Plan a multi-day visit to
Adams,
MA while staying at the comfortable
1896 House Inn, on
Saturday, visit the
Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum
and then on Sunday, listen to a lovely concert honoring the "daughter of
Adams".
Susan B. Anthony
Birthday Concert to Feature “Only the Message Mattered,” Sunday February 19,
2011
The annual event for Susan B. Anthony will feature “an
absolutely gorgeous piece of music” to honor the “daughter of Adams.”
And will present the original music and narrative, “Only the Message Mattered,”
by composer/musician Bob Warren.
The concert, at 3:00 pm, Sunday, February 19, Adams Free Library,
92 Park Street, will honor one of the
world’s greatest human rights leaders and “daughter of Adams,” Susan B.
Anthony. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
The event is co-hosted by the Adams Historical Society and
funded in part from a grant from Mass Humanities. Bob Warren wrote the piece in 2010 with a grant from the New
York State Council on the Arts for an ensemble of three singers/narrators and
two instrumentalists. Performing in Adams on
February 19, in simple Quaker dress, will be singer/narrators Brittany Rivers,
Barbara Skiff, Rebecca Rogers, cellist Demetria Koninis and Bob Warren on
piano.
For more information, contact the Adams Free Library,
413-743-8345, or the Susan
B. Anthony
Birthplace Museum,
413-743-7121.
Susan B.
Anthony Birthplace
Museum (20 minutes
from the 1896 House)
67 East Road
Adams, MA 01220
413-743-7121
The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, Inc. is a
not-for-profit corporation, dedicated to preserving the birthplace and raising
public awareness of the wide-ranging legacy of the great social reformer, Susan
B. Anthony, who was a pioneering feminist and suffragist as well as a
noteworthy figure in the abolitionist, opposition to Restellism, and temperance
movements of the 19th century. As part
of its mission, the Museum will highlight the familial and regional influences
which shaped Ms. Anthony’s early life, by displaying the textiles and
furnishings of that period, as well as the literature and other memorabilia
associated with her later career.
Museum’s hours and
schedule:
October 14, 2010 - May 28, 2011
Thursday, Friday & Saturday 10am - 4pm
- or - Call the Birthplace office and request a special
tour.
One can tour the five room home in less than an hour.
Admission is $5 for adults
$3 for seniors and children
Free for children under 6 years of age.
This rural, Federal-style home was the birthplace and
childhood home of Susan Brownell Anthony, an advocate for temperance and the
rights of women. She was born in 1820 and lived in the house until the age of
seven. She later returned here several times throughout her life. Anthony’s
family had a long tradition in the Quaker Society of Friends, and she was
raised to value the precepts of society, humility, simplicity, and in
particular, equality. Anthony received a broad education and undoubtedly
incorporated the instruction she received in this rural home into her later
career. As an adult, Anthony went on to be educated as a teacher in Philadelphia and taught
in various schools from 1835 to 1860, earning 1/3 of the salary paid to her
male cohorts. Frustrated by the restrictions placed on her because of her
gender, Anthony moved to her family’s home in New York in 1849. There, she became an associate
of Fredrick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, leaders in the anti-slavery
movement before the Civil War. Already an advocate of temperance and a good
friend of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she also endorsed rights for women and in
1869 helped found the National Woman’s Suffrage Association. Anthony cast a
ballot in the 1872 presidential election and was arrested and fined $100 by a
judge who directed the jury to find her guilty. She refused to pay, but because
the judgment was never enforced, she could not appeal to the Supreme Court.
In 1892, she became the National Woman’s Suffrage
Association’s president. Susan B. Anthony did not live to see women get the
right to vote, for she died in 1906, 13 years before the 19th amendment was
passed.
