| Seward House Museum

An intimate portrait into the lives of the ladies of several generations of the Seward family. Drawing on their personal diaries and letters, this 90 minute extended tour offers insight into the politics of gender relations, the Women’s Rights Movement, and the social customs of the Antebellum and Civil War periods.

Admission: Members $10, General public $15.
Reservations suggested.

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This event will take place at the Seymour Library.

Join SHM Education Coordinator Maria Coleman and Director of Education Jeff Ludwig for a pair of talks on the historic scrapbook collection of the SHM. In tandem with the opening of a new scrapbook exhibit in the Mary Van Sickle Wait Local History Discovery Center at Seymour Library, Jeff and Maria reveal new stories about the Seward family based on what they clipped and saved.

The event is free and open to the public.

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Join us for a First Friday Community Event! We will have tours of the Dining Room, Drawing Room, and Seward's Office, as well as an art exhibit in the gift shop entitled "Women from the Permanent Collection." Complimentary refreshments will be provided.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Library 2018

"After a man has become great and famous, his friends and biographers find, or fancy they find, all manner of wonderful things he said and did in his youth, indicating his early prescience of his future greatness." —Seward, June 27, 1872