EVENTS
2020 is The WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL!
Deadline for enrollment is June 20th
05/16/20
Cemetery Preservation Workshop
Gerrit Smith Estate
with Kurt Riegel
Info & Registration: info@gerritsmith.org
06/12/20
Living History Day
Peterboro NY Area middle-schools attend interpretive stations.
Advance reservations required.
315-280-8828 info@gerritsmith.org
Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark
A celebration of our rich history in the cause for equal rights.
Music, food, museums, exhibits and more.
On the grounds of the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark
07/04/20
Suffrage Parade in Hamilton, NY
100 Marchers for 100 Years
Presented by Melinda Grube.
Advance registration required
07/25/20
Peterboro Hometown Day
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Cemetery Tour: Died a Free Woman.
Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark
08/26/20
Women's Equality Day
Peterboro heritage sites invite bell towers in Madison County to ring nineteen times at 6:19 pm for the Nineteenth Amendment.
09/26/20 noon
Bloomer Tea
What I (Elizabeth Smith Miller) learned in Peterboro
Miller’s cousin, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, will be the guest of honor as portrayed by Melinda Grube.
Keynote speaker Leigh Fought PhD, Lemoyne College Department of History, will speak on her prize-winning book Women in the World of Frederick Douglass.
Jody Luce will give a presentation on Fashion History
To Book: info@gerritsmith.org
Smithfield Community Center
09/27/20
Smithfield Community Center Bicentennial
Location of the inaugural meeting of the New York State Antislavery Society in 1835. The building is also on the state Underground Railroad Trail.
Smithfield Community Center
10/23/20
National Abolition Hall of Fame
Welsh Music
Smithfield Community Center
10/24/20
National Abolition Hall of Fame
Induction Ceremonies
1:00 -Symposia
Keynote by Norman K. Dann PhD:
How the Abolition Movement Launched the Women's Movement
Advance registration suggested.
5:00 -Dinner
Reservations Required 315-280-8828
7:00 -Inductions of Robert Everett, Calvin Frank and Stephen Myers
10/25/20
Florence Farming Settlement
TBA
12/31/20
Watch Night
In commemoration of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln January 1, 1863