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150th Anniversary of the updated, June 19, 1:00 p.m. ALL DATES AND TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE June 25 Canalside Gallery, 71 Fall Street June 26 - 29 Concerts, Fireworks, Canal Side Arts & Crafts Festival, Classic Car & Cycle Show, Blessing of the Fleet and Boat Parade. Call Seneca County Tourism Office for more information 315-568-8687 June 26 Women' s Rights NHP, Visitor Center,
136 Fall Street 1:00 p.m. SISTERS IN
SPIRIT: CELEBRATING THE HAUDENOSAUNEE (IROQUOIS) INFLUENCE ON THE EARLY
WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT Seneca Falls Heritage Area, Visitor
Center, 115 Fall Street June 27 July 4 Women's Rights NHP, Declaration
Park, 136 Fall Street July 5 July 9 July 10-12
Van Cleef Lake, Seneca Falls July 10 Women's Rights NHP, Visitor Center,
136 Fall Street
7:30 p.m. WELCOME RECEPTION
FOR THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES Women's Rights NHP, Visitor Center,
136 Fall Street July 11 New York State Chiropractic College,
Athletic Center, Route 89 2:00 p.m. THE NATIONAL
WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME HONORS LUNCHEON Goose Watch Winery, along Cayuga
Lake, Rte 89 July 12 Presbyterian Church, 23 Cayuga
Street THE SKY IS NO LIMIT - A CELEBRATION
OF WOMEN IN AVIATION 4:00 p.m. Finger Lakes Chapter
and Central NY Chapter of the Ninety Nines July 13 Mynderse Academy High School, 105
Troy Street July 14 11:30 a.m. NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN RALLY 1:30 p.m. Women's Rights NHP, Declaration Park, 136 Fall Street As the National Organization for Women (NOW) closes its National Convention in Rochester July 10-12, the delegates will come to Seneca Falls to hear featured speakers Patricia Ireland, President of NOW, and Eleanor Smeal, President, The Feminist Majority Foundation. The program will be held in Declaration Park. The National Park Service has issued a Special Use Permit for this event. Rally is open to the public; for more information, 716-242-0516 July 15 July 15 Dramatization in the Chapel, site of the first Women's Rights Convention. Tickets will be available at the Park Visitor Center on a first-come/first-serve basis beginning at 9:00 a.m. the day of the dramatization, NO ADVANCE SALES, nominal fee. 10:00 a.m. UNVEILING OF
SOJOURNER TRUTH SCULPTURE Unveiling of Sojourner Truth sculpture by National Museum of Women's History. Performance of Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" speech will be featured. 7:00 p.m. - RELIGIOUS WOMEN AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS 8:30 p.m. The United Methodist Church, State Street at Chapel A presentation and discussion sponsored by the International Association of Women Ministers, featuring the Rev. Betty Bone Schiess and the Rev. Elaine Cleeton. Followed by a candlelight procession from the Church to the Wesleyan Chapel. July
16 Mynderse Academy High School, 105 Troy Street Scheduled appearance by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and NYS Governor George Pataki. No fee is charged. No tickets required. 10:00 a.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Performance by Geneva's MLK Children's Choir. 1:00 p.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Story Teller: Bernice Magee 2:00 p.m. - WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP TODAY 4:00 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church, Fall Street, at Van Cleef Lake A program of short lectures and discussion led by Barbara Brown Zikmund, President of Hartford Theological Seminary; Melaine May, Dean of the Program in the Study of Women and Gender in Church and Society, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School; and Virginia S. Harris, Chair of the Christian Science Board of Directors and Publisher of the Writings of Mary Baker Eddy. 2:00 p.m. BOOK SIGNING Women's Rights NHP, Visitor Center, 136 Fall Street Elizabeth Jenkins Saline: "33 Things Every Girl Should Know" 2:00 p.m. - NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SERIES 3:00 p.m. Women's Rights NHP, Elizabeth Cady Stanton House Pavilion, 32 Washington Street Women's First Panel: Moderator; Coleen Jenkins Sahlin; Panel Members: Muriel Siebert, Ambassador Lindy Boggs and Betty Bone Sheiss, for more information, 315-568-8060 2:00 p.m. DRAMATIZATION "EQUALITY OF RIGHTS: THE FIRST WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION" Women's Rights NHP, Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall Street Dramatization in the chapel, the site of the first Women's Rights Convention. Tickets will be available at the park Visitor Center on a first come first serve basis beginning at 9:00 a.m. the day of the dramatization, NO ADVANCE SALES, nominal fee. 3:00 p.