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Date Time Description
September 19,
2025		 7:00pm The Hutchinson Family Singers, enacted by the Lingo Family Singers of Peterboro, will present their first performance of their autumn musical series at the Smithfield Community Center, 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro, NY 13134. This program will give attention to women's rights, which is one of the reforms that the Hutchinsons addressed in their travels in the early 19th Century, and also a reform supported by the Smiths of Peterboro.
See flyer for more information and for future Hutchinson presentations by the Lingos.
September 18,
2025		 6:30pm The Clinton County Historical Association, in partnership with SUNY Plattsburgh's Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, will host historian Dr. Alexandria Russell for a public lecture in the Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall at SUNY Plattsburgh.
Dr. Russell will discuss the legacies of Black women during the American Revolution and beyond. She is the author of Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen (University of Illinois Press, 2024). She recently began serving as executive director of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail and is a non-resident W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellow at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.
See press release for more information.
September 17,
2025		 7:00pm Anderson Falls Heritage Society presents Louis Riel—A Rebel Comes to Keeseville. Louis Riel was the founder of the Canadian province Manitoba, and a leader in the independence movement for Saskatchewan. A century and a half after his death, he remains one of the more controversial figures in Canada's history.
Guest Speaker: Rich Frost, author of several books on regional travel and history, most recently Rich in History: A Lake Champlain Reader
Keeseville Fire Department, 8 Pleasant Street, Keeseville, New York
See flyer for more information.
August 26,
2025		 1:00pm The Commemoration of Women's Equality Day in Clinton County commemorates the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920 which ensured that no one was barred from voting due to their gender.
Our history update will be on the struggle for women to get the right to serve on a jury. Our current issues will be some the League is working on. Additionally we will hear the events and activities that each of our collaborating organizations have planned, and all attending will have an opportunity to find out more information on each.
Refreshments will be served. The public is encouraged to attend.
Kent-Delord House Museum, 17 Cumberland Avenue, Plattsburgh, New York
See press release for more information.
August 20,
2025		 7:00pm Anderson Falls Heritage Society presents The Estes: a Family and Business Through Centuries and Generations. The Estes' saga is a true American story. The family history dates back to the 1600s immigrating from England.
Guest Speaker: Doug Estes was raised in Glen Ridge, NJ and graduated from RPI in 1985, joining the family business the same year. He's the great-great-great grandson of Benjamin Hall Estes, and great-great grandson of Elihu Beech Estes.
Keeseville Fire Department, 8 Pleasant Street, Keeseville, New York
See flyer for more information.
August 12,
2025		 9:00am–
5:00pm		 Timbuctoo Educator Institute: People, Place, and Purpose. Three-day program open to educators at all levels and disciplines.
Enliven your connection to backyard history, find community, and bring a love of place back to your students in September.
Keynote address by historian Nell Irvin Painter. Site visits and workshops led by Dr. Hadley-Kruczek Aaron, Dr. Holly Marcolina, scholar Amy Godine, Dr. Jacqueline Simmons, and others.
Registration required.
See flyer for more information.
August 11,
2025		 9:00am Timbuctoo Educator Institute: People, Place, and Purpose. Three-day program open to educators at all levels and disciplines.
Enliven your connection to backyard history, find community, and bring a love of place back to your students in September.
Keynote address by historian Nell Irvin Painter. Site visits and workshops led by Dr. Hadley-Kruczek Aaron, Dr. Holly Marcolina, scholar Amy Godine, Dr. Jacqueline Simmons, and others.
Registration required.
See flyer for more information.
August 10,
2025		 4:00pm Timbuctoo Educator Institute: People, Place, and Purpose. Three-day program open to educators at all levels and disciplines.
Enliven your connection to backyard history, find community, and bring a love of place back to your students in September.
Keynote address by historian Nell Irvin Painter. Site visits and workshops led by Dr. Hadley-Kruczek Aaron, Dr. Holly Marcolina, scholar Amy Godine, Dr. Jacqueline Simmons, and others.
Registration required.
See flyer for more information.
August 2,
2025		 9:00am The 15th Annual Peterboro Emancipation Day will be held at the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, 5304 Oxbow Road, Peterboro New York.
Each year the committee replicates activities that ancestors began in 1925 to commemorate the abolition of enslavement.
Registration and morning refreshments begin at 9 am. See flyer for more information and full schedule of activities.
July 16,
2025		 7:00pm Anderson Falls Heritage Society presents Port Kent: A Virtual Walking Tour. Over its nearly 200 years of existence Port Kent has progressed through several stages: a hopeful commercial center venture to the residential community of today.
Guest Speaker: Don Wickman—retired director of the Kent-Delord House Museum in Plattsburgh and the author of A Very Fine Appearance: The Civil War Photographs of George Houghton.
Keeseville Fire Department, 8 Pleasant Street, Keeseville, New York
See flyer for more information.
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