FRIENDS OF HISTORIC GROOMS TAVERN
P.O. Box 1166
CLIFTON PARK, NEW YORK 12065
Contact: Alexandra Verrigni
(518) 399-2446
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 2, 2008
FRIENDS TO HOST ARCHEOLOGICAL LECTURE
Our
Earliest Inhabitants along the Mohawk River
CLIFTON
PARK, New York – The Friends of
Historic Grooms Tavern, a not-for-profit association dedicated to Historic
Grooms Tavern, will host an archeological talk by Fred Stevens on Sunday
afternoon, June 29, 2008 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm at the Grooms Tavern, corner of
Grooms and Sugarhill Roads, Rexford, New York.
Mr. Stevens’ talk is entitled, “Early Man in Clifton Park:
Evidence for 10,000 years of pre-Colonial Occupation in Clifton Park, New
York.”
Born in Grooms Corners in
1939, Fred Stevens attended Shenendehowa High School, graduating third in his
class; and, University of Colorado, where he was conferred a BS in Chemical
Engineering in 1960. He worked for,
among others, Dow Corning Corporation and Schenectady Chemical (now SIGroup) in
a variety of engineering and managerial areas prior to his retirement in 2000.
His interest in archeology was spawned by Clifton Park’s First Town
Historian, Howard Becker, his next door neighbor.
Mr. Stevens currently
serves on the Board of Iroquois Indian Museum and supervises the Archeological
Department which is investigating several pre-historic sites in the Schoharie
Creek watershed. He is an active
volunteer with NYS Museum, Southern Adirondack project, and member and officer
of many NYS and national archeological organizations.
Mr. Stevens has amassed a
large collection of Indian artifacts, subject of this talk, presenting evidence
of over 10,000 years of nearly continuous human occupation of the town of
Clifton Park. The lecture
begins with small bands of “hunters and gatherers” and ends with larger
occupying groups along the Mohawk River, Alplaus Creek and around Ballston and
Round Lakes.
The public is invited to
attend this fascinating review of our origins.
Admission is free and refreshments will be served.