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Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and through the darkened streets of downtown Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from history. A batch of new terrifying-yet-true stories have been added for 2020, so you won’t want to miss this eerie experience! Tours will run at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm. Masks required: make reservations below. 

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and through the darkened streets of downtown Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from history. A batch of new terrifying-yet-true stories have been added for 2020, so you won’t want to miss this eerie experience! Tours will run at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm. Masks required: make reservations below. 

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and through the darkened streets of downtown Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from history. A batch of new terrifying-yet-true stories have been added for 2020, so you won’t want to miss this eerie experience! Tours will run at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm. Masks required: make reservations below. 

 

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and through the darkened streets of downtown Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from history. A batch of new terrifying-yet-true stories have been added for 2020, so you won’t want to miss this eerie experience! Tours will run at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm. Masks required: make reservations below. 

 

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and through the darkened streets of downtown Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from history. A batch of new terrifying-yet-true stories have been added for 2020, so you won’t want to miss this eerie experience! Tours will run at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm. Masks required: make reservations below. 

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and through the darkened streets of downtown Auburn, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from history. A batch of new terrifying-yet-true stories have been added for 2020, so you won’t want to miss this eerie experience!

 

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For October, the Seward Book Club will be reading, Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk (Penguin Random House, 2019). Much more than a gripping biography of First Lady Sarah Polk, this book takes readers into the worlds she inhabited, from the frontier, to slave quarters, to the parlors of Washington. In propelling her husband to the White House and shaping his expansionist policy, Polk became “the most powerful woman in America.” Lady First is by Amy Greenberg, Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Penn State University.

Announcing our Seward Book Club September selection: “Uncontrollable Blackness” by Douglas Flowe. “Uncontrollable Blackness” is a powerful and timely work that examines the Jim Crow era origins of racial injustice within New York’s criminal justice system through the lives of African American men who experienced its oppression.

Douglas J. Flowe is an Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. Flowe has appeared with Don Lemon on CNN and as a commentator on other media outlets in response to the Black Lives Matter protests.

Throughout its existence, Auburn, NY has served as a hub of social change. From storied change makers such as Harriet Tubman, William and Frances Seward, and Theodore Case, "History's Hometown" has long produced reformers who fought towards equality and a new tomorrow. With staff from the Cayuga Museum of History and Art, the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park, and the Seward House Museum, explore this history through an outdoor walking tour!

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