National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior

136 Fall Street
Seneca Falls, NY 13148

315-568-2991 phone
315-568-2141 fax

Women's Rights National Historical Park

Release Date: June 25, 2002
Contact: name: Jack Shay
Phone: 315 568-5302

ENJOY THE SUMMER AT THE NATIONAL PARK IN YOUR BACKYARD,
WOMEN’S RIGHTS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

SENECA FALLS AND WATERLOO– Planning a close-to-home vacation this year? Visit the national park in your own backyard!

Women’s Rights National Historical Park has planned a summer full of events for the whole family. Many of the events will be held on Thursday evenings as part of the Seneca Falls Merchants and Museums Downtown Evenings programs. On those evenings, (July 11, 18 and 25) the downtown museums and businesses will remain open until 7 p.m. Some events will also take place at the M’Clintock House and Hunt House, park sites in Waterloo.

“We want to welcome not only the hundreds of visitors who come to the area every summer, but also provide an opportunity for local people who may just be coming home from work, to visit their national park,” said Ranger Jack Shay. “These are fun and interesting events about things that happened in our backyards.”

Summer programs begin at noon on July 4 with old-fashioned Independence Day observances. The public is invited to dramatic readings of the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a politician of the 1840s will lead a discussion of the relevance of those documents today after the readings in Declaration Park.

Other programs during the summer include dramatic presentations, songs, open houses at the Suffrage Print Shop, and a look at the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Hunt, Lucretia Mott, and other leaders of the women’s rights movement. Special events are planned for Convention Days, July 18-21, 2002.

PATRIOTIC FOURTH! – NOON IN DECLARATION PARK:
Next to Visitor Center, 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, NY

As people did in towns and villages throughout the nation on Independence Day in the nineteenth century, the public is invited to celebrate an old-fashioned Fourth of July at Women’s Rights National Historical Park.

Dressed in historic clothing, Dick Crozier of Cortland will portray a politician of the 1800s as he reads the Declaration of Independence, the document that declared our country’s freedom from English rule. Ranger Jessica Queener of Geneva will respond as Elizabeth Cady Stanton reading the Declaration of Sentiments, the document that declared women’s freedom

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Updated: june 26, 2002 Wednesday, 22-Dec-2004 10:08:56 Eastern Standard Time
www.nps.gov/wori/archive/wori/archives/summerPR02.htm
Author: David Malone