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Mrs. McPuppet: Tea Party Shuffle 3:00 p.m. "SUNFLOWER" PERFORMANCE Academy Square Auditorium, Park Street A dramatization about Elizabeth Cady Stanton written and performed by Elizabeth Perry 3:00 p.m. "BABES IN ARMS", HISTORIC DRAMATIZATION Women's Rights NHP, Declaration Park, 136 Fall Street A performance featuring portrayals of Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth. 4:00 p.m. BOOK SIGNING The National Women's Hall of Fame, 76 Fall Street Miriam Grace Monfredo "The Stalking Horse" 4:00 p.m. - 19TH CENTURY SACRED AND SECULAR MUSIC 5:00 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church, Trinity Lane A concert with commentary. Kathy Wilkins, Soloist 4:00 p.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Story teller: Jim Bloomfield 6:00 p.m. DRAMATIZATION "EQUALITY OF RIGHTS: THE FIRST WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION" Women's Rights NHP, Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall Street Dramatization in the chapel, the site of the first Women's Rights Convention. Tickets will be available at the park Visitor Center on a first come first serve basis beginning at 9:00 a.m. the day of the dramatization, NO ADVANCE SALES, nominal fee. 7:30 p.m. JUDY COLLINS CONCERT Mynderse Academy High School, 105 Troy Street For more information 315-568-4117. DUSK FIREWORKS OVER VAN CLEEF LAKE July 17 9:00 a.m. STANTON SYMPOSIUM Elizabeth Cady Stanton House Pavilion Women's Rights NHP, 32 Washington Street Noted authors Dr. Judy Wellman, Dr. Ann Gordon, Dr. Elizabeth Griffith, Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, Dr. Ellen Carol DuBois and Paul Barnes of Florentine Films will participate in a panel discussion on the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, moderated by Women's Rights NHP Historian, Dr. Vivien Rose; for more information, 315-568-2991. 10:00 a.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Story Teller: Chris Riedel 10:00 a.m. PLAY Women's Rights NHP, Declaration Park, 136 Fall Street "It's About Time" a play performed by Wower Power from San Francisco; for more information, 415-467-2129 11:00 a.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street International Street Performer: Hilby performing with unicycle July 17 11:00 a.m. PRESENTATION BY FORUM 98 12:30 p.m. Women's Rights NHP, Declaration Park, 136 Fall Street On behalf of Celebrate '98, the park will host Forum '98, whose members will present a "Recommitment to the Original Principles of the Declaration of Sentiments for the 21st Century". Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services guest speaker. Presentation is open to the public; for more information, 716-275-8799. 12:00 noon CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Performance: Kurt the Mysterious 12:00 noon GIRLS MEDIA PANEL Academy Square, Park Street Sponsored by Blue Jeans Magazine; for more information, 315-568-4117 12:00 noon PANGAIA STEEL DRUM BAND People's Park For more information, 315-568-4117 12:00 noon THE WONDROUS MOTHERHOOD OF GOD 1:30 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church, Trinity Lane A presentation and discussion led by the Rev. Eleanor McLaughlin, Episcopal priest, professor, and author and by Marcille DeLacy, Christian Science Practitioner and Teacher and Member of the Board of Lectureship. 1:00 p.m. BOOK SIGNING Women's Rights NHP, Visitor Center, 136 Fall Street Dr. Ellen Carol DuBois: "Harriet Stanton Blatch & the Winning of Woman Suffrage" "Women Suffrage & Women's Rights" "80 Years and More" "Stanton/Anthony Reader" "Feminism and Suffrage" Dr. Elizabeth Griffith "In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton" Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner "Untold Story of the Iroquois Influence on Early Feminists" "Woman, Church & State" Dr. Ann Gordon "Selected Papers of Stanton and Anthony" Volume I "80 Years and More" 1:00 p.m. AFL/CIO WORKING WOMAN'S PROGRAM Women's Rights NHP, Declaration Park, 136 Fall Street Program is scheduled from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.; for more information, 716-263-2650. 2:00 p.