Farm Newsletter – September 2024

Farm Newsletter – September 2024

“The wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again,” as Mary Oliver reminds us. At this time of the turning of the seasons, we share memories about what we have done and are doing to create a world of respect and justice and equal rights for all living things.

•Heroes of the Underground Railroad, September 28, 2024, a walking tour of Mt. Hope
Cemetery. Registration is open!
•Education for African American Children in Rochester: Past and Present
•Underground Railroad in Rochester, Farmington, and Macedon: Curriculum materials by Rebekka Boysen-Taylor
•September is International Underground Railroad Month: 1816 Meetinghouse on Instagram
•Rochester School District School No. 16: Renamed after David and Ruth Anderson.
•Site plan approval by Town of Farmington
•Program agreement with the National Park Service
•Remembering Rudy Van der Velden
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Invitation for Bids!

The 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum is pleased to announce that we have published our Invitation to Bid for the 1816 FQMM Exterior Restoration.

Bid documents are available and/or examined free of charge at the office of the Architect, located at John G. Waite Associates, Architects PLLC, located at 384 Broadway, Albany, NY, (518) 449-5440. Our Invitation is also published in NYS Contracts Reporter.

Bids are due March 13, 2025 before 2pm. There is a mandatory pre-bid walk through on Friday, February 28, at 2pm on site. Please contact Bill Brandow at John G. Waite Associates, or Ann Morton (amorton@rochester.rr.com) with any questions.