The Zadock Pratt Museum welcomes stop by the second Schoharie Turnpike

Contributed photoThe Zadock Pratt Museum

PRATTSVILLE — It's June. Flowers, sun and fine weather beckon us outdoors. COVID-19 and too much time indoors have imbued us with a renewed desire for peaceful, home-based activities, including porch-sitting and the pleasures of the rocking chair. Join us on the porch of the Zadock Pratt Museum where tea cakes, iced tea, several rocking chairs (and a few more folding chairs for good measure) await you as the Town of Prattsville and the Zadock Pratt Museum welcome the drivers of Second Schoharie Turnpike-Kaaterskill Clove Road Rally on June 10 and their beautiful driving machines.

The Rally, brainchild of artist and antique car enthusiast Robert Selkowitz celebrates a love of maps and history and includes 135 miles of country roads and scenic vistas throughout our rural hamlets and villages. The rally will start at 10 a.m. with breakfast at Catskill Point in the Town of Catskill where a parade of automobiles, new and antique, will wend their way up historic Kaaterskill Clove through the lush and verdant hills of Greene and Schoharie with visits to the Pratt Museum, Gilboa Museum & Juried History Center and, its terminus, the Old Stone Fort in Schoharie.

The Museum also features a new exhibition of rare 19th century drawings of Prattsville's iconic buildings by James B. Gregory, local artist and apothecary.

The Zadock Pratt Museum is located at 14540 Main St., Prattsville. For information, call 518-299-3395.

To learn more about the Rally, visit https://www.1903autorun.com/ or call Robert Selkowitz at 845-657-6982. To learn more about the Zadock Pratt Museum, visit www.zadockprattmuseum.org.

The mission of the Zadock Pratt Museum is to educate the public about of the local, state, and nationally known significance of 19th century Catskill Mountains Congressman, banker, soldier and tannery owner Zadock Pratt, his family, and the greater Schohariekill-Prattsville area from pre-Revolution to the 21st century. The museum is located in Pratt's 19th century Greek Revival home, built in 1828 and re-designed in 1856. Since 1986 the edifice has been on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum opened to the public in 1959. To learn more, visit zadockprattmuseum.org.

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