Have you ever felt so proud that you could not keep from grinning ear-to-ear? That is how we felt this year about the Board, volunteers, and supporters of the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum and about all the programs we  co-sponsored with local historical organizations and libraries.

Our Board and volunteers are an amazing group of people. In spite of challenges from COVID and the world around us, they moved forward with energy and enthusiasm to “preserve, maintain, and interpret the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse as a national site of conscience and a cornerstone of historic movements for equal rights, social justice, and peace, including rights for Native Americans, African Americans, and women, inviting visitors to explore issues of equality and justice in their own lives.”

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Program Review

Led by Kathy Hendrix, Chair of our    Program Committee, our programs in 2021 focused on women’s suffrage and race as well as on current work of Haudenosaunee women. Our co-sponsors included Akwaaba, Ganondagan State Historic Site, Friends of Ganondagan, Granger Homestead, Sonnenberg Gardens, and Wood Library. Many thanks to all our speakers and co-sponsors and to the amazing team who made these programs such a success. All programs are available online through our website. Thanks to Humanities NY with help from New York Yearly Meeting of Friends, all of these programs were open to the public and free.

Judith Wellman’s talk is still available on our YouTube Channel. Check our website, farmingtonmeetinghouse.org for details about programs and the future of the meetinghouse! We hope to present the remaining programs in the series later this year.