Events

Join us for an engaging presentation, celebrating America's 250th Birthday, by highlighting the story of The First Lady's Enslaved Maid and a Chimney Sweep. MCC Philosophy Instructor Stephen Charnley will recount the daring escape of an enslaved young woman who lived and worked in the President's House in Philadelphia in the late 1700s. Discover how her flight was probably engineered by the chimney sweep who cleaned the Washington's chimneys. Get the "backstairs" story and follow the drama from Mt. Vernon to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 

This event is open to the public and is in the Library on the lower level of the Donald C. Burns Administration/Library Building on MCC's Sidney Campus.