Underground Railroad Education Center

Work Party time!
2021-06-12 12:30 - 16:00 UTC | The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, 12210, United States
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 fork? Are you a gardener? Are you a carpenter? All sorts of garden and grounds activities fill up work party days. Join in the fun. Feel a sense of accomplishment! Help UREC be good stewards of its properties.

Refreshments and tools are provided. Bring your own tools if you have favorites that you like to use.
Our ‘Outhouse Moderne` provides restroom facilities.
No need to register. Just show up on the day or days of your choice. Look forward to seeing you soon!
Since we will be outside, COVID protocols will require social distancing and the wearing of a mask if you have not been vaccinated.
Questions? Call Mary Liz Stewart, Executive Director, at 518-621-7793.
Work Party Hours:
12:30pm – 4:00pm
Work Party Days:
June 12
July 17
August 14
September 18
October 16

Gardening Enthusiasts - your help is requested
2021-06-09 09:00 - 11:00, 2021-06-02 09:00 - 11:00 | The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, 12210, United States
Do you like to dig in the dirt? Water the plants and watch them thrive? Revel in the beauty of food and flowering plants gracing their raised beds? Then the gardening committee is for you! No experience is needed. Master Gardeners are at the ready to guide you.

On the 1st, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays in each month, May through October, extra hands are needed to tend the raised beds in the Abrahm Johnson Garden and associated raised beds.

Gardeners work in the gardens from 9am-12pm on the 1st, 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month.
If you can lend a hand, leave a message for May LIz Stewart at 518-621-7793, being sure to include a name and callback number. Talk soon!

FreedomCon 2021 – Freedom Road: the Struggle for Justice Continues - Planning / Evaluation Meeting
2021-06-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Virtual via Zoom
The LibertyCon 2021 Planning Team invites you to join with them in the planning and implementation of this history-changing event.
A format change has been agreed to by the planning team – rather than a weekend program as was previously organized, LibertyCon 2021 is organized into individual virtual presentations with moderated conversations scheduled throughout 2021. Historic and contemporary social justice topics will continue to be the focus informed by the goal of discussing what can we do with what we learn.
Be an agent of change! Planning, marketing, fundraising, coordinating speakers and attendees and volunteers and vendors and exhibitors, record keeping and more are part of this community focused project.

Agenda items include:

managing the raffle
any revisions needed looking ahead
feedback on May
further outreach / marketing / promotion

5.02.21 – LibetyCon 2021 notes

Zoom Information –
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Jun 7, 2021 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAuce2rrDsiEtBCFWEJKzmLOGP4U0Ms6DK4
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

If you have trouble logging in to zoom please call or text Mary Liz Stewart at 518-779-4038.

Myers Residence Library Development Team
2021-06-07 12:30 - 14:00 | The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, 12210, United States
Join with a highly skilled librarian and volunteers in bringing The Myers Residence Library to life! Numerous books have been donated over time and they need to be catalogued so that the library can be open for public use. The Library Development team works together every Monday from 12:30pm – 2pm at The Myers Residence. No experience necessary. A love of learning is all that is needed.
Call Mary Liz Stewart at 518-621-7793 and leave a message with a call back number expressing your interest in helping. Mary Liz will call you back to confirm your participation.

The FreeTHEM Walk
2021-05-28 10:00 - 12:00 | The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, 12210, United States
Coming to The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence on Friday, Mary 28!

