Yours for the Oppressed, Harriet Myers Come view the first such exhibit to be installed at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence. Yours for the Oppressed, Harriet Myers features pieces chosen by our museum’s Special Collections curator in honor of Black Women’s contributions to social justice in America. The exhibition centers around an 1860 letter…
Staff will be off-site during normal public business hours. We appreciate your understanding.
July 4th Oration is back in person at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence on Saturday, July 3 beginning at 11am with an enriching presentation by Rev. Roxanne Booth on The Third Reconstruction and followed by light refreshments. Bring a chair and a dish to share if you like. If raining, we will use the…
The Garden Explorers, a garden club based in the Capital Region, will visit the Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence gardens on Wednesday, July 14 at 6pm. Light refreshments will be provided. Interested in joining in? Please call Mary Liz Stewart at 518-621-7793 to let her know you will be participating.
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.…
SNCC chair H. Rap Brown was excoriated after a July 1967 press conference where he told reporters: “I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America’s culture. It…
African American Marbleization is a series of sculptures by Yvonne Shortt. It is her response to oppression and racisms of African Americans in art, history, and her country. It draws on her personal experience of being a woman of color and her desire to use education, communication, research, and art to further conversation and action.…