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Performance: Gary the Happy Pirate 2:00 p.m. DRAMATIZATION OF "EQUALITY OF RIGHTS: THE FIRST WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION" Women's Rights NHP, Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall Street Dramatization in the Chapel, site of the first Women's Rights Convention. Tickets will be available at the park Visitor Center on a first come first serve basis beginning at 9:00 a.m. day of the dramatization, NO ADVANCE SALES, nominal fee. 2:00 p.m. SPEAKERS PAVILION Women's Rights NHP, Elizabeth Cady Stanton House Pavilion, 32 Washington Street Women in Federal Government: Invited speaker Alexis Herman, Secretary of Labor; for more information, 315-568-2991 3:00p.m.& CHILDREN'S TENT 4:00 p.m. Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Performance: Karvel - Magician 4:00 p.m. "BABES IN ARMS", HISTORIC DRAMATIZATION Women's Rights NHP, Declaration Park, 136 Fall Street Performance featuring Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth, for more information 315-568-2991 5:00 p.m. SENECA FALLS COMMUNITY BAND Academy Square, Park Street 6:00 p.m. DRAMATIZATION "EQUALITY OF RIGHTS: THE FIRST WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION" Women's Rights NHP, Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall Street Dramatization in the Chapel, site of the first Women's Rights Convention. Tickets will be available at the park Visitor Center on a first come first serve basis beginning at 9:00 a.m., day of the dramatization, NO ADVANCE SALES, nominal fee. 8:00 p.m. KIT MCCLURE BIG BAND CONCERT Mynderse Academy High School, 105 Troy Street For information, 315-568-4117. 9:00 p.m. THE WOMEN'S EVENT DANCE PARTY KenCin Manor, 4568, Rte 414 Sponsored by The Coalition for Lesbian Visibility, tickets required.; for more information, 315-568-9364. July 18 Day Long BOOK SIGNING Women's Rights NHP, Visitor Center, 136 Fall Street Barbara Metzger: "Elizabeth Cady Stanton" "A Clean Sea: The Rachel Carson Story" "Together and Equal" Nell Painter: "Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol" 9:00 a.m. 5 & 10 K RACE Academy Square, Park Street For more information; 315-568-2906 9:00 a.m. FREDERICK DOUGLASS (FRED MORSELL) Presbyterian Church, 23 Cayuga Street Dramatization "Why I Became a Women's Rights Man" 10:00 a.m. OVID NEW YORK BELL RINGERS Academy Square, Park Street 10:00 a.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Performance: The Great Zucchini (performs magic for children) 10:00 a.m. PLAY: "IT'S ABOUT TIME" Women's Rights NHP, Declaration Park, 136 Fall Street Performed by Wower Power from San Francisco; for more information, 415-467-2129 10:00 a.m. "THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT: OUR LEGACY, OUR GOAL" Presbyterian Church, 23 Cayuga Street ERA 75th Anniversary Program; for more information, 973-765-0102 11:00 a.m. PARADE Ending in Academy Square, Park Street 11:00 a.m. SWING CENTRAL Academy Square, Park Street 11:00a.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Performance: Charlene Winger-Bearskin 12:00 noon WOMEN'S FILM FEST AND CONSTANT COMMENT TEA PARTY 9:00 p.m. Presbyterian Church, 23 Cayuga Street Film fest, tickets required, available at the church; for more information 202-637-5872. 12:00 noon CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Performance: Jan Nigro Vitamin L Band 1:00 p.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cyauga Street Storyteller: Martha Kendall 2:00 p.m. DICK SCHRECK AND THE DIXIELANDERS Academy Square, Park Street 2:00 p.m. DRAMATIZATION "EQUALITY OF RIGHTS: THE FIRST WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION" Women's Rights NHP, Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall Street Dramatization in the Chapel, site of the first Women's Rights Convention. Tickets will be available at the park Visitor Center on a first come first serve basis beginning at 9:00 a.m. the day of the performance, NO ADVANCE SALES, nominal fee. 2:00 p.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Performance: Magic Garden Puppets "Seneca Indian Story" 2:00 p.m. NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME'S DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS SERIES 3:00 p.m. Women's Rights NHP, Elizabeth Cady Stanton House Pavilion, 32 Washington St Common Ground - Women's Rights - Civil Rights Panel: Moderator: Sandra Bernard, Panel: Charlotte Anne Bunch, Dorothy Farewell, Betty Friedan, Anita Perez-Ferguson; for more information, 315-568-8060 2:00 p.m. - VISIONING WOMEN'S FAITH 4:00 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church, Fall Street at VanCleef Lake Brief presentations and discussion led by Sandy Kistler-Connolly of the Syracuse Zen Center; Amatullah Yamini, member of Mesjid Abdullah Muslium and Onondaga County legislator; Delores Williams, Womanist theologian and Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary, and Rabbi Emily Faust Korzenik of the Fellowship for Jewish learning in Stamford. 