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Conventions
Day Event
SENECA FALLS - Lizzie would be so proud!
In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton called on women to work for equality,
especially the right to vote. This weekend, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter,
D-Fairport, will be the keynote speaker for village's 22nd annual Convention
Days. She will speak at 1 p.m. Saturday in Wesleyan Chapel, Women's Rights
National Historical Park.
Convention Days celebrates the first women's rights convention in America,
held in Seneca Falls 153 years ago, and women's progress since.
"We are extremely happy the keynote address will be delivered from
the very site where Elizabeth Cady Stanton challenged Americans to work
for equality for all," said Josie Fernandez, Superintendent of Women's
Rights National Historical Park.
Slaughter is a long-time and strong supporter of women's rights and the
park. In her remarks, she is expected to discuss two reports to be released
July 21. A report to the Secretary of the Interior by the 15- member Women's
Progress Commemoration Commission will be released by Slaughter, the chair
of the commission. The commission was chartered by Congress in 1998 to
explore ways "to further protect sites of importance in the historic
efforts to secure equal rights for women."
A draft executive summary of a National Park Service special resources
study requested by Slaughter also will be released. According to the Congresswoman's
staff, she is expected to use the study to introduce legislation in Congress.
Visitors to Women's Rights National Historical Park also will enjoy a
concert by the Finger Lakes Girls' Choir at 12:45 p.m. The Finger Lakes
Girls' Choir was founded in February 2001 by Mary Kathryn Campbell, choral
director and music educator. The choir is for girls ages 10-16 and older
who reside in the Central Finger Lakes Region of New York. The mission
of the choir is threefold: to foster a commitment to musical excellence,
to enhance personal confidence and esteem issues for young women, and
to develop musicianship and performance skills through the art of choral
singing.
Other Convention Days events in Women's Rights National Historical Park
include presentation of the second annual Women of Achievement awards
to Joan Grela and Karen Beals following Slaughter's address. Grela is
district operations manager for State Sen. Michael Nozzolio and Beals
is executive director of United Way of Seneca County. Women's Rights NHP
volunteers in cooperation with the Seneca Community
Players will present dramatizations of the 1848 women's rights convention
by the at 11:30 and 3 p.m. in Wesleyan Chapel.
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