Women's Rights NHP Invites Public to Celebrate National Park Service's 95th Birthday

Date: August 15, 2011
Contact: Tammy Ann Duchesne, 315.568.2991

Seneca Falls, NY - Women's Rights National Historical Park invites the public to attend special events at the park on August 25th to help celebrate "Founder's Day." On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved legislation, the Organic Act, creating the National Park Service (NPS) within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The park will have information on the National Park System, volunteer opportunities, and how to become a member of Friend's of Women's Right's National Historical Park. The park will also screen a movie throughout that day that features 80 of the almost 400 National Park Service Sites. Women's Rights National Historical Park warmly invites the public to stop by to learn more about the National Park Service, discover how they can become involved, and enjoy some light refreshments in honor of the National Park Service's 95^th Birthday.

The Organic Act made the bureau responsible for Interior's national parks and monuments and charged the National Park Service "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."

In 1980 Women's Rights National Historical Park was established to commemorate and preserve the story of the First Women's Rights Convention and historical structures associated with it in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New York. All public tours and programs are free and open to the public.

For more information on NPS and its programs, visit www.nps.gov. For more information, please contact the Park at (315) 568- 0024.