Peterboro EVENTS
Wednesdays - August 4 to September 22
Abolition, Underground Railroad, and Women’s Rights - Series
Wednesdays 4-6 pm - Smithfield Community Center
Eight part series with Norman K. Dann PhD, author of books on Gerrit Smith and family:
Aug 4 I Peter Smith: Furs, Land, and Anguish
Aug 11 II Era and the Issues
Aug 18 III Gerrit Smith: The Practical Dreamer
Aug 25 IV Ann Carroll Fitzhugh Smith: Support Services Agent
Sept 1 V Elizabeth Smith Miller: Quiet Advocate
Sept 8 VI Greene Smith: Rebel and Outdoorsman
Sept 15 VII Cousins of Reform: Smith and Stanton
Sept 22 VIII Underground Railroad
Presented by GSENHL at the Smithfield Community Center
5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro NY 13134
Online Event:
National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum Youtube Channel
Programs will be uploaded daily online starting August 16, 2021
Created by Victoria Basulto, Colgate University Graduate and Upstate Institute Fellow.
Funded by the Kathryn W. Davis Projects for Peace Fellowship
Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark
Saturday, August 7, 2021
In its continued effort to emulate the Emancipation Days celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s in Peterboro by previous generations, the GSENHL Emancipation Day Committee is planning a recovery-from-Covid event that has some of the usual elements with some changes.
08/21/2021
Agitate! Agitate! Agitate! The Great Fugitive Slave Law Convention and Its Rare Daguerreotype
Saturday, August 21, 2021 @ 2 p.m.
Cazenovia Convention
Cummings Theatre, Cazenovia NY
Hugh C. Humphreys presents “Agitate! Agitate! Agitate! The Great Fugitive Slave Law Convention and Its Rare Daguerreotype
Co-Hosts: Cazenovia Heritage, GSENHL, & NAHOF.
09/18/2021
The Thirteenth Amendment
Sat September 18, 2021
Constitution Day: The Thirteenth Amendment
XIII Amendment and the fourteen words that allow prisoners to be used as enslaved persons.
Saturday, September 25, 2021 2 pm Restart SCC 200 MORE
Smithfield Community Center
The Covid-hijacked campaign to preserve the Smithfield Community Center will start again
Within these Walls: Milton C. Sernett PhD
Evans Academy: Donna Dorrance Burdick
Oral Histories of a 200 Year Old Community Building: Matthew Urtz
10/01/2021
160th Anniversary of the Jerry Rescue
10/23/2021
Madison County Anti-Racism Collaborative
Smithfield Community Center
Saturday , October 23, 2021 @ 2 pm
-Presentations of anti-racism efforts in county, region, state, and nationally.
-Launch of Power of Pens Campaigns
-Announcement of Madison County Teen Abolitionists
-Introduction of interactive abolitionist self-assessment
11/07/2021
Peterboro Mercantile Re-Opens
Gerrit Smith Estate Visitors Center
Sunday, November 7, 2021 @ 2 pm
11/207/2021
Annual Watch Night for Emancipation
2022
09/24/2022
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