Spider Hunt & Halloween Games OCTOBER 31, 2012 - 5-7PM
Join the museum for old-fashion fun as we offer traditional Halloween activities like apples on a string, bobbing for apples and a walk through the house for a scavenger hunt- counting all of the scary spiders! Each child will receive a spooky good treat and a coupon for $1 off adult admission good until August 2013. No fear parents, all events are suitable for young children! Free.
Peace Expert and Quaker Rachel M. MacNair to Speak
at the
Quaker Meeting House
Adams, MA – September 17, 2012 – Psychology-of-peace expert and Quaker Rachel M. MacNair, Ph.D., speaks about Quaker history and beliefs and how they impacted Susan B. Anthony, the state of Massachusetts and the nation. MacNair will speak at the Quaker Meeting House, Corner of Friend and Maple streets, Maple Street Cemetery, Adams, MA, as part of the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum’s event series, Peace, Justice and Women—Changing the World, 3:00 pm, Sunday, October 7. A reception will follow the talk. Free.
For more information, visit www.susanbanthonybirthplace.org or call 413-743-7121.
“To understand how vital the work of Susan B. Anthony was, we need to understand her religious upbringing and the dynamics of social activism of her time,” says MacNair. “These two points are connected, inasmuch as the Religious Society of Friends – Quakers – was in the forefront of activism on gender and racial equality as well as other matters of peace and social justice.”
Quakers had a belief in gender equality when they first began in the 17th century in England, including some of my MacNair’s own ancestors. As early as the 1600s, women such as Margaret Fell were writing essays with biblical arguments in favor of the equality of men and women. Women as well as men were writing extensive journals of their spiritual life journeys, which were commonly read by other Quakers and built up the community’s feelings about their beliefs in social equality, including gender, race, nation, class, and respect for other religions.
A longstanding active Quaker who went to a Quaker college (Earlham College in Indiana), MacNair has experience in the practices and thinking processes of Quakers and has done coursework in Quaker history. Her academic area of expertise, however, is the psychology of peace, which among other things deals with the psychological dynamics of social movements and advocacy. In particular, she has served as co-editor for some of Anthony’s historical writings on these topics.
MacNair is the author of a college textbook, The Psychology of Peace: An Introduction, published by Praeger in 1993 with its second edition due out soon. She has also written a version of this topic for children, Gaining Mind of Peace:
Why Violence Happens and How to Stop It. MacNair serves as president of the American Psychological Association’s Division 48, Peace Psychology, and also has a great deal of experience conveying information to a lay audience, including young people, both in written material and in dozens of speaking engagements and over a hundred radio interviews.
The Birthplace Museum’s 2012 event series 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, and grants from Adams Community Bank and Greylock Federal Credit Union. MacNair’s talk is the final event in Birthplace Museum’s 2012 event series.
The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum is located at 67 East Road, Adams, MA. For more information, visit www.susanbanthonybirthplace.org or e-mail info@susanbanthonybirthplace.org.
The Founding Mothers, Their Daughters and the Long Road
to Women’s Rights:
Historian Suzanne Schnittman Visits the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum,
September 9
Adams, MA – August 28, 2012 – Historian, writer and activist Suzanne Schnittman speaks about the ‘super moms’ of the 19th century, their daughters and the Women’s Rights Movement, as part of the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum’s event series, Peace, Justice and Women—Changing the World, 3:00 pm, Sunday, September 9, 67 East Road, Adams, MA. A wine and cheese reception will follow. The public is invited to attend free of charge. For more information, visit www.susanbanthonybirthplace.org or call 413-743-7121.
Mixing humorous stories with lesser-known facts, Schnittman reveals surprises she discovered about America’s Founding Mothers and their daughter from letters they exchanged during a 100-year period. Says Schnittman, “We might expect daughters of 19th century woman's rights leaders, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, mother of seven children, to have followed their mothers into active advocacy for suffrage. In truth, mothers held other expectations. Their daughters should be able to manage a household, plant a garden, mend their own clothing, and be sufficiently educated to support themselves.”
