TOPIC POSTPONED - Instead, Larry Bell will be discussing Slocum Howland and African Americans in Sherwood. Slocum was a Quaker store owner and abolitionist who used his connections to help freedom seekers on their way. Most went on to Canada, but since the Sherwood community was heavily Quaker, some felt safe enough to settle here. Store ledgers and other historic artifacts tell the story of those who stayed. Important sites will be located on the Cayuga County Underground Railroad Driving Tour.

Water Cures were not only a place to get well, but often where radical ideas about the rights of women, abolition, women’s dress reform and temperance were promoted.  Learn about our regional water cure owners who contributed to some of the great social movements of the nineteenth century.  Isabel and her mother visited the Elmira Water Cure when in need of restoration.

Jane Oakes has been involved with historic education for over forty years.  She taught hands-on classes at the Genesee Country Village and Museum, BOCES: Gifted and Talented programs, and the William Mills Mansion in Mt. Morris, NY. She has also served as a consultant for regional museums in Western NY and advised on historic restoration of opera houses as well as re-enacting roles from the Revolutionary and pre-revolutionary periods.

The museum opens at 3pm on the day of the program. A Zoom link for the program will be available the week prior to the program by emailing hssmsherwood@gmail.com.