EVENTS
2020 is The WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL!
08/26/20
Women's Equality Day
Ring Bells for 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
Postponed two years to Sat. September 24, 2022 which is the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Smith Miller, the advocate for the healthy bloomer.
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
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