John Calvin Perry was born in 1837 to parents Caleb and Ruth Harriet (Truesdell) Perry. Caleb and Ruth moved to the Hamlet of Delphi, New York from Albany, New York around 1827. They set up a tannery on the west side of the Hamlet. John Calvin was born in July of 1837. Father Caleb was not happy about John Calvin’s desire to become an artist. But Perry did manage to receive formal art training at the local Cazenovia Seminary and at Castleton College in Vermont.
Perry married Catherine Baker of the New Woodstock, New York area, and they had four children: Perdita, Albert, John, and Ruth Harriet. The John Calvin family lived in Delphi and earned their living mostly through farming.
John Calvin taught art at Cazenovia Seminary and Hamilton College. He gave art lessons in several neighboring communities of Central New York, including Fabius, DeRuyter, New Woodstock, Truxton, Manlius, and Syracuse. He did commission portraits including death portraits. In an era when photographs were rare or non-existent, the artist would make a sketch of the family member who was dying or recently deceased, then create an oil-painting portrait from the sketch.
Perry did many Central New York landscape paintings. He is best represented, as an artist, by both the landscapes and the commissioned portraits.
Perry kept detailed diaries of his life, and these are available today. In them, he describes his work on various paintings, explaining his techniques, colors used, the frustrations and challenges he faced, and the ways he resolved them. He also talked extensively about his everyday life and the happenings in the community and with his neighbors. These documents provide rich detail about life in Central New York in the mid- to late-1800s.
Perry spent his entire life in the Central New York area. He, his wife, and his parents are buried in the Delphi Church cemetery in the Hamlet of Delphi Falls, Town of Pompey, Onondaga County, NY. He actually designed the gravestones for his family plot. Perry died in 1894.

Lynbrook is an incorporated village of about 19,000 residents in southern Nassau County. It lies just a mile from Hewlett Bay. It was settled around 1790 when the first church was constructed, and it remained a small, isolated, farming and fishing community until the mid-1800s when a corduroy road and later a railroad line were extended through the sleepy hamlet. By 1890, a downtown of about twenty business had developed along Atlantic Avenue near the Five Corners. In 1911, the hamlet became an incorporated village. In the 1920s, many of Lynbrook’s farms were subdivided into residential lots, and it became the fastest growing village in Nassau County. Today it is a bedroom suburb of New York City, with a 35-minute railroad commute. It has a reasonably vibrant downtown of about 150 stores and restaurants along with some light industry, particularly financial services.

Libero Theodore DeAmicis was born in Henderson, Kentucky, on September 12, 1922. His father, John DeAmicis, was an Italian immigrant who became a U.S. citizen in 1927. Libero T. DeAmicis grew up in Evansville, Indiana, and attended two years of college at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force on October 16, 1942, as an aviation cadet and was honorably discharged in June 1944. DeAmicis reenlisted and participated in 45 combat missions in the Asia–Pacific Theater of Operations with the 13th Air Force during WWII. He logged 436 combat hours and was awarded the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Asia–Pacific Ribbon with three Battle Stars, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with two Battle Stars, and a Purple Heart. DeAmicis continued his Air Force career after the war and trained at several Air Force bases in courses ranging from nuclear weapons delivery to meteorology. He served as part of the American deterrent forces as a combat-ready aircrew member in Puerto Rico from 1960 to 1964, for which he was awarded the Combat Readiness Medal. Libero T. DeAmicis retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1970 having served for 27 years and having earned the rank of Air Force Reserve Lieutenant Colonel.

Artist Daniel K. Tennant was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1953. He grew up in New Woodstock, NY. Tennant graduated from Cazenovia High School in 1971 where he studied art under nationally known watercolorist, Merrill A. Bailey for four years. Tennant attended Syracuse University earning a BFA in painting (magna cum laude) and an MS in art education. Mr. Tennant taught art at the high school level for 32 years.
His artwork has appeared on calendars, limited edition prints, cards, posters, and jigsaw puzzles. Two of his paintings are in permanent museum collections: The New Britian Museum of American Art and the University of Southern New Hampshire Museum. He has won many awards over the years and in 2019 won the Gold Medallion at the "Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors".
His work has appeared in ten books, many magazine articles and he authored the 1996 book, Realistic Painting (Walter Foster Publishing). Tennant is one of the few fine artists in the country who uses gouache (opaque watercolor) as his medium. He has worked solely in gouache since 1979.

ArtOneida travels across 5 different sections of Oneida county: the Southern, Northwestern, and Northeastern parts of the county, along with the Utica area and the Griffiss International Sculpture Garden in Rome. The ArtOneida team traveled far and wide across the county to find public art. Along the way they talked to the artists, their families, and others who treasure this art as a part of their environment. The stories told in ArtOneida share how the artwork is entwined with the rich history of Oneida County. The main idea of the project is to get Oneida residents and visitors out looking at and discussing the diverse public art throughout the county, promoting tourism to all areas. The artwork ranges from 19th century monuments of local heroes to clever chainsaw carvings, from community created murals to contemporary sculpture at Griffiss International Sculpture Garden, and from intricate stained glass to the “yarn-bombs” a local artist has installed around Utica, encasing lightposts with brightly striped knitted yarn. The works span a range from 1871 to 2016. For those living in or visiting Oneida County, you might just be surprised to find artwork right around the corner! Or perhaps you can find out more about that sculpture or mural that you pass every day on your way to work or school. Don’t take it for granted: stop and take a closer look.

Madison County, New York is part of the Syracuse Metropolitan area. It was formed in 1806 and named after United States President James Madison. Madison County includes the towns of: Cazenovia, DeRuyter, Hamilton, Chittenango, and Canastota. Mapmaker Alexander Pomeroy (1829-1885) of Rochester mapped the states of New York and  Pennsylvania for the United States government in the 1870s. The resulting atlases were published by Pomeroy under the name, A. Pomeroy & Co.