Women's Rights: Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Bloomer, and Elizabeth Caty Stanton - Seneca Falls, NY

Women's Rights 

When Anthony Met Stanton

Seneca Falls, NY

N 42° 54.530 W 076° 47.678

Short Description: 

A sculpture depicting the historic meeting when Amelia Bloomer introduced Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Caty Stanton on the streets of Seneca Falls, NY is located at East Bayard Street, near junction of Spring Street.

Long Description:

The bronze sculpture of three founders of the Women's Rights Movement was created Professor A. E. ‘Ted’ Aub and dedicated in Seneca Falls on July 18, 1998. Amelia Bloomer is in the center, Susan B. Anthony is on left of the sculpture and Elizabeth Caty Stanton is on the right side. All are dressed period garb. Stanton is holding a book in her left hand.

The Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership at the University of Rochester has published the journals of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This quote is taken from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's journal:

"How well I remember the day! George Thompson and William Lloyd Garrison having announced an anti-slavery meeting in Seneca Falls, Miss Anthony came to attend it. These gentlemen were my guests. Walking home after the adjournment, we met Mrs. Bloomer and Miss Anthony, on the corner of the street, waiting to greet us. There she stood, with her good earnest face and genial smile, dressed in gray delaine, hat and all the same color, relieved with pale blue ribbons, the perfection of neatness and sobriety. I liked her thoroughly, and why I did not at once invite her home with me to dinner I do not know . . ."

A bronze plaque near the sculpture is inscribed:

WHEN ANTHONY MET STANTON

In May 1851, there was a chance encounter on the streets of Seneca Falls, which forever altered the struggle of women's rights. Amelia Jenks Bloomer introduced Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The friendship that was forged between Stanton and Anthony gave direction and momentum to the seventy-two year struggle for womens' suffrage which culminated on August 26, 1920 in the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Neither woman lived to see this happen. 

Given to the Village of Seneca Falls by 

Governor George E. Pataki

on behalf of

the Governor's Commission Honoring the Achievements of Women

E. Ted Aub. Sculptor

July 18, 1998

Women's Rights: First Women's Rights Convention - Seneca Falls, NY

Women's Rights

First Women's Rights Convention in the World

Seneca Falls, NY

Exterior Plaque

GPS: N 42° 54.664 W 076° 47.975

Short Description:

The first Women's Rights Convention in the world took place in the Wesleyan Chapel at just east of 136 Fall Street in Seneca Falls, NY.

Wesleyan Chapel

Wesleyan Chapel 

Long Description:

Interior Plaque

On the east wall of the Wesleyan Chapel and again on the interior wall there is a nicely done bronze plaque identifying this as the site of the first Women's Rights Convention in the world. The plaques have a bas-relief sculpture of a women's rights advocate in period dress and the following inscription:

On this spot stood the Wesleyan Chapel

where the First Woman's Rights Convention

in the World's history was held 

July 19 and 20 1848

---

Elizabeth Caty Stanton 

move the resolution

which was seconded by Fredrick Douglass

"That it is the duty of the Women 

of this country to secure to themselves

their sacred right

to the franchise

---

Some of the signers of the declaration of Rights

Lucretia Mott - Jacob P Chamberlain - Martha Wright - Elisha Foote

Amy Post - Charles J Hoskins - Mary Ann McClintok - Richard Hunt

Lovina Latham - Jonathan Metcalf - Mary H Hallowell - Henry Seymour

Literary Site: Franz Kafka House, Prague, Czech Republic

Franz Kafka House

Prague, Czech Republic

GPS: N50°5.523 E14°24.247

Short Description:

Franz Kafka Home and Museum is located on 22 Golden Lane (Zlata Ulicka) in Prague, Czech Republic.

Long Description:

Golden Lane located at the Prague Castle. The street is lined with small colorful houses. House No. 22 was used by Franz Kafka,as a quiet area for writing.

Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883 in Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now the Czech Republic. He grew up fluent in both Czech and German but considered German his mother tongue. He wrote many novels and short stories in German, including: "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Prozess (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle). His writings contain the themes of alienation, physical and psychological brutality, parent–child conflict, characters on a terrifying quest, labyrinths of bureaucracy, and mystical transformations.

Literary Site: O. Henry House - San Antonio, TX

O. Henry House 

San Antonio, TX

GPS: N 29° 25.461; W 098° 29.843

Short Description:

The O. Henry House is located at the corner of Laredo and Dolorosa Streets in San Antonio, TX.

