2011 PETERBORO HERITAGE PROGRAMS
Admission: $2 Free for Stewards and Students Open Mid-May – October Sat/Sun 1-5 pm
Made possible, in part, by a Central New York Community Foundation PACE Grant
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MON |
DATE |
DAY |
TIME |
PROGRAM |
LOCATION |
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Aug |
6 |
Sat |
|
Emancipation Day |
GSENHL |
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Aug |
21 |
Sun |
2 pm |
Protest to 1850 Fugitive Slave Law: Norman K. Dann PhD Painting of 1850 Cazenovia Convention: W. Edward Edmonston PhD. |
GSENHL |
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Aug |
27 |
Sat |
2 pm |
Equality Day Observance Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World Program and Booksigning by Penny Colman, author |
GSENHL |
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Aug |
28 |
Sun |
2 pm |
Equality Day Observance Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s History in 19th Century America Carol Faulkner PhD. Syracuse University |
NAHOF
SCC Upstairs |
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Sep |
25 |
Sun |
12:30 |
Elizabeth Smith Miller Bloomer Birthday In the Kitchen Tea: Peterboro and the Road to Seneca Falls by Judith Wellman PhD Elizabeth Cady’s Hometown Project by Debra Kolsrud Letter Readings: Elizabeth Smith Miller and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
SCC |
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Oct |
1 |
Sat |
2 pm |
"The Jerry Level": Gerrit Smith and the Memory of the Jerry Rescue. John M. Rudy, National Park Service Interpretive Development, Harpers Ferry WV |
GSENHL |
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Oct |
22 |
Sat |
10 am
~
8 pm |
National Abolition Hall of Fame & Museum 2011 Inductions Abolition Lyceum Series IV Milton C. Sernett PhD Keynote by John C. McKivigan, PhD. The Gerrit Smith-Frederick Douglass Partnership |
Colgate University |
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Oct |
23 |
Sun |
10-3 |
Open House: GSENHL and NAHOF Ribbon Cutting: National Park Service Network to Freedom Exhibit |
NAHOF / SCC
GSENHL |
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Nov |
26 |
Sat |
1-5 |
Peterboro Mercantile: Lydia Maria Child: Over the River and Through the Woods |
GSENHL |
|
Nov |
27 |
Sun |
1-5 |
Peterboro Mercantile: Who in the Dickens was George Putnam? |
GSENHL | | | | | | | |
Past Events 2011:
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Mar |
5 |
Sat |
3:00 pm |
Annual Gerrit Smith Birthday Party Norman K. Dann PhD Gerrit Smith’s Beginning as an Abolitionist Sonya Lydford: Liberia; Then and Now |
SCC
|
|
May |
17 |
Tues |
7:00 p |
Jonathan Walker: The Man with the Branded Hand Alvin F. Oickle |
GSENHL |
|
May |
20 |
Fri |
7:00 p |
Hugh C. Humphreys Discusses Painting of Anti-Slavery Meeting in Peterboro Created for Smithfield Community Center |
SCC
Upstairs |
|
May |
22 |
Sun |
2:30 p |
Louisa May Alcott Oneida Public Library National Endowment for the Humanities |
SCC Upstairs |
|
May |
28 |
Sat |
9a-2p |
Gerrit Smith Barn Sale |
GSENHL |
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June |
5 |
Sun |
2-5p |
Say Cheese! NYS Cheesemaking: Then and Now Milton C. Sernett PhD: Peterboro Holstein Heritage |
SCC |
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June
June |
11
12 |
Sat
Sun |
10a-5p
10a – 4 p |
19th ANNUAL PETERBORO CIVIL WAR WEEKEND
Commemorates Sesquicentennial |
Hamlet |
|
June |
11/12 |
Sat
Sun |
12 |
The Secret Six: Gerrit Smith, Five Colleagues, and John Brown
Matthew Urtz, Madison County Historian |
NAHOF
SCC Upstairs |
|
June |
12 |
Sun |
1:00 pm |
Portrait of John Brown Warren F. Broderick, Archivist Emeritus at the New York State Archives |
NAHOF
SCC Upstairs |
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July |
3 |
Sun |
2 pm |
Frederick Douglass’ Fifth of July Speech |
NAHOF
SCC Upstairs |
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July |
17 |
Sun |
2-6 pm |
Family Day of Croquet |
GSENHL |
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July |
17 |
Sun |
2 pm |
Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory and History Free: New York Council for the Humanities Speakers in the Humanities Program Milton C. Sernett PhD. |
NAHOF
SCC Upstairs |
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July |
24 |
Sun |
2 pm |
Maggie Fox, Victorian America’s Reluctant Spiritualist by Nancy Rubin Stuart Free: New York Council for the Humanities Speakers in the Humanities Program Fox Sisters Portrayal by Sue Greenhagen and Darothy DeAngelo |
GSENHL |
|
July |
30 |
Sat |
|
Peterboro Hometown Day |
Hamlet |
GSENHL: Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, 4543 Peterboro Road, Peterboro NY 13134-0006 www.gerritsmith.org
SCC: Smithfield Community Center, 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro NY 13134 www.sca-peterboro.org | 