In her talk, Schnittman focuses on four prominent women activists of the 19th century who gave birth to at least one daughter. Like present day ‘super moms,’ these women juggled their work for abolition, women’s rights and women’s suffrage with domestic duties. Like many contemporary moms, they found it a sacrifice to divide their loyalties between home and the road. “The Founding Mothers reflected the vital role of all mothers in all eras. I hope my readers enjoy sharing their lives as much as I have loved writing about them,” says Schnittman.
The Birthplace Museum event series 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, and grants from Adams Community Bank and Greylock Federal Credit Union.
August 19, 2012
Award Winning Author Penny Colman
Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum Hosts Award-Winning Author Penny Colman, August 19
Adams, MA – The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, 67 East Road, Adams, MA, will host Penny Colman, award-winning author of the new book, “Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World,” at 3:00 pm, Sunday, August 19. All ages are invited to attend. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, visit www.susanbanthonybirthplace.org or call 413-743-7121.
Ms. Colman will talk about her research and writing process, and discuss the life lessons she learned from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and their unbreakable friendship that lasted fifty-one years. Stanton and Anthony’s friendship fueled and sustained the 19th century fight for women's rights, a fight they relentless waged despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements and betrayal by friends and allies.
“Penny Colman has brilliantly captured the partnership between my great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony,” says Coline Jenkins, President of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Trust.
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.
June 28, 2012
Family Day - Susan B. Anthony Days Kick-Off
Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 1:00 PM
Birthplace Museum, 67 East Road, Adams
Kick-off event to “Susan B. Anthony Days,” Adams, MA
Two shows: 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm, Saturday, July 28, at the Birthplace Museum, 67 East Road, Adams, MA
Family Day will feature Old Sturbridge Village’s Robert Olson, portraying Mr. E.A. Davis, a magician from the 1870s. Davis was one of hundreds of performers who traveled the country in that time period, entertaining families in private homes and in public. In this program, adults and children will participate in the magic of the Victorian era and acquire a better understanding of and excitement for history. Before and after shows, families will have the opportunity to view, in the yard and garden, the new life-size figures of Anthony as a child and tour her childhood home. Refreshments. Sponsored in part by the Northern Berkshire Cultural Council. $4 per person, age 3 and under, free.
June 12, 2012
Berkshire Quilters Replicate Susan B. Anthony’s Quilt
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March 18, 2012
Regis College Women's History Month Program
Sean Carollo, from the new Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, MA, will speak at Regis College’s Spellman Museum of Stamps & Postal History, 235 Wellesley Street, Weston, MA, as part of its Women’s History Month program, Sunday, March 18. Anthony family descendent and Boston resident, Eric Anthony will be on hand to talk about his special connection to the great human rights leader.
Hours for the daylong family program are Noon-4:00 pm.
Adults $8.00; seniors and students $5.00; children age 5-16 $3.00;
Stamp Museum members and children under 5 are free.
On the day of the event, anyone named “Susan” will be admitted free.
Regis College is located 12 miles west of Boston.
Carol Crossed - Guest Speaker at Seneca Falls Museum
March 23, 2012, Carol Crossed will speaking at the Seneca Falls Museum in Seneca Falls, NY. Crossed will be speaking on the Birthplace Museum collection of Suffrage Ephemera.
2012 Susan B. Anthony Days - TBA
2012 Event Series Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum
The Birthplace MuseumEvent Series presents experts on local history and the history of women’s rights.
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The 2012 Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum event series will feature theatrical performances, guest lectures by accomplished historians and scholars, authors, and local artisans. Please check back weekly to view 2012 event series topics and guests.
Future events include award winning author Jeanne Gehret, Penny Colman, Scholar Rachel MacNair, Ph.D., digital artist Diana Walzak, Women’s Historian Suzanne Schnittman, Ph.D., and textile artist Gail Miller.
The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum is a proud recipient of a Mass Humanities grant for the 2012 event series. We gratefully acknowledge their support of this exciting event series developed by the Birthplace Museum as a free and educational event for all members of the community.
The Birthplace Museum was recently restored and opened in the spring of 2010. For more information, contact the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, 413-743-7121, or visit www.susanbanthonybirthplace.com.
