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Homer NY added to Freethought Trail
May 1, 2025
Homer Congregational Church added to the National Dress Reform Association articles on the Freethought Trail
New History of the Museum Room completed
July 11, 2024
The new History of the Museum room has been completed at the Ingersoll Museum.
Coverage of Emma Goldman Greatly Expands
July 14, 2021
The Freethought Trail has greatly expanded its coverage of anarchist firebrand Emma Goldman, who lived in Rochester during her first years in America and often returned to the "Flower City" as a high-profile speaker on anarchism, sex radicalism, and culture.
Ingersoll Museum reopens Saturday, July 3!
June 30, 2021
1912 Utica Suffrage Convention Mysteries Solved!
January 25, 2021
1912's New York State woman suffrage convention in Utica is no longer "the convention about which almost nothing is known."
New Details Emerge about 1912 Utica Suffrage Meeting
January 8, 2021
New research commissioned by the Freethought Trail has shed new light on the site's most obscure state woman's rights convention, the little-documented October 1912 gathering held at Utica, New York.
Anonymous Tip Solves 143 Year Old Mystery
January 5, 2021
An anonymous email from a Rochester historian led to the solution of a 143-year-old mystery: Where had an important 1878 woman's rights convention been held?
New Profile Page for Maud Ingersoll Probasco
December 28, 2020
Maud Ingersoll Probasco (1864–1936) has become the thirty-seventh individual to be honored with a biographical Profile on the Freethought Trail website.