The Ballads of the Schoharie Creek Drownings - NYS History Month series

“The Ballads of the Schoharie Creek Drownings, a Series of Unfortunate Events,” with Esperance Historian, Ken Jones on Tuesday, October 12th. In the 1970’s Ken Jones came across two poems that had been donated to the Esperance Historical Society entitled “Two Poems by J. & A.” The story they told was of a disaster that occurred to the Newkirk Family of the Town of Florida who lived along the Schoharie Creek south of Fort Hunter where the creek empties into the Mohawk River and feeds the Erie Canal. Many years after reading the two poems Jones was astonished to see an original broadside of the “Two Poems” on eBay and was outbid in an attempt to acquire it. Later, he acquired a copy through the State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections department and while researching this broadside, uncovered a series of unfortunate events. Kenneth Jones is the Town of Esperance Historian and has been a long-standing board member of the Esperance Historical Museum, of which he is the current president. Semi-retired after a long career within the Institutional Services and Procurement Departments of the University at Albany - where he recently re-retired from a position as a research associate - Kenneth can trace back his passion and fascination for history to when he was a young boy listening to the stories of "old timers" around town. History of the Town of Esperance: https://theoldstonefort.org/town-of-e... Town of Esperance Museum Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EsperanceHis... **This program is offered for free, but donations are graciously accepted by the Friends of Schoharie Crossing (a 501c3 Non-Profit organization) https://the-friends-of-schoharie-cros... Contact Schoharie Crossing: SchoharieCrossing@parks.ny.gov https://www.parks.ny.gov/historic-sit... #SchoharieCreek #NYS #drownings #ballads #history

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