3:00 p.m. & CHILDREN'S TENT 4:00 p.m. Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Performance: Patrice Brothers - Irish Band 3:30 p.m. HISTORIC DRAMATIZATION Women's Rights NHP, Declaration Park, 136 Fall Street Sally Roesch Wagner and Charles Pace will perform as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass 4:00 p.m. SWEET ADELINES Academy Square, Park Street Forty-five member women's barbership chorus from Rochester. July 18 6:30 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church, Fall Street at Fan Cleef Lake Interfaith Worship, with drumming, special music by the "Miserable Offenders," bell choir, chorus. A celebration of women in religious faith communities. 6:00 p.m. DRAMATIZATION "EQUALITY OF RIGHTS: THE FIRST WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION" Women's Rights NHP, Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall Street Dramatization in the Chapel, site of the first Women's Rights Convention. Tickets will be available at the park Visitor Center on a first come first serve basis beginning at 9:00 a.m. the day of the performance, NO ADVANCE SALES, nominal fee. 8:00 p.m. SYRACUSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA POPS CONCERT Mynderse Academy High School, 105 Troy Street Luvada Harrison and 30-member Syracuse Women's Chorus also will appear with orchestra. 8:00 p.m. POLITICS, PASSION AND HUMOR OF WOMEN WITH TOSHI REAGON AND SARA CYTRON Mynderse Academy Auditorium, 105 Troy Street Sponsored by The Coalition for Lesbian Visibility, tickets required, 315-568-9364 DUSK FIREWORKS OVER VAN CLEEF LAKE July 19 9:15 a.m. - CHRISTIAN WORSHIP 10:30 a.m. Trinity Episcopal Church, Fall Street at Van Cleef Lake Christian Worship, together with the dedication of Robert Lentz's new icon of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Special music by the "Miserable Offenders." Preacher: Dr. Pamela Chinnis, President of the House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church in the USA. Celebrant: The Rev. Marsue Harris 10:00 a.m. - WOMEN'S FILM FEST AND CONSTANT COMMENT TEA PARTY 4:00 p.m. Presbyterian Church, 23 Cayuga Street Film fest, tickets required, available at the church; for more information, 202-637-5872. 10:00 a.m. PLAY Women's Rights NHP, Declaration Park, 136 Fall Street "It's About Time" a play performed by Wower Power from San Francisco; for information, 415-467-2129 11:30 p.m. BAHA'I YOUTH WORKSHOP Women's Rights NHP, Declaration Park, 136 Fall Street Members from New York and Delaware performing the Unity Dance; for more information, 315-462-6997 12:30 p.m. CONCERT: THE "MISERABLE OFFENDERS" Trinity Episcopal Church, Fall Street, at Van Cleef Lake Ana Hernandez and Deborah Bly create exciting sounds in traditional and contemporary religious music. 1:00 p.m. BOOK SIGNING Women's Rights NHP, Visitor Center, 136 Fall Street Martha Kendall: "Elizabeth Cady Stanton" "Susan B. Anthony" Bradford Miller "Returning to Seneca Falls" 1:00 p.m. "THE PROPER LADIES" Women's Rights NHP, Declaration Park, 136 Fall Street The Proper Ladies will perform a cappella Victorian ballads and suffrage songs. 1:00 p.m. CHILDREN'S TENT Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Performance: Rhythm Ambassadors July 19 Mynderse Academy High School, 105 Troy Street Sixty piece orchestra featuring female members who are members of Rochester Philharmonic and Buffalo Symphony, along with other female musicians from central and western New York. Conductor Nancy Strelau. 2:00 p.m. DRAMATIZATION "EQUALITY OF RIGHTS: THE FIRST WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION" Women's Rights NHP, Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall Street Dramatization in the chapel, the site of the first Women's Rights Convention. Tickets will be available at the park Visitor Center on a first come first serve basis beginning at 9:00 a.m., NO ADVANCE SALES, nominal fee 2:30 p.m. CLOSING CEREMONIES 3:00 p.m. & CHILDREN'S TENT 4:00 p.m. Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street Performance: Golden Eagle String Band 6:00 p.m. DRAMATIZATION "EQUALITY OF RIGHTS: THE FIRST WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION" Women's Rights NHP, Wesleyan Chapel, 136 Fall Street Dramatization in the chapel, the site of the first Women's Rights Convention. Tickets will be available at the park Visitor Center on a first come first serve basis beginning at 9:00 a.m., NO ADVANCE SALES, nominal fee August 20 -
