Preserving the Past and Providing Inspiration for the Future
Workshop Coordinator Rick Kollins with (L-R) presenters Cindy Parrish, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Eleanor Stearns), Meg Agnew and Judy Wellman. In photo at right, workshop participants and presenters enjoy an Italian buffet lunch at Buon Amici restaurant in Seneca Falls. Friends of Women’s Rights National Historical Park all-day workshop on Friday, November 2, 2007, was attended by 20 elementary and middle school teachers, who gave high…
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and 20 other women attorneys visited the Women’s Rights National Historical Park on October 21, 2007. O’Connor, first female Supreme Court Justice (1981-2006), was presented with copies of Judith Wellman’s book “The Road to Seneca Falls” and Melina Mara’s photographic collection “Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate” by Friends President MarilynTedeschi and the visitors…
Friends were in attendance at the New York Chiropractic College on October 7, 2007, for the induction of nine new members into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls. Among the inductees was Martha Coffin Wright, one of the five organizers of the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, who was represented at the ceremony by her great-great grandson James…
Four historical site administrators from Russia were guests of Friends and the Rochester chapter of the American Association of University Women in Seneca Falls on September 24, 2007. The delegation visited the Women’s Rights National Historical Park and the National Women’s Hall of Fame and were given a tour of Seneca Falls by Richard Burtless. One of the visitors made a presentation of her work…
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rep. LouiseSlaughter have introduced the National Women’s Rights History Project Act to create a Votes for Women’s History Trail linking sites in New York State significant in the struggle for women’s suffrage and civil rights. The auto route would be part of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park and would include signage, exhibits and interpretive programs. The Act would also expand the National…
Historian and Friends member Judy Wellman (center) announced the establishment of “Roads From Seneca Falls” at the Women’s Rights Historical National Park on July 19, 2007, the 159th anniversary of the nation’s first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls. The website was developed by SUNY Oswego and Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies to make web-based materials related to women’s history and leadership easily accessible…
Author Fergus Bordewich with Helen Kirker, Coordinator of Park Volunteers for Friends Finger Lakes Chapter. Noted journalist and author Fergus Bordewich discussed his recently published book “Bound for Canaan” at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park on July 28, 2007. The book has been critically acclaimed as the first comprehensive work on the Underground Railroad in more than a century and reveals much previously unknown historical information about…
The National Park Service has released the results of its environmental assessment and preferred alternative for the preservation of the Wesleyan Chapel, site of the First Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. The complete document is available at htttp://parkplanning.nps.gov/ and to receive a written copy of the report, please call 315-568-2262
