The David Ruggles Center for History and Education will be open May 5-October 27, Sundays, 12-4, and as always, will be staffed by a knowledgeable docent. Current museum exhibits include: -David Ruggles: At the Vanguard of Liberty -"The Spirit Calls me There": Sojourner Truth in Florence, 1844-1857 -Lydia Maria Child, Abolitionist -The Underground Railroad in [...]

Join tour guide Steve Strimer for a walk among the gravesites and then by the homes of several of the progressive heroes of Florence history. Utopian community founders, African American freedom seekers turned stalwart citizens, reformers, radical free thinkers, buried here in the shadow of Cosmian Hall, the Temple of Free Speech.