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Suffrage Centennial Exhibit Now on Display in Seneca Falls

March 1, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Radical Optimism exhibit entranceThe Women’s Rights National Historical Park and The Friends of Women’s Rights National Historical Park have announced the opening of Radical Optimism: The Enduring Power of the Women Who Won the Vote, a new exhibit at the Fall Street Visitor Center in Seneca Falls, NY. [Read more…] about Suffrage Centennial Exhibit Now on Display in Seneca Falls

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: exhibits, Seneca Falls, Suffrage Movement, Women's Rights NHP, womens history

Virtual Seneca Falls Equality Weekend Starts Saturday

August 20, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution and the right to vote in the U.S. could no longer be denied on the basis of sex. The fight for women’s suffrage was complex and interwoven with issues of civil and political inequalities for some Americans.

Women’s Rights National Historical Park (NHP) has announced Equality Weekend-Seneca Falls, a series of online programs being held August 22-23 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification. [Read more…] about Virtual Seneca Falls Equality Weekend Starts Saturday

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Equality Day, Political History, Seneca Falls, Suffrage Movement, Women's Rights NHP, womens history

Women’s Rights Park Hosting Virtual Convention Days

July 13, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Women’s Rights National Historical Park (NHP) has announced Virtual Convention Days 2020, a series of online programs being held July 17-19. [Read more…] about Women’s Rights Park Hosting Virtual Convention Days

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Political History, Seneca Falls, Suffrage Movement, Women's Rights NHP, womens history

Women’s Rights Park Features Youth Art Exhibit

February 27, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY, has opened a new, temporary art exhibit, “Pictures of Equality.”

This art installation was created in partnership with the International Fiber Collaborative, which worked with students and teachers to create art in response to the question, “What does it mean to be equal?” Nearly 500 students from 20 schools in New York, Colorado, Wyoming, North Carolina, Montana and Illinois created art for this exhibit. [Read more…] about Women’s Rights Park Features Youth Art Exhibit

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Art Exhibit, Political History, Seneca Falls, Women's History Month, Women's Rights NHP, womens history

Women’s Rights Convention Days July 20–22 in Seneca Falls

July 12, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Women’s Rights National Historical Park (NHP) has announced the 2018 Convention Days have been set for July 20-22.

2018 will commemorate the 225th birthday of the reformer, orator, and preacher, Lucretia Mott; the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass; and the 170th anniversary of the First Women’s Rights Convention.   Events are free and include children’s activities, art projects, live music, living history programs, speakers, and more. [Read more…] about Women’s Rights Convention Days July 20–22 in Seneca Falls

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Political History, Seneca Falls, Women's Rights NHP

Women’s Rights National Park Marking Juneteenth

June 14, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Wesleyan ChapelThe Women’s Rights National Historical Park is set to commemorate Juneteenth on Friday, June 15th and Saturday, June 16th.

In the midst of The Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln declared all enslaved persons in most Southern States freed effective January 1, 1863 with The Emancipation Proclamation. Planters and other enslavers migrated to Texas to escape the fighting, subsequently greatly increasing the enslaved population there prior to the end of the Civil War. The enslaved people of Texas, most of whom were geographically isolated, were read the Emancipation Proclamation on June 19, 1865. The celebration that ensued has been known thereafter as Juneteenth. [Read more…] about Women’s Rights National Park Marking Juneteenth

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: African American History, Black History, Seneca Falls

New Play ‘Seneca Falls’ Debuting In Delaware County

June 13, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

open eye theatreThe Open Eye Theater in Margaretville, Delaware County, NY, will celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New York State with a new musical, Seneca Falls, to debut July 20th.

Written by Karen Howes, with music by Elliot Sokolov, the musical traces the beginnings of the Suffrage movement from 1848 to 1882.

Seneca Falls takes its name from the first Women’s Rights Convention which took place at that location, one hundred sixty-nine years ago, on July 18 and 19, 1848. Although New York State finally granted women the right to vote in 1917, women weren’t given voting status nationally until the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. [Read more…] about New Play ‘Seneca Falls’ Debuting In Delaware County

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Seneca Falls

A Close Look at the Seneca Falls Historical Society

May 4, 2017 by William Hosley 3 Comments

Readers may be aware of the recent wave of disparagement around this notion that there are “too many house museums.” The “too many” campaign was launched about fifteen years ago by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in part to provide protective cover as they shifted more of the responsibility for their chain of house museums onto the communities where they are located; as they sold off others and also to make a point about adaptive reuse – that every old house worth saving does not need to become a museum – obviously.

It had corrosive effects and has influenced some organizations to disengage from past commitments. It has spawned a sub-culture of consultants offering themselves as a solution to sky-is- falling scenarios that they repeat at professional conferences and in various writings and lectures. To listen to most of what’s out there on the subject you’d think that Americans were turning their backs on local history at unprecedented levels and that the future of the past was grim and foreboding. [Read more…] about A Close Look at the Seneca Falls Historical Society

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Museums, Seneca Falls, womens history

Panel: Journalists to Discuss Free Press, First Amendment

March 16, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Women March in Seneca Falls will host a panel discussion of media professionals, “People for Free Press…a First Amendment Right,” on March 25, 2017 at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park. This non-partisan, inclusive event seeks to inform about the U.S. Constitution’s right of a free press. Panelists will focus remarks on the First Amendment right to a free press and their personal/professional experience with efforts in the US to diminish that right. A Q&A will follow the presentations. [Read more…] about Panel: Journalists to Discuss Free Press, First Amendment

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Journalism, Media, Seneca Falls, Women’s Rights National Historical Park

Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s 200th Birthday Celebration

November 23, 2015 by Olivia Twine 2 Comments

Inside Wesleyan ChapelElizabeth Cady Stanton’s 200th birthday dawned on November 12, 2015, my birthday. I used the occasion to drive the eight hours round-trip to Seneca Falls, NY to sit among the crowd of about 200 people at Wesleyan Chapel, the restored site of the legendary 1848 women’s rights convention.

The program sponsored by the Women’s Rights National Historic Park on November 14 was one of two programs in New York State designed to bring attention to this historic figure. The large turnout at Cooper Union in New York City for Stanton’s birthday on November 12 was another indication of the increased interest and honor being paid to New York’s historic women in the first wave of the movement that started in the Finger Lakes region. [Read more…] about Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s 200th Birthday Celebration

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Gender History, Political History, Seneca Falls, Suffrage Centennial, Suffrage Movement, Women's Rights NHP, womens history

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