William F. Locke, CFA, is the President and CEO of Adirondack Financial Services (AFS), headquartered in Utica, New York. Locke has more than 38 years of experience in investment advisory and trust management. Prior to AFS, Locke was the Senior Vice President and Market Manager for the Central New York Region at Fleet Investment Services. Locke holds an MBA from Babson School of Management and a BA from Bates College. He earned his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1993 and has a …
New Trustee – Dr. Simon Middleton
The Board of Trustees of the Jacob Leisler Institute unanimously elected Dr. Simon Middleton as a Trustee on January 23, 2023. Dr. Middleton is a William E. Pullen Associate Professor of History at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. He earned his Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Centre in 1998 and taught at the University of East Anglia and the University of Sheffield, both in England, before joining the faculty at William and Mary in 2018. His publications …
Lecture – The History of Chocolate in the Hudson Valley with Peter G. Rose, culinary historian
The Jacob Leisler Institute & Hudson Area Library are excited to announce the first collaborative lecture of 2023: The History of Chocolate in the Hudson Valley with Peter G. Rose, culinary historian. Saturday February 11, 2023 at 1pm at the Hudson Area Library. …
Ruth Piwonka
It is with deep sorrow that we report the passing on August 2, 2021, of Jacob Leisler Institute founding trustee, trustee emeritus, and former treasurer Ruth Piwonka. In addition to the Jacob Leisler Institute, Ruth served as executive director of the Columbia County Historical Society, executive director of the Columbia Land Conservancy, and was on the board of many historical organizations including the Friends of Lindenwald and Historic Cherry Hill. For many years she was the town …
Jacob Hill Park joins the Institute
The Jacob Leisler Institute welcomes Jacob Hill Park to our team. Mr. Park is a student at Columbia-Greene Community College. Over the past several months he has been aiding in the cataloging of the Institute’s growing books, manuscripts, and print and map collections, and more recently in assisting in other capacities. He is proving to be a most valuable asset to our organization. …
Lecture – The Mohicans’ Incorporation into the Iroquois League, 1671-1675
Thursday, June 24 6-7:30pm Evan Haefeli, historian of colonial North America and the Atlantic world at Texas A&M University, will deliver our June local history talk at the Hudson Area Library library. This talk derives from one of Dr. Haefeli’s current research projects on the history of the Iroquois Confederacy’s relations with its Indigenous neighbors to the east and south, especially the people of the Hudson Valley. The incorporation of the Mohicans into the Iroquois League has …
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