January 1998 Women's Rights Suffrage Statue Busts Exhibit
On loan from the Smithsonian Institution, a special exhibit featuring the marble busts of suffrage leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott, will open at Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls. 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. On exhibit through December 1998.

February, March and April 1998 Seneca Falls Colloquium on Women's Rights Issues
Women's Rights National Historical Park, together with the Susan B. Anthony Center at the University of Rochester, and Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, are planning a series of monthly seminars during February, March and April. Topics are "Women in Sports", "Gender Equity in Education", and "Domestic Violence Issues", which is specially co-sponsored by S.A.V. (Seneca Against Violence) Coalition.

March 5, 1998 Room Full of Sisters
Treble Associates presents, and Women's Rights National Historical Park will co-sponsor, the fifth annual "Room Full of Sisters," a day by, for and about women at the Holiday Inn in Auburn, New York. This one day celebration brings together friends, relatives, acquaintances and colleagues for a luncheon gathering, sharing, workshops, and viewing of women vendor's products.

March 1998 Mary Baker Eddy Exhibit
Sponsored by Women's Rights NHP and developed with assistance from The National Women's Hall of Fame, an exhibit and film on Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the First Church of Christ, Scientist; inductee into The National Women's Hall of Fame; and associate of Elizabeth Cady Stanton will be featured in the park's Visitor Center.

April 20 - 26, 1998 National Park Week -- A Celebration of Women's History
The theme for 1998 for National Park Week will be Women's History. National park sites around the country will plan activities and exhibits centered on women's history. A large celebration in Washington, DC is planned.

June 13, 1998 Conference -- Women's Rights Around the World: Past, Present and Future
As part of the 1998 National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, June 10 - 14, 1998, at the SUNY Oswego campus, a one day embedded conference will be held at Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls. Co-sponsored by the National Park Service and the National Women's Studies Association, this embedded conference will explore the following questions: what has been/is the role of international organizations like the United Nations in expanding, protecting, and defining women's rights; can an international community create a common language; what are the costs of women's rights activism; and how can/does an international community of women's rights activists support and encourage each other? Teachers, students, theorists, scholars, and activists are invited to explore the legacy, advance the agenda, and create the networks to sustain women's rights activism into the twenty-first century.

July 10, 1998 Welcome Reception for The National Women's Hall of Fame Inductees
The National Women's Hall of Fame and Women's Rights NHP will co-host a reception for the 1998 The National Women's Hall of Fame inductees at the national park. Following the reception, a candlelight march will take place from the Wesleyan Chapel to the Hall of Fame.

July 13, 1998 National Organization of Women Rally
The National Organization of Women's Annual Convention is being held in Rochester, NY July 10-13, 1998. Following the convention, a one day special event will take place as convention participants come to Seneca Falls for a rally at Women's Rights NHP, speeches, and living history performances.

July 16 - 19, 1998 Celebrate '98
Women's Rights NHP will participate in Celebrate '98, the official 150th anniversary celebration of the first Women's Rights Convention taking place in Seneca Falls, New York, the birthplace of Women's Rights. Four days of events, exhibits, performances, speakers, presentations, and celebratory activities are taking place throughout the Village. In conjunction with Celebrate '98, Women's Rights NHP will offer the following events at park sites:

Visitor Center
The National Park Visitor Center hosts a full range of visitor activities including a 25 minute film "Dreams of Equality," interactive exhibits on the history of the women's rights movement, a bookstore featuring titles for children, for academic researchers, and those related to public women's rights issues in general, as well as note cards, posters and gift items.

Wesleyan Chapel
The Wesleyan Chapel is the site of the first Women's Rights Convention. There will be regularly scheduled, daily dramatizations of the Convention in the Chapel.

Declaration Park
Declaration Park features a 200 seat outdoor amphitheater ringed by a waterwall that has the Declaration of Sentiments and the names of the signers of the Declaration engraved on it. Sally Roesch Wagner and Charles Pace will perform as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass; The Proper Ladies will perform acappella Victorian ballads and suffrage songs; Babes in Arms, a multi-cultural performing troupe, will recreate Lucretia Mott's journey from the Philadelphia multi-racial anti-slavery meetings, to women of the Iroquois Nation, to Canada and the escaped slaves, and on to the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls.

Suffrage Print Shop
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 learn how the early suffrage leaders used the press to promote their causes, and where they will design and create placards and broadsides of their own under the guidance of a master printer. Celebrate '98 Administrative Offices are located on the second floor of this building at 116 Fall Street in Seneca Falls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton House Tours
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.

Speakers Tent at the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House
A Speakers Tent will be set up on the lawn of the Stanton House, and will feature both talks and interactive presentations throughout each day by prominent women. Celebrate '98 is working with the President's Interagency Council on Women to obtain leading women to speak on the U.S. follow-up to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women on platforms as diverse as working women, discrimination on the job, violence on the job, economic security, women's health, the environment and more. Additionally, The National Women's Hall of Fame will be requesting past honorees and inductees into the Hall to come and speak about their distinguished accomplishments in the arts, athletics, business, government, philanthropy, humanities, science, and education.

Ceremonial Opening of the M'Clintock House, Women's Rights NHP
Located in Waterloo, 3 miles west of Seneca Falls, the National Park Service is planning a ceremonial opening of the M'Clintock House, site of the writing of the Declaration of Sentiments by Stanton, M'Clintock and other Quaker abolitionists. The National Park Foundation, located in Washington, DC is responsible for raising the private sector support for the restoration of the House. The house will be open during the celebratory period for public tours.

Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Wider Opportunity Education Program
Seventy-five Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts (grade 8 - 12) from across the nation will have the opportunity to participate in a very special activity, Women: Now, Then and All Ways. Scouts will come to Seneca Falls and with local Girl Scouts will be trained as guides at Women's Rights National Historical Park by park staff. They will learn about the history of the first Women's Rights Convention and early women's rights movement, will interact with the public, and will learn about historic preservation techniques. The girls will experience new environments while working side by side with professional and subject matter experts. in addition, local Girl Scouts will serve as color guards at various Celebrate '98 activities.

The theme of Women: Now, Then and All Ways focuses on women's history, women's leadership and career opportunities. In addition to the site visit and work at the National Park in Seneca Falls, the Scouts will tour other facilities in the area and receive a "Wider Opportunities" badge.

August 20 - 22, 1998 Conference -- Teaching Women's History
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 will examine new scholarship and research in women's history, both for general academic use and for specific use by secondary school and community college teachers and professors.

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