Yours for the Oppressed, Harriet Myers Come view the first such exhibit to be installed at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence. Yours for the Oppressed, Harriet Myers features pieces chosen by our museum’s Special Collections curator in honor of Black Women’s contributions to social justice in America. The exhibition centers around an 1860 letter…
Join with a highly skilled librarian and volunteers in bringing The Myers Residence Library to life! Numerous books have been donated over time and they need to be catalogued so that the library can be open for public use. The Library Development team works together every Monday from 12:30pm - 2pm at The Myers Residence.…
The LibertyCon 2021 Planning Team invites you to join with them in the planning and implementation of this history-changing event. A format change has been agreed to by the planning team - rather than a weekend program as was previously organized, LibertyCon 2021 is organized into individual virtual presentations with moderated conversations scheduled throughout 2021.…
Livestreamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/historiccherryhill Historic Cherry Hill’s Education Coordinator will bring you into the sleeping quarters of Dinah Jackson, a woman who was enslaved and worked as a cook at Cherry Hill at the time of the site’s infamous 1827 murder. Dinah is probably best known for becoming a star witness in the trial of…
Join with UREC Board members in the planning of the Daniel Stewart Memorial Award.Daniel was an avid photographer and used his photographic skills on behalf of UREC across many years and many events. His photographic skills provided a pictorial record of the many programs engaged in by UREC. Developing award criteria, investigating financial considerations, designing…
A Zoom Meeting Livestreamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/historiccherryhill Details of the lives of enslaved individuals can be difficult to piece together, and it is often necessary to read between the lines to find their stories. Join Cordell Reaves, Historic Preservation Program Analyst at NYS Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation, and Ian Mumpton, Historic Site Assistant at…
The Building and Properties Committee invites members of the community to join board members in collaborating on a range of projects including restoration of The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, building of an Interpretive Center, arranging for the installation of an off-street parking area, and managing the maintenance and beautification of the grounds of The…
Join with a highly skilled librarian and volunteers in bringing The Myers Residence Library to life! Numerous books have been donated over time and they need to be catalogued so that the library can be open for public use. The Library Development team works together every Monday from 12:30pm - 2pm at The Myers Residence.…
A Zoom Meeting Livestreamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/historiccherryhill Paul and Mary Liz Stewart of the Underground Railroad Education Center will discuss the myths versus the truth of the Underground Railroad and explore the institution’s legacy today.
A Zoom Meeting Livestreamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/historiccherryhill Moderated by Dr. Kori Graves, Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany, this three-part presentation will shed light on the varying…
Do you like digging in the dirt? Researching? Drafting grant applications? Record keeping? Planning programs, exhibits, displays? Contributing to the development of the Collections Management System as we work to…
In the middle decades of the 18th Century, the Oblong Meeting at Pawling - along with other Quaker communities - were spreading across eastern Dutchess County and points beyond. The…
UREC Reads will begin discussing Chapter 13 on May 14 Du Bois, an incredible thinker and author who pushes beyond the limits of the American narrative with his challenging observations…
Put on the garden gloves, pick up the rake, and off you go! Would you prefer to work with clippers or a shovel? How about a lawn mower or pitch…
Join with a highly skilled librarian and volunteers in bringing The Myers Residence Library to life! Numerous books have been donated over time and they need to be catalogued so that the library can be open for public use. The Library Development team works together every Monday from 12:30pm – 2pm at The Myers Residence.…
Join archaeologists from the NYS Museum, NYS Bureau of Historic Sites, Hartgen Archaeological Associates, and the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and HIstoric Preservation for a conversation on how we can interpret through material culture the lives of enslaved people otherwise absent form the historical record. Preregistration at https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/7640952 is required in order to receive a…
Monthly URHPCR Board Meetings are open to the public. Pay us a visit. Listen in on the discussions that inform implementation of the mission-based vision of UREC. Please contact Mary Liz Stewart, Executive Director, to inform her of your intent to attend. UREC Board meetings are conducted via Zoom. Pre-registration for Zoom meetings is…
The Empire State Archives and History Award acknowledges the outstanding contributions by a national figure to advance the understanding and uses of history in society. Honoree Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award…
Across the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean and North America, enslaved Africans lived their lives under constant threat to themselves and their families. Even for free men and women, everywhere lay the risk of danger, displacement and death. Often, their response was to flee, to run, to self-emancipate, sometimes with help from the Underground…
New York was the last slaving port in the Americas. Long after Congress banned the trade, hundreds of ships were leaving the wharfs of Manhattan bound for the African coast. This talk, drawn from the author's new book, The Last Slave Ships (Yale University Press), describes who ran the trade and how, why law enforcement…
A panel of researchers, Jessica Harney of the Camden Central School District, Matthew Kirk, Principal Investigator/VP Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. and Charles E. Vandrei, Agency Historic Preservation Officer, Archaeologist, Division of Lands and Forests, NYSDEC, will provide an introductory presentation on the Florence Settlement, a settlement for free formerly enslaved people in the town of Florence. Research from archeological digs, archival searches, and more will be presented along with video clips of the site as it is…
Underground Railroad Education Center is excited to host it's third Open Mic Coffee House where community members near and far can share expressions of hope and resilience. Motivated by the challenges faced through the pandemic, overt racism, horrific weather conditions, challenges to voting rights, challenges to our democracy, the May Open Mic Coffee House offers…
Mara Cherkasky first wrote about racially restrictive covenants in the mid-1990s and has been systematically documenting and mapping them in Washington, DC since 2014. Reviewing more than 100,000 property records and thus far finding racially restrictive covenants on more than 20,000 DC properties, Ms. Cherkasky will explain what racially restrictive covenants are, their formulation in…
Join with a highly skilled librarian and volunteers in bringing The Myers Residence Library to life! Numerous books have been donated over time and they need to be catalogued so that the library can be open for public use. The Library Development team works together every Monday from 12:30pm – 2pm at The Myers Residence.…
"Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America - a ground-breaking, two-hour documentary film by acclaimed historian Dr. Gretchen Sorin and Emmy-winning director Ric Burns - aired on PBS on Tuesday, October 13th, 2020. The film examines the history of African Americans on the road from the early 1900’s through the 1960’s and beyond.…
Coming to The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence on Friday, Mary 28! The FreeTHEM Walk-ers recognize that human trafficking is modern-day slavery, and there are many victims in the United States. To help stop human trafficking, they educate others about the crime and inform them how to identify and help victims. The FreeTHEM Walk…