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Today’s Sunday Funday is my big show in the Historic Big Hall inside @ocmansionhouse! A very different show than my normal fare, I’ll be presenting “Improvisation Across Multiple Musical Genres”, in which I’ll briefly lecture about the ways I use Improvisation as a performance tool in Classical, Jazz, Blues, Country, Bluegrass and Jam Rock styles before performing songs to demonstrate each. As usual, I will be doing this on piano, guitar or accordion. Hit the OCMH website for last minute tickets and save $5 off entry at the door, or just show up and we’ll be waiting for you! https://www.oneidacommunity.org #livemusic #sundayfunday #oneidany #oneidacommunity #oneidacommunitymansionhouse #improvisation #musicianlife https://www.instagram.com/p/CqQXLtpuxng/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Document conservation supported by the Ralph Myron Sayer and Sophrona Davis Sayer Endowment Fund.

OCHS’ intern Ben Schrantz, with the help of professors Dr. Arnold of SUNY Fredonia, Dr. Owen of Cornell, and Dr. Englund of UCLA identified the dialect, and through translation, revealed its age to be almost 3000 years old!  This extraordinary object is now on display at the Oneida County Historical Society in their exhibit “The Oneida County Historical Society: Bringing the World Back Home for 140 Years”!

This late 19C Mohawk Lamp at the Oneida County Historical Society guided canal boats along New York State Canals, including the Erie Canal. Illuminated by kerosene, it marked navigable channels, safely leading canal boats to their destinations. Oneida County is the site of the first completed section of the Erie Canal (Utica to Rome, completed 1819), which sparked economic prosperity in the region by expediting transportation from New York City to the Great Lakes and beyond.