The gift shop is open during museum hours. Items in our shop include unique gift items, candles, cards, kitchen linens, original art work by local artists, and books of local historical interest. Purchases made in the Brookside Museum Gift Shop help support the museum’s educational mission.
Visit the Holiday Shoppe from mid-November through late December, where you will find hundreds of locally crafted items.
The most popular feature of our gift shop is our large collection of books. Below is a list of all the titles we carry. Click here for an order form.
BOOKS FOR KIDS
When the Chenoo Howls: Native American Tales of Terror by Joseph and James Bruchac $10.95
How to Make Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles by Bernard S. Mason $7.95
Nate the Great: Talks Turkey by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat & Mitchell Sharmat $4.50
Roberto Walks Home by Ezra Jack Keats $15.99
Blizzards by Lorraine Jean Hopping $3.99
Corduroy: Lost and Found by Don Freeman $15.99
Practice Makes Perfect by Rosemary Wells $3.99
Volcano by Lorraine Jean Hopping $3.99
The Germ Busters by Rosemary Wells $3.99
Racoon’s Last Race by Joe & Jim Bruchac $16.99
HISTORY BOOKS
The Saratoga Reader, by Field Horne $29.95
A Village Hospital 1928 Through 1953, by Beverly W. Moore $10.95
Lost Industries of the Kaydeross Valley, by Timothy Starr $46.95/ $34.95
The Ballston Terminal Railroad And Its Successors, by Timothy Starr $29.95
Saratoga Springs, New York, by Timothy Holmes $19.99
The Erie Canal: A 19th Century Wonder, by Marjory Clark $10
Lord, Please Don’t Take Me In August, by Myra B. Young Armstead $19.95
The Mohawk Colored Giants of Schenectady, by Frank M. Keetz $8.95
Leading Industrial Pursuits, reprinted by Tim Starr, $11.95
Invented in Ballston Spa, by Tim Starr $29.95
Invented in Saratoga County, by Tim Starr $29.95
The Paper Bag King: A Biography of George West, by Tim Starr $15.95
The First Respectable House, by Field Horne $19.95
LOCAL ACTIVITIES
Hoofing It: 8 Historic Walking Tours, by the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation $13
25 Short Hikes and Interesting Walks in the Saratoga Springs, New York Region $19.95
Morning View Farms Harvest Cookbook, by Rob & Cindy Pastore $11.95
HISTORICAL NOVELS
Hop City Road House, by P. K. Kelley $10
Hop City’s Yankee Lady, by P.K. Kelley $12.95
The Meatloaf Incident and Other Adventures, by Timothy Starr $15.95
Twelve Years A Slave, by Solomon Northrup
Finding Goliath and Fred: A Novel of Saratoga 1777, by Sandra E. McBride $12.95
COMMUNITY STORIES
In Our Own Words: The Story of Saratoga County $24.95/$34.95
Story Quilt: Poems of A Place (Galway), by The People Who Live Here $18.75
Saratoga Lives, by Michael Hare $18.95
Malta Memories, by Teri Ulrich $15
Ballston Spa: Streetscapes Through Time, by Paul and Marilyn Pastore $20
New York State Ghosts, by David J. Pitkin
Billy’s Village: A Saga of Ballston Lake, by Mary Joan Egan $20
Stillwater: Images of America by Linda Sanders $21.99
Ballston Spa: Legacies Unlimited by Ann Hauprich $49.95
Round Lake: Little Village in the Grove by Hesson, Rogowski & Comfort $19.95
Burnt Hills Veterinary Tails, by Penny Heritage $20
The Fire Observation Towers of New York State, by Paul Laskey $19.95
Click here for an order form