Freedom Run Winery - Wedding in our Rustic Barn - Town of Cambria, City of Lockport, New York.
Ask the Freedom Run Winery Event Planner about Events in the Tasting Room, Barrel Room and Rustic Barn by contacting:
April Mae Ward
email april.frw@gmail.com
cell 941-962-3459
Freedom Run Winery is located on the Niagara Escarpment, in Lockport, New York, just 30 minutes from Buffalo International Airport and the Canandian boarder, and is open daily from 10 to 6.
Your ‘Wedding Day' will start with a visit to Freedom Run Winery. We are sure that you will love our wine selection, as there is a wine for every palate. The 2018 calendar is fast filling up, so please call today to arrange for your tour of our many Venues, including:
The Rustic Barn, is a timber framed post-and-beam barn, built in 1826 with stone from the Eire canal, which has been preserved, yet modernized with bathrooms. This venue provides a space with ambiance that can't be beat, for a unique Barn Wedding. There is a wide staircase leading up to a raised stage with a magnificent cut glass chandelier so that the Bride & Groom can see and be seen, during their ceremony, and they can sit at a sweetheart table or with their bridal party, for dinner overlooking their guests. This is a perfect place to hold a wedding ceremony, have a sit down or family style dinner, and it even converts to a 'night club' for dancing.
The Tasting Room features a floating oak ceiling, a pair of colorful 'blown glass' fronted marble bars, leather sofas, and high top barrel tables, and make a perfect venue for your guests to meet and greet. After a drink or two, they can head to the area that you have chosen for your wedding ceremony, as outlined below.
The Barrel/Production Room, which is visible from the Tasting Room, through a ‘wall of glass’, offers a versatile add on to your venue space. This double height space is picture perfect, with a wall of oak barrels that are back lit with subtle mood lighting, is hung with original art. This space can be used for a ‘winery tour', with tastings from the barrels, or it can be tastefully set up with round, linen draped tables, and white chairs, for a buffet style, or sit down meal, after the wedding ceremony.
The Covered Patio, with addition of a tent, is perfect for an open air wedding ceremony, before heading back into the Tasting & Barrel/Production Rooms for a buffet style, or sit down meal, followed by dancing to a DJ.
The Vineyard Manor House was also built in 1826, with stone from the Eire Canal, and has been restored to its original grandeur. It is decorated in a 'shabby chic' casual, yet elegant décor, with chandaliers, 12' ceilings, and silk swagged drapery on the double hung windows. It is frequently booked for the Bridal Party, to be used for rehersal dinners, and with 3 bedrooms, it offers accommodation for up to 6 people. There is also a ground floor library, which is a perfect space for the Groom, along with his buddies, before they head to the Ceremony venue. The winding staircase offers the perfect 'photo op’ for the Bride, after she prepares herself upstairs in the Bridal Suite, on her way to walk down the aisle with her Bridal Party.
Some additional features are:
Covered and heated porches, sunny patios, fire pit, tiki torches, out door movie screen for your projected images onto the side of the Barn of Vineyard Manor House.
Freedom Run Winery perfectly harmonizes the indoor and outdoor space and your photographer will be thrilled with the abounding photographic opportunities, your guests will be a buzz in amazement of the warm and inviting atmosphere, and your experience will create memories to last a lifetime.
This is undoubtedly one of Western New York's most unique Wedding & Event Venues, which combine the vineyard landscape, with manicured grounds, barn ambiance, and award winning wine, to offer an exciting blend of benefits that cannot be matched anywhere else.
Come into the Tasting Room for a tasting, to experience the rich flavor of both of these fruits grown from the vineyards at Freedom Run Winery, 5138 Lower Mountain Road, Lockport, New York, or place an order by calling : 716-433-4136
Ask the Freedom Run Winery Event Planner about Events in the Tasting Room, Barrel Room and Rustic Barn by contacting:
April Mae Ward
email april.frw@gmail.com
cell 941-962-3459
Call or email today to schedule your private tour.
