Region 7: 
The Region 9 Historian’s meeting will be Saturday, May 10 at the Delphi Falls County Park (2006 Cardner Road, Cazenovia). The event will be from 9 am to 1 pm. If you’ve never been to this site it features a beautiful two-tier waterfall as well as trails throughout the park. We will be having our the meeting at the newly built conference center.
This year’s speakers will be:
Derrick Pratt of the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse and possibly one more organization who will talk about the upcoming Erie Canal Bicentennial and what is happening locally and across the state
Kristin De Lucia, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University, she will talk about a project she has done for a few years which takes students out of the classroom and to a former mill site to learn about the families that lived there.
Dorothy Willsey (from the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum & The Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark) & Mary Liz Stewart (Of the Underground Railroad History Project and the Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence of Albany) from the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State will speak on the 2027 bicentennial of the Abolition of Slavery in New York State and how we can get involved.
If you are planning on attending, and have not done so already, please let me know and as I will add you to the list of attendees.
Region 10:
Karen Ferguson, Town of Kirkwood Historian
70 Crescent Drive
Kirkwood NY 13795