The Frances Perkins Center in Newcastle, Maine, hosted its 10th Annual Garden Party and Awards Ceremony at the Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark on Sunday, August 19.The event marked the 83rd anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act, one of Perkins’ major  accomplishments.

Boston Women’s Heritage Trail now includes the birthplace of Frances Perkins.Walk this self-guided tour of Boston’s South End and make sure to stop at #20a where Frances Perkins was born.http://bwht.org/south-end/

Worcester Historical Museum is excited to announce the launch of an important new digital resource. Worcester Historical Museum and the American Antiquarian Society have collaborated to digitize the institutions’ collections of Abby Kelley Foster papers. Both WHM and AAS hold substantial collections of Foster’s correspondence and papers, and although located less than two miles apart, the collections have been separated from each other and not readily available to the wider world.

Lynne McKenney Lydick and Yours for Humanity—Abby traveled to Ohio during Women’s History Month.  Above is an exhibit at Rodman Public Library in Alliance, Ohio.

If you know of an organization that might enjoy presenting the play, email info@wwhp.org and Lynne will make the contact.  There is a Q&A after the performance.

March 2018 . National Women’s History Month

Helping set up the display cases were Fran Langille, Louise Gleason, Lynne McKenney Lydick, and Selina Gallo-Cruz.  The exhibit was coordinated by Pam Bobay.

This was one of 4 display cases.

WWHP members were asked, “Is there an historical woman you have always admired?you be interested in writing an article for the Fall newsletter on her?”  The person chosen in response to this was    Veronica Mancini Griffin and the recommendation was that her obituary be reprinted.  Permission was received from her daughter.

WORCESTER - Veronica Mancini Griffin, 75, of Worcester, died Monday,   July 16, 2018 at the UMass Memorial Medical Center University Campus.

Chantel Bethea worked tirelessly to put together a High Tea Party in celebration of WWHP’s 23rd. Held at the YWCA on the afternoon of Saturday, May 12th, the tea party offered a nice selection of teas, wonderful desserts and finger sandwiches prepared by members. Participants were able to choose from a beautiful assortment of tea cups and saucers from which to enjoy their tea; and two lucky winners were able to choose a cup and saucer to take home!

On the evening of May 24, 2018, Dr. Judith Wellman presented a detailed description of the early women’s suffrage movement in the United States. The program was hosted  jointly by the Worcester Women’s History Project and the Worcester Historical Museum.

On June 23, 2018, a group of WWHP members enjoyed their annual trip by traveling north to the Fitchburg Art Museum, one of the most beloved treasured cultural institutions in New England.  More importantly for members of the WWHP, FAM claims as its founder ELEANOR AUGUSTA NORCROSS, a native daughter of Fitchburg, an accomplished artist of interior scenes of decorative art found in the Louvre in Paris. It was Eleanor’s wish to make those scenes available to people in town unable to travel.

Welcome everyone and thank you for being here to celebrate the life and work of Lucy Stone on this 200th anniversary of her birth. How wonderful it is to lift up – for all to see – the accomplishments of West Brookfield’s own “super star” and to contemplate the gifts Lucy has given to all of us as we work for justice and equality in our own times. My heartfelt thanks also go out to the West Brookfield Historical Commission for giving me the honor of presenting to you today some of my thoughts on the remarkable Lucy Stone.