The FreeTHEM Walk-ers recognize that human trafficking is modern-day slavery, and there are many victims in the United States. To help stop human trafficking, they educate others about the crime and inform them how to identify and help victims. The FreeTHEM Walk is made of a group of abolitionists who will spread awareness to light a path toward freedom for enslaved people today. With help from supporters like you, we believe we can abolish human trafficking in our lifetime.
Every Stop Has A Story —
The FreeTHEM Walk-ers are walking nearly 1,000 miles on the Underground Railroad to help raise awareness about modern day slavery, better known as human trafficking. Each individual stop has its own story – Appomattox Courthouse (5.04.21), White House of the Confederacy (5.07.21), Fauquier History Museum at the Old Jail & THe Plains (5.10.21), Bucktown General Store (5.12.21), New Castle Court House (5.15.21), Liberty Bell, President’s House, Belmont Mansion, & Historical Society of PA. (5.17.21), African Burial Grounds (5.21.21), Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence (5.28.21), Gerrit Smith Estate (5.31.21), Harriet Tubman Residence (6.02.21), African American Heritage Corridor (6.19.21), Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center (6.20.21).
Welcome the walkers at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence on Friday, May 28!
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The FreeTHEM Walk – May 3 – June 19
The FreeTHEM Walk (www.thefreethemwalk.com) is an initiative by human trafficking restoration home, Project Mona’s House (https://www.projectmonashouse.com), and the FreeTHEM Center (Free Them Center) headquartered in Buffalo, NY. Project Mona’s House and The FreeTHEM Center are U.S. locations for the international Christian humanitarian organization RAMP Global Missions. Together, their programs help people who are hurt, exploited, undereducated and impoverished.

Driving While Black - a documentary and conversation with Dr. Gretchen Sorin & Ric Burns
2021-05-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
“Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America – a ground-breaking, two-hour documentary film by acclaimed historian Dr. Gretchen Sorin and Emmy-winning director Ric Burns – aired on PBS on Tuesday, October 13th, 2020. The film examines the history of African Americans on the road from the early 1900’s through the 1960’s and beyond. The film explores deeply embedded dynamics of race, space and mobility in America – focusing in particular on the experience of African Americans navigating the nation’s highways during the last four decades of Jim Crow – one of the most crucial, turbulent and transformative periods in American history. With urgent and powerful reverberations in American society today, this riveting history – at once revelatory, deeply troubling, and inspiring for what it reveals about human courage, creativity, and commitment to change – provides a crucial window on issues of class, automobile culture, discrimination and national identity.” View the full two hour documentary at https://www.dwbfilm.com/

“Steeplechase Films is partnering with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience to present Race, Space & Mobility in America, a major national public engagement initiative, based on the documentary film Driving While Black (2020), to foster and enhance awareness, civic dialogue and historical understanding of the contemporary phrase “driving while Black.” UREC, as a member of International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, is collaborating with the Coalition to bring this compelling doucmentary and conversation to the community.

A Zoom link to this event will be emailed to you by Mary Liz Stewart once your name and email have been sent to Mary Liz Stewart at marylizugr@gmail.com
The Zoom link will be emailed by Tuesday morning, May 25.

Driving While Black – Description
Bios for Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns

FreedomCon 2021 - Documenting Racially Restrictive Covenants in Washington DC: A Primer
2021-05-22 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
Mara Cherkasky first wrote about racially restrictive covenants in the mid-1990s and has been systematically documenting and mapping them in Washington, DC since 2014. Reviewing more than 100,000 property records and thus far finding racially restrictive covenants on more than 20,000 DC properties, Ms. Cherkasky will explain what racially restrictive covenants are, their formulation in public policy, and their relationship to the development of housing segregation in the District of Columbia. Additionally, she will describe the process by which she and her collaborators developed a methodology for researching and documenting racial covenants.

Mara Cherkasky is a DC-based historian and writer, and the co-founder in 2014 of both the historical research firm Prologue DC, LLC, and the digital public history project Mapping Segregation in Washington DC (www.mappingsegregationdc.org).
Mara has also produced exhibit panels, books and articles for print and online publications, multi-media presentations, and historic site signage for clients such as the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia, Cultural Tourism DC, and the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation. A meticulous researcher, she has assisted the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, WETA-TV, the DC Historic Preservation Office, the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., and many others with projects. She is also as an experienced oral history interviewer and walking tour guide.
Current/recent projects include mapping the ca. 1912 destruction of the African American community on Meridian Hill; developing a 100-site DC African American Civil Rights Tour; and creating a Heritage Trail (signs with text, maps, and images) for the Northeast DC neighborhood of Eckington.
Mara holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master’s degree in American Studies from George Washington University.

