Events

Be part of the cutting edge community - gather from the convenience of your own home via zoom on the 4th Saturday of each month, January through October 2024, from 2pm-3pm for an enriching presentation and conversation about UGRR history and its contemporary relevance. Full details are available HERE. Online and a paper registration forms…

Celebrate with UREC at an Interpretive Center groundbreaking ceremony on Earth Day, Monday, April 22 at 2pm on the Livingston Avenue properties. We continue to move forward in pursuit of the constructing of this net-zero CORE Living Building Challenge certified building that will open up activity and program possibilities that up until now have only…

Have you dreamed of making history? Of course, we all have. And now we have a chance to be a part of local's day of giving - an opportunity to unite our community around causes in which we truly believe and help nonprofit organizations connect to the larger community. Please join our campaign! We need…

Join with others to discuss Kendi's compelling treatise on antiracism. With his reader-friendly style, Kendi draws the reader in from the first page to the last. "Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves…

Join with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence to learn the real story about the Underground Railroad. Hidey holes? Nope. Dark of night? Nope. Come 'meet' Stephen and Harriet Myers and their colleagues to learn about the challenges they faced as they worked to end the institution of enslavement…

Join with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence to learn the real story about the Underground Railroad. Hidey holes? Nope. Dark of night? Nope. Come 'meet' Stephen and Harriet Myers and their colleagues to learn about the challenges they faced as they worked to end the institution of enslavement…

Did you know that 87% of the world’s workforce —67% of the USA’s— is struggling to find meaning in what they do, or that we are projecting 40%-50% of US occupations to be replaced by technology by 2030, or that all of us are expected to go through an average of 11.9 occupational changes in…

Girl Scouts of Northeastern NY have started a new troop that meets at The Myers Residence every other Thursday from 4:30pm-5:30pm. Join in the fun! If interested, or if you have questions, please contact Amelia Paul,  the UREC Family, Youth and Senior Program Coordinator, at 518-621-7793. Great things are happening at The Myers Residence!

Today is the Day - 518 Day of Giving! Today is the last opportunity to participate. Please join our campaign! We need you to tell your friends and family members about the important work we do and ask them to join us in helping to make a difference. Visit the UREC Donate Page today by clicking HERE…

Shirley Green will speak about her recent book, Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence (Westholme Publishing; 2023). The narrative follows the lives of William and Benjamin Frank, two brothers who enlisted in Second Rhode Island Regiment during the American Revolutionary War in the spring of 1777. Their military experiences quickly…

Join with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence to learn the real story about the Underground Railroad. Hidey holes? Nope. Dark of night? Nope. Come ‘meet’ Stephen and Harriet Myers and their colleagues to learn about the challenges they faced as they worked to end the institution of enslavement…