Join students from Suffield Academy as they install and dedicate the Witness Stones memorializing two enslaved people listed under Oliver Phelps’ 1790 census record. Their research showed that when Lewis and Barbara Butler later moved to Canandaigua, NY, they helped their daughter Patience and her husband Austin Steward establish deep ties to the Underground Railroad network in the Rochester area, a community that later assisted Frederick Douglass with his abolitionist work in the region.

Please join us as we usher in the 51st season of programming at the Phelps-Hatheway House and Garden! Meet artist Lynne Centore, whose vibrant textile art will be on display in our visitor center gallery. Step inside the museum to be transported to the 18th and 19th centuries and discover newly-acquired furniture from Emma and Sumner Fuller, who were instrumental in preserving the house. A stroll through the Hatheway garden is a must, as the lilacs reach their peak bloom in May.