{"id":63050,"date":"2015-07-26T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T15:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63050"},"modified":"2015-07-26T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T15:36:28","slug":"peterboro-emancipation-day-2015-planned-for-aug-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63050","title":{"rendered":"Peterboro Emancipation Day 2015 planned for Aug. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Processional<\/a>
Processional to Cemetery. Jacob Donovan-Colin (left) and Jim Corpin (right) carry one of two wreaths for the Emancipation Day processional to the Peterboro Cemetery to honor a person born in slavery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Peterboro, NY \u2013 July 2015) The Peterboro Emancipation Day 2015 Committee invites the public to partake in a day of history, legacy, and reflection on Saturday Aug. 1 in Peterboro. Activities include 1925 precedents and 2015 current events. The plans for the freedom celebration include:<\/p>\n

9:30 a.m. \u00a0Refreshments and Registration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, 5304 Oxbow Road, Peterboro 13134<\/p>\n

10:00 a.m.: Opening Assembly<\/strong><\/p>\n

The event begins with bell ringing at the Peterboro United Methodist Church and at the Smithfield Community Center, the location at which abolitionists in New York State formed the NYS Antislavery Society in 1835, and the home of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum. Thirteen rings will herald the Sesquicentennial of the Thirteenth Amendment (Proposed January 31, 1865 and ratified December 6, 1865) \u201cNeither slavery nor involuntary servitude \u2026.shall exist within the United States (.)\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Smithfield<\/a>
Smithfield Community Center\/National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Co-Chairs of the event and The Laundry Squad Jim Corpin, Carrie Martin, and Max Smith will welcome guests to the event and to the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark. Corpin is a member of the Smithfield Community Association and the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark governing board. Max Smith is the Mayor of Oneida and a passionate speaker about his roots in Peterboro. Martin is Co-Chair of the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark, Secretary of the Smithfield Community Association, and the organizer of the Peterboro Civil War Living History Day.\u00a0 A prayer by Rev. James Fletcher, pastor of the Perryville and Peterboro United Methodist Church, will follow.<\/p>\n

10:15 a.m.: Legacy of Emancipation Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Legacy of Emancipation Day for the nation and Peterboro will be explained as the program for the day is reviewed.<\/p>\n

10:30 a.m. Children\u2019s Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gerrit Smith Estate docent and teacher, Carrie Martin, will lead a tour and encourage a lively discussion for the younger participants of the Emancipation Day program beginning in the Land Office and finishing at the Laundry. The focus of this workshop will be Gerrit Smith\u2019s role in the abolition movement during the 19th Century, and Peterboro\u2019s place on the Underground Railroad<\/p>\n

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\"Gerrit<\/a>
Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

10:30 a.m.: History Happened Right Here!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why did the US Department of the Interior declare that the Gerrit Smith Estate \u201chas been found to possess national significance in the history of the United States?\u201d Norman K. Dann will describe the philanthropy, abolition, and Underground Railroad activities of Gerrit Smith (1797 \u2013 1874) that took place directly where the participants are congregating.<\/p>\n

11:15 a.m.: Group Photo<\/strong><\/p>\n

The annual Emancipation Day group photo will be taken in similar fashion as the image recordings from the 1920s and 1930s in Peterboro. All visitors are included!<\/p>\n

11:30 a.m.: Procession to Cemetery<\/strong><\/p>\n

The procession to the Peterboro Cemetery commences by foot and by vehicle. Two wreaths are carried to the integrated cemetery as done by generations before \u2013 one wreath for a gravestone reading Born a Slave. Died a Free Woman (or Man), and the other for the simple grave of wealthy abolitionist Gerrit Smith. On the way the procession will stop at the Civil War statue on the Peterboro Green to install 35 star flags for the African-Americans who served in the Civil War, and at the Veterans Memorial on the eastern side of the hamlet.<\/p>\n

Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visitors are invited picnic On the Green, Under the Tent, Beside the Brook or in the Smithfield Community Center.\u00a0 Bring your own lunch or reserve ten dollar bag lunches by July 24 at Deli on the Green 315-684-3131<\/p>\n

\"Youth<\/a>
Youth Assembled at Emancipation Day 2013 at Underground Railroad Exhibit on the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1 p.m.: National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum Opens<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hall of Fame and the Abolition Museum will be open until 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

2 p.m.: Children\u2019s Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carrie Martin will conduct another tour and discussion for youth.<\/p>\n

2 p.m.: Local 19th Century Protests were Foundations of Civil Rights Reform<\/strong><\/p>\n

Participants will walk or drive to 5255 Pleasant Valley Road reflecting on the 400 abolitionists who arrived at that site October 22, 1835. Hugh C. Humphreys, a founding member of the Cabinet of Freedom for the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum, and author of Agitate! Agitate! Agitate! The Great Fugitive Slave Law Convention and its Rare Daguerreotypewill greet the visitors to the historic structure explaining the 19th civil rights protests that occurred there and in Cazenovia. Humphreys\u2019 PowerPoint program will trace the connection of Peterboro to the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.Copies of the Madison County Historical Society\u2019sHeritage (Number 19 1994)with Humphreys research will be available for sale and signing.<\/p>\n

3 p.m.: Ferguson, Charleston, and Peterboro<\/strong><\/p>\n

A panel facilitated by Drea Finley, Assistant Dean for Administrative Advising and Director of the First Generation Initiative, at Colgate University in Hamilton NY will open a community conversation about situations in Ferguson, Charleston, and In Our Backyard. The panel will include Jackie Nelson (Rome Area NAACP), Al Riley (Madison County Sheriff), John Smith (St. Ann\u2019s School Dean and Director of Middle School), and Max Smith (Mayor of Oneida).<\/p>\n

The panel discussion will close with invitations from Donna Dorrance, Smithfield Town Historian, who will be at the Peterboro Area Museum on Sunday Aug. 2 from 2 to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

by Drea Finley to Equality Weekend, Aug. 22 and 23<\/p>\n

by Tom Hogleto the CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION; The 13TH and 14th Amendments and the ongoing “Incorporation” of the Bill of Rights for all Americans.<\/p>\n

by Jody Luce to<\/p>\n

by Tim McLaughlin to Created Equal: October Film and Discussion Series<\/p>\n

by Tim McLaughlin Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator Weekend, October 23 \u2013 25,<\/p>\n

and by Owen Corpin to the Annual Watch Night for Emancipation December 31, 2015 at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

Admission to Peterboro Emancipation Day is a donation.<\/p>\n

For further information contact:info@gerritsmith.org or 315-280-8828.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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