Art Classes for Children

Popular art educator Kathye Edwina Arrington will use historic items from the museum to inspire artwork. Children may sign up for either class or both. Register by March 10. A minimum of 10 participants is required. Cost is $5 per child per class, $4 for members of TCHS.

Make "Fossilized Bones" - March 13, Saturday, 1-3pm - Explore the collection of pre-historic arrowheads, and imagine the animals which ancient residents of the Southern Tier would have hunted. There's even the tooth of a wooly mammoth. The children will then make sand castings of their own "fossilized bones."

Museum Still Lives - March 27, Saturday, 1-3pm - This class will teach children how to use charcoal and pastel, and draw still life objects from the collection of the museum. With the help of a curator, the class will be able to design their own still life, while learning about shading techniques in drawing.

Caring for Photographs & Archives

March 20, Saturday, 1-3pm

Are your photographs fading? Distressed about your old documents? Come to the museum to learn how to stop aging in its tracks. Joann Llewellyn, Director of Collections, will cover presentation, preservation, and storage of your timeless treasures. Become your family's archivist! Free samples of archival products will be available to participants.

Cost of the two-hour workshop is $5, with a discount for members of TCHS. Registration is required.

J. A. Loring Biography Just Released

Tod Loring ventured throughout the United States at the turn of the century serving as a field naturalist for the U. S. Biological Survey and the Smithsonian as well as Curator of Animals for the New York Zoological Park. In 1909, he accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on a scientific expedition to Africa. Loring was a well-known character in Owego, often presenting lectures on his career abroad to the Elks Club.

J. Alden Loring: A Naturalist Afield by William O. Lay is the latest publication of the Tioga County Historical Society. It is filled with stories from the American West and Africa, excerpts from Loring's own letters, as well as many exotic photographs taken in the early 1900s. Lay's easy style makes this book a must-read. Soft-cover copies are available for $15.