Students Visit Brockport Museum of Local History

Fannie Barrier Williams Project students visit the Brockport Museum of Local History.

On Tuesday, March 5, 2024, students in Dr. Michael J. Kramer’s Fannie Barrier Williams Project course (AAS/HST/WGS 381) visited the Brockport Museum of Local History, directed by SUNY Brockport History and Museum Studies and Public History alum Fiona Stockdale, who is now the village historian for Brockport. While very little remains in Brockport of Fannie Barrier Williams’ life and times, a couch from her parlor, a pump organ, various deeds and articles, and an amazing scrapbook she assembled of her published articles are preserved at the BMLH (more on the scrapbook, which we digitized, soon!).

Roshaun Brown-Hall with a couch from Fannie Barrier Williams’ parlor room at her Brockport house, now housed at the Brockport Museum of Local History.
Emani Poole and Kinia Lawrence look at artifacts housed at the Brockport Museum of Local History.
Fiona Stockdale, director of the Brockport Museum of Local History and town historian with students Emilie Kennell, Ali Williams, and Morgan Knapik looking at folders of Fannie Barrier Williams materials.
The pump organ once owned by Fannie Barrier Williams and her family, on display at the Brockport Museum of Local History.
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