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Living History

Celebrating Black History Month, 2022

To honor Black History Month, we present a special collection called Listen to Their Voices: Farmington and the Underground Railroad. We include first-person accounts of stories of people of African, European, and Native descent who traveled or worked on the Underground Railroad.

 

Listen to their voices. To read the individual stories, visit the post below:

Convention Days at Seneca Falls:  The Quakers, the Meetinghouse, the M’Clintocks

In July we celebrated the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention of 1848.  We note that it would not have happened without the Quakers, and in particular the M’Clintock family of Waterloo. Here is a brief biographical sketch of this extraordinary family.   

Celebrating Women's History Month

For Women's History Month this March, we featured a different activist with a connection to the Meetinghouse each week. Each profile is accompanied with links for further learning, information about present-day organizations that highlight these women's contributions to the women's rights movement in general, but more specifically to the Greater Rochester and Finger Lakes areas, and recommended reading.

Celebrating Black History Month

For Black History Month this February, we featured a different activist with a connection to the Meetinghouse each Friday. Each profile is accompanied by links for further learning, information about present-day organizations that highlight Black activist's contributions to the culture and history of the Greater Rochester area as well as the Finger Lakes area, and recommended reading.

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