Many of Elizabeth Cady’s convictions developed during her summers spent in Peterboro at the home of her cousin Gerrit Smith. (She also met Henry B. Stanton in Peterboro!) With recognition of the strong women’s rights history, including Peterboro’s own Elizabeth Smith Miller’s bloomers, Peterboro heritage sites will provide a variety of programs on 19th C. women’s history during the summer of 2011.
The Annual Peterboro Civil War Weekend is more than a military demonstration. The weekend encampment demonstrates the important role of women at the campsites, in the homes, and behind the political scenes. Women reenactors wear the apparel of the mid-1800s, cook meals, care for children, nurse the injured, and maintain belongings on Saturday and Sunday, June 11 and 12. Sutlers carry period items for dress and home that the public can purchase. Terry Jordan, a sutler (period vendor) from Florida, provides a program explaining and demonstrating items of dress that a 19th Century woman would wear. Maxine Getty will provide a program both days at Civil War Weekend on the U.S. Sanitary Commission, an effort by women to provide health and medical services not available from the government.
The Annual Peterboro Civil War Weekend is more than a military demonstration. The weekend encampment demonstrates the important role of women at the campsites, in the homes, and behind the political scenes. Women reenactors wear the apparel of the mid-1800s, cook meals, care for children, nurse the injured, and maintain belongings on Saturday and Sunday, June 11 and 12. Sutlers carry period items for dress and home that the public can purchase. Terry Jordan, a sutler (period vendor) from Florida, provides a program explaining and demonstrating items of dress that a 19th Century woman would wear. Maxine Getty will provide a program both days at Civil War Weekend on the U.S. Sanitary Commission, an effort by women to provide health and medical services not available from the government.
The Smithfield Community Center in Peterboro will also be a site for the Oneida Public Library National Endowment for the Humanities program on Louisa May Alcott at 2:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon May 22. Thanks to the New York Council for the Humanities Speakers in the Humanities program, Dr. Milton C. Sernett presents Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory and History at 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 17. Tubman received financial and moral support during her visits to Gerrit Smith of Peterboro. The next Sunday at 2 p.m. the Speakers in the Humanities program sponsors a program by Nancy Rubin Stuart on Maggie Fox: Victorian America’s Reluctant Spiritualist. Maggie was one of the famous spiritualist Fox Sisters who visited many locations in the country -including Peterboro.
The legacy of Harriet Russell, whose freedom was purchased in 1841 in Kentucky by the Smiths of Peterboro, will be honored at Emancipation Day on Saturday, August 6 with activities facilitated by the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark Laundry Squad Emancipation Day
Equality Day 2011 will be observed in Peterboro by two presentations on three women who led the women’s rights movement. On Saturday August 27 at 2 p.m. author Penny Colman will present Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World, and sign her new book by the same name. The next day Dr. Carol Faulkner presents her new biography Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s History in 19th Century America.
The Annual Elizabeth Smith Miller In the Kitchen Bloomer Tea will be held on Sunday, September 25 with Dr. Judith Wellman speaking on Peterboro and the Road to Seneca Falls. Debra Kolstrud, from Elizabeth Cady’s Hometown Project in Johnstown will also present at the tea.
The women’s role in the 19th Century Temperance movement will be recognized in Christina Lundt’s program The Lips that Touch Liquor Will Never Touch Mine! at 2 p.m. on Sunday October 16.
The 2011 season closes Saturday November 26 at the Peterboro Mercantile with tribute to the staunch and dynamic abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, and her famous song for the season Over the River and Through the Woods.
For more information and updates , follow www.sca-peterboro.org and www.AbolitionHoF.org
The legacy of Harriet Russell, whose freedom was purchased in 1841 in Kentucky by the Smiths of Peterboro, will be honored at Emancipation Day on Saturday, August 6 with activities facilitated by the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark Laundry Squad Emancipation Day
Equality Day 2011 will be observed in Peterboro by two presentations on three women who led the women’s rights movement. On Saturday August 27 at 2 p.m. author Penny Colman will present Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World, and sign her new book by the same name. The next day Dr. Carol Faulkner presents her new biography Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s History in 19th Century America.
The Annual Elizabeth Smith Miller In the Kitchen Bloomer Tea will be held on Sunday, September 25 with Dr. Judith Wellman speaking on Peterboro and the Road to Seneca Falls. Debra Kolstrud, from Elizabeth Cady’s Hometown Project in Johnstown will also present at the tea.
The women’s role in the 19th Century Temperance movement will be recognized in Christina Lundt’s program The Lips that Touch Liquor Will Never Touch Mine! at 2 p.m. on Sunday October 16.
The 2011 season closes Saturday November 26 at the Peterboro Mercantile with tribute to the staunch and dynamic abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, and her famous song for the season Over the River and Through the Woods.
For more information and updates , follow www.sca-peterboro.org and www.AbolitionHoF.org
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