HISTORY OF BUSINESS IN BREWSTER, NY

Southeast Museum collaborated  with the Putnam History Museum to host an art exhibit that premiered on October 18, featuring local artists' portrayals of the women of the Hudson Valley who contributed to the American Revolution. For this exhibit, which was sponsored in part by the Putnam Arts Council. This exhibit will come to the Southeast Museum following its run in Cold Spring on March 4. This was the kickoff event to Rev250, Putnam County's year long celebration of the 250th birthday of our nation.

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.