Long Description:

From the plaque outside the house:

O. Henry was born at Polecat Creek, North Carolina and moved to

Cotulla, texas in 1882 for health reasons. he then came to San

Antonio and rented this house for $6.00 a month. Fascinated by San

Antonio's multi-cultural community, O. henry chronicled the

languages and culture of the native populations, spending many happy

and productive hours in "cantinas" (saloons) wjich onec stood on this

site. O. Henry published a humorous, tabloid newspaper, called The

Rolling Stone, which he filmed with poems, stories and charactures of

people and races, and for which he was admonished by early German

settlers, causing the newspaper to have grave financial problems. San

Antonio was the setting of several of O. Henry's stories including A

Fog in Santone, The Higher Abduction and Hygela of Solito.

Moving to Austin in 1898, O. Henry worked as a teller in a bank to
argument his income, at which time he was convicted of
embezzlement. He served three years in prison where he wrote
prodigiously and memorized every word in the dictionary.

O. Henry was gifted in his ability to capture the essence of a city by
understanding the hearts of people in all walks if life. His wit, skill
with words, unusual plot twists and surprise endings brought him 
international fame. He died in New York in 1910.


In 1998, Wallace and mary Freidrich Rogers regained ownership of 
her grandfather's old Buckhorn Saloon Museum (which included the 
historic O. henry House) from the lone Star Brewing Company. The 
Rogers then donated this house as a charitable contribution to the Lee
and Zachry Carter Memorial Fund of the San Antonio Area
Foundation.

Chief probation Officer L. Caesar Garcia of the Bexar County Adult
Probation Department is helping his probationers by using O. henry's
life example as a teaching aid. Probationers get credit for doing their
Community Services by acting as docents in the O. henry House.
Following O. Henry's example of using his own jail time to sharpen
his writing skills, the docents utilize their probation period in a
constructive way, perhaps discovering their own latent talents.

O. Henry House

Typical of the homes of early German settlers, this two-room dwelling was built by John Kush about 1855. It originally stood on south Presa Street. It was occupied in 1895-96 by William Sidney Porter, who gained national renown as the short story writer O. Henry. Here he issued a weekly humorous newspaper, "The Rolling Stone". In 1960 the structure was moved to this location by the Kush Family and the Lone Star Brewing Company.

Literary Site: William Cullen Bryant Homestead, Cummington, MA

William Cullen Bryant Homestead

Cummington, MA

GPS: N42° 28.236; W072° 56.101

Quick Description: 

The William Cullen Bryant Homestead is located at 207 Bryant Road off Route 112 in Cummington, MA.

Long Description:

The William Cullen Bryant Homestead is the boyhood home of one of America's earliest and foremost 19th century poets. William Cullen Bryant was born on November 3, 1794. He published his first major poem at age 13. He published Thanatopsis, his most famous poem, when he was living here at age 17. Much of his poetry was inspired by his rural home in Cummington, MA. The Rivulet, a small stream that ran through the property, was the subject of a 1823 poem of the same name.

In 1825 he married Frances Fairchild, gave up his law practice, and to moved to New York City to begin a career as an editor of literary publications and then to become editor-in-chief and publisher of the New York Evening Post, a position he held until he died in 1878.

The family sold the Homestead in 1835. However, in 1865, Bryant repurchased the property. From 1865 until 1878 he would leave New York City during the hot summer months to make the Cummington homestead his summer home. Bryant became a noted celebrity, even after his death. In 1894, the centennial of his birth, many people flocked to the Homestead to celebrate his life and accomplishments. Bryant Park adjacent to the main branch of the New York Public Library is named in his honor.

The grounds of the Bryant Homestead are open, for free, daily from sunrise to sunset. Allow at least one hour for the self-guided landscape tour. When the Homestead is open, guided tours are available. Tours of the interior vary. Visitors should call for more information.

Poems by William Cullen Bryant:

