The Women’s Rights National Historical Park
“I never forget that we are sowing winter wheat which the coming spring will see sprout and other hands than ours will reap and enjoy.”
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
During one of those times when we were without a home, we took a road trip across upstate New York, with stops among other places, at Cooper’s Town, to visit The National Baseball Hall of Fame, which was entirely amazing, and a stop in Seneca Falls!
A Post Card From the Women in Baseball Exhibit, Photographer: Richard Walker
Visiting the site where the first Women’s Rights Convention was held on July 19-20, in 1848, as well as the Women’s Rights National Historical Park, was a lifelong dream, which when fulfilled surpassed every expectation.
After having met, in London, working to support the abolition of slavery, but not permitted to stand with their male colleagues, on the floor of the convention, in 1840, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott decided that it was time to work for women’s rights, including suffrage.
The 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote passed in 1920, the Equal Rights Amendment, stating that men and women are equal, has yet to pass.
I even had the opportunity to revisit and several years later, to take my two oldest nieces on this pilgrimage, though I have no idea of its impact on them, I do remember watching them as they strolled through the museum, reading with a look of wonder – can one ask for more when introducing children to history?
