Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship...
| Hours: | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free |
| Category: | Learn Something |
All ages are invited to attend. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, visit www.susanbanthonybirthplace.org or call 413-743-7121.
Award-winning author Penny Colman talks about the friendship between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Ms. Colman will discuss her research, writing process, and the life lessons she learned from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and their unbreakable friendship that lasted 51 years.
It was a friendship that fueled and sustained the 19th-century fight for women's rights, a fight they relentlessly waged despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements, and betrayal by friends and allies.
This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
About Penny Colman: Penny Colman is the award-winning author of biographies and social histories on a wide range of significant and intriguing topics, including fascinating women. In addition, she does extensive picture research and takes photographs for her books. She has appeared on television and radio -- with Linda Wertheimer on “Morning Edition,” National Public Radio, and Book TV and C-Span2. She recently narrated a documentary, “Pioneering Women War Correspondents,” which was based on her book, “Where the Action Was: Women War Correspondents in World War II.” A popular speaker and teacher, Colman has taught nonfiction literature and creative writing at colleges and universities, including Queens College and The City University of New York, where she was a Distinguished Lecturer. She teaches at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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67 East Road, Adams, MA, 01220 map
Phone: 413-743-7121
67 East Road, Adams, MA
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