Excelsior’s Center for Social Justice, the Civic Engagement Rope Team, the Underground Railroad Education Center, and the YWCA of the Greater Capital Region are thrilled to invite you to participate in our 2025 democratic engagement dialogue sessions. How do we lift every voice? Let’s explore together the meaning of democracy and ways to engage with…
Enjoy a full day in the Adirondack’s, New York State’s premier state park. Mountains, farmland, lakes, ponds, rivers, wildlife, museums and historic sites, trails, and more. This is a collaboration with the Museum of Blue Mounain Lake. Bus transportation is free. Bring or buy your food and drink. Enjoy a geat day in the mountains.…
Call ahead to schedule your tour at The Myers Residence. Tours are hosted at 12:30pm and 2:00pm on Saturdays. Admission payments can be made online at https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/tours/ or at The Myers Residence via cash, check, and credit card. Don’t forget to check out Myers Mercantile while at The Residence where you will find great books,…
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 information, to consider new interpretations of old stories, to understand the past and present from new voices uncovered and new voices reclaimed. In their gift…
MaryLiz and Paul Stewart, co-founders of the UREC are hosting a Founders' Tour Experience. This special tour is a three (3) hour experience, conducted by the Stewart’s and is a…
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…
The Seneca Chief was the canal packet boat that famously carried Governor DeWitt Clinton and dignitaries on the first voyage through the completed Erie Canal in 1825, an event known…
Black to Broadway Musical Review at Love Albany Center (TBD) Featuring Capital Region Performers singing their favorite Broadway show tunes in a cave rat style performance Aaron Moore, founder of Acting…
Aaron Moore, founder of Acting With Aaron, has generously offered to produce a fundraising event for UREC's Interpretive Center as a response to the federal freezing, and potential withdrawal, of…
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…
Staged reading of Soulful - Land By Aaron Moore at Capital Repertory Theatre Soulful-Land is a story about taking back control, about overcoming grief, about letting go of the past -…