The Rise and Fall of the Florence Settlement
2021-05-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual via Zoom
A panel of researchers, Jessica Harney of the Camden Central School District, Matthew Kirk, Principal Investigator/VP Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. and Charles E. Vandrei, Agency Historic Preservation Officer, Archaeologist, Division of Lands and Forests, NYSDEC, will provide an introductory presentation on the Florence Settlement, a settlement for free formerly enslaved people in the town of Florence. Research from archeological digs, archival searches, and more will be presented along with video clips of the site as it is today.
To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5oIb1_c2RbuG7ZvqI2cwkQ

New York and the Illegal Slave Trade During the Civil War Era
2021-05-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Hudson River Maritime Museum, 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NY, 12401
New York was the last slaving port in the Americas. Long after Congress banned the trade, hundreds of ships were leaving the wharfs of Manhattan bound for the African coast. This talk, drawn from the author’s new book, The Last Slave Ships (Yale University Press), describes who ran the trade and how, why law enforcement was complicit, and the reasons why Abraham Lincoln’s Republic Party squashed the trade during the Civil War.
The talk is presented through the Hudson River Maritime Museum, beginning at 7:00 PM via Zoom. There is a $5.00 fee for non-members. Register at https://www.hrmm.org

Presented by Dr, John Harris, assistant professor of history at Erskine College.

Register Here: https://hrmm.z2systems.com/np/clients/hrmm/event.jsp?event=2996&

Spaces of Danger: Navigating Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley
2021-05-19 16:30 - 17:30 | Underground Railroad Consortium of NYS, 194 Livingsston Avenue, Albany, NY, 12210
Across the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean and North America, enslaved Africans lived their lives under constant threat to themselves and their families. Even for free men and women, everywhere lay the risk of danger, displacement and death. Often, their response was to flee, to run, to self-emancipate, sometimes with help from the Underground Railroad. Today’s talk examines aspects of the Underground Railroad story as it played out for people in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York and posits how – even to this day – America remains a space of danger for Black men and women.

Presented by: Peter A. Bunten, Chairman, Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021 at 4:30pm Via Zoom – Sponsored by the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2881343345
Meeting ID: 288 134 334
Visit the Underground Railroad Consortium website: https://www.urcnys.org/webinars and it will take you to the Zoom link.
There is no charge for this event.

The Lives of Enslaved People Through the Objects They Left Behind
2021-05-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual via Zoom
Join archaeologists from the NYS Museum, NYS Bureau of Historic Sites, Hartgen Archaeological Associates, and the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and HIstoric Preservation for a conversation on how we can interpret through material culture the lives of enslaved people otherwise absent form the historical record.
Preregistration at https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/7640952 is required in order to receive a link to the event.

Work Party - fun in the sun!
2021-05-15 12:30 - 16:00 | The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, 12210, United States
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 fork? Are you a gardener? Are you a carpenter? All sorts of garden and grounds activities fill up work party days. Join in the fun. Feel a sense of accomplishment! Help UREC be good stewards of its properties.
Refreshments and tools are provided. Bring your own tools if you have favorites that you like to use.
Our ‘Outhouse Moderne` provides restroom facilities.
No need to register. Just show up on the day or days of your choice. Look forward to seeing you soon!
Since we will be outside, COVID protocols will require us to socially distance and to wear masks if we cannot socially distance.
Work Party Hours:
12:30pm – 4:00pm
Work Party Days:
May 15
June 19
July 17
August 14
September 18
October 16

The UGRR in Dutchess County
2021-05-13 19:30 - 20:30 | Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project, P.O. Box 3647, Arlington, New York, 12603
In the middle decades of the 18th Century, the Oblong Meeting at Pawling – along with other Quaker communities – were spreading across eastern Dutchess County and points beyond. The area would go on to boast the largest settlement of Quakers outside of Philadelphia. Almost from the beginning, these Quakers found themselves at the forefront of the slavery-antislavery debate and the Underground Railroad. Mr. Bunten will explore some of the cultural and political aspects of this development, which link our local history to national events.
Watch this at facebook.com/pawlinghistory, Thursday, May 13th at 7:30pm. You do not need a Facebook account, and the lecture is free.

