Collections Committee – via Zoom
Do you like digging in the dirt? Researching? Drafting grant applications? Recordkeeping? Planning programs, exhibits, displays? This very active committee needs more volunteers to carry out its important work for…
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Events
July 4th Oration – Planning Meeting via Zoom
Help bring the July 4th Oration to life by participating in the planning meetings. This annual program is a signature event of Underground Railroad History Project. Using Frederick Douglass’s 1852…
Board Meeting – via Zoom
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 URHPCR. Please contact Mary…
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Liberty Con 2020 – To Be Rescheduled
Hudson Valley Community College Bulmer Telecommunications Center 80 Vandenburgh Ave, Troy, NYIn our increasingly polarized society, the symbol of the 19th century Underground Railroad movement and its abolition activists challenge us to publicly reflect and act upon the legacy of the…
L’il Freedom Seekers Story Time Helps Parents Navigate Hard History
Partnering with Underground Railroad Education Center, acclaimed children’s educators and teaching artists Mariah Ralph and Yahoteh Kokayi of Harlem School of the Arts will lead children and their parents or…
July 4th Oration 2020 – The Struggle for Justice Continues – via Zoom
Using the framework of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, ‘What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July”, let us come together to reflect on the meaning of July 4th in…
Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute 2020
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United StatesThe Leadership Institute, as a service-learning program, is designed for 20 teens and is conducted across an 80-hour, four-week period that runs through July and August 2020. Small groups of…
Open House – Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute – to be recorded
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United StatesDue to COVID Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute Open House will be recorded and shared publicly following the recording. Please stay tuned for more information.
The Myers Residence Reopens to the Public
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United StatesThe Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence welcomes you back! 5pm on September 7 is the official reopening to the public beginning. In order to insure everyone's safety, protocols have been…
Capital District Humanist Society at The Myers Residence
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United StatesMembers of The Capital District Humanist Society will join with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart for an in-person two hour tour experience at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence to…
Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute Service Day – You are Invited to Participate
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United StatesDo you like to dig in the dirt? Like to plant flowers? Like to beautify a garden? Then this service day is for YOU! Join forces with our Young Abolitionist…
Indigenous Peoples Day (Columbus Day) – The Myers Residence will be closed
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United StatesThe Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence will be closed on Monday, October 12. It will reopen to the public on Tuesday, October 13 at 5pm. If you are interested…