22 This special conference, co-sponsored by the Organization of American Historians and the National Park Service, is being held in Seneca Falls to observe the 150th anniversary of the first women's rights convention. The conference is for museum educations, teachers, and scholars and examines using historic structures, furnishings, artifacts, and landscapes to research and teach women's history, for more information 812-855-7311 Unless otherwise noted, all activities take place in Seneca Falls, NY DAILY ACTIVITIES, JULY 16 - 19, 1998 Past Tent: Memories on Exhibit, plus a collecting station. Tent will be staffed on Thursday from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Sunday from 10;00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Located at Seneca Falls Historical Society; for more information, 315-568-8412
Present Tent: Tent will be staffed during the same hours as the Past Tent. Roundtable discussion groups will be held: Thursday 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.; 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m.; 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.; 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m.; 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Located at Seneca Falls Historical Society; for more information, 315-568-8412 Future Tent: Tent will be staffed during the same hours as the Past Tent. Located at Seneca Falls Historical Society; for more information, 315-568-8412 Speaker's Tent: Speakers will fill one hour time slots scheduled as follows: Thursday 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.; 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.; 11:30 a.m. -to 12:30 p.m.; 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.; 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.; 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.; 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.. Located in the auditorium at Academy Square, Park Street Children's Tent: preschool play area; activities for children over five; Lost Children Report Area; refreshments: free juice and water; roving clowns; mimes; face painting; Emergency First Aid; baby sitting for Historical House Tour; quiet area for resting and reading; coloroing book: six year level; located at Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street; for more information, 315-568-8412 Women's History Book Tent, located at Academy Square; for more information, 315-568-9456 Food Tent, Located at Academy Square, Park Street Girls Tent, Located at Academy Square, Park Street Barnes & Noble Book Tent, Located at Academy Square, Park Street National Women's Expo, Located at Village Park/Academy Square, for more information 315-568-5833 International & American Women Art Exhibit, Academy Square; for more information 315-568-8204 Girl Talk, Seneca Community Players, Delavan Theatre, 8:00 pm; July 16, 17 & 18, 2:00 p.m. July 19, tickets Food Vendors located throughout community at all locations Craft Fair, People's Park Celebrate '98 Pictorial Stamp Cancellation, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. located at Women's Rights NHP, Visitor Center rear parking lot 136 Fall Street. Special cancellation form the US Postal Service honoring the 150th Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement EDUCATIONAL GUIDES "Be Your Own Historian: Seneca Falls and the 1848 Women's Rights Convention - A Kit of Evidence for Historical Detectives": Teachers Kit by Dr, Judy Wellman, History Department, SUNY Oswego. Students will use primary sources to describe what happened at the First Women's Rights Convention and why it was important. This educational kit gives students the opportunity to be their own historians, by using historical evidence and developing their own generalizations and conclusions. It will be for sale in the Eastern National store at the park's Visitor Center, July 1998. "Elizabeth M'Clintock - Entrepreneurial Woman":Curriculum-based Education Kit. Elizabeth M'Clintock embodies the struggles women faced in the 1840's and the tenacity required to succeed as entrepreneurs. Her experience as storekeeper, fundraiser for anti-slavery activists, teacher, artist, and finally as successful milliner and shop owner in a stylish Philadelphia business district exemplify one possible career path for a woman determined to do well in the world of business. The kit, which uses maps, floor plans, store records, advertisements and other historical evidence. It will be distributed through the National Park Service "Teaching with Historic Places" program, and will demonstrate the origins of equal employment opportunity for women. It will be for sale in the Eastern National store at the