Art Cohn, a nautical archaeologist, will be the featured speaker at the Schuyler County Historical Society’s annual membership meeting on Saturday. As the state celebrates 200 years since the opening of the Erie Canal, the Brick Tavern Museum opened “200 Years: Seneca Lake and the Erie Canal Waterways” in their Community Exhibition Gallery on March 2. The exhibition highlights various periods of Seneca Lake and the connected waterways and features parts of Art Cohn’s underwater discoveries of Seneca Lake shipwrecks.
The meeting will be held at Seneca Lodge in Watkins Glen from 12 p.m. until 3 p.m. Cohn will speak following a brief business session and the election of officers and trustees to the Society’s board. Historical Society membership is not necessary to attend the gathering. An admission fee of $30 per person will be charged to cover the cost of lunch.
Pre-registration is required by emailing [email protected] or calling the Historical Society at 607-535-9741. All payments will be taken at the door.
Co-Founder, Director Emeritus and Senior Advisor of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and Research Institute, Art Cohn is a professional diver, historian, educator and advocate for the preservation of historical shipwrecks. A resident of Ferrisburgh, Vermont, he has coordinated and participated in Lake Champlain’s archaeological projects for the past thirty years. Cohn has a B.A. in sociology from the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. In 2000 and 2001, Cohn was a Member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization’s convention for the protection of underwater cultural heritage. Since its inception in 1985, Cohn has been the chief advocate for the Lake Champlain Underwater Historic Preserve. He formally coordinated that program for the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation. Cohn is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology at both the University of Vermont and Texas A&M University, as well as a member of the Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Department, a chaplain and a tugboat captain. Cohn has reported on Seneca Lake shipwrecks in the past and this talk will focus on the updates since his last presentation in 2022.
For more information email [email protected] or call the museum at 607-535-9741. Those who wish to attend the meeting ONLY may arrive at 1:00 p.m. for the Annual Meeting portion of the program.
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