In 1998 the Governor of New York created Heritage NY Trails to increase recognition of New York State’s rich history and to boost heritage tourism. The second trail, the NYS Underground Railroad Trail, developed in three stages: designation, site development, and site interpretation. 26 sites became part of the UGRR Trail. At 11:00 a.m. Sunday, October 24 two sites on the trail will celebrate the completion of the three stages with people and agencies who assisted the accomplishments. Cordell Reaves, Historic Preservation Program Analyst, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, will describe the Underground Railroad Project. Following a presentation of the colors by the 12th U.S. Infantry Co. A (Reenactors), Steve Joeckel, President of the Smithfield Community Association, and Rick Bargabos, Town of Smithfield Supervisor, will welcome those in attendance to Peterboro and the special occasion. John Reinhardt, Board of Madison County Supervisors, and Matthew Urtz, Madison County Historian, will describe the county’s role and value of the project. Assemblyman Bill Magee and Senator Dave Valesky will present a legislative citation for the eventful weekend. Ivy Biswas, representing the Central New York Community Foundation, will describe the PACE grant received by the Smithfield Community Association. Max Smith, a Steward of the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark will sing songs of patriotism, slavery, and freedom. After the symbolic ribbon cutting, CNY Bounty will provide refreshments from local producers.
Following the ribbon cutting there will be open houses and tour. The exhibits at the Smithfield Community Center will remain open hosted by members of the Cabinet of Freedom for the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum. Stewards at the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark will be at The Lodge / Visitor Center, The Barn, and The Land Office. Beth Spokowsky, President of the Peterboro Area Museum, will conduct a tour of the Gerrit Smith Estate at 1:00 p.m. and Norm Dann, Gerrit Smith biographer, will conduct a tour at 2:00. Donna Dorrance Burdick, Town of Smithfield Historian, will also host the Peterboro Area Museum until 4:00 p.m.
The public is encouraged to attend – and to wear mid 19th Century clothing if inclined. All events, programs, exhibit, and refreshments are free.
Following the ribbon cutting there will be open houses and tour. The exhibits at the Smithfield Community Center will remain open hosted by members of the Cabinet of Freedom for the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum. Stewards at the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark will be at The Lodge / Visitor Center, The Barn, and The Land Office. Beth Spokowsky, President of the Peterboro Area Museum, will conduct a tour of the Gerrit Smith Estate at 1:00 p.m. and Norm Dann, Gerrit Smith biographer, will conduct a tour at 2:00. Donna Dorrance Burdick, Town of Smithfield Historian, will also host the Peterboro Area Museum until 4:00 p.m.
The public is encouraged to attend – and to wear mid 19th Century clothing if inclined. All events, programs, exhibit, and refreshments are free.
The weekend events commence on Friday, October 22 at 7 p.m. Retired Madison County Judge Hugh C. Humphreys, assisted by Carrie Martin, will direct a dramatic re-creation of the Utica riots and the inaugural meeting of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society. Program and refreshments are free.
On Saturday, October 23 the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum will hold its annual October event at the Smithfield Community Center and across the street at the Peterboro United Methodist Church. At 12:30 p.m. Milton C. Sernett Ph.D. presents the third program in a five year /five part Lyceum series on American Abolitionism. This year the presentation is free and made possible through Speakers in the Humanities, a program of the New York Council for the Humanities. Dr. Sernett’s illustrated talk North Star Shining: New York State’s Freedom Trail – An Illustrated Journey along the Underground Railroad places the story of the Underground Railroad in the context of the religious and reform movements of the pre-Civil War period.
The Peterboro United Methodist Church will be serving bag lunches at the church from 11:30 – 1:30. Reservations for ten dollar lunches are due October 17.
At 2:00 at the church Ellen Percy Kraly Ph.D., Director of the Upstate Institute at Colgate University, will open the Abolition Inductee Symposia, and Moana Fogg, Upstate Institute Fellow will facilitate the presentations on the 2009 inductees: At 2:30 p.m. Meredith Ellis, doctoral student at Syracuse University, presents Lewis Tappan and the 1834 Race Riots: Abolition, Bioarchaeology, and the Spring Street Presbyterian Church. Directly following at 3:30 p.m. Dr. Carol Faulkner, Department of History at Syracuse University, speaks on Theodore Dwight Weld vs. Anti-Abolition Mobs. The public is encouraged to attend the free programs.
