Join Director of Operations Mitch Maniccia as he reflects on the recently completed Barn and Carriage House Rehabilitation Project. From tribulations to triumphs, Mitch will
Discover the Sewards at play in this interactive program as SHM intern Maria LaFleur shares her research into the Seward’s favorite pastimes and invites the
Seward House Museum Director of Education Jeff Ludwig explores how Abraham Lincoln and William Seward established Thanksgiving as a national holiday in hopes of uniting
Throughout mid 19th-century Central New York, a strange phenomenon gripped community after community: spiritualism, the belief that the dead were unquiet and could communicate with
Bring your lunch and attend a lecture at the Equal Rights Heritage Center as the Seward House Museum continues this popular series. Bruce Levitt will
Bring your lunch and enjoy a lecture at the Equal Rights Heritage Center as the SHM reprises this popular series. For our inaugural installment join
For generations, the Sewards were among the most prominent of New York families. Of all the titles he earned over a 40-year career, Governor of
This specialty tour, written by summer intern Amanda Marro-Pendergrass, is in celebration in honor of Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday and will focus on the lives
Join the Seward House Museum for a fascinating lecture by author and Purdue University professor Robert E. May on his book discussing Lincoln and Douglas
Explore the lives of the ladies of the Seward family with Education and Outreach Coordinator Kate Grindstaff. Drawing on their personal diaries and letters, this
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