The program series at Brockport’s Morgan-Manning House this season will diverge from the customary random topics. The series will have a historical theme focusing on the Morgan-Manning House or events that were significant when the Morgans lived in the house. Also, at each of the five presentations this year, artifacts from the house will go on display.
The first presentation on Wednesday, October 12 at 7 p.m. is “Hot Politics,” a dramatic brief portrayal of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858. Bill Andrews will present the program with Gordon Fox as Abraham Lincoln and Gary Skoog as Stephen A. Douglas. Acting as reporters on the scene will be Chris Albrecht and Merrill Melnick.
At this event two prints in the house’s second floor billiards room will be shown: One with President Lincoln’s family and the other with his cabinet. “This should be fun,” said Fox, who is Vice President of the Western Monroe Historical Society Board of Trustees and leader of the series planning committee.
The event is free and sponsored by the Historical Society, which maintains the Victorian home at 151 Main Street with Society offices on the second floor. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the program.
The remaining programs to be announced with details later are: November 10 – Hoops, Hats and High Fashion featuring men’s and women’s fashions. January 11 – Authoress and Brockport Resident – Mary Jane Holmes. March 9 – The Seymour House, Another Amazing Landmark – about the State Street home, which became the first Seymour Library, now housing the Emily Knapp Museum. April 18 – An Inventor, a Businessman, and the Creation of the Mechanical Reaper – how two historical figures would shape big business in 1860’s Brockport.
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