N1:
The New York Historical Society
Location: 170 Central Park West, New York City
Open: Tues-Sun: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Library Open: Tues - Fri: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Admission: Adults $10; Seniors, Students, and Teachers
$5; Children under 12 are free
For a complete schedule of events and more information, visit: http://www.nyhistory.org/programs.html
The museum holds a wide range of exhibits, from paintings to sculptures to furniture to American Cultural objects. A special exhibition will be open from through March 5, 2006, entitled: Slavery in New York. The exhibition examines the little-known history of enslaved New Yorkers. The Museum's Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers Series, running from October 2005 through February 2006, includes fifteen lectures on different aspects of slavery, including three that focus on women in the abolition movement.
N3:
The Hunt House
Location: 401 E. Main St., Waterloo, New York
**The
building is currently under renovation and is not open to the
public
Jane and Richard Hunt were active Quaker abolitionists who invested
and managed a factory that specialized in woolen textiles as a
boycott of slave-labor cotton. Their carriage house was used as
a station on the Underground Railroad. It was also at the Hunt
House that the idea for the Women's Rights Convention was conceived
and both Jane and Richard were signers of the women's Declaration
of Sentiments in 1848.
