In this year of emotionally complex American milestones, let’s consider those anniversaries of work that remains unfinished. July 1848 saw in the Women’s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, later widely hailed as a milestone of the American suffragist and feminist movements. Yet at the same time, across an ocean, the European “springtime of the Peoples” was facing a counterrevolution, one that brought many new immigrants to America in its fallout. And amidst it all, at Seneca Falls itself, the anti-slavery and anti-racist movement would not be suppressed. What lessons does the summer of 1848 hold for our UU community today, in our own time of tumultuous unfinished work?