Calendar of Events
Geneseo provides residents and visitors with a wide variety of activities that appeal to all ages and interests. Please browse through our many events, which we attempt to keep as current as possible. Our sister website, www.geneseony.org, contains schedules of governmental organizations and meetings.
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SUNY Geneseo will host a combined Homecoming and Family Weekend, Sept. 20 –21. Alumni and parents registering for the celebration will enjoy plenty of opportunities to catch up with classmates, students, faculty and staff, as well as catch a glimpse of what life’s like at SUNY Geneseo.
Check the schedule here. 
SUNY Geneseo will host a combined Homecoming and Family Weekend, Sept. 20 –21. Alumni and parents registering for the celebration will enjoy plenty of opportunities to catch up with classmates, students, faculty and staff, as well as catch a glimpse of what life’s like at SUNY Geneseo.
Check the schedule here.
Composer Gregory Spears. (Image provided)
Composer Gregory Spears will deliver the 2019 Walter Harding Lecture. Spears’ lecture, “Thoreau and Music,” is free and open to the public.
Scheduled Reviews
September 5 – The Second Mountain, a Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks; reviewers: Lucille and Joseph Kane
October 3 – The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson; reviewer: Retired Marine Col. Gary Anderson
November 7 – A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion by Dick Keyes; reviewer: Rev. Sterling W. Carroll
December 5 – The Man Who Caught the Storm, the Life of the Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samarow by Brantley Bargrove; reviewer: Wadsworth Library Director Deb Emerson
Reviews are scheduled on the first Thursday of each month and are presented in the Community Room of Wadsworth Library (lower level).
• The program begins at Noon preceded by a brown bag lunch at 11:30.
• This is the 45th year of the series.
Come learn the history of the Groveland Shaker religious community (1826 – 1892), who resided on the land where the Groveland Correctional Facility now stands. Fran Kramer is a historian who has long been researching and teaching about the Sodus/Groveland Shakers.
• Additional parking available in church lot next door.
• Free and open to the public.
2019 Program of the Livingston County Historical Society and Museum
Scheduled Reviews
September 5 – The Second Mountain, a Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks; reviewers: Lucille and Joseph Kane
October 3 – The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson; reviewer: Retired Marine Col. Gary Anderson
November 7 – A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion by Dick Keyes; reviewer: Rev. Sterling W. Carroll
December 5 – The Man Who Caught the Storm, the Life of the Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samarow by Brantley Bargrove; reviewer: Wadsworth Library Director Deb Emerson
Reviews are scheduled on the first Thursday of each month and are presented in the Community Room of Wadsworth Library (lower level).
• The program begins at Noon preceded by a brown bag lunch at 11:30.
• This is the 45th year of the series.
Livingston County Sheriff Dougherty is stopping by to teach about the history of the department. The Sheriff’s Office has existed since the formation of the Livingston County government in 1821, nearly 200 years ago. Dougherty, the 50th Sheriff of Livingston County, has held office since his election in 2014.
• Additional parking available in church lot next door.
• Free and open to the public.
2019 Program of the Livingston County Historical Society and Museum
Scheduled Reviews
September 5 – The Second Mountain, a Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks; reviewers: Lucille and Joseph Kane
October 3 – The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson; reviewer: Retired Marine Col. Gary Anderson
November 7 – A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion by Dick Keyes; reviewer: Rev. Sterling W. Carroll
December 5 – The Man Who Caught the Storm, the Life of the Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samarow by Brantley Bargrove; reviewer: Wadsworth Library Director Deb Emerson
Reviews are scheduled on the first Thursday of each month and are presented in the Community Room of Wadsworth Library (lower level).
• The program begins at Noon preceded by a brown bag lunch at 11:30.
• This is the 45th year of the series.