“Keeping Susan B. Anthony’s vision alive and relevant is our work and our passion.”
17 Madison Street
The newsletter for the members of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House®
a National Historic Landmark
17 Madison Street, Rochester, NY
Phone: 585-235-6124
Website: susanbanthonyhouse.org
Mark your calendars
 Nursing Friends annual gathering on
Saturday, May 17 at
9:30 a.m.
 Monday Lecture Series, May 19, 2014,
luncheon and tea
both sold out
 May 26: Museum and
offices closed for
Memorial Day.
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A message from our membership director
There’s so much going on at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House!
It was wonderful to see so many of you at the Friends of Susan B. Anthony
House spring luncheon on May 2! What a wonderful event with journalist and
historian Jim Memmott as our guest speaker! Thanks to all the members who
came to the special member event on May 9, meeting the children of our Neighborhood Connections program as they presented their favorite rooms in the
Anthony House. On May 17, the Nursing Friends of the Susan B. Anthony
House will host a gathering to further share the story of the connection between
Susan B. Anthony and nursing. Enjoy! Thank you, always, for your support! Lesia Telega
“What inspires you about the Susan B. Anthony House?”
This month, we posed our question to one of our newest docents, Ted
Benedict. Here is his reply: “As a native Rochesterian and child of the
60s, I have an abiding love of what I was always taught were essential
American ideals: equality for all people regardless of race, gender, beliefs,
or economic status; and freedom of speech for everyone, regardless of
how radical their speech may be. Naturally, then, I love telling the story
of Miss Anthony’s life and work, because she was such an exemplar of
these ideals.”
Members of the Afghan women’s
cycling team
New in the museum shop
Bring Susan B. Anthony's inspiration into your home or office with this
exquisite limited-edition print of 17 Madison Street created by the
award-winning artist, Laura Wilder. We are honored and privileged to
have 300 signed and numbered (# 301 - 600) posters by Ms. Wilder,
who is a Roycroft Renaissance Master Artisan. Her work has been
featured in numerous national publications, including American Bungalow, Arts & Crafts Homes, and Style 1900 and has won awards at
the Memorial Art Gallery’s Clothesline Arts Festival and other festivals around the country. The poster is priced at $40 each.
Press reports of Susan B. Anthony at age 51
17 Madison Street
is published periodically for
the members of the
Susan B. Anthony
Museum & House.
Editor: Ellen K. Wheeler
Membership Director:
Lesia Telega
President and CEO:
Deborah L. Hughes
May
May 2014
2014
“She is a revolutionist, aiming at nothing less than the breaking up of
the very foundations of society and the overthrow of every social institution organized for the protection and the sanctity of the altar, the family
circle, and the legitimacy of our offspring, recognizing no religion but
self-worship, no God but human reason, no motive to action but human
list. The whole plan is coarse, selfish, sensual, agrarian, the worst phase
of French infidelity and communism.”
Seattle, Washington editorial in 1871.
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Nursing Friends annual gathering
Are you a nurse? Join Nursing Friends of Susan B. Anthony House for
its annual gathering on Saturday, May 17, 2014 in celebration of nurses
and their historic connections with Susan B. Anthony. The event begins
at 9:30 a.m. in the Carriage House behind the Susan B. Anthony House
Visitors Center at 19 Madison Street. May is traditionally designated as
National Nurses Month; this year’s theme is Nurses Leading the
Way. Current members of Nursing Friends and those who join that
day will enjoy a free nursing-themed tour of the Susan B. Anthony
House immediately following the gathering. RSVP to Sylvia Schenck at
585-338-7988 or [email protected]
Neighborhood children shine at special event for House members
Connections students, clockwise from
right front: LeSana, Nirialyss, Talah, Zyasha, Porcha with House program director, Annie Callanan.
More than 50 members of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House were treated to an exceptional event on Friday, May 9, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Young people from our Neighborhood Connections
after-school program shared with us all they’ve
learned this year about Susan B. Anthony, her house
on Madison Street, and her life and work. We experienced, up close and personal, how Susan B. Anthony
provides inspiration for them, every day, right in their
own neighborhood.
LeTayah describes the
back parlor .
Attendees express their
thanks for the excellent
presentation by the young
people.
House President Deborah L. Hughes addresses a crowded
Carriage House.
Press reports of Susan B. Anthony at age 85
“Roses after Thorns. Editorial in the Portland Oregonian in 1905, on the occasion of the convention of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association:
“A rare picture of Miss Anthony made in the high-backed oaked chair, her
snowy hair puffed up over her ears in the olden fashion, and the collar of rose
point lace forming a lovely frame for her gentle but determined face. When
she rose to call the meeting to order, she was literally deluged with floral tributes, and peering over the heaped-up flowers, she said: ‘This is rather different
from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me
then—but they were not roses. There were not enough epithets in Webster’s
Unabridged to express their feelings. Things are changed now and I get flowers
instead of eggs, compliments instead of epithets. I am thankful for this change
that has come over the spirit of the American people.”