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national park service

For Immediate Release

New Faces and Summer Schedule at Women’s Rights NHP

Eleven new faces are joining Women’s Rights NHP as permanent and seasonal employees this summer.

New permanent staff members include Historian Anne M. Derousie, Curator Jude Pfister, and Maintenance Mechanic Charles Taylor.

Brian Boles, Jeffrey Gibbs, Terri Kalloch, Kara Motosicky, Dan O’Neil, Richard Pardee, Erin Stepowany and Barbara Walden will augment the permanent maintenance workers and park rangers to care for park structures and landscapes as well as receive visitors coming to tour the facilities.

All new employees go through a training and orientation program prior to the start of the summer schedule June 3.

“We are very excited to welcome these new employees and to include them as part of our park family,” said Park Superintendent Josie Fernandez. “With each of them we gain a new ambassador for this community who will spread the good news about Seneca Falls and Waterloo and the wonderful historical treasures we preserve here.”

The Visitor Center is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It offers the film “Dream of Equality, inter-active exhibits and a well-stocked Eastern National bookstore with a variety of books, videos and other educational items.

Rangers will lead tours of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House and the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at 10 and 11 a.m. and 1, 2, and 3 p.m. daily. The film, exhibits and ranger-led tours of the chapel are included in the $2 admission fee. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House tour costs an additional $1.

This year, the newly restored interior of the M’Clintock House in Waterloo will be open on a limited basis to show visitors the progress being made on the building’s restoration.

“Much work has taken place in the last three years and more is yet to come. We have secured funding to reconstruct the missing kitchen wing that was lost to a fire in the 1950s and we also have funding for exhibits inside the house,” said Fernandez.

“It won’t be very long before we once again invite the world to join us in a proper ribbon-cutting ceremony to open those facilities,” she added.

Fernandez reminds parents and guardians that applications are now being accepted for the Junior Ranger Program, a weekly exploration of local history guided by a park ranger. This program is limited to 25 participants. For more information or for applications, call the park at 568-0024.

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