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Two tables in the Skaneateles Community dining room
A woman’s published recollection of a brief stay and another visitor’s meal complicate the picture of a community eating together.
Open recordPeople and public life
Trace public action, Black freedom, abolition, women’s rights, civic reform, and contested memory.
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A woman’s published recollection of a brief stay and another visitor’s meal complicate the picture of a community eating together.
Open recordBefore the Lincoln Hill campus, the Community College of the Finger Lakes borrowed its shape from downtown Canandaigua: classes in the rooms that were available.
Open recordLetters and later research connect the Skaneateles household of James and Lydia Canning Fuller with freedom seekers and abolitionists. The evidence reaches well beyond a local secret-room story.
Open recordThe park's 1980 founding law named homes, a chapel, a theater, and an undeveloped lot in Seneca Falls and Waterloo. Its original plan depended on several places and many local partners.
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