Historic New England celebrates Women's History Month
News Release
Media Contact: Susanna Crampton, News@HistoricNewEngland.org
Historic New England celebrates Women’s History Month
Boston – January 2012 - Historic New England is pleased to present a series of lectures and tours celebrating Women’s History Month on Sundays in March at the 1796 Harrison Gray Otis House from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
- View into Otis House withdrawing room
March 4 - Ladies of the House - The Otis House is rich with stories of remarkable women, from a wealthy wife and mother in the late eighteenth century, to an entrepreneur and physician in the 1830s, to four sisters who ran a Victorian boardinghouse. Discover these stories of women’s lives in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
March 11 - Voices from the Back Stairs - Historian Jennifer Pustz discusses domestic service in New England over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a focus on three Historic New England properties. Domestic manuals, ephemera, and other general material bring the lives of servants and the relationships with their employers to the foreground.
March 18 - Boarding and Lodging - Otis House was once a first-class boarding house and this tour focuses on 1854 to 1868, when the Williams sisters were landladies of this genteel establishment. Learn about the sisters, their boarders, and the how the house looked during this period. After the tour, enjoy refreshments and conversation.
March 25 - Women of Beacon Hill - Take a stroll around Beacon Hill and discover the stories of the women who shaped the history and charm of Beacon Hill over the centuries: wealthy and working class, black and white, entrepreneurs and reformers, artists and preservationists.
The programs are on Sundays in March from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. at the Harrison Gray Otis House on Cambridge Street in Boston. Admission for each program is $15, Historic New England members pay $7. Registration is required. There is special pricing for the series. Please call 617-994-5920 to register and for more information.
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