When: Thursday, June 22 at 6 pm
Location: Madison County Historical Society

Admission: $5 suggested donation 

Members of the Smith family were nationally known for their work in either human rights or science. The program will examine the Reform Era in which they lived that made their achievements plausible and effective and the issues that each of them pursued. Starting in the 1820s and continuing through the 1920s, the Smith family of Peterboro led the way in some of the greatest reform efforts in the nation’s history. Their work encompassed the abolition of slavery, women’s rights, and woman suffrage, as well as dress reform, the preservation and study of the animal world, and initiatives in politics and religion that still affect our modern world.

Norman K. Dann, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus at Morrisville State College, where he taught Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Environmental Science from 1966 – 1999. Living in a cottage formerly on the Gerrit Smith Estate, Norm is a Gerrit Smith scholar and author of several other books including biographies of the Smith family of Peterboro. He is the head docent at the Gerrit Smith Estate and a founder of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum.

There will be an opportunity to purchase copies of Passionate Energies: The Gerrit and Ann Smith Family Through a Century of Reform and to request the author’s signature