THANK YOU to everyone who worked at the 2007 Symposium. The efforts of a small army of dedicated individuals, brought together historians, educators, researchers, authors, museum curators, enthusiasts and fans of Sir William Johnson (Warragh-i-ya-gey) to an idyllic location in upstate New York. That location, at Fulton Montgomery Community College, resides half way between Johnson's two surviving baronial manor homes, Johnson Hall (1763) and Old Fort Johnson (1749).
From Dublin to California to Toronto to just down the road, guest speakers filled a two day agenda, with research papers and presentations, on Johnson and his role in colonial New York. Well over 300 attendees filled the Visual Arts Auditorium for the weekend.

The 2007 Western Frontier Symposium examines the shifting dynamics of the interdependent European & Native American cultures in the Mohawk Valley in the time of Sir William Johnson. Drawing from Johnson’s voluminous papers and other sources, scholars will explore the agents of change at work in these borderlands in the decades before the American Revolution.

By 1763, over one hundred years of interactions had begun to change Native American and European cultures along the western frontier of colonial New York.

Sir William Johnson, Irish-born British Commissioner of Indian Affairs, honorary Mohawk, international war hero, town builder and New York’s largest landowner, moved easily through the multiple cultures of the region. His collected papers create an unique window into 18th century New York and are being digitized as a legacy project by the NYS French & Indian War 250th Anniversary Commemoration Commission.

Symposium scholars from America, Canada & Ireland will share their research on the changing economic and cultural relationships among colonial British, Dutch, German and Native American residents of the eighteenth century Mohawk Valley.

All presentations are open to the public free of charge, thanks to a grant from the
New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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"RE-ENVISIONING HISTORY” Exhibit at the Perrella Gallery, FMCC

A concurrent exhibit, “Re-Envisioning History” will open on October 20th., with a special reception at 5pm. The Month-long exhibit features the work of contemporary artists Geoffrey Harding, Robert Griffing, Debra Grover, Bert Ducey, Ray Helmicki, Michael Galban, Eileen Sammons and Peter Jemison who bring the eighteenth century world to life. Books and Art Prints will be available for purchase.