The Historical Society’s official Annual Meeting this year features more than just board and officer elections and other society business. Beth Thomas, town historian for Bristol and South Bristol, will give a talk on how the Naples-to-Rochester region’s giants of the abolitionist and suffrage movements — Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Helen Pitts, William Marks, and Emily Parmely Collins — all met here, and how they forged friendships and cooperation in their missions. Learn how their local speeches, events, and activism helped lead to the post-Civil War constitutional amendments and to a more just America. Free and open to the public. We welcome any and all at our monthly meetings, but the annual meeting is an especially good time to learn more about our volunteer-run organization and its busy calendar of events. Refreshments will be served!