Past Programs/Events

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Date Time Description
October 29 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 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 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 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.
September 27 9:00am Woodmen Life Chapter 462 will unveil seven historic markers to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the opening of the Northern Railroad in the autumn of 1850.
The unveilings will take place on at approximately the following times:
Churubusco 9 a.m., across from the fire station
Ellenburg Depot 10 a.m., Station Hill Road
Altona 11 a.m., Station Street
Mooers Forks Noon, Blackman Corners Road
Mooers 1 p.m., Maple Street
Champlain Village 2 p.m., Prospect Street
Rouses Point 3 p.m., Montgomery Street
See press release for more information.
September 19 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 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 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 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 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.
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