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Builders of
Community and Dreams Project
Mary Upton Ferrin
1810-1881
Peabody Chamber of Commerce
Peabody, Massachusetts
Women's History Month in Peabody: A Retrospective
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A TIMELINE of
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
in PEABODY, MASSACHUSETTS
1993
March 1
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Mayor
Peter Torigian proclaims Women's History Month in Peabody.
Schedule of events announced.
March 3, 4, 5, 10 & 11
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Storyteller Sharon Kennedy re-enacts "Mary Margaret O'Connell:
Irish Mill Girl" and entertains with folktales of strong
heroines and Ireland. A Cultural Clearinghouse
collaboration of five elementary schools.
March 4
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Tales
of Strong Heroines with an Irish Flavor at the Peabody Institute
Library West Branch
March 10
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"Amelia
Earhart - Courage is the Price" for seventh grade students at
Higgins Middle School
March 15 -11
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"American Girls" exhibit featured at the Peabody Institute
branch libraries.
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Mary Upton Ferrin Award –The Peabody Chamber of Commerce
presents the first annual award to Karen
McCafferty for her commitment to community service,
helping women overcome obstacles, and showing others how to
gain access to equal opportunities.
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March 17
Storyteller Sharon Kennedy
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"Kate O'Connell", a
historical re-enactment by Sharon Kennedy of a 60-year-old Irish
woman living in the Massachusetts in the 1850's is performed for
400 senior citizens following their traditional Irish dinner.
A collaborative effort of the Peabody Council on Aging, the
Peabody Women's History Project and the Peabody Cultural
Council.
March 24, 25 26 & 2
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"The Witch and the
Suffragist" which features the stories of Martha Corey and Mary
Upton Ferrin is presented to eighth grade students at Higgins
Middle school
March 29 & 30
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"Petticoat Patriot" the story of Deborah Sampson is presented to
the sixth grade at Higgins Middle School
October
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"Saved
from the Darkness" a play about Mary Upton Ferrin is
performed by students at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School
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"Award to us our proper
station in society; abolish all unjust laws in regard to us;
withhold from us no longer our natural rights as human beings,
children of one Parent, members of the same family... As husbands
and son, as fathers and brothers, show to the world that you are not
only manly, but humane; that you know how to pity as well as to
protect; which will reflect honor, not only to your head, but to
your heart, and future generations will revere your memory.
All that we ask, is what justly belongs to us; we ask it not only as
a favor, but as a right." - Memorial of the Female Signers of the
Several Petitions of Henry A. Hardy and Others, Presented March 1,
1849 to the "Gentleman of the Senate and House of Representatives"
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