Join with UREC board members and volunteers to set up a 2023 Fund Development plan for UREC. Events, cultivation of donors, fee-for-service programs, grants are part of any strong fund development plan. Share your creative ideas on how UREC can focus its energies in 2023 to meet its operational and capital goals while supporting the…
The Daniel Stewart Memorial Fund will be finalizing details for the Daniel Stewart Memorial Fund Award Ceremony that will be held on Sunday, December 11. The meeting is held as a hybrid meeting from 7pm-8pm. If interested, please contact Paul Stewart at 518-596-0260 so that you can receive the Zoom link.
Rather than starting a new book in the busy month of December, and in order to give everyone time to locate a copy of The Dawning of the Apocalypse, it was decided that we will resume UREC Reads on the 2nd Friday of January which is January 13, 2023. We will continue with the hybrid…
The Daniel Stewart Memorial Fund Early Photographer Award of Underground Railroad Education Center announces its award recipients for 2022. The Daniel Stewart Fund was founded in 2020 to honor the memory of Daniel Stewart, a Capital Region photographer who volunteered his photographic services to Underground Railroad Education Center, who was tragically killed in a motorcycle…
Colonie, NY seniors will visit The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence for a tour experience. The Myers Residence is an outstanding artifact of the Anti-slavery and Underground Railroad period. The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, located at 194 Livingston Avenue in Albany, New York reflects Underground Railroad history from the perspective of Stephen Myers as…
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence will be closed on Saturday, December 24 through Monday, December 26 in observance of the Christmas holiday. We apologize for an inconvenience this may cause. Hope to see you in the New Year! The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, on Livingston Avenue in Albany's Arbor Hill neighborhood, was…
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence will be closed on Saturday, December 31 through Monday, January 2, 2023 in observance of the Christmas holiday. We apologize for an inconvenience this may cause. Hope to see you in the New Year! The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, on Livingston Avenue in Albany's Arbor Hill neighborhood,…
Join with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart at the January 15 service at First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany as congregation members Pass the Plate, raising funds to support the work of Underground Railroad Education Center as it engages with the community to empower community members to be agents of change toward an equitable and…
The Albany County Legislative Black Caucus presents a Black History Month Panel on Black Resistance scheduled for February 1 from 5:30-6:30pm at The Black Annex located at 1 Steuben Place, Albany, 12207. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Join with distinguished Albany change-makers to hear their thoughts on relevant contemporary issues and join…
Join with Paul and Mary LIz Stewart to learn about the Underground Railroad and its relationship with Albany's South End. Bring your questions, comments, thoughts about this historic civil rights movement that had an active presence in the city of Albany and continues to inform civil rights efforts toda.
Evaluation of the Award Event and steps moving forward will be the topic of discussion at the February 7, 2023 Daniel Stewart Memorial Fund meeting. This award is named in honor of Daniel Stewart who contributed his photography skills to photographically record the happenings of UREC. His life was cut short at the young age…
The Underground Railroad, often remembered as being characterized by tunnels, dark of night escapes, coded language, and hidey-holes, was far more extensive and complex than these ideas have led us to believe. In the midst of significant pro-slavery sentiment, New York State was home to many abolitionists working to abolish the institution of enslavement in…
