63-Year-Old Women’s Calendar Returns, Featuring Seneca Falls Mural

Nancy Taylor — Lake to Lake Women
Paul Szmal 5:17
Worn white window frames a Finger Lake, green trees and fields, a road, and a brown shingled roof under a cloudy sky.

A Finger Lakes tradition entering its 64th year is now taking shape, and the woman behind it is looking for community support to make the 2027 Lake to Lake Women calendar another success.

Nancy Taylor, calendar chairman for Lake to Lake Women, appeared on the FLX Morning Podcast to announce that compilation of the 2027 edition is underway. The calendar — a fundraiser supporting scholarship programs through the organization, which has been chartered in New York State since April 1930 — has become a regional fixture, featuring photographs of well-known local landmarks over its six-plus decades of publication.

This year’s featured image will be a sponsored photograph of the Flame Keepers mural, a work connected to the Bona Dent Foundation and located in Seneca Falls. Past editions have spotlighted Rose Hill Mansion, White Springs Manor, the Smith Opera House, Bellhurst Castle, and the Little Red Schoolhouse, among others. The current 2026 calendar features Cox Hall, with Taylor herself pictured in recognition of her long tenure with the project.

The calendars are priced at just $5 each. Residents can also pay 50 cents per entry to have birthdays, anniversaries, or in memoriam listings included. Organizations are invited to have their regular meeting schedules printed in the calendar as well — an option several groups take advantage of annually.

Taylor said the calendar project means more to her than fundraising. “It still lets me be involved with the community,” she said, adding that the work keeps her connected to local businesses and neighbors year after year.

Anyone interested in purchasing a 2026 calendar, reserving a listing in the 2027 edition, or learning more about how to participate can contact Nancy Taylor directly at 315-789-2899.

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Paul Szmal: The Lake to Lake Women calendar is starting to be compiled for 2027 and Nancy Taylor is here to tell us about it. Hi Nancy, good morning.

Guest: Good morning Paul, thank you very much for letting me to be on the radio once again.

Paul Szmal: Yeah, let's talk. I'd like to help promote my calendar like the Strawberry Festival of the Presbyterian Church.

Guest: Yeah, well this calendar, I mean it's been around for a while, 63 years to be specific, and it's a fundraiser for some different scholarship programs. It's kind of a women helping women thing.

Paul Szmal: Yes, that's correct, and this year we're going to have a special one once again. It's a sponsored picture of the Flame Keepers, a mural done by Bona Dent Foundation, and it's located in Seneca Falls, New York. And there are a whole host of places that have been featured in the calendar, everything from Rose Hill Mansion to the Little Red Schoolhouse, White Springs Manor, the Smith Opera House, Bellhurst Castle, so many landmarks around the region have been represented in this calendar.

Guest: Yes, quite a few. So we try to spread our wealth around. Last year it was Cox Hall, or the 2026 calendar that we presently have hanging on the wall, it was Cox Hall, which was a picture of myself representing and recognizing my many years of the calendar project, which is many, many.

Paul Szmal: Yes, absolutely. Now here's the thing, is the community gets to participate in this. How do they do that, Nancy?

Guest: Well, I put some flyers around town. We're going to have some promotion in the Finger Lakes Times. The members try to sell to their friends. Also, they see it around, or they see it in the newspaper, they can call me, the calendar chairman, Nancy Taylor at 315-789-2899. And the calendars are only five bucks, so this is a bargain.

Paul Szmal: Yes, the calendars are five dollars. To put any birthdays, anniversaries, or in memoriams listings in on the calendar are 50 cents each. Also, a lot of organizations have been sent communication if they wish to put their meetings listed on the calendar, and there are several organizations that do it on a yearly basis.

Guest: Yeah, so if you're part of one of those organizations, this is super handy, because you'll have the meeting schedule on the calendar in front of you every time you flip a page.

Paul Szmal: Yes, that's correct. So what for you, Nancy, is the best part about doing this calendar?

Guest: Well, I think also people have said to me, you're still working on it, and I said yes. And personally, Paul, I think one of the factors that I still like to keep involved in it, it still lets me still be involved with the community. I know a lot of the people that are in the businesses that are in charge of advertising and who to approach and what day that they're going to be in their store. It's an event that really keeps you involved, and you don't get away from the community. And also, you can meet new people in the community to be involved in it, too.

Paul Szmal: Absolutely. So once again, Nancy, how do people get the calendar that is available, the 2026 calendar, if they want one for the balance of the year, or to get a birthday anniversary or announcement listed on the 2027 edition?

Guest: They could call me. It's Nancy Taylor. I'm the calendar chairman. My phone number is 315-789-2899.

Paul Szmal: As always, Nancy, I appreciate it. Thank you so much for your service and dedication to the community over these many years. Lake to Lake Women has been a part of the New York State Women for a lot of years.

Guest: We were chartered in April of 1930. That's a long time ago.

Paul Szmal: It certainly is. Certainly is. And you're still going strong, Nancy. Appreciate it.

Guest: Thank you very much, Paul, for having me on the radio once again. It is. And I appreciate anybody that heard us that would like to get in touch with me. You're more than welcome to be able to participate in it.