As part of our Rev250 celebration, American Revolutionary Banners are now on display at the Southeast Museum in September. The banners are being lent to us by the Enoch Crosby Chapter through a collaboration between American Battlefield Trust and the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. The museum has been granted permission to bring them to CV Starr Intermediate School for Fifth grade students to view during a Constitution Week presentation. The banners will also be brought to the Brewster School District Conference room on September 23, 25, and 26 to coincide with Constitution Week where the Fourth and Fifth grade students will tour this exhibit and learn about the American Revolution.
https://www.battlefields.org/events/traveling-exhibition-southeast-museum
Southeast Museum is collaborated with the Brewster Chamber of Commerce and the Putnam County Historian on its major exhibit which premiered on March 19, 2025: "The History of Business in Brewster." The four (4) major industries being highlighted are: The Circus, Mining, Railroad and Borden.
Lifelong residents and business owners have been interviewed and recorded to paint an authentic picture of what Main Street businesses provided throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks.
In 1935, John N. Trainor, who had a summer residence on Allview Avenue in Brewster, began collecting rocks and minerals that had been created in the cracks and fissures of the Tilly Foster Mine. Part of his collection, on loan from the New York State Museum in Albany, can be viewed at the Southeast Museum.
Specimens include the minerals of magnetite, chondrodite, clinochlore, brucite, serpentine and titanite, pyrite and talc to list a few.
The museum has 86 minerals on display. While the minerals are not considered precious, the mine is known for having a large variety of minerals and of the highest quality.
Roderick Cassidy (right), a Brewster High School senior, has been hard at work capturing three dimensional images of each of the minerals displayed in the museum’s Tilly Foster Exhibit, on loan from
the New York State Museum. Roderick captured these images by placing each mineral on a rotating platform.
They have been converted to mp4 files which play directly on the New York Heritage website. These images will also be uploaded to the museum’s website so that students may examine them virtually. Thank you, Roderick, for making these images available to students and anyone in- terested in this collection.
This is an Eagle Scout Service project by Andrew DiFabbio. Special thanks to Brewster Troop 1, the Putnam County Historian's Office and the Southeast Museum.
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