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Date Time Description
April 25 8:00pm "Beginnings - A Celebration of the Music of Chicago" brings the magic of a live Chicago performance to life and exceptionally recreates their enormous songbook of contemporary hits.
Beginnings has one of the most entertaining live performances you can see today. Expect a family-friendly entertainment event that is pleasing to music lovers of all ages!
Strand Center for the Arts, 25 Brinkerhoff Street, Plattsburgh, NY
Visit the Strand Center for the Arts website for more information and to purchase tickets.
Presented by 1814 Commemoration Inc. All profits go to benefit their efforts to provide our region with these important celebrations and representations of our area's rich history. Come enjoy a night out, while supporting a great local cause!
February 26 6:00pm Author Sandra Weber presents a compelling talk about her newest book, John Brown in New York: The Man, His Family, and the Adirondack Landscape, and offers a fresh and intimate look at the famed abolitionist, focusing on the years of the Brown family's connection with North Elba, Essex County (1848-1863). The intertwining story of sublime Adirondack scenery, farm life, and racial justice explores John Brown not only as a national figure but as a husband, father, neighbor, abolitionist, and equalitarian.
Clinton County Historical Association 98 Ohio Avenue, Plattsburgh, NY
See flyer for more information.
February 12 7:00pm In 1843, Abolitionist Fredrick Douglass delivered an address at what was then the Baptist Church (now used as apartments) at the top of Liberty Street in Keeseville.
This Frederick Douglass Celebration is sponsored jointly by the Keeseville Public Library and the North Country Underground Railroad Museum in Ausable Chasm. The program will take place at the Keeseville Library, 1721 Front Street, Keeseville, NY.
See flyer for more information.
January 19 1:30pm A Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration will be held at the St. John XXIII Newman Center, 92 Broad Street, Plattsburgh, NY.
See flyer for more information.
December 31,
2025		 4:00pm The Lingo Family Singers will present a special program at the Peterboro United Methodist Church, 5240 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro, NY 13134 as a continuation of the 14th Annual Peterboro Watch Night held in the afternoon in Peterboro at the Smithfield Community Center, 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro, and the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, 5304 Oxbow Road, Peterboro.
See flyer for more information.
November 8,
2025		 4:00pm You are invited to the 20th Annual Meeting of the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association. The President's report will provide information on activities throughout 2025 and details about the Stephen Keese Smith's farm which was sold this year. You will learn about a new exhibit to the museum.
See flyer for more information.
October 29,
2025		 7:00pm Dominique Jean-Louis will present "Trace/s of Our Story: How One Exhibition Collaborated with Black Genealogists to Tell a Family Story of Slavery in Brooklyn" at the Center for Brooklyn History.
Free webinar: register via Zoom.
Part of the Freedom 2027 Speaker Series. Hosted by the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State. See flyer for more information.
October 12,
2025		 1:00pm–
3:00pm		 Join us for a fun Fall fundraising event featuring desserts from many North Country bakeries! Any donations are welcome and appreciated!
See flyer for more information.
October 11,
2025		 8:00am The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterboro, New York, is pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Abolition Walk from Canastota to Clockville, and return to Canastota, tracing the beginning footsteps of the one hundred four abolitionists who walked nine steep miles from the Erie Canal to Peterboro in the middle of the night on October 21, 1835.
The sheriff-escorted Abolition Walk begins at 102 South Peterboro Street in Canastota, New York with registration at 8:00 am, a brief program at 9:00 am, and the walk launch at 9:30 am. Walkers arrive in Clockville at about 10:30 am and return to Canastota at Erie Canal Brewing for a party at approximately noon. Folks can also ride a bus for the walk, and the bus is available for brief rests for walkers.
Registrations and sponsorships have opened at www.AbolitionRoad.org.
See flyer and poster for more information.
October 7,
2025		 1:30pm A patriot burial marker unveiling will be held at the Riverview Cemetery, 1260 Route 9N, Clintonville, New York.
See flyer for more information.
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