Writing Retreat

About This Event

At the five-year mark for our group, we are hosting a writing retreat for organizers, to support the development of their individual book projects. The retreat includes a visit to the nearby Howland Stone Store Museum and Opendore House, located in the National Equal Rights Historic District in Sherwood, NY, the home of Quaker equal rights activist Emily Howland, the possible site for a future public event. The writing retreat and site visit are related activities that support our efforts to ground our work in the material histories of New York and build a dynamic discussion about place and history in the Corridor, which can enrich the vitality of the research and teaching our members conduct here. At a time when these histories are under aggressive erasure and public history projects are being defunded, gathering together and creating avenues to forward this work is all the more urgent.