The traveling exhibit, the centerpiece oif which is an 8 foot tall bronze sculpture of Solomon Northup, will be in Saratoga Spa Sate Park by the Lincoln Bath House from…
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. Board meetings are hybrid. Please contact Mary Liz Stewart, Executive Director, to inform her of your intent to attend. Directions will be provided for accessing the Zoom meeting.…
The Interpretive Center - what shall we do in this space? Join with others at The Myers Residence to brainstorm, raise ideas, consider possibilities. The sky is the limit. Even…
Explore three of Albany’s finest historic sites and museums to explore stories of abolition, freedom, immigration and labor at the Ten Broeck Mansion, The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, and…
The talk examines the impetuses and obstacles that produced a gradual abolition law in 1799 and, a generation later, the declared end of slavery in New York State on July…
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…
Call ahead to schedule your tour at The Myers Residence - 518-621-7793. Tours are hosted at 12:30pm and 2:00pm on Saturdays. Admission payments can be made online at https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/tours/…
Join with a lively bunch of community members in the planning of Arias in the Afternoon with Handel's Messiah arias to be the centerpiece. Do you like thinking big? Do…
Do you like researching? Drafting grant applications? Recordkeeping? Cataloguing? Planning programs, exhibits, displays? This very active committee needs more volunteers to carry out its important work for UREC and for…
Students from the Inaugural Pilot Museum Studies Teen Program will research and connect with our Albany NAACP Branch to create a pop-up exhibit. Come hear from these new Local Historians.…
Authors across time have challenged us to look back at history and learn what we missed, to relearn what we had not fully understood, to reexamine in more detail new…
Call ahead to schedule your tour at The Myers Residence. Today a tour will be hosted at 2:00pm only due to a Pop Up Exhibition to be held from 12pm-1pm…
