Corry Winter Fest '13

Post date: Jan 8, 2013 12:42:26 PM

Joining Corry Winter Fest Activities

As winter settles into the Corry area, the residents settle into winter schedules. Some folks head for warmer weather, others run outside to embrace the weather conditions, and then some just sort of hibernate as much as possible. At the Corry Area Historical Society, a partial hibernation happens as the museum is only open on Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m., weather permitting or by appointment. This gives members time to catch up on the behind the scenes work or just settle in for a rest after our busy summer season.

Then a great idea like Corry Winter Fest comes along to embrace the fact that we live in the great city of Corry, and the wonderful surrounding area where it is going to be snowy and cold. The Corry Area Historical Society invites you to join us on January 19th between the hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for some fun activities. Keeping with the winter theme of embracing the conditions, free guided Polar Bears Tours will be offered throughout the unheated portion of the museum. As an added bonus this year, the Corry Artists’ Guild has agreed to display paintings from local artists throughout the museum. After enjoying these activities, sit down and warm up with a cup of hot chocolate and cookies in the heated meeting room, courteous of the members of the Corry Area Historical Society.

Once warmed up, head for the Cold Trails project setup in the meeting room of the museum. Members have decided with so many hibernating pictures, some of these cold trails need to be revisited, with the hopes visitors will be able to help identify the location, person or event in the pictures. To tag a picture, visitors are asked to make a donation, thus sponsoring the identified picture and help us purchase much needed supplies to give the picture a permanent home, preserving it for future generations.

If walking in the cold is not for you, then come to the Corry Area Historical Society Museum on the nineteenth. Bring along one of your own unidentified pictures to see if we can name it, drink hot chocolate, and share stories all in the comfort of our heated meeting room, courteous of a new heating system purchased with grants from the A. Bruce and Arleen H. Smith Fund of the Corry Community Foundation and Erie County Gaming revenue Authority. 

We are looking forward to seeing everyone as we make new memories.