South Dayton music set for Wednesday

SOUTH DAYTON — On Wednesday, bring your lawn chairs and enjoy Music in the South Dayton Gazebo by Barn Storm, modern/classic country and classic rock from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. There will be hot dogs,cold sodas, home made cookies for sale or come early and have dinner at Zollinger’s Restaurant.

Mornings, Monday through Friday 7:30 – 8:30, Saturday 8 – 9 a.m. join the Village Library Coffee Hour that supports the Village Library. Saturday mornings the Farmers’ Market sets up 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. next to the Depot selling baked goods, jams, vegetables, cloth bags and aprons.

On Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Backstreet Girls, 122 Oak St., Debbie Gugino’s craft will be making Granny Square coasters. The kit is a set of four that cost $10. To register for this craft class, call Karen Strickland at 716-988-5076.

Backstreet Girls provides an opportunity for local craftspeople to display and sell their handcrafted items in a central location. It has a variety of crafts including Artisan breads and bagels. For more information, call Cindy Lauer at 716-986-0358.

Meet the Author event planned

JAMESTOWN — The Fenton History Center invites all to attend a Meet the Author event at the Fenton Mansion on Thursday at 7 p.m. Former resident, Edward T. Davis III, M.D. will be speaking about his recent works which will be published by the Fenton History Center.

They are a two-volume set entitled “The Early Years of Boating on Chautauqua Lake” which contains almost 600 pages of text, mostly consisting of newspaper articles dating from 1826 – 1888, the majority of which are from the Jamestown Journal, Jamestown Daily Journal and Jamestown Evening Journal. Accompanying the articles are 280 photographs/advertisements supplied by the Fenton History Center, the Chautauqua County Historical Society, the Chautauqua Institution Archives, the Davis collection of stereoviews of the Chautauqua Lake region dating from the 1870s – 1880s and several private collectors.

The second publication is “Life in a Chautauqua Lake Resort Community: The Early Years of Point Chautauqua, New York” tells the story of the evolution of Point Chautauqua from a Baptist colony in 1875, through the years of the Grand Hotel and ending in 1930, as it settled into a quiet summer and year-round community using period newspaper articles. It consists of 320 pages with 250 photographs.

Copies of the books may be ordered at the event.