Craft Beverage Memory Project

08/27/2022

All of our Craft Beverage Memory Project interviews are now available on the NY Heritage Digital Collections website. We are thankful to everyone who participated in our two-year project by providing an interview and donating to our archives. A special thank you to Mary E. Maki who transcribed all of the 37 interviews. She completed this, all while writing her new book Deadly Secrets.

06/11/2022

Craft Beverage Memory Project on display at the Finger Lakes Welcome Center in Geneva. A wonderful place to showcase our project in wonderful New York State.

06/08/2022

The Finger Lakes Welcome Center in Geneva, New York is currently hosting our Craft Beverage Memory Project exhibit. Please stop in to view our panels in this wonderful venue.

04/22/2022

Join us at the Edith B. Ford Memorial Library for Farm to Table in a Bottle, presented by Fred Bassette of Airy Acres Vineyard. Bassette will present a local history talk about his family farm in Interlaken, New York, and how he got started in the vineyard business. This event is recommended for teens and adults ages 16+ and takes place on Saturday, April 30th at 12pm.
Register for this program by phoning the library at (607) 869-3031 or register online at https://forms.gle/b84HyThvCT9o7abe7

11/02/2021

Throughout the last year FingerLakes1.com partnered with the Edith B. Ford Memorial Library located in Ovid, New York to host a series of roundtable discussions on the history and role of Seneca...

06/08/2021

Please register for this local history program. The link has been added below.

Please join us via Zoom for a presentation by Seneca County Historian Walter Gable regarding the history of the New York State Agricultural College in Ovid. Did you know that this was right in our backyard?

Sign up at:
https://forms.gle/xeSdEcKURsoWKMXcA

05/04/2021

Join us via Zoom on May 12th at 6:00 pm to learn about the Spotted Lanternfly. This pest is a danger to grapes, hops and other valuable crops and resources. The sign up form will be available soon on our website.

02/15/2021

Our full interview with Laura Wagner Lee of Wagner Vineyards. We had a lovely time!

Monica Kelly interviews Laura Wagner Lee of Wagner Vineyards Estate Winery for the Craft Beverage Memory Project.This is the full interview, uncut.This proje...

02/08/2021

We interviewed John Wagner of Wagner Vineyards for our oral history project! Here is the full interview.

Monica Kelly interviews John Wagner of Wagner Vineyards Estate Winery for the Craft Beverage Memory Project.This is the full interview, uncut.This project wa...

01/18/2021

We are proud to present our first public video preview of the project! Full-length interviews will be published soon.

Monica Kelly interviews John Wagner and Laura Wagner of Wagner Vineyards Estate Winery for the Craft Beverage Memory Project.Watch the full interview: [comin...

12/28/2020

What’s on tap for the holiday season at local wineries? This roundtable is a look at what wineries are doing in the Finger Lakes to tap into the holiday spirit, and offer...

12/23/2020

Thank you to writer, editor and genealogist Mary Nunn Maki for transcribing our Craft Beverage Memory Project interviews. She has been an enormous help, and we could not do this without her. Her mystery novel, An Unexpected Death, weaves a fictional storyline set within the stage of our own Finger Lakes Wine Country.