Free People of Color: a Three-Part Presentation Uncovering Different Experiences Within the African American Community of 19th-Century Albany - Albany History Fair by Historic Cherry Hill
2021-05-13 11:00 - 13:00 | Online
A Zoom Meeting Livestreamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/historiccherryhill
Moderated by Dr. Kori Graves, Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany, this three-part presentation will shed light on the varying experiences of free people of color in an emerging community in 19th-century Albany.
Kathryn Kosto, Executive Director of Albany County Historical Association will present on Roseanna Vosburgh who was born into slavery and emerged as a philanthropist and supporter of her community while working for the Olcotts at Ten Broeck Mansion.
Shawna Reilly, Education Coordinator at Historic Cherry Hill, will introduce the Knapp family, four African American siblings raised as wards and servants in Van Rensselaer households. The Knapps left an impressive collection of personal letters and belongings at Cherry Hill that tell the story of their struggles for autonomy and their strong ties of kinship.
Dr. Kori Graves will share her research on C. Mary Williams and her family, African Americans living in Albany from the early 1800s to the end of the century.

People of Courage, People of Hope, Seekers of Justice
2021-05-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual via Zoom
A Zoom Meeting Livestreamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/historiccherryhill
Paul and Mary Liz Stewart of the Underground Railroad Education Center will discuss the myths versus the truth of the Underground Railroad and explore the institution’s legacy today.

Prince’s Petition: Telling the Stories Found Between the Lines - Albany History Fair by Historic Cherry Hill
2021-05-06 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
A Zoom Meeting Livestreamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/historiccherryhill
Details of the lives of enslaved individuals can be difficult to piece together, and it is often necessary to read between the lines to find their stories. Join Cordell Reaves, Historic Preservation Program Analyst at NYS Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation, and Ian Mumpton, Historic Site Assistant at Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site, as they talk about the ongoing process of discovering and interpreting the story of Prince, a man enslaved by the Schuyler family in 18th-century Albany.

Uncovering Dinah's World - Albany History Fair by Historic Cherry Hill
2021-05-04 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
Livestreamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/historiccherryhill
Historic Cherry Hill’s Education Coordinator will bring you into the sleeping quarters of Dinah Jackson, a woman who was enslaved and worked as a cook at Cherry Hill at the time of the site’s infamous 1827 murder. Dinah is probably best known for becoming a star witness in the trial of Jesse Strang just weeks after receiving her freedom. But what was her life like? Shawna will share documents related to slavery from Cherry Hill’s collections and take a close look at Dinah’s room in order to reconstruct what we can of Dinah’s experience.

LibertyCon 2021 --- Staten Island’s Freedom Struggles and the Underground Railroad
2021-04-24 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
Staten Island, one of New York City’s five boroughs, has a rich history that includes free and freedom seeker African Americans. In her research, Ms. Paige has uncovered significant documentation that has brought this history to light. Weaving historical information with stories collected from first person accounts told by people who came to Staten Island from other places, we will learn about what they were willing to do to stay, how they accomplished their desires, and how this information is related with us today.

Debbie-Ann Paige, MA, Adjunct Lecturer, City University of NY College of Staten Island, and Genealogist and founder of PAIGE ONE ASSIST, is a public historian specializing in local African American history, a co-president of the newly chartered Richard B. Dickenson Staten Island Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS) and professional genealogist. She has worked on numerous local history projects including: In Pursuit of Freedom with the Brooklyn Historical Society; From Farm to City with the Staten Island Museum; the designation of the Louis Napoleon House as a site to freedom with the National Park Service Underground Railroad Network on behalf of the Sandy Ground Historical Society, and the recent City Council street renaming of the corner of Fairview Avenue and Knox Place as “Samuel A. Browne Way” in the Castleton Hill section of Staten Island. Debbie-Ann has appeared as a historical interpreter on the Emmy winning show “Secrets of New York,” and is working closely with Frederick Douglass Memorial Park to transcribe their historical records. She facilitates public history forums throughout Staten Island focused on the historical perspectives of race relations and lectures as an adjunct at the College of Staten Island.