The Ages
Thanatopsis
The Yellow Violet
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood
Song.—"Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow"
To a Waterfowl
Green River
A Winter Piece
The West Wind
The Burial-place. A Fragment
Blessed are they that Mourn
No Man knoweth his Sepulchre
A Walk at Sunset
Hymn to Death
The Massacre at Scio
The Indian Girl's Lament
Ode for an Agricultural Celebration
Rizpah
The Old Man's Funeral
The Rivulet
March
Sonnet.—To—
An Indian Story
Summer Wind
An Indian at the Burial-place of his Fathers
Song—"Dost thou idly ask to hear"
Hymn of the Waldenses
Monument Mountain
After a Tempest
Autumn Woods
Sonnet.—Mutation
Sonnet.—November
Song of the Greek Amazon
To a Cloud
The Murdered Traveller
Hymn to the North Star
The Lapse of Time
Song of the Stars
A Forest Hymn
"Oh fairest of the rural maids"
"I broke the spell that held me long"
June
A Song of Pitcairn's Island
The Skies
"I cannot forget with what fervid devotion"
To a Musquito
Lines on Revisiting the Country
The Death of the Flowers
Romero
A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal
The New Moon
Sonnet.—October
The Damsel of Peru
The African Chief
Spring in Town
The Gladness of Nature
The Disinterred Warrior
Sonnet.—Midsummer
The Greek Partisan
The Two Graves
The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus
A Summer Ramble
Scene on the Banks of the Hudson
The Hurricane
Sonnet.—William Tell
The Hunter's Serenade
The Greek Boy
The Past
"Upon the mountain's distant head"
The Evening Wind
"When the firmament quivers with daylight's young beam"
"Innocent child and snow-white flower"
To the River Arve
Sonnet.—To Cole, the Painter, departing for Europe
To the fringed Gentian
The Twenty-second of December
Hymn of the City
The Prairies
Song of Marion's Men
The Arctic Lover
The Journey of Life

Literary Site: Gertrude Chandler Warner - The Boxcar Children Museum, Putnam, CT

Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Boxcar Children Museum

Putnam, CT

GPS: N41° 54.894; W071° 54.467

Short Description: 

The Gertrude Chandler Warner The Boxcar Children Museum is located in a railroad boxcar off Main Street (Route 12) just south of Route 44 in Putnam, CT.
Location: Connecticut, United States

Long Description:

Gertrude Chandler Warner (April 16, 1890 - August 30, 1979) was the author of The Boxcar Children, an ongoing series of children's stories. She was born in Putnam, CT and taught at nearby Israel Putnam Elementary School. Her stories were very popular with her students and are now widely read by young children everywhere.

Starting in 1924, she wrote the first 19 books of The Boxcar Children series. The stories continue after her death by other writers who have contributed an additional 130 books to the series. The Boxcar Children tells of the adventures of four orphaned children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, that live in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. The museum is housed in a boxcar, similar to the one described in the book.

The Museum was opened in 2004. It is open on Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm, from mid-May to mid-October. Admission is free and a volunteer docent will describe the exhibits. Donations are welcome.

Literary Site: Herman Melville's Arrowhead - Pittsfield, MA

Herman Melville's Arrowhead

Pittsfield, MA

GPS: N42° 24.924; W073° 14.914

Short Description: 

Arrowhead, the home of Herman Melville during his most productive writing years, is located at 780 Holmes Road in Pittsfield, MA

Long Description:

The farmhouse and inn, built in the 1780's, known as Arrowhead was the home of Herman Melville for the 13 most productive years of his literary career. He live here from 1850 to 1863. During this time he wrote several novels including his allegorical masterpiece, Moby Dick.

Melville lived at Arrowhead from 1850 to 1863 then returned to his place of birth, new York City. Melville sold the property to his brother. The house was a private residence until it was acquired by the present owner in 1975, the Berkshire County Historical Society.

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819. As a young man Melville had wanderlust and went to sea, first across the Atlantic Ocean then, in 1841, on the whaling ship Acushnet across the Pacific Ocean. He joined the crew of the USS United States for a return trip to Boston. His experiences as a seaman inspired his novels Typee, Omoo and White-Jacket.

In 1847 Melville married, lived for a short time in new York City then moved to Pittsfield, MA in 1850. It was here in a farm house he called Arrowhead that Melville wrote his greatest novel the allegorical masterpiece Moby Dick. Herman Melville lived here for 13 years.

Melville also wrote poetry that was published in later life. He wrote Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War in 1866 and published an the epic-length verse, Clarel, in 1876. His second great novel Billy Budd was published after his death.

A bronze plaque outside his Pittsfield residence, Arrowhead, contains an image of a sailing ship and is inscribed:

ARROWHEAD 

FOR THIRTEEN YEARS (1850-1863)

THE HOME OF 

HERMAN MELVILLE 

1819 — 1891 

MARINER AND MYSTIC

AUTHOR OF MOBY DICK (WRITTEN IN PITTSFIELD)

AND OTHER TALES OF THE SEA. 

“MOBY DICK IS AMONG THE FEW VERY

NOTABLE LITERARY ACHIEVEMENTS OF 

AMERICAN LITERATURE”

RAYMOND M. WEAVER

Arrowhead is open daily from Memorial Day Weekend through Columbus Day, from 9:30 am. to 5 pm. Hourly tours take 45 minutes and begin at 10 am. Tour rates are: adults $13.00 and children & students (with I.D.) $8.00.