York 10941
$30.00 per person
Cash Bar.
Please RSVP with payment by November 2nd to Stephanie Benson
(845) 796-0244, 358 Rock Hill Drive, Rock Hill, NY 12775.
Please make checks payable to IOCCNYSAA

Featured Banquet Speaker:
Archaeology of 19th-Century Tourism: Henrietta Wickham's Enfield Falls Hotel
by Sherene Baugher 
Over the last decade, archaeologists have begun to explore the archaeology of tourism. Sherene Baugher's presentation focuses on the role of a mid-19th century woman, Henrietta Wickham, and her creation of the middle-class tourist destination of Enfield Falls, near Ithaca, New York. In 1853, just five years after the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, Henrietta Wickham opened a summer resort with paths and overlooks to view majestic and breath-taking waterfalls. This was at a time when it was unusual for a woman to be a business owner and landscape designer.
With her team of students from Cornell, Sherene Baugher has excavated the remnants of Henrietta Wickham's hotel, the hotel's midden, and Mrs. Wickham’s home that are buried in Robert H. Treman State Park. The presentation for the Orange County Chapter discusses the objects unearthed in the dig, what these artifacts reveal about the site of Enfield Falls, and how the students worked with the local community and descendants of Enfield Falls to present these discoveries to the public in permanent exhibits in the Park’s Mill Museum.

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