"THE SIGNS OF PAST TIMES"

What started as grant funded "THE SIGNS OF PAST TIMES- a Traveling Rural Exhibit," has turned into an exciting program!

Get ready to travel back in time to the year 1816! We will tell the true story of "THE YEAR THERE WAS NO SUMMER" also known as "EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FROZE TO DEATH!" The first heroic story dovetails into another as we tell the interesting tale of The Westward Migration of America -- beginning in Steuben County, New York! The story is full of adventure as we travel with the first two women of European descent by horseback, wagon, sled, steamboat, mules and on foot from Western New York over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon Territory!

“This project was made possible by a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts, locally administered through The ARTS of the Southern Finger Lakes."

The project is now part of The permanent collection of the
Howard Historical Society, Mill Street Howard, New York.

The museum, located just off the Howard exit of Interstate 80; is just a stone's throw from the location of the historical marker "The Inn at Howard."

We are available to present our program to groups, clubs, historical societies and other venues to tell two amazing stories that began in Western New York. Our program can be accompanied by a slideshow and is suitable for large and small groups of all ages. For more information about availability and honorarium please contact us:

Susan Wake, Finger Lakes Artist was awarded the 2010 Artist Crossroads Grant which funded project, "THE SIGNS OF PAST TIMES." Susan created these two mural sized paintings (4 ft x 6 ft ) depicting the rest of the story behind two separate historical markers located in Howard, New York. The literary text accompanying the paintings were written by Lawrence Wake, collaborator on the project. Both paintings tell the far reaching stories about the incredible people that changed the course of history and the development of the United States.