Farm Newsletter – September 2026 Newsletter
Contents1. Join us for Deborah Hughes “Blessed Are the Whistle Blowers” October 1st, 20262. Rochester Area Community Foundation awards $20,000 Grant3. Help us match the Lisk Morris Foundation Grant4. All local resolutions passed for Harriet Tubman Byway5. Historic Preservation Defense Fund6. How You Can Help View Entire Newsletter
Farm Newsletter – August 2026 Newsletter
Contents1. Help us match the Lisk Morris Foundation Grant2. Dr. David Anderson: A Powerful Memorial Service3. Austin Steward & Commemorating Emancipation Day4. 1816 Programs5. Sister Organizations6. How You Can Help View Entire Newsletter
Farm Newsletter – July 2026 Newsletter
Contents1. Thanks to all who welcomed The Freedom Walkers on Juneteenth2. Upcoming Programs3. Programs at Sister Sites4. 1816 Meetinghouse: Annual Report, 20255. Harriet Tubman Byway Signed into Law6. How you can help View Entire Newsletter
Farm Newsletter – June 2026 Newsletter
Contents1. Welcome Freedom Walkers: Community programs at Macedon, Farmington, Rochester, June 18-202. Join Tony Cohen and Freedom Walkers as Companion Walkers3. Survey: Finger Lakes Regional Stakeholders4. “Safe Haven Within the Circle of Farmington Friends”: Freedom Seekers in Farmington and Macedon5. Honoring Pauline Copes Johnson6. Ganondagan Announces Summer Programs7. NYS Legislature passes Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad […]
Farm Newsletter – May 2026 Newsletter
Contents:1. Marjory Allen Perez, “Safe Haven Within the Circle of Farmington Friends: Freedom Seeking Families in Farmington and Macedon, 1800-1865,” 2 p.m. Sunday, May 17, Macedon Academy, 1185 Macedon Center Road2. Welcome Tony Cohen, June 18-20, 2026, Macedon Park, 1816 Meetinghouse, Farmington Friends Meeting, and Memorial AME Zion Church, Rochester3. Historic Quaker Meetinghouses, Sandy Spring, […]
Farm Newsletter – April 2026 Newsletter
Selby Howard Died Feb 18, 1885 Aged 83 yrs, 10 mos., 22 days Born a slave. Lived a freeman. Died in the Lord. Selby Howard’s gravestone North Farmington Cemetery View Entire Newsletter
Farm Newsletter – March 2026 Newsletter
“I was the conductor on the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say—I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” Harriet Tubman, probably spoken at 1896 New York State Woman Suffrage Association, Rochester. Democrat and Chronicle, November 19, 1896; Kate Clifford Larson, […]
Farm Newsletter – February 2026 Newsletter
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.” Frederick Douglass, The Anti-Slavery Movement: A Lecture Before the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society (Rochester: Lee, Mann, & Co., 1855), 33. “Let us, my Friends, for the passing hour, make the slaves case our own. — As much as in us lies, […]
Farm Newsletter – January 2026 Newsletter
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963) “The one thing needful amid all these collisions is, to maintain toleration […]
Farm Newsletter – December 2025 Newsletter
“Under a deep feeling, of the wrongs practiced upon our coloured brethren and sisters in wresting from them the greatest of all external blessings, that of Liberty. You are aware, that it is no new thing for us as a Society to be thus exercized, having long felt bound to bear our testimony against so […]