The Woodstock Museum            

Woodstock Museum Event

Woodstock Museum Program Info:

Program Speakers are scheduled for the 4th Thursday of March, May, & August of each year at 7:00 p.m.   The public is welcome to attend these events, at no charge.   Generally these events are held in the Town of Woodstock's Council Chambers at 135 North Main Street, Woodstock VA.  Please check back for more details on speakers and event time & location.

Additionally, there is a speaker or entertainment at the Annual Docents' Dinner on the 4th Thursday of October - a fee is charged for this event, which includes a catered buffet dinner.

PREVIOUS PROGRAMS:

Below: The May 2017 Program speaker, Keith Stickley, publisher of The Free Press newspaper, spoke to a full house about “1950s Woodstock:  140 Characters before Twitter”. A wonderful slide show of the Town & its characters, along with Keith's vivid descriptions, provided for a lively bit of entertainment. 

Below: At the May 2016 Program Mr. Daniel Hottel, member of the Woodstock Fire Department, points out fellow firefighters in an old photo. This was one of many images shown during Zach Hottel's presentation about the history of the Woodstock Fire Department.

Above: The Shenandoah Valley Minstrels provided Civil War era music at the museum's Annual Docents' Dinner in October 2015. Dressed in clothing of the era, they made for a lively evening!

UPDATE! The Shenandoah Valley Minstrels will be performing a Tribute to Veterans at the Museum's upcoming October 28th, 2017, Annual Docents' Dinner

www.shenandoahvalleyminstrels.com/

 Antiques Appraisal Fair

(NEXT Fair to be held in 2019, to help Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Museum!!)

A recap of the 2016 Appraisal Fair:

 On a cold Sunday in February 2016 folks found their way into the cozy warm Marshall House for the Chocolate Festival and Antiques Appraisal Fair, or just to poke around the museum at their leisure. Quite a few people sat in the audience, a la Antiques Road Show, and watched as the appraisers did their magic!

 Many  wonderful things came through, including a heavily carved polychrome decorated walking stick made in the early 20th century by a Woodstock man for his sweetheart, later his wife, which was declared to be "the best he's ever seen" by volunteer appraiser Hoyle Laughlin, of Laughlin Auctions.

Keep your eyes open for the date of the next antiques appraisal fair and chocolate festival to be held at the Woodstock Museum in 2018!!    

 Above: Appraisal Fair 2016 - Appraisers on the right, front to back, Hoyle Laughlin, Mark Grove, & Jeff Bradfield (not pictured: Barbara Kesser)

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PBS " Shenandoah Valley Museums":

The Woodstock Museum is one of several Valley museums featured in a half hour show, produced by Oak Tree Productions, which appeared on local PBS station WVPT in May 2011. Oak Tree produced the popular 'Road Trip to History' series on Shenandoah County towns & local history. The 'Shenandoah Valley Museums' show is the latest in the 'Road Trip to History' series.

The show is still occasionally shown as a rerun on WVPT.

DVDs of the show are available through WVPT Virginia Public Television.

The Woodstock Museum's portion of the program was funded in full by SHENTEL

Special Thanks to the Shenandoah County Chamber of Commerce for a successful 2016 Holiday Homes Tour!