Second Sunday Walking Tour

David Ruggles Center 225 Nonotuck St., Florence, MA, United States

Join us on the African-American history trail in Florence and see Sojourner Truth’s house, abolitionist sites, and the site of the 19th century utopian community in Florence. We will explain what brought a progressive, innovative group of people to Florence in the 19th century and how they influenced Florence’s development.

Second Sunday Walking Tour

David Ruggles Center 225 Nonotuck St., Florence, MA, United States

Join us on the African-American history trail in Florence and see Sojourner Truth’s house, abolitionist sites, and the site of the 19th-century utopian community in Florence. We will explain what brought a progressive, innovative group of people to Florence in the 19th century and how they influenced Florence’s development.

Book Celebration

Florence Community Center 140 Pine St., Florence

Elizabeth Pryor, Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War.

Second Sunday Walking Tour

Soujourner Truth Memorial Statue- at the corner of Park and Pine 121 Pine St, Florence, MA, United States

Join tour guide Wendy Sinton from the Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee to explore the historic neighborhoods of the abolitionist founders, both black and white, who made Florence a center of resistance to the slave power and for the equality of races, genders, and religions. We are fortunate to have so many preserved homes and landscapes [...]

Teachers BBQ

David Ruggles Center 225 Nonotuck St., Florence, MA, United States

Second Saturday Walking Tour

Soujourner Truth Memorial Statue- at the corner of Park and Pine 121 Pine St, Florence, MA, United States

Join tour guide Tom Goldscheider from the David Ruggles Center for History and Education to explore the historic neighborhoods of the abolitionist founders, both black and white, who made Florence a center of resistance to the slave power and for the equality of races, genders, and religions. We are fortunate to have so many preserved homes [...]

Second Saturday Walking Tour

Soujourner Truth Memorial Statue- at the corner of Park and Pine 121 Pine St, Florence, MA, United States

Join tour guide Steve Strimer from the David Ruggles Center for History and Education to explore the historic neighborhoods of the abolitionist founders, both black and white, who made Florence a center of resistance to the slave power and for the equality of races, genders, and religions. We are fortunate to have so many preserved [...]