Women's Club of Albany Tours The Myers Residence
2021-04-10 12:30 - 14:00 | The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, 12210, United States
Members of The Women’s Club of Albany will visit The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence on Saturday, April 10 for a tour experience that will complement the virtual Women of the UGRR presentation given by Paul and Mary Liz Stewart March 24.
The Women’s Club of Albany is one of the oldest not-for-profit community organizations in the Capital Region. Its members donate to local organizations serving the needs of women and children, volunteer for a wide range of projects, and offer opportunities for new social, professional and community connections. More information on the Women’s Club of Albany can be found at https://www.womansclubofalbany.com/.

Building and Properties Committee - is reconvening!
2021-04-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
The Building and Properties Committee is a work in progress – join in and let your imagination rule! The B+P Committee will focus on two major construction projects – the interior restoration of The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence and the building of The Interpretive Center. The two construction projects are in the pre-development stages so setting up a plan of attack along with investigating and selecting options for the pre-development phase and then the construction phase for both projects is just beginning. Join in the fun!

The B+P Committee will meet on the first Thursday of each month for 60-90 minutes. The meeting will be held in the evening hours, with exact meeting time to be determined by committee members.

Meetings will be conducted entirely virtually until we are post-COVID at which time meetings will held simultaneously on-site at The Myers Residence and virtually so as to accommodate those who are geographically unable to be present in-person.

Give us a shout at 518-621-7793 or via the Contact Us page on this website if you are interested in joining in or if you know someone who is interested.

Boy Scout Troop #23 at The Myers Residence
2021-04-01 10:00 - 12:00 | The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, 12210, United States
Boy Scout Troop #23 will conclude their camping experience by stopping at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence on their return to Brooklyn, which is home base for them. They are interested in learning about the Underground Railroad and expanding their experience of equity and diversity. They will spend half of their time engaging with the UGRR history and its relevance for today, and they will spend half of their time providing much need volunteer service on the grounds of The Myers Residence Campus.
WELCOME Boy Scout Troop #23!
Troop 23 is the oldest Boy Scout Troop in the United States chartered by a Catholic Church. Troop 23 is located in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The Troop is part of the Lenape Bay District of the Greater New York Council. More information about Bopy Scout Troop #23 can be found at http://www.troop23ola.org/ .

Women of the Underground Railroad
2021-03-24 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual via Zoom
Join with Mary Liz and Paul Stewart, local researchers and co-founders of Underground Railroad Education Center, as they share their research on women involved in the Underground Railroad movement. While much information is available on the work of men in the Underground Railroad movement, much less attention has been publicly provided about the courageous women, both freedom seekers and abolitionists, who dedicated their lives to abolishing the institution of enslavement and advocating for equity in housing, voting rights, education, and jobs.
Organized by the Women’s Club of Albany, the Stewart’s presentation will be followed with some lively Q & A.
Questions can be directed to albanywca@gmail.com

LibertyCon 2021 -- Dr. Dorothy L. Brown and the Politics of Adoption and Abortion, 1950 to 1968
2021-03-20 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
In 1956, Dr. Dorothy L. Brown became the first single woman in Tennessee to legally adopt a child. This accomplishment was one of many firsts that Dr. Brown achieved in her storied life. Once a ward of the Troy Orphan Asylum in Troy, NY, Brown was a leader in medicine and politics who authored a failed abortion law during her time as the first African-American Representative in the Tennessee General Assembly. This presentation explores the context in which Dr. Brown lived and worked, the ways that her early life and work informed her involvement in adoption and abortion reform efforts in the decades before Roe v. Wade, and the relevance of her work for us today.

