Greene County in the 1920s and 30s relives the history of Greene County through the person of Joseph Frankel. Frankel married Dorothy Tolley of Cairo and moved to Cairo from Minnesota in 1920. He lived until 1980. A history of the 1920s boarding houses, hotels, prohibition, gangsters, KKK, movies, radio, cars and a booming economy until the 1929 spectacular bust of the economy. Then the 30s and organized crime, Legs Diamond, gangsters and Murder Inc., train travel, bus travel and the decline of steamboat travel, the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis, and the Nazi youth camps in Greene County. Plus, Frankel's new job dealing with electricity.

The program will begin at 7pm and be held in the reading room of the Greene County Historical Society’s Vedder Research Library located on the grounds of the Bronck Museum. The Bronck Museum is located just of US 9W 1.5 miles south of the intersection of routes 9W, 385, and 81 near Coxsackie. The program is free and open to the general public.

The Bronck Museum will once again be holding its popular Chilly Willy tours. These special content tours are designed to provide visitors with a small taste of winter living in times past, long before the comfort and convenience provided by central heating and artificial light made winter life much easier. A costumed guide will lead visitors through the interiors of the venerable Bronck houses decorated for the celebration of the late fall and early winter holidays of Martinmas, St. Nicholas Day and St. Lucia Day. The old traditions associated with these now largely forgotten holidays will be remembered and retold. What a great way to begin your holiday season!

The Chilly Willy tours will be offered at 1pm and 3pm on Friday, November 11th and at 11am, 1pm and 3pm on Saturday and Sunday, November 12th and 13th. Advance reservations are required for these popular tours. To purchase tickets for the Chilly Willy Winter’s Eve Tours at the Bronck Museum go the following link https://www.gchistory.org/chilly-willy-tours. Tickets are $10.00 per person, be sure to purchase the correct number of tickets for the number of people in your party! Space is limited to ten people per tour.

The Bronck Museum is located just off US 9W 1.5 miles south of the intersection of routes 385, 81 and 9W near Coxsackie, NY and is easily accessible from NYS Thruway exit 21B.