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WILLIAM STILL DAY IN PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2005
Living history performances, songs and a presentation of William Still's brother Peter Still at the Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum, 1805 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 191083, on Saturday, October 8, 2005,
at 2:00-4:00. For information, call 215-735-8196. Program requires admission to museum ($5.00 adults, $3.00 for students and children aged 3-12.
See their website: www.cwurmuseum.org
ANTI-SLAVERY AND THE CHURCHES OF PERU AND KEESEVILLE, NEW YORK LECTURE BY DON PAPSON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2005
On Saturday, October 15, 2005, at the Ausable Valley Grange Hall, 1749 Keeseville, New York, at 7:00 pm, Don Papson, President of the North Country Underground Railroad History Association will present a lecture on "The Churches of Peru and Keeseville: Anti-Slavery and Social Conscience in the 19th Century" followed by "An Old Tyme Pie Social." $5.00 donation. For information, call 561-0277 or e-mail
[email protected]
The North Country Underground Railroad History Association has begun a newsletter,
The North Country Lantern with articles and news of UGRR related events. Membership in the association is $25.00 (suggested): North Country Underground Railroad Association, PO Box 2413, Plattsburgh, NY, 12901.
PROGRAM ON JOHN BROWN AT HARPERS FERRY, WEST VIRGINIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2005
On Sunday, October 16 at 1:00 p.m. the Harpers Ferry Historical Association will host a panel discussion on the Green across from the Bookshop on Shenandoah Street. Participants include contributors to
Terrible Swift Sword: The Legacy of John Brown, published by Ohio University Press and edited by Peggy Russo and Paul Finkelman. Participants include Peggy Russo, Paul Finkelman, Kenneth R. Carroll, Hannah Geffert, James N. Gilbert, Dean Grodzins, William Keeney and Jean Libby. Also participating in the panel discussion will be Dr. Louis A. DeCaro, Jr., author of
Fire From the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown. (2002).
The public is invited to attend this presentation which is being held on the 146th anniversary of the John Brown Raid. The discussion will last approximately one and one-half hours and will be followed by a question and answer period and book signing. After the book discussion there will also be dramatic presentations portraying Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Please plan to join us for a thought-provoking and enriching afternoon.
For more information call (304) 535-6881 or send e-mail to:
[email protected]
PROGRAM ON THE PENNSYLVANIA ABOLITION SOCIETY BY RICHARD NEWMAN, PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2005
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania presents Richard S. Newman, on "Forgotten Founders: The Pennsylvania Abolition Society and The Rise of American Abolitionism" on Tuesday, October 18, 2005, at 6:00 p.m., at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA. Newman is the author of
The Transformation of American Abolitionism:
Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic, which traces the grassroots of the American abolitionist.
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD EXHIBIT IN SYRACUSE, NEW YORK
An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad opened September 30 at Syracuse University Library. The exhibition, "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason: Syracuse and the Underground Railroad," includes original artifacts from the
library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s. The exhibition, located in the sixth floor gallery of E.S. Bird Library, is free and open to the public
from Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except for holidays. It will remain on
exhibit through January 26, 2006. Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at (315) 443-9752. An online version of the exhibition will soon be available from
the library's web site at http://scrc.syr.edu.
Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
October 4, 2005
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