park's Visitor Center, July 1998. "Celebrating Your Cultural Heritage:" Teachers Guide by Dr. Sally Roesh Wagner. This guide will enable student to explore and analyze how communities remember and celebrate their heritage. Included will be description of how Seneca Falls celebrates its heritage of being the birthplace of women's rights, as well as some of Seneca Falls "Untold Stories". The project is funded by a 1997 National Park Service "Parks As ClassroomsTM" grant. It will be available through educator workshops and educator mailing lists, September 1998. SPECIAL EXHIBITS/DISPLAYS Suffrage Statue Exhibit, Women's Rights NHP, 136 Fall Street On loan from the Smithsonian Institution, featuring the marble busts of suffrage leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott. Adelaide Johnson sculpted these busts before she created the famous Suffrage Statue that has recently been moved from the crypt to the Rotunda in the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C. The exhibit will be on display through December 1998. A fee is charged. Declaration of Sentiments Table, Women's Rights NHP, 136 Fall Street On Loan from the Smithsonian Institution, the table on which the Declaration of Sentiments was drafted on July 16, 1848, in the front parlor of the M'Clintock House in Waterloo, NY. A fee is charged. The Art of Nursing, The National Women's Hall of Fame, 76 Fall Street A special exhibit sponsored by Signa Theta Tau Internatinal Honor Society of Nurses. A fee is charged. SISTERS IN SPIRIT: Celebrating the Haudenosaunee (Iroguois) Influence on the Early Woman's Rights Movement, Seneca Falls Urban Cultural Park/Heritage Area Visitor Center, 115 Fall Street, Lower Level, An exhibit based on primary research by Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner on the influence of the Iroquois women on the women's rights movement. This exhibit is co-sponsored by the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation and Women's Rights NHP and has been developed in cooperation with Cornell University. Opening reception will be held June 27. No fee is charged. Matilda Joslyn Gage: Forgotten Foremother, Women's Rights NHP, Education and Cultural Center/Printshop, 116 Fall Street In cooperation with the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation park is co-sponsoring a temporary exhibit on the life of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a 19th century leader of the Women's Rights Movement. The exhibit, located in the rear of the Women's Education and Cultural Center/ Printshop will open July 4 and run through the end of August 1998. Gage Foundation volunteers will staff the exhibit. A fee is charged. Politics and Place: Celebrating Women's Rights in Seneca Falls, 87-89 Fall Street This exhibit reflects the community observances, both locally in Seneca Falls and also on a national level, to three past celebrations - 1908, 1923, and 1948 - of the signing of the "Declaration of Sentiments". The Declaration, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848, demanded that women have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States. This exhibit is sponsored by the Seneca Falls Historical Society and is funded by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and the membership of the Society. The exhibit is open through December 1998 at the Seneca Museum. A fee is charged. Alla Salute: The Seneca Falls Italian American Community 1895-1998, 84 Fall Street This exhibit explores the roles of work, religion, community and the family in the assimilation and contributions of the Italian immigrants and their descendants. Italian immigrants from the mezzogiomo and the northern province of Tuscany came to Seneca Falls during the first two decades of this century to find employment in the small village of 6,000 which held nine major factories, a railroad line and a growing canal system. From just 50 immigrants in 1900 their numbers grew to over 2,000 by 1930. Their arrival would increase the population of the village, develop its economy and change its character. This exhibit is sponsored by the Seneca Falls Historical Society and underwritten by the Bruce Bonafiglia family. The 1995 exhibit was funded by the New York State Council on the Arts. The exhibit will open Saturday, July 11 at 84 Fall street for six months. No fee is charged. Mary Baker Eddy Exhibit, 118 Fall Street Come and discover this original thinker and reformer of the late 19th century. Located two doors down form the Women's Rights Natinal Historical Park.. Exhibit open through October. For more information or to schedule a guided tour please