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Monday, August 19, 2013


Take Note-- 
EQUALITY WEEKEND

COUSINS OF REFORM:

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Gerrit Smith
   
By Norman K. Dann, PhD

Women's Equality Day Program

Sunday, August 25, 2013
2pm

Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark
5304 Oxbow Road
Peterboro, NY 13134

$3 Adults
Free for Students

315-280-8828
  
Elizabeth Smith Miller
In the Kitchen Tea

Celebrate the namesake of our favorite costume
Amelia Bloomer

Tea catered by The Copper Turret of Morrisville
Hosts dressed in 1951 Bloomer costumes
  
September 22, 2013 - 12:30 pm
Smithfield Community Center
Peterboro, NY
  
Reservations needed - $35 by September 1, $40 by September 15
  
Mail checks to: Smithfield Community Association,
PO Box 72, Peterboro, NY 13134 or
National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum
2013 Induction Weekend
   
   

Jonathan Walker

Myrtilla Miner

Elijah Lovejoy

John Rankin

  

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Abolition Symposia
1 pm - Elijah Lovejoy presented by Ary J. Lamme III
2 pm - Myrtilla Miner presented by Christopher Anglim
3 pm - John Rankin presented by Dr. John R. Kaufman-McKivigan
4 pm - Jonathan Walker presented by Alvin F. Oickle

5 pm - 19th century Antislavery Dinner, catered by the Copper turret of Morrisville, NY (Reserve)

7 pm - Induction Ceremony with 19th century Readings and Music, directed by Hugh C. Humphreys

Sunday, October 20, 2013
9 am - Heritage Sites Open
9:30 am - Guided Tour Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark
10:30 am - Guided Tour National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum

Harriet Tubman 2013 Commemorative Year
1 pm - Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History by Milton C. Sernett, PhD
2 pm -North of the Law by Linda Robertson (Video about Sarah Bradford, Tubman biographer)
3 pm - Beyond the Underground Railroad: Harriet Tubman, Moses of her People by Tubman relatives 


REGISTER BY OCTOBER 7, 2013


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 About Us

   The Peterboro Mercantile, a community heritage shop, the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark (GSENHL), and the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (NAHOF) are open Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5 pm beginning Saturday, May 19 and ending Sunday September 23, for special events and tours, and by appointment. The GSENHL is a site on the National Park Service Network to Freedom (national Underground Railroad trail) and both sites are on the Heritage NY Underground Railroad Trail, a program of the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. Adult admission is three dollars. Students and 2013 Stewards are free. The projects are recruiting volunteers for the 2013 season.
 For more information and the check updates on programs: 
  315-280-8828.
  

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