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Thursday, November 30, 2006 Ellen K. Wheeler

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Susan B. Anthony House honors volunteers

 

 

Rochester, NY—The Susan B. Anthony House honored its 110 and more volunteers on Tuesday, November 28, with a reception and recognition ceremony held in downtown Rochester.

Altogether the volunteers donated more than 6200 hours in the past 12 months to keeping Miss Anthony’s house open and legacy alive for the thousands of visitors who come each year to this National Historic Landmark.

Three volunteers—Colleen Hurst, Mary Huth, and Beverly Vaughan—were honored for more than 16 years of service.

Volunteers at the Susan B. Anthony House provide a variety of vital services that enable the museum to welcome thousands of guests each year. They come from all over the Rochester region (Monroe, Livingston, Ontario, Genesee, Wayne counties) to serve as docents, gift-shop volunteers, receptionists, special-projects volunteers, and committee members. Their work keeps this historic treasure open as one of Rochester’s major tourist attractions for people from all over the country and the world.

 

The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.  We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, educational and interpretive programs, and the Internet.  The Susan B. Anthony House is supported primarily through the contributions of its members. The Susan B. Anthony House is not affiliated with other organizations bearing her name.

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Monday, October 30, 2006 Ellen K. Wheeler

Director of Development & Public Relations

(585) 279-7490, ext. 12

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Helen Barrett Montgomery Comes to Tea

 

Rochester, NY— On November 13th, Sally Dodgson will portray Helen Barrett Montgomery — Rochester’s first female public official and one of Rochester’s most prominent women in the early twentieth century.  Hear Miss Montgomery reminisce about her deep friendship and vital collaboration with woman’s rights advocate, Susan B. Anthony—including their struggle to secure women’s admittance to the University of Rochester in 1900.

This 90-minute program, second in the monthly According to Anthony series that takes place from September to June, begins at noon in the Carriage House behind the Susan B. Anthony House Visitors Center at 19 Madison Street.  Tickets, at $20 per person, are available by calling 279-7490, ext. 10, before November 10. The event includes a catered lunch from  Plunkett’s Fabulous Foods.

The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.  We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, educational and interpretive programs, and the Internet.  The Susan B. Anthony House is supported primarily through the contributions of its members. The Susan B. Anthony House is not affiliated with other organizations bearing her name.

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Thursday, October 12, 2006 Ellen K. Wheeler

Director of Development & Public Relations

(585) 279-7490, ext. 12

 

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Celebrate Your Vote

with the Friends of Susan B. Anthony House

 

Rochester, NY—The Friends of the Susan B. Anthony House invite the community to its inaugural event, Celebrate Your Vote, on Sunday, October 29, 2006. The event begins at 3 p.m. with high tea at the Rochester Club Ballroom, followed by a screening of a newly edited, 90-minute presentation of Ken Burns’ Not for Ourselves Alone at the Little Theater at 4:30 p.m. The event recognizes the 72-year-long struggle to win voting rights for women—finally achieved with the ratification of the 19^th amendment in 1920—and celebrates the lifetime work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to bring full rights of citizenship to women.

Tickets are on sale now at 585-381-2121 and at the Susan B. Anthony House at 17 Madison Street, 14608. Event tickets are $40.00, or $20.00 for the movie alone. Seating is limited.

Celebrate your Vote is the inaugural event of The Friends of the Susan B. Anthony House, an organization founded in 2006 by Betsy Stanton and Jolene Smith, to increase awareness of and raise funds for this National Historic Landmark house, Miss Anthony’s home from 1866 to 1906 and the headquarters for the national campaign for woman suffrage.

The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.  We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, educational and interpretive programs, and the Internet.  The Susan B. Anthony House is supported primarily through the contributions of its members. The Susan B. Anthony House is not affiliated with other organizations bearing her name

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Monday, October 2, 2006 Ellen K. Wheeler

Director of Development & Public Relations

(585) 279-7490, ext. 12

 

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Celebrate Your Vote

with the Friends of Susan B. Anthony House

 

Rochester, NY—The Friends of the Susan B. Anthony House invite the community to its inaugural event, Celebrate Your Vote, on Sunday, October 29, 2006. The event begins at 3 p.m. with high tea at the Rochester Club Ballroom, followed by a screening of Ken Burns’ Not for Ourselves Alone at the Little Theater at 4:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale now at 585-381-2121 and at the Susan B. Anthony House at 17 Madison Street, 14608. Event tickets are $40.00, or $20.00 for the movie alone. Seating is limited.

Celebrate your Vote is the inaugural event of The Friends of the Susan B. Anthony House, an organization founded in 2006 by Betsy Stanton and Jolene Smith. The goal of the organization is to increase awareness of the House museum and raise additional funds for the House.

The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.  We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, educational and interpretive programs, and the Internet.  The Susan B. Anthony House is supported primarily through the contributions of its members. The Susan B. Anthony House is not affiliated with other organizations bearing her name.

