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An opportunity for Brownie and Junior level Girl Scouts to experience hands-on history and earn badge requirements. This Fanny Seward-centered program teaches girls about 19th-century America through several fun, participatory activities that draw on eventsfrom Fanny’s life to inspire Scouts about how girls can change the world! Each participant will receive a unique SHM patch.

The Seneca Knitting Mill has been a prominent landmark in the Seneca Falls community since its inception in 1844, serving as a place of employment, advancement, and change. Nellie Ludemann will explore the history of this structure as well as her role in its new life as the home of the National Women’s Hall of Fame, where she works as the Museum and Community Relations Manager. This event will take place at the SHM Barn and is free and open to the public.

A collaboration between the SHM, Harriet Tubman National Historic Park, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, and Seymour Library, this weeklong camp shares all that “History’s Hometown” has to offer. This experience is best suited for campers 8-10 years old. Registration is $100 and scholarships are available. Registration is required.

A collaboration between the SHM, Harriet Tubman National Historic Park, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, and Seymour Library, this weeklong camp shares all that “History’s Hometown” has to offer. This experience is best suited for campers 8-10 years old. Registration is $100 and scholarships are available. Registration is required.

A collaboration between the SHM, Harriet Tubman National Historic Park, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, and Seymour Library, this weeklong camp shares all that “History’s Hometown” has to offer. This experience is best suited for campers 8-10 years old. Registration is $100 and scholarships are available. Registration is required.

A collaboration between the SHM, Harriet Tubman National Historic Park, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, and Seymour Library, this weeklong camp shares all that “History’s Hometown” has to offer. This experience is best suited for campers 8-10 years old. Registration is $100 and scholarships are available. Registration is required.

A collaboration between the SHM, Harriet Tubman National Historic Park, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, and Seymour Library, this weeklong camp shares all that “History’s Hometown” has to offer. This experience is best suited for campers 8-10 years old. Registration is $100 and scholarships are available. Registration is required.

These tours aren’t just for Halloween! Taking a different route and sharing different stories than the Haunted History series, tour guides bring the more macabre tales from Auburn’s past to life. Is “History’s Hometown” haunted? Join us on these evening outdoor walking tours to find out! To purchase tickets, please call the Museum at (315) 252-1283 or click the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1435113877239?aff=oddtdtcreator

These tours aren’t just for Halloween! Taking a different route and sharing different stories than the Haunted History series, tour guides bring the more macabre tales from Auburn’s past to life. Is “History’s Hometown” haunted? Join us on these evening outdoor walking tours to find out! To purchase tickets, please call the Seward House Museum at (315) 252-1283 or click the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1435113877239?aff=oddtdtcreator

Bring your lunch and enjoy this Lunchtime Lecture at the newly rehabilitated SHM Barn! For this installment, intern Alyssa Brown shares her senior capstone, “The Problem with Olive,” which examines the complicated life of Olive Risley Seward, both in terms of her relationship to her adoptive Seward family and her own remarkable career as an independent woman of letters. This event is free and open to the public.

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