2018 Restoration
The following outlines our Restoration Plan and fundraising goals for the year 2018.
Listen to Their Voices: Farmington and the Underground Railroad
What was the Underground Railroad?
The M’Clintock Family of Farmington
The M’Clintock Family of Farmington Quarterly Meeting: Equality, unity, and reform activism built upon Quaker
Phebe Hathaway: Meeting the Moment on Temperance, Abolition, and Woman’s Rights
Phebe Hathaway (1819 – 1902)
Harriet Jacobs: A Pivotal Time in Upstate New York
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, a book by Harriet Jacobs
Julia Wilbur: From a Monroe County Farm to a Fight for Equal Rights
Upstate New York Roots
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Farmington
Anybody who knows anything about women’s suffrage knows Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Frederick Douglass & the FQMM
No celebration of Black History Month would be complete without honoring Frederick Douglass
William Wells Brown, Rochester Voices, and Jason Reynolds
Widely regarded as the first African American novelist, Wells was also and abolitionist lecturer, historian,
Mary and Emily Edmonson: Freedom Sought, Freedom Lost, Freedom Gained
The Edmonson sisters’ ordeal was a national news story
2017 Review
The year was filled with many fine events and important steps forward in the evolution