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Monday, September 25, 2006 Ellen K. Wheeler

Director of Development & Public Relations

(585) 279-7490, ext. 12

 

Susan B. Anthony House welcomes Robert J. Cooney, Jr. for  presentation on suffrage

 

Rochester, NY—Robert J. Cooney, Jr., author and graphic designer, will deliver a lecture and slide presentation based on his extraordinary book, “Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement,” at the next According to Anthony luncheon-lecture program, October 9th from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Carriage House behind the Susan B. Anthony House Visitors Center at 19 Madison Street.

The slide presentation will draw from the book’s 960 photographs, posters, leaflets, cartoons, campaign buttons, and more that illustrate—with color, intensity, indignation, and humor—the first great non-violent civil-right movement in the 20th century.  While the movement covered a 72-year span, from 1848 to1920, his presentation will focus on the early twentieth century and the remarkable personalities and turbulent political campaigns, parades, and tactics used to win the vote in New York state. A book signing will follow.

Tickets are available by calling 279-7490, ext. 10, before Oct. 6th.

Tickets are $20; the event includes a delicious lunch from Plunkett’s Fabulous Foods.

The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.  We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, educational and interpretive programs, and the Internet.  The Susan B. Anthony House is supported primarily through the contributions of its members. The Susan B. Anthony House is not affiliated with other organizations bearing her name.

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September 13, 2006 Ellen K. Wheeler

Director of Development & Public Relations

(585) 279-7490, ext. 12

Susan B. Anthony House seeks volunteers

Rochester, NY—The Susan B. Anthony House is in need of volunteers to serve as tour guides, greeters, and museum shop attendants, as more and more visitors come to the House to be inspired by the remarkable woman who lived here for 40 years and to see the wonderful interior restoration now underway.

Register now for the training sessions for new volunteers to be from 9-11 a.m. October 7, 14, and 21. Call our volunteer liaison at 585-235-6124, ext. 16. Volunteers must attend all training sessions to become certified.

Volunteers at the Susan B. Anthony House share a deep commitment to preserving this national treasure—the home and belongings of Susan B. Anthony—and to sharing the story of her exceptional courage and determination. The woman’s rights activist and education reformer lived at 17 Madison Street during the most politically active period of her life, from 1866 until her death in 1906.

Volunteers inspire visitors with Miss Anthony’s still timely and relevant story. Their time commitment can be as little as a few hours, once or twice a month.

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The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.  We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, educational and interpretive programs, and the Internet.  The Susan B. Anthony House is supported primarily through the contributions of its members. The Susan B. Anthony House is not affiliated with other organizations bearing her name.

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Monday, August 14, 2006 Ellen K. Wheeler

Director of Development & Public Relations

(585) 279-7490, ext. 12

Susan B. Anthony House and Neighborhood Association to Celebrate 19^th Amendment

Rochester, NY—The Susan B. Anthony House and Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood Association invite one and all to celebrate the ratification of the 19^th amendment—giving women the right to vote—on Sunday, August 20, 2005, from 11 am to 4 pm at the Susan B. Anthony Park and Susan B. Anthony House on Madison Street.

The festival includes tours of the House and neighborhood homes and gardens, as well as music in the Park, 19^th century games, family activities, and a scavenger hunt—all free of charge.

Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, and other historic figures will make appearances.

The event is open to the public.

Background: The Susan B. Anthony House was Anthony’s home during the most politically active period of her life and the site of her famous arrest for voting in 1872. Anthony’ story of courage and determination has been told and retold to visitors for more than 60 years. The Susan B. Anthony House, a National Historic Landmark, is supported primarily through the contributions of its members.

Mission Statement: The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.  We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, educational and interpretive programs, and our website at www.susanbanthonyhouse.org.

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Monday, August 14, 2006 Ellen K. Wheeler

Director of Development & Public Relations

(585) 279-7490, ext. 12

Louise Slaughter and Maggie Brooks to Speak at 19^th Amendment Celebration in Susan B. Anthony’s Neighborhood

Rochester, NY—Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass will be on hand Sunday, August 20, for the annual 19^th Amendment Festival commemorating the ratification of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote.

The festival will take place both at the Susan B. Anthony House and in the Susan B. Anthony Park from 11—4 p.m. The festival includes tours of the House and neighborhood homes and gardens, as well music in the Park, 19^th century games, family activities, and a scavenger hunt—all free of charge.

The Susan B. Anthony House was Anthony’s home during the most politically active period of her life and the site of her famous arrest for voting in 1872. Anthony’ story of courage and determination has been told and retold to visitors for more than 50 years. The Susan B. Anthony House, a National Historic Landmark Museum, is supported primarily through the contributions of its members.

Mission Statement: The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.  We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, educational and interpretive programs, and our website at www.susanbanthonyhouse.org.

