Preserving the Past and Providing Inspiration for the Future
Coline Jenkins (center), great great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is the first to sign the Book of Rededication of the Declaration of Sentiments of 1848 at the 160th anniversary of the Declaration and the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls. Jene Radcliffe-Birch (left), organizer of the ceremony, and Seneca Falls Mayor Diana Smith join in the signing. The Book of Rededication will be…
“Heroic Girlz” Emma Parrish Post, Thea Ezinga, Devyn Yurko and Elon Michaud (clockwise from top left) were honored at Friends 10th anniversary celebration July 19, 2008. The four girls who researched and portrayed famous women as 11-year-olds in the stage play and film “Heroic Girlz” were presented with Friends’ “In Her Footsteps” award during the celebrations of the 160th anniversary of the first Women’s Rights Convention July…
In her recently published book “Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would be President,” prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the 19th century’s most surprising and accomplished advocates for women’s rights. Lockwood was Washington’s first prominent female lawyer and ran for President in 1884 and 1888 as the National Equal Rights Party candidate. In celebration of…
Artist Katherine Pfeffer Pross presented her new portrait “Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Seed of Consciousness,” at Elizabeth’s Bloomers Gallery in Seneca Falls on March 8, 2008. The 4′ x 5′ work shows Stanton sitting at the desk where she wrote the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 with a suffrage banner in the background. The original portrait will be hung permanently in the National Women’s Hall…
In a New York Times feature, Mark Leibovich analyzed the relationship between the women’s rights and civil rights movements in American history and implications for the 2008 Presidential race. Leibovich wrote: “Breakthrough politics can be a zero-sum game, with distinct groups striving for a finite piece of the change pie. It brings to mind that the civil rights movement and the women’s movement have a…
Richard Deys of Macedon carries an old wagon jack down the stairs as he works to stabilize the 1816 Quaker Meetinghouse in Farmington. (Photo courtesy Democrat and Chronicle) The Friends of the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse announced in 2008 that stabilization of the site had been completed and fund-raising would begin to restore the historic structure, which played a significant role in the 19th century…
