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
September 18, 2021
The Thirteenth Amendment
Saturday, September 18
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
October 1, 2021
160th Anniversary of the Jerry Rescue
October 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
November 7, 2021
Peterboro Mercantile Re-Opens
Gerrit Smith Estate Visitors Center
Sunday, November 7, 2021 @ 2 pm
December 31, 2021
Annual Watch Night for Emancipation
Where: National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum
5525 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro 13134
Join us in commemorating Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, issued January 1, 1863. Details and events TBA.
Admission is free
2022
September 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