Dr. Kori A. Graves, PhD, is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Albany. A graduate of the Program in Gender and Women’s History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Graves’ research evaluates the significance of political and popular representations of gender, race, nation, and family. Her book, A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War tells the story of the first African Americans who adopted Korean children, and the ways their efforts revealed the contested nature of adoptive family formation across racial and national lines in the Cold War era. Dr. Graves is also a dedicated instructor. She has won awards for teaching excellence for her courses that explore gender and women’s history, the history of marriage and family, and histories of the body, beauty and identity politics in the U.S.

FreedomCon 2021 - The New York Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
2021-02-27 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
The Kidnapping Club is a powerful and resonant account of the ties between slavery and capitalism, corrupt roots of policing in America, and the unflagging strength of Black activism.
Dr. Wells’ gripping narrative tells the story of the powerful men who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well in New York City long after slavery had been outlawed in the North. The Kidnapping Club was a network of judges, lawyers, police officers and bankers who sanctioned the kidnapping of free Black men, women and children in New York City who were then sold into markets in the southern states, South America, and the Caribbean for vast sums of wealth.

Jonathan Daniel Wells, PhD, is a prize-winning historian whose most recent book, The Kidnapping Club, tells of the intersections among Wall Street, slavery, and resistance to the illicit slave trade in New York City just before the Civil War. Dr. Wells is professor of history in the Departments of Afro-American and African Studies, History, and Director, Residential College at the University of Michigan.
Book Information and Reviews can be found at:
https://www.jonathandanielwells.com/the-new-york-kidnapping-club
https://bookpage.com/reviews/25668-jonathan-daniel-wells-kidnapping-club-nonfiction#.YAYZrHZKiM8
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jonathan-daniel-wells/the-kidnapping-club/?page=2
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/books/review-kidnapping-club-jonathan-daniel-wells.html

People of Courage, People of Hope, Seekers of Justice - The Underground Railroad Revisited
2021-02-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Hudson Area Library, 51 N 5th Street, Hudson, New York, 12534
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 our state and nation and it was visited by many who had escaped enslavement and sought a life of freedom. Join with the Stewarts as they share a new interpretation of a very old story and explain the various initiatives in which Underground Railroad Education Center is engaged as it works to connect the public with this local history and its relevance for us today.
Paul and Mary Liz Stewart are independent researchers, Scholars in Residence at Russell Sage College, and cofounders of Underground Railroad Education Center.
Additional information for this virtual event is available at the Hudson Area Library website.

The Underground Railroad - a Framework for Interpretation
2021-02-25 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Join with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart for a 1:00 pm virtual presentation and conversation with students, faculty and staff at Finger Lakes Community College about a new interpretation of the Underground Railroad movement. A lively presentation supported with a PowerPoint that illustrates documented evidence of a new way to understand Underground Railroad history and its relevance for us today. Information will be available at https://hudsonarealibrary.org/calendar/

Saratoga Reads - The Underground Railroad Revisited
2021-02-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
Join in a conversation with Paul and Mary Liz Stewart hosted by Saratoga Reads. This program is inspired by the SaratogaREADS! book selection, Saratoga Soul, Brandtville Blues by Carol Daggs.

The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence - Virtually
2021-02-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
Join with Paul Stewart in a Facebook Live virtual tour hosted by Mastic-Moriches-Shirley Library in Long Island.
Visit https://mms.evanced.info/signup/calendar for details about this virtual tour of exhibits at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence and enjoy a brief excursion through The Residence. When arriving at the virtual calendar of Mastic-Morches-Shirley Library scroll down to the 17th for a link to the program.
Enjoy!

The UGRR - a New Interpretation of an Old Story
2021-02-02 08:00 - 2021-02-12 17:00 | Cocncourse Empire State Plaza, 263 Madison Avenue, Albany, New York
Visit the UREC exhibit to be displayed in the Empire State Plaza South Concourse that will present an interpretation of Underground Railroad history and its relevance for today.
Eight principles that frame the new interpretation include –
(1) Document Based
(2) Reality vs. Myth
(3) Public vs. Secret
(4) Movement, not Safe Houses and Routes
(5) African American leadership
(6) Civil Disobedience
(7) Language and Public Memory
(8) Relevance Today
