Clay Historical Association

05/27/2026

12/22/2025

Syracuse journalist, writer, and storyteller, Sean Kirst will share stories from his best-selling book "The Soul of CNY". The book features a collection of columns by Kirst spanning almost a quarter-century featuring heartfelt stories about the people of Syracuse. "The Soul of CNY" was the fastest-selling book in the almost-80-year history of the Syracuse University Press upon its release in 2016.

Kirst spent nearly 25 years as a columnist for the Syracuse Post-Standard, is a winner of the Ernie Pyle Award for human interest writing and is a recipient of the Onondaga Historical Association medal, the OHA’s highest award for preserving and interpreting local heritage.

He is currently a journalist-in-residence at Le Moyne College and a writer for Central Current, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newspaper for people building a life in Central New York.

This program is cosponsored by Clay Historical Association.

This program will be held at Raymour & Flanigan at 4000 New York 31, Liverpool, NY‎

Registration Required.

Date:
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Time:
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Audience:
Adult
Categories:
History

09/29/2025

Clay Historical Association’s Open House on Sunday, Oct 19th from 1-3pm at Clay Historical Park, 4939 NY 31, Clay. All buildings will be open and manned by volunteers: Cigarville Train Station, replica log cabin, Sellen-Weller barn, and Visitor Center. The buildings feature exhibits, artifacts, photographs, documents, and other memorabilia that have been donated by Town of Clay families. For further information go to http://sites.google.com/site/clayhistoricalassociation or Facebook.

Any questions, call Cindy at 315-927-7573

I found out this month that one of the houses in the past “Historic Town of Clay” calendars has been put on the real estate market. The house in the calendar collection was called the “Strever Homestead” back in March of 1986 for Aaron Strever’s family that lived there. I’ve included the...

09/21/2025

Some Fall Festival pictures from Kevin Meeker, former town board member. Thank you for coming.