FOURTH OF SUMMER SUNDAY SESSIONS
AUGUST 11, 2024 1 PM ~ 3PM
GERRIT SMITH ESTATE
5304 OXBOW ROAD
PETERBORO NY 13134
WWW.GERRITSMITH.ORG
INFO@GERRITSMITH.ORG
315.308.1890
FREE TO PARTAKE OF ONE, A FEW, OR ALL OF THE SERIES OF PROGRAMS
ELIZABETH SMITH MILLER: QUIET ADVOCATE
Norman K. Dann PhD, researcher and biographer of members of the Gerrit Smith family of Peterboro, continues the series of two hour sessions at the Gerrit Smith Estate in Peterboro NY on Sunday, August 11 from 1 pm – 3 pm. For this program Dann will present on Ann and Gerrit’s daughter Elizabeth Smith Miller. Born into the elite Smith family in 1822 Elizabeth Smith had the opportunity to become a well-educated woman. Norm will describe the process of her formal education, and how she used that resource in pursuing equal rights for all people by participating in both the movement for the abolition of slavery and the women’s rights movement.
Elizabeth’s efforts to advance dress reform for women, and woman suffrage, led her into political activity which she would have preferred to avoid. Her major philanthropic effort was to support the education of women. Norm will describe her work in organizing educational institutions for women, and funding them with her own resources. Author of the biography Ballots, Bloomers, and Marmalade: The Life of Elizabeth Smith Miller, Dann will address Elizabeth’s relationship with her cousin Elizabeth Cady (Stanton) and her collaboration with her daughter Anne Fitzhugh Miller.
The remaining programs in the series:
Sunday, August 18, 2024 1 pm: Greene Smith: Rebel and Outdoorsman illustrates Greene’s life as an example of the clash in the mid-1800s between religion and science- the sacred and secular. After achieving national recognition as an ornithologist and sportsman, Greene died at an early age.
Sunday, August 25, 2024 1 pm: Cousins of Reform: Smith and Stanton Gerrit Smith and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were cousins and the two most powerful leaders of the two most important social movements for human rights in American history. Their close loving bond did not deter their strong political debates.
Sunday, September 1, 2024 1pm: Underground Railroad is an examination of the moral significance of the UGRR as a process of achieving freedom, including reasons for escaping, the risks incurred, and the efficacy of the attempt to escape.
The public is invited to partake of one, a few, or all of the free Summer Sunday Sessions
at the Gerrit Smith Estate, 5304 Oxbow Road, Peterboro NY 13134
For more information: www. PeterboroNY.org, info@gerritsmith.org and 315.308.1890