Journalism in Troubled Times: Masha Gessen, Marc Pitzke, Jay Rosen and Christian Martin
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents Journalism in Troubled Times, a conversation among the Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen, SPIEGEL ONLINE's New York correspondent Marc Pitzke, and NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen, which will be moderated by Christian Martin, Max Weber Chair of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies.
May 15, 2017
The panel discussion will focus on what steps need to be taken, both on a domestic as well as on an international level, to hold Donald Trump and his administration accountable for their actions. How can the media bridge the information chasm, when confronted with an increasingly polarized political landscape and a suspicious public, which frequents alt-right digital platforms such as Breitbart, and refers to the Washington Post and the New York Times as fake news? How should journalists go about reporting on the many falsehoods, inaccuracies and outright lies put forth by the Trump administration, without in extension amplifying and perpetuating these alternate facts. These are just a few of the topics we will touch upon in this conversation.
Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, most recently The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, to be published in October 2017. She is also the author of the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). She is a contributing opinion writer to The New York Times and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, among other publications. She has received numerous awards, including a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Carnegie Millennial Fellowship (2015-2016), a Nieman Fellowship (2003-2004), and the 2017 Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary. She serves as vice-president of PEN America. Gessen was born in Moscow and immigrated to the U.S. with her family in 1981, at the age of 14. She returned to Moscow as a correspondent ten years later and stayed, becoming a Russian-language journalist in addition to her work for American magazines. She re-immigrated to the United States in 2013, after her family was targeted by Putin’s antigay campaign. She lives in New York City.
Marc Pitzke was born in Germany, and has been a New Yorker since 1993. He studied journalism in Munich and at Columbia University's School of Journalism, worked for Reuters, several German newspapers and magazines and, since 2003, as the U.S. correspondent for SPIEGEL ONLINE, the web edition of DER SPIEGEL. Major news stories Marc has covered include the fall of the Berlin Wall, Bill Clinton's impeachment, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake in 2010, and six US presidential election campaigns.
Jay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. From 1999 to 2004 he was chair of the department. He is the author of PressThink, a blog about journalism's ordeals in the age of the Web, which he launched in 2003 ( In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists For?, which was about the rise of the civic journalism movement. Rosen has a Ph.D in media studies from NYU. He writes and speaks frequently about new media and the predicament of the press in a time of rapid transformation. He is also a press critic with a focus on problems in the coverage of politics. On Twitter he is @jayrosen_nyu
Christian Martin is the Max Weber Chair of German and European Studies at NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Kiel (Germany). He holds a doctorate from the University of Konstanz. Before joining NYU, Christian Martin was a post-doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute in Jena, an assistant professor at the University of Hamburg, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. His current research project is on backlashes against globalization and EU integration.
Journalism in Troubled Times is a DAAD-sponsored event.
2016 Sonia Galletti Lecture: When the United States Spoke French
Monday, March 14, 2016
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic’s formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in America. When the French Revolution broke out, these men had been among its leaders. They were liberal aristocrats and ardent Anglophiles, convinced of the superiority of the British system of monarchy and constitution. They also idealized the new American republic, which seemed to them an embodiment of the Enlightenment ideals they celebrated. But soon the Revolutionary movement got ahead of them, and they found themselves chased across the Atlantic.
François Furstenberg follows these five men—Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Napoleon’s future foreign minister; theoristreformer Rochefoucauld, the duc de Liancourt; Louis-Marie Vicomte de Noailles; Moreau de Saint-Méry; and Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, Comte Volney—as they left their homes and families in France, crossed the Atlantic, and landed in Philadelphia—then America’s capital, its principal port, and by far its most cosmopolitan city and the home of the wealthiest merchants and financiers. The book vividly reconstructs their American adventures, following along as they integrated themselves into the city and its elite social networks, began speculating on backcountry lands, and eventually became enmeshed in Franco-American diplomacy. Through their stories, we see some of the most famous events of early American history in a new light, from the diplomatic struggles of the 1790s to the Haitian Revolution to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.