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Thursday, March 16, 2006 Ellen K. Wheeler

Director of Development

(585) 279-7490, ext. 12

House to re-enact the funeral of Susan B. Anthony

Rochester, NY—The Susan B. Anthony House announces that it will present an historically accurate re-enactment of Susan B. Anthony’s funeral on Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hochstein School of Music, the site of Miss Anthony’s funeral on March 17, 1906, when it was Central Presbyterian Church. The event is free and open to the public.

The service will present the event in all its detail as it took place in 1906. Individuals who participated in the service will be portrayed by prominent Rochesterians, and their exact words will be read. Dr. Joel Seligman, President of the University of Rochester, will portray Dr. Rush Rhees, university president in 1906. Arlette Miller Smith, Dean of Multi-Cultural Affairs and Diversity Programs at St. John Fisher College, will portray Mrs. R. Jerome (Hester C.) Jeffrey, national human rights leader and founder of the Susan B. Anthony Club for African-American women and girls. William Lloyd Garrison, the son of the famous abolitionist, who grew up calling Miss Anthony “Aunt Susan”—such was the closeness of the two families, will be portrayed by William B. Morse, III, president of Morse Lumber Co. and past trustee of the Susan B. Anthony House. The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, president in 1906 of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, will be portrayed by the Rev. Kaaren Anderson of the First Unitarian Church. The Rev. Gordon Webster and the Rev. Pat Youngdahl, co-pastors of Downtown United Presbyterian Church, will portray the Central Presbyterian Church ministers who participated in the service in 1906.

The service will include a casket provided by Anthony Funeral and Cremation Chapels, flowers (matching those used at the funeral) arranged by the Associated Florists of Greater Rochester, (Michael Miller, President), and music performed by the Eastman Quartet and the choir of the First Unitarian Church. Eight students from the University of Rochester will serve as honor guards, just as occurred in 1906.

Re-enactment committee chairperson, Martha Johnson, explained that the inspiration for this event came originally from Susan B. Anthony House docent Mary Huth, Assistant Director of Rare Books and Special Collections at the U of R’s Rush Rhees Library.  Ms. Johnson commented, “The committee’s goal was to re-enact in precise detail the service as it took place one hundred years ago this month.”

One example of that precision was the committee’s search for the music to a particular hymn that was sung at Miss Anthony’s funeral. Lowell E. Salyards of the Downtown United Presbyterian Church kindly took on the search with help from Carol Tuzzeo of Rundel Library, Gerry Syzmanski of the Sibley Music Library of the Eastman School, and ultimately Gloria J. Korsman of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School.  The music was found and will be sung on March 25.

Another example of the detail sought and achieved by the committee is the generous loan (weather permitting) of a circa 1906 Cunningham hearse by the Granger Homestead Society, Inc. that will be on display outside the Hochstein School during the event. Earlier ideas to transport the casket from #17 Madison Street to the Hochstein School in the hearse, complete with a team of horses pulling it down West Main Street, had to be scrapped when it was learned that operation in 2006, as opposed to 1906, would require a parade permit and police escort.

Various friends, volunteers, and staff of the Susan B. Anthony House will dress in period clothing and portray members of the Anthony family. Representatives of many of the groups that attended Miss Anthony’s funeral and were associated with her life and work will also attend, including the Irondequoit Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, (of which Miss Anthony was a member), the Women’s Union, the Rochester Federation of Women’s Clubs (which Miss Anthony started), the League of Women Voters, among others. Rochester public schools in the neighborhood of the Susan B. Anthony House were also invited to attend.

The major sources for the detail of the ceremony are the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle report of Friday, March 16, 2006, the Rochester Herald of the same day, and the biography of Susan B. Anthony by Ida Husted Harper. Susan B. Anthony House volunteers, Colleen Hurst and Mary Ellen Sweeney, provided extensive research for the project.

Media is invited to attend (no flash photography, please) and cover the event as it would a state funeral for a present-day prominent American citizen.

The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.  We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, educational and interpretive programs, and the Internet.  The Susan B. Anthony House is supported primarily through the contributions of its members. The Susan B. Anthony House is not affiliated with other organizations bearing her name.

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Tuesday, March 07, 2006 Ellen K. Wheeler

Director of Development

(585) 279-7490, ext. 12

Susan B. Anthony House to observe

Miss Anthony’s death

Rochester, NY—The Susan B. Anthony House will observe the 100^th anniversary of Miss Anthony’s death next Monday, March 13, 2006 with the hanging of the funeral wreath on the front door of #17 Madison Street at 1:30 p.m.  Susan B. Anthony died in her bedroom on the second floor of #17 Madison Street on March 13, 1906, at the age of 86.

The House also announces that it will present an historically accurate re-enactment of Susan B. Anthony’s funeral on Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hochstein School, the site of her funeral on March 17, 1906 when it was Central Presbyterian Church. The event is free and open to the public. It will include the music, readings, eulogies, homily, and speeches as delivered in 1906.

The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all.  We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, educational and interpretive programs, and the Internet.  The Susan B. Anthony House is supported primarily through the contributions of its members. The Susan B. Anthony House is not affiliated with other organizations bearing her name.