The Museum opens at 1PM for visits and tours. All portions of the day’s events take place at Opendore. The Stone Store Museum will also be open for visits and tours from 1-3pm.

A new exhibit in the Howland Letchworth Parlor by Jen Gandee and Lucie Wellner, entitled, “Amazing Women” celebrates extraordinary contributions of women past and present through visual narrative on a series of ceramic plates.

At 3PM we celebrate the dedication of the Jeannette P. Rankin East Porch at Opendore. The porch is s been carefully rebuilt by volunteers to replicate the 1910 structure that was part of the buildings North Wing addition by Isabel Howland.

At approximately 4PM, Beth Crawford will present “Suffragists & Abolitionists: Central New York's Reformers & Their Historic Homes” an illustrated talk honoring some of CNY's most prominent 19th century social reformers and their historic houses featuring Isabel Howland, Harriet Tubman, Harriet May Mills & family, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and George & Rebecca Barnes.

Beth Crawford is a Senior Associate & Designer with Crawford & Stearns, Architects and Preservation Planners LLC of Syracuse.  She has participated in the preservation, rehabilitation, and adaptive use of hundreds of buildings across New York State.  Ms. Crawford has participated as a team member on numerous historic building condition assessments and historic structure reports.  Beth was the project manager and designer for the award-winning rehabilitation of the Babcock-Shattuck House which was highlighted in the NYS Historic Preservation Plan 2015-2020.  Ms. Crawford has worked with the Howland Stone Store Museum for over 15 years to rehabilitate Opendore - The Isabel Howland Home in Sherwood.  Beth has previously served for fifteen years on the board of the Preservation Association of Central New York and is currently Vice-President of the Arts & Crafts Society of Central New York.