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Based on Dorothy Wickenden’s The Agitators, SHM staff lead expanded specialty tours that dive into the life of Frances Seward as well as her powerful friendships with Harriet Tubman and Martha Coffin Wright. Admission: $10 Members, $15 Non-Members. Purchase tickets at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/872088990647?aff=oddtdtcreator or call the Museum at (315) 252-1283.

Join SHM Education and Outreach Coordinator Kate Grindstaff in an exploration of cultural beliefs and traditions involving solar eclipses. Seward encountered many of these cultures on his travels and came into ownership of various celestial-related items! This event will take place at the Equal Rights Heritage Center and is free and open to the public.

Enjoy a gift shop exhibit by Justin Moshaty, complimentary refreshments, and rooms in the Museum open for interpretation. This event is free and open to the public.

In December 1846 William Seward publicly heralded the formation of the Correctional Association of New York (CANY) and a body tasked with monitoring conditions within state prisons. Not quite two centuries later, the SHM has partnered with CANY as part of its ongoing exhibit on the Seward family connections to the Auburn Correctional Facility. Both organizations will discuss their entwined pasts and future collaborations. This event will take place at the Equal Rights Heritage Center and is free and open to the public.

Bring your lunch and enjoy a lecture at the Equal Rights Heritage Center as the SHM reprises this popular monthly series. For our first installment, join Professor Michael Groth of Wells College for an overview of the often overlooked history of slavery in New York. Groth further explores the drawn-out process of emancipation, an intense contest between slaveholders and the enslaved over generations. This event will take place at the Equal Rights Heritage Center and is free and open to the public.

Enjoy an opening reception for a gift shop exhibit by the University of Rochester titled Going Upstate, complimentary refreshments, and rooms in the Museum open for interpretation. This event is free and open to the public.

Experience a full Victorian Christmas with all the trimmings and trappings. Costumed guides lead candlelit tours of the home, which is decorated in holiday splendor, as visitors learn about Christmas traditions of the Sewards through heart-warming holiday memories shared from their letters and diaries. Admission: $15 Adults, $10 Children (12 & under). Reservations required, purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/749495078957?aff=oddtdtcreator

Experience a full Victorian Christmas with all the trimmings and trappings. Costumed guides lead candlelit tours of the home, which is decorated in holiday splendor, as visitors learn about Christmas traditions of the Sewards through heart-warming holiday memories shared from their letters and diaries. Admission: $15 Adults, $10 Children (12 & under). Reservations required, purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/749495078957?aff=oddtdtcreator

Experience a full Victorian Christmas with all the trimmings and trappings. Costumed guides lead candlelit tours of the home, which is decorated in holiday splendor, as visitors learn about Christmas traditions of the Sewards through heart-warming holiday memories shared from their letters and diaries. Admission: $15 Adults, $10 Children (12 & under). Reservations required, purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/749495078957?aff=oddtdtcreator

Experience a full Victorian Christmas with all the trimmings and trappings. Costumed guides lead candlelit tours of the home, which is decorated in holiday splendor, as visitors learn about Christmas traditions of the Sewards through heart-warming holiday memories shared from their letters and diaries. Admission: $15 Adults, $10 Children (12 & under). Reservations required, purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/749495078957?aff=oddtdtcreator

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