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The Enterprise — Elizabeth Floyd Mair

Classical music in a restored historic home: In Guilderland on Sunday, the “Women of Note” string quartet from the Schenectady Symphony played for visitors to the Schoolcraft House, on Western Avenue near Willow Street. The players were, counterclockwise around the circle from right, Meme Pittman on viola; Cathie-Jo Brun on cello; and Barbara Brothers and Cathy Barber, both on violin. Over many years, the town, led by Historian Alice Begley, restored the first floor of this Gothic-Revival-style home built in the 1840s by local businessman and United States Congressman John L. Schoolcraft, whose family helped settle the rural township. The house is open to the public several times a year and is sometimes used as the site for lectures on local history.