On Thursday, April 8 at 7:30pm, the Geneva Historical Society will present the program "?We Called Her Anna:? Nathaniel Rochester and Slavery in the Genesee Country.? Researchers Marilyn Nolte, Christine Ridarsky and Victoria Schmitt will discuss their research of a woman buried in a simple grave in Rochester?s Mount Hope Cemetery. The historians? quest to discover the identity of the woman buried there led them in an unexpected direction. Along the way, they uncovered some startling new information about city founder Nathaniel Rochester and his relationship to the issue of slavery.
Christine L. Ridarsky is the Rochester City Historian. Victoria Sandwick Schmitt is President of Corn Hill Navigation and a former museum historian, curator and educator. Marilyn S. Nolte is President of the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery and a Civil War historian and former reenactor.
Parking for the program is on the street or inthe Trinity Episcopal Church lot across from the Society.