call 315-5678-6488. Open House June 26, 27 and 28. No fee is charged. SITES OPEN DAILY, JULY 16 - 19, 1998 Women's Rights National Historical Park, Visitor Center, 136 Fall Street, for more information call315-568-2991, ext 24, Website: http://www.nps.gov/wori Hosts a full range of visitor activities including a 25 minute film "Dreams of Equality" (shown every hour on the hour from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.), interactive exhibits on the history of the women's rights movement, and bookstore featuring titles for children, and adults as well as note cards, posters and gift items. A fee is charged. Women's Rights NHP, Suffrage Print Shop, 116 Fall Street, for more information call 315-568-2991, ext 24, Website: http://www.nps.gov/wori In 1851, Amelia Bloomer opened The Lily, the first suffrage newspaper in the United States which was a model for numerous others, and which Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony used to promulgate the movement for women's rights. The Suffrage Print Shop is a working turn of the century press, where visitors will observe how the early suffrage leaders used the press to promote their causes through interpretative talks offered daily. A fee is charged. Women's Rights NHP, Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, 32 Washington St, for more information call 315-568-2991, ext 24, Website: http://www.nps.gov/wori The home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton from 1847 to 1862, the House is restored and will be open daily for public tours. The interpretive talks at the House focus on Stanton's life and personal experiences before, during and after the time period she lived in Seneca Falls, on how she came to age intellectually and politically in Seneca Falls, and about her lifelong synergistic friendship and partnership with Susan B. Anthony as women's rights leaders. Tours offered every half hour, ticket required. A fee is charged. Seneca Falls Historical Society, 55 Cayuga Street, guided mansion tours daily 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., for more information call 315-568-8412 Founded in 1896, the Seneca Falls historical Society is housed in an imposing red brick mansion within the village's National Register of Historical Places. The Becker 1880 House Museum features Victorian period rooms, exhibits of local history and offers an extensive research library with a wealth of archives and genealogical records. Unique is the Society's collection of glass place negatives relative to the Women's' Rights Movement. its Italian Heritage Exhibit is on permanent display. The museum Shop at 101 Fall Street Offers publications of local town, and country history, Civil War, Revolutionary War, women's history, preservation, restoration, and Victorian. A fee is charged. The National Women's Hall of Fame, 76 Fall Street, tours daily, for more information call 315-568-8060, Website: www.greatwomen.org The National Women's Hall of Fame honors the achievements of distinguished American Women who have made enduring contributions to the arts, athletics, business, government, philanthropy, humanities, science and education. From such notable figures as Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart to Geraldine Ferraro, Rosa Parks and Sandra Day O'Connor, you can learn about these celebrated women and their history, including seeing important artifacts. The Museum Shop includes a wide variety of commemorative materials and gift items including tee shirts, posters, and educational materials. The Hall is the nation's first membership organization devoted exclusively to honoring the accomplishments of American women. Living history at Hall of Fame - docents portraying Honorees of the Hall of Fame - meet your favorite honoree of the past. A fee is charged .Seneca Falls Heritage Area Visitor Center, 115 Fall Street, Lower Level, for more information call 315-568-6894 Part of the New York Heritage Areas System, the Seneca Falls Heritage Area, with its theme of reform Movements, is the heart of this 19th Century industrial boomtown including a classic main street, the Cayuga-Seneca Canal and historic homes and neighborhoods. The Heritage Area interprets the village's development, focusing on the setting for the 1848 Convention, as a means to achieve the State System goals of education, recreation, historic preservation, and community economic development. The Heritage Area Visitor Center serves as an orientation point for local and regional history, providing information on area attractions. No fee is charged.
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