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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
1995
March 1
- Mayor
Peter Torigian recites women’s history month proclamation
- The
Peabody Cultural Clearinghouse issues its first commemorative
bookmark honoring - Queen Victoria (1819-1901) for the George
Peabody Bicentennary and Women's History Month
- Women’s
history month posters donated to all the public schools in
Peabody by The League of Women Voters.
March 12
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Reception for Peabody’s “First” Women
March 14, 21
& 28
- Peabody
People, Place and Events – Cablevision runs interviews with
Alison Towfighi from Help for Abused Women and their Children.
March 15
- Story
of Helen Keller Performed at J. Henry Higgins Middle School
- Guest
lecturer and author Karen V. Hansen speaks about her book A
Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England
at the Peabody Historical Society.
March 16 –
24
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Historical re-enactment of Marie Curie performed at six Peabody
elementary schools, St. John’s Parochial School and for sixth
graders at the middle school.
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Women's Equality Day Walk, August 26
March 20
- Amelia
Earhart – Courage is The Price performed by Linda Meyer
for seventh graders at the middle school
- Brown,
Carroll, Center, Kiley Brothers, Burke, West Memorial and
Higgins Middle each have students participate in activities
that celebrate “Women in History”
March 23
- Women’s
history month lecture at Borders Books featuring S. M. Smoller.
She talks about her book Mary Upton Ferrin: Earliest
Massachusetts Pioneer of Woman Suffrage
March 26
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Educational Equity Award and Tea – The first annual award give
by the Peabody-Lynnfield American Association of University
Women
March 29
- Mary
Upton Ferrin Award – The Peabody Chamber of Commerce presents
the third annual award to Susanna Levine
for her efforts to help the women and young girls within the
community become conscious of their worth and dignity.
- An
oration for women’s history month on “The Women in George
Peabody’s Life” is presented by S.M. Smoller to the Peabody
Chamber of Commerce.
August 26
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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"
by Mary Upton Ferrin. |