2024 Cycle
Hometown Heroes Banner Program
***THE DEADLINE FOR NEW 2024 HOMETOWN HEREOS BANNERS IS NOW CLOSED. Renewal banner applications will be accepted until Friday, May 3, 2024.
The Hometown Heroes banner program serves as a living tribute and to honor our community’s past and present members of the Armed Forces.
The personalized banners are displayed on the light poles throughout the Town and City of Oneonta to celebrate and remind our community of our local veterans’ historic service, bravery, and dedication to our country.
The banners will be displayed Memorial Day (May 27) 2024 – Veterans Day (November 11) 2024.
We look forward to continuing our Hometown Heroes program honoring current and past servicemembers in 2024! The 2024 cycle will expand the locations of banners to not only the City of Oneonta, but the Town of Oneonta as well. In addition to banner locations on Main, River, and Chestnut Streets in the City of Oneonta, the 2024 cycle will also include banner locations down Chestnut Street in the Town of Oneonta.
The 2023 banners are stored at the History Center and are available to pick up for any banner sponsors who would like to keep or hold on to your banner(s). If you are a banner sponsor who would like to pick up your banner, please contact the History Center by email (directormm@oneontahistory.org), or by phone (607-432-0960), or stop by when we’re open (W-F 12pm-4pm; Saturday 10am-4pm).
2023 banner sponsors also have the option to renew their application for the 2024 cycle, for a small fee, and their banners will remain stored at the History Center until next season and put back on display. Any banner in need of repair will be reordered, at no cost to the sponsor
Current and new banner sponsors will also have the option to apply for new banners for the 2024 cycle. Both renewal applications and new banner applications for 2024 are available at the History Center, and for download by clicking the links provided below.
Banner sponsors will also notice an update to our banner application(s) for the 2024 year. We will now offer our banner sponsors their preferred location(s) for their banner(s). All banners and their locations are on a first come first serve basis and spaces are limited, so be sure to renew your banner soon! The deadline for NEW banner applications for the 2024 cycle was March 22, 2024 and IS NOW CLOSED. Banner REWEWAL applications will now be accepted until Friday, May 3, 2024.
Stay updated on the 2024 Hometown Heroes Banner Program by following GOHS’ social media pages @oneontahistoricalsociety, or by visiting our website at www.oneontahistory.org. For additional inquiries, please contact program director Marcela Micucci (directormm@oneontahistory.org) or call the History Center at (607) 432-0960.
We look forward to the 2024 cycle of the Hometown Heroes Banner Program.
Sidewalk Sale
Saturday, April 27, 2024,10am - 4pm
Join us outside the History Center as we join the City’s Earth Day Festival on Saturday, April 27!
From 10am to 4pm, GOHS will hold a Sidewalk Sale on the corner of Main and Dietz Streets in front of our building (weather permitting).
D&H Special Exhibition - April 22, 2023 - November 2023
This spring, GOHS will open our next special exhibition, to open in April 2023. Released in two parts, the exhibition will commemorate the bicentennial of the D&H Canal Company charter, which provided over 100 years of railroad service to the town and city of Oneonta.
Part I, Building Up Steam: The Rise of the D&H Railroad in Oneonta (April 22 – July) and Part II, Leaving the Station: The Fall of the D&H Railroad in Oneonta (August – November) will explore the rise and fall of the D&H Railroad and its operations in Oneonta from the 1850s through modern day, including the invaluable impact the railroad had on Oneonta’s economic, social, and cultural landscape.
On display in the Brzozowski Special Exhibition Gallery and the SUNY Oneonta Alumni and Buckingham windows, it will feature a variety of local D&H artifacts, documents, and photographs from GOHS’ collection.
The exhibit is curated by GOHS’ Executive Director, Dr. Marcela Micucci, and Associate Curator Bhanu Gaur, with the help of a talented team of exhibition designers, docents, advisors, and collections staff. This exhibition was made possible in part by a 2023 New York State Council of the Arts Support for Organizations grant.
D&H Special Exhibition - April 22, 2023 - November 2023
This spring, GOHS will open our next special exhibition, to open in April 2023. Released in two parts, the exhibition will commemorate the bicentennial of the D&H Canal Company charter, which provided over 100 years of railroad service to the town and city of Oneonta.
Part I, Building Up Steam: The Rise of the D&H Railroad in Oneonta (April 22 – July) and Part II, Leaving the Station: The Fall of the D&H Railroad in Oneonta (August – November) will explore the rise and fall of the D&H Railroad and its operations in Oneonta from the 1850s through modern day, including the invaluable impact the railroad had on Oneonta’s economic, social, and cultural landscape.
On display in the Brzozowski Special Exhibition Gallery and the SUNY Oneonta Alumni and Buckingham windows, it will feature a variety of local D&H artifacts, documents, and photographs from GOHS’ collection.
The exhibit is curated by GOHS’ Executive Director, Dr. Marcela Micucci, and Associate Curator Bhanu Gaur, with the help of a talented team of exhibition designers, docents, advisors, and collections staff. This exhibition was made possible in part by a 2023 New York State Council of the Arts Support for Organizations grant.