That evening Milton C. Sernett Ph.D. will provide an illustrated program Mobbed in Utica: Welcomed in Peterboro as the keynote address for the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum Annual Dinner in the Smithfield Community Center. For the occasion Dr. Sernett has published a book Come to Peterboro: Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Founding of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society October 21-22, 1835. The publication will be available for ten dollars at the event and at the Peterboro Mercantile. The Copper Turret will cater the annual dinner at which no “slave sugar” will be served. Forty-five dollar reservations for the dinner are due October 17 to NAHOF, P.O. Box 55, Peterboro NY 13134.
At 7 p.m. in the Smithfield Community Center, Master of Ceremonies Larry Baker will conduct the commemoration ceremonies to complete the 2009 induction of Lewis Tappan and Theodore Dwight Weld to the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum. Abolition poetry and song will accompany the unveiling of the hall banners by family and sponsors for Tappan and Weld. Persons wishing to add their name to the hall banners for the inductees send fifty dollars by October 1 to the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum, P.O. Box 55, Peterboro NY 13134 being sure to write the name of the sponsor and the inductee to be sponsored.
The weekend events are hosted by the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum, The Smithfield Community Association, and the Town of Smithfield. For more information: www.sca-peterboro.org, www.abolitionHoF.org, mail@abolitionhof.org, 315-684-3262.
On Saturday, October 23 the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum will hold its annual October event at the Smithfield Community Center and across the street at the Peterboro United Methodist Church. At 12:30 p.m. Milton C. Sernett Ph.D. presents the third program in a five year /five part Lyceum series on American Abolitionism. This year the presentation is free and made possible through Speakers in the Humanities, a program of the New York Council for the Humanities. Dr. Sernett’s illustrated talk North Star Shining: New York State’s Freedom Trail – An Illustrated Journey along the Underground Railroad places the story of the Underground Railroad in the context of the religious and reform movements of the pre-Civil War period.
The Peterboro United Methodist Church will be serving bag lunches at the church from 11:30 – 1:30. Reservations for ten dollar lunches are due October 17.
At 2:00 at the church Ellen Percy Kraly Ph.D., Director of the Upstate Institute at Colgate University, will open the Abolition Inductee Symposia, and Moana Fogg, Upstate Institute Fellow will facilitate the presentations on the 2009 inductees: At 2:30 p.m. Meredith Ellis, doctoral student at Syracuse University, presents Lewis Tappan and the 1834 Race Riots: Abolition, Bioarchaeology, and the Spring Street Presbyterian Church. Directly following at 3:30 p.m. Dr. Carol Faulkner, Department of History at Syracuse University, speaks on Theodore Dwight Weld vs. Anti-Abolition Mobs. The public is encouraged to attend the free programs.
That evening Milton C. Sernett Ph.D. will provide an illustrated program Mobbed in Utica: Welcomed in Peterboro as the keynote address for the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum Annual Dinner in the Smithfield Community Center. For the occasion Dr. Sernett has published a book Come to Peterboro: Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Founding of the New York State Anti-Slavery Society October 21-22, 1835. The publication will be available for ten dollars at the event and at the Peterboro Mercantile. The Copper Turret will cater the annual dinner at which no “slave sugar” will be served. Forty-five dollar reservations for the dinner are due October 17 to NAHOF, P.O. Box 55, Peterboro NY 13134.
At 7 p.m. in the Smithfield Community Center, Master of Ceremonies Larry Baker will conduct the commemoration ceremonies to complete the 2009 induction of Lewis Tappan and Theodore Dwight Weld to the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum. Abolition poetry and song will accompany the unveiling of the hall banners by family and sponsors for Tappan and Weld. Persons wishing to add their name to the hall banners for the inductees send fifty dollars by October 1 to the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum, P.O. Box 55, Peterboro NY 13134 being sure to write the name of the sponsor and the inductee to be sponsored.
The weekend events are hosted by the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum, The Smithfield Community Association, and the Town of Smithfield. For more information: www.sca-peterboro.org, www.abolitionHoF.org, mail@abolitionhof.org, 315-684-3262.
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