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190-Year-Old Lecture Identified!
March 24, 2019
Persistent research has made possible the addition of a new site to the Freethought Trail: the site where sex radical Frances "Fanny" Wright probably gave a consequential lecture in Auburn, New York, in 1829.
Five New Sites (and New Information) Added to Trail
March 11, 2019
The Freethought Trail has added five new sites (bringing the total number of sites to a record 123) and enriched its coverage of nineteenth-century antislavery political action.
The Trail Grows Again
July 18, 2018
Three new sites and two new biographies of reformers have been added to the Freethought Trail. In all, the Trail now includes a record 118 historic sites.
Penn Yan Chronicle Express Notes Museum's Silver Anniversary
July 9, 2018
The weekly newspaper the Penn Yan Chronicle Express posted a story on June 30 making note of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum's 25th anniversary season.
Gage Opera Comes to Cazenovia July 20
July 6, 2018
Pushed Aside: Reclaiming Gage, a commissioned opera about Fayetteville suffragist and freethinker Matilda Joslyn Gage, will receive its second performance one night only at the Catherine Cummings Theatre, 22 Lincklaen St, Cazenovia NY, on Friday, July 20, at 7:30 pm.
Finger Lakes Times Strikes Again - With an Article
June 27, 2018
The Finger Lakes Times, the area's premier regional newspaper, spotlighted the Ingersoll Museum's 25th anniversary season with a full-length article.
Ingersoll Museum's 25th Season Noticed in Finger Lakes Times
May 23, 2018
The Finger Lakes Times covered the silver anniversary of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum.
Museum Receives Extremely Rare Broadside Poster
April 16, 2018
The Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum (a co-anchor of the Freethought Trail) received an extremely rare, oversized (69" x 36") broadside poster from 1876 excerpting an Ingersoll speech.
Ingersoll Museum Silver Anniversary Conference: Registration Now Open
April 9, 2018
Online registration is now available for the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum's Silver Anniversary Conference / Tour Event.
2018 Ingersoll Museum newsletter is online
April 4, 2018
The 2018 edition of Ingersoll Report, the annual newsletter of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum, is now available online.