EVENTS
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June 1 ~ Peterboro Area Museum Opens for the Season
Starting June 6, the season begins, Saturdays and Sundays from 1-4:00 till September.
June 16 ~ 7:00pm ~ Concert: Songs of Slavery and Emancipation
Experience Songs of Slavery and Emancipation performed by Dr. Kathy Bullock, Mat Callahan, Yvonne Moore and the Berea Singers, bringing history into the present.
FREE and open to the public
Pre-registration suggested. Register here, or with QR Code.
Location: Hope Chapel, 751 South St, Utica, NY 13501
Sponsored by National Abolition Hall of Fame & Museum
Contact: [email protected]
June 17 -21 ~ EXHIBIT: The Chronology of Abolition In America: Colonial to Reconstruction
Smithfield Community Center
5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro, NY 13134
June 19 - 7:00 ~ The Slave's Cause: A New History of Abolition and Emancipation
Presentation by author Manisha Sinha Commemorating Juneteenth
FREE and open to the public
Pre-registration suggested. Click here or use the QR Code.
Book sales by Colgate Bookstore on site and author signing is available after the talk.
7:00 pm ~ Catherine Cummings Theater
16 Lincklaen St, Cazenovia, NY 13035
Sponsored by National Abolition Hall of Fame & Museum
Contact: [email protected]
June 20 ~ 2nd Annual Peterboro Freedom Folk Festival
June 20 & 21 : EXHIBIT: Four For Freedom
On Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21, from 1 to 4 p.m., the Peterboro Area Museum will introduce a new exhibit "4 For Freedom" which will detail the experiences of four individuals escaping slavery: Harriet Powell, Harriet Russell, John Tyler, and John the Dominie West. Three of these people would make Madison County their permanent home. This display will include photographs, broadsides, and descriptive information.
June 21 ~ MADISON COUNTY FREE CHURCHES & CHURCHES of PETERBORO BLACK RESIDENTS
A Presentation by
Donna Dorrance Burdick: Hamlet of Peterboro/ Town of Smithfield Historian
Sunday, June 21 ~ 11 am
PETERBORO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
5240 Pleasant Valley Road
Peterboro NY 13134
July 5 ~ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
A speech by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852
read by Owen Corpin
Norman K Dann, Phd: Gerrit Smith & Frederick Douglass
Featuring performances by the Lingo Family singers :
19th Century Reform Songs
Peterboro Methodist Church
5240 Pleasant Valley Road
Peterboro NY 13134
Co-sponsored by GSE & NAHOF
Contact [email protected]
July 19 ~ "Brothers in Spirit: Mutual Influence Between Frederick Douglass and Gerrit Smith"
Dr Norm Dann will present a program on his new book
2:00pm
Smithfield Community Center
5255 Pleasant Valley Rd
Peterboro, NY 13134
Co-sponsored by GSE & NAHOF
Contact [email protected]
August 1 ~ Annual Emancipation Day
Vanessa Johnson, Underground Railroad Storyteller
Venue: Gerrit Smith Estate NHL
5304 Oxbow Rd. Peterboro, NY 13134
Save the date! Schedule tba
Co-sponsored by GSE & NAHOF
Contact [email protected]
August 23 ~ Fugitives, Friends and The Fight for Freedom
The gripping true story of how Syracuse, NY became the front line of resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 — and what it means for us now.
Join Jeffrey M. Davis—Boston writer and third great-grandson of Rev. May—for a gripping multimedia journey through stories of courage and defiance. From harrowing escapes on the Erie Canal to the dramatic "Jerry Rescue" in Syracuse, NY, you'll meet the women and men who refused to bow to injustice.
Smithfield community Center ~ 2:00pm
Sponsored by National Abolition Hall of Fame & Museum
Contact: [email protected]
October 9 ~ Oneida County Freedom Trail Walking Tour
With Lingo Singers, Jan DeAmicis
Oneida County Freedom Trail, Mechanix Hall, Utica
Save the date! Details tba
Co-sponsored by NAHOF and Oneida County Freedom trail
October 10 ~ 5th Annual Abolition Walk
Walk with us and trace a portion of the footsteps of 104 abolitionists who escaped an angry pro-slavery mob in Utica in October, 1835, embarked on an Erie Canal barge to Canastota, and climbed the hills to Peterboro where they formed the New York State Antislavery Society.
Registration and details coming soon!