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.
Image of Susan B. Anthony, at age 6,
revealed
Susan B. Anthony Childhood Image Production Description
Diana Walczak, with the help of her team at Synthespian Studios, Inc. of Williamstown, MA created the high-quality digitally-produced illustration of Susan B. Anthony as she may have looked as a six-year-old Quaker child in 1826.
 The project started with a historical search for reference photos of Susan B. Anthony, Quaker clothing and styling, as well as taking photographs of the hearth at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum. Diana did research on Susan B. Anthony’s life as a child to get a feel for the subject. After planning a composition of the six-year-old standing in front of the hearth, Diana worked with 3D digital artist, Travis Pinnsonault, who built a 3D digital database of the little girl based on Walczak’s sketches. Because there are no existing images of Susan B. Anthony as a child, the team had to work with adult photos. “We were fortunate to find 2 frontal images of Susan’s face, one at age 28 and one at age 32. Both images show that her eye and eyebrow were higher on her right side than on her left and that her right mouth corner was higher than her left as well. We incorporated these features into our interpretation of a younger version of Susan B. Anthony’s facial structure,” explains Diana.
 Travis went on to texture and light the entire scene and render the one image using the same computer graphics processes Synthespian Studios uses in film and TV production. He then passed on the image with separate layers for Diana to complete in Photoshop. Diana balanced the layers, and painted new elements, such as hair, facial details, and a cozy fire which casts a warm glow on the little girl. “I tried to give the young Susan B. Anthony an innocent, yet curious and determined look,” Diana says, “I felt highly responsible to be as accurate as possible, deeply moved as our image gradually came to life, and truly honored to have had the opportunity to create a visualization of one of the world’s most important historical figures.”
Art contest
The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum is pleased to announce the winners of its artistic challenge to depict Susan B. Anthony as a child of six years old, the age at which she, with her family, moved from their Adams home. For the grade 9-12 category the first place winner is Veronica Sniezek, 11th grade, of Hoosac Valley High School, with her work, “Susan B. Anthony at a Young Age”. The second place award goes to Katherine E. Butler, 12th grade, also of Hoosac Valley High School for her, “Susan B. Anthony”. In the grade 4-8 category, first prize is awarded to Zoe Loughman, 8th grade, of St. Stanislaus Kostka School, for her work, “Susan as a Young Girl”. The second place winner is Martin Loughman, 7th grade, of St. Stanislaus Kostka School, for his, “Susan B. Anthony Picking Apples”.
In the K-3 group, the first place winner is Emily Godfrey, 2nd grade, of C.T. Plunkett Elementary School, for her, “Susan B. Anthony Picking Apples”. The second place winner is Aleah Tarjick, 1st grade, of Cheshire Elementary school, with an untitled work. In this final category, there are also three runners up: Malina Ziaja, 3rd grade, of C.T. Plunkett Elementary School, with “Susan in Summer”; Katie Scholz, Kindergarten, of C.T. Plunkett Elementary School, with “Susan B. Anthony Jumped Rope When She Was Little”; & Alicia Loughman, 3rd grade, St. Stanislaus Kostka School, with “Susan B. Anthony as a Little Girl”. The winners & runners up are invited to claim their prizes, and the public to view their work, at the Art on the Green event Saturday 24 July on the Adams Town Hall lawn, between 11 A.M & 3 P.M. Congratulations to all of our entries, for a job well done!
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Past Events
SBA Birthday Celebration
February 14, 2010- 2:00 PM
Memorial Hall
Adams Free Library
Adams, Massachusetts
SBABM Ribbon Cutting
February 14, 2010- 12:00 PM
67 East Road
Adams, Massachusetts
SBA Trial Reenactment
February 10, 2008- 3:00 PM
Adams, Massachusetts
Susan B. Anthony Days
July 30th - August 5, 2007
Adams, Massachusetts
Hi-Jinks Street Festival
July 30th, 6:00 PM
Rain Date, July 31st
Maple Street Cemetery Tour
Adams Historical Society
August 2nd, 7:00 PM
Adams, MA
Agricultural Fair
August 3-5th |
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