Dedication of the Brighton Allston Heritage Museum’s “Women of Vision” Exhibit - Read the
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008
6:30-8:30 pm
Brighton Allston Heritage Museum
Veronica Smith Senior Center
20 Chestnut Hill Ave.
Brighton Center, MA 02135
617-635-1436
Brighton-born Regis College President Mary Jane England will officiate at the opening.
http://heritagemuseum.blogspot.com/2008/04/help-build-women-of-vision-exhibition.html
http://www.bahistory.org
This exhibition illustrates the role of women in American life, as portrayed by the examples of 16 remarkable women and women's organizations in Allston-Brighton over the past 250 years.
These individuals and organizations are representative of the many women
throughout America who fought and marched against sex discrimination and inequality in economic, social, cultural, governmental, and religious institutions. These courageous struggles which have helped secure a high degree of gender equality in American society deserve to be celebrated.
An illustrated guide to the Brighton-Allston Women’s Heritage Trail will be available for those wishing to take self-guided tours of the local trail.
The exhibition will run through April 30, 2009.
Women's Heritage Walking Tour of the Back Bay
Starting in Copley Square (the BPL) and ending at the Boston Women's Memorial (unveiled in 2003). Focusing on women of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the sites demonstrate the high energy devoted by women to the arts and education.
email:
walkBWHT@gmail.org
Brighton-Allston Women's Heritage Trail Bus Tour:
A Herstory of Brighton's Forgotten Women
Sunday 28 October,
2 to 4pm
email: Peg Collins -
ccndpcllns@comcast.net or phone (617) 782 -9328 to reserve a spot among the 50 [free of charge] total seats for the narrated event of the Women's History Group/Brighton-Allston Historical Society (BAHS)!
Bus tour itinerary with a list of the stops, arranged geographically:
Beginning Point:
Brighton-Allston Heritage Museum, 20 Chestnut Hill Ave., Brighton
Brighton Center & Vicinity points of interest:
- First Parish Church site, corner Washington & Market Streets, Brighton Center (H. Foster)
- First Parish Church Parsonage, Academy Hill Road, near Brighton Center (H. Foster)
- Smith-Winship House, Peaceable Street (H. Foster)
- Hathaway Mansion, Chestnut Hill Ave., site of the Thomson House (E. R. Thomson)
- Eldredge House, Dighton Street (Fanny Fern)
- Foster Street House (H. Foster & Fanny Fern)
- Worcester House site, north west corner Washington & Foster Streets (S. Worcester)
- Congregational Church, 404 Washington St., Brighton Center (S. Worcester)
- Merwin House site, Brighton Center (M. J. Kingsley Merwin)
South of Brighton Center points of interest:
- Paul Revere Pottery, Nottinghill Road (E. Guerrier, E. Brown & H. Storrow)
- Judge Barron House, Selkirk Rd., Aberdeen (Judge Barron)
- Baldwin School, Corey Road, Aberdeen (H. Baldwin)
- Gifford Animal Shelter, Undine Rd. (E. M. Gifford)
- Gallagher Memorial on Chandler Pond (Alice Gallagher)
Oak Square area points of interest:
- Faneuil Bethune Estate site, Faneuil Street at Dunboy (M.A. Faneuil Bethune)
- Gallagher House, 21 Oak Square Ave. (A. Gallagher)
- Marie Augusta Neal birthplace, Newton Street
East of Brighton Center points of interest:
- St. Elizabeth's School of Nursing
- Brighthelmstone Club, Cambridge S., Allston (H. Baldwin)
- Smith Residence, Athol St., North Allston
- Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse - inside visit; and Mt. St. Joseph's Academy, Cambridge St.
