National Abolition Hall of Fame Exhibit at Library all February

An exhibit by the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (NAHOF) will be at the New Woodstock Free Library February 1 through February 28, with a special Lincoln’s birthday celebration from 1 to 5 on Thursday, February 12. Refreshments will be served in honor of Lincoln’s 200^th birthday that day. The exhibit is free and open to the public during all regular library hours.

The Peterboro based National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum is presenting the exhibit at New Woodstock as part of its mission “to establish and maintain a History Museum and a Hall of Fame devoted to the abolition of slavery and to the unfinished abolition of slavery in our country.” The Hall of Fame and Museum was formed five years ago and charted by the New York State Education Department, with the goal of “commemorating the work of the past, honoring men and women of the 19^th century struggle to end all slavery and to spearhead a 21^st century effort to defeat all slavery and racism.”

The New Woodstock Free Library is honored to host this exhibit in cooperation with the NAHOF at this historic time in our nation’s history,” said library exhibits coordinator Nancy Edwards. “I visited the NAHOF in Peterboro last year and was so impressed with the work they are doing that we began discussions then to bring a representative display of their work here to the library. It is fortunate that with the help of NAHOF President Dorothy Willsey this exhibit comes soon after the presidential inauguration when interest in this subject is high. This is a show that we will all want to see and bring our children to experience.”

For more information about the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum, visit the organization’s webpage at www.abolitionhof.org.

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The New Woodstock Free Library is open Monday through Friday 1 to 5 p.m.,

Monday and Wednesday evenings 7 to 9 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 until 1.

The library is also open whenever the blue library symbol flag is flying out front.

Children’s hour is every Tuesday at 11 a.m.

The library phone number is 662-3134.