Past Event: A Slide Show and Lecture by Susan Wilson, Author and Historian Sunday, October 23, 2016 2 pm Forest Hills Cemetery 95 Forest Hills Street Jamaica Plain Trace the origins and development of many of Boston’s most enterprising women and the theories behind their unique … [Read more...] about Remembering the Ladies
Past Events
The 1835 Women’s March of Courage
CELEBRATING WOMEN'S COURAGE The 1835 Women's March of Courage Tuesday, October 25, 5:30 PM 14 Beacon Street, lst Floor in the Community Room Speakers: Shay Stewart-Bouley Activist and Writer Horace Seldon, Garrison Scholar In 1835 when an angry anti-abolition crowd almost lynched William … [Read more...] about The 1835 Women’s March of Courage
New Play about Anna Coleman Ladd
UNMASKED Anna Coleman Ladd and the Masks of WWI A free Playwrights Reading Room Public Reading by Patti Cassidy Thursday November 10 7:00 PM at Watertown Free Public Library 123 Main Street Watertown Boston sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd founded a studio in Paris to create cosmetic masks for … [Read more...] about New Play about Anna Coleman Ladd
Naval Ships Named for Stone and Truth
Two new naval ships were named today after two important women in history: suffragist Lucy Stone and abolitionist/women's rights activist Sojourner Truth. This unusual gathering was held at the BPL on Sept. 19 as members of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail, the Mayor's Office of Women's … [Read more...] about Naval Ships Named for Stone and Truth
A Family of Common Zeal
Fierce devotion to reform and equality is the dominant theme running through the exhibition Women of the Blackwell Family: Resilience and Change, now on view at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge. For more information http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu Portrait of Lucy Stone … [Read more...] about A Family of Common Zeal
The Nichols Family and Their Neighbors: Progressive Era Women on Beacon Hill
Join the Nichols House Museum and the Boston Women's Heritage Trail on a walk around Beacon Hill focusing on the many reform-minded women who lived there at the turn of the twentieth century, including the Nichols sisters, Rose (pictured), Marian and Margaret Saturday, July 23 and Wednesday, … [Read more...] about The Nichols Family and Their Neighbors: Progressive Era Women on Beacon Hill