Join me at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum next Sunday, February 15 for her birthday celebration. We’ll have a festive gathering and refreshments, and I will present “Reminiscing With Susan.”
Every year the Museum celebrates Susan’s birth with a party near the house where she was born in Adams, Massachusetts. Nestled at the base of Mount Greylock, the highest mountain in Massachusetts, this home is where Susan was raised in a loving Quaker household. Her family of eight frequently shared their home with others including her maternal grandparents and as many as 11 young women who worked in her father’s mill. I like to look out the bedroom window at the mountain whose heights inspired her for as long as she lived.
The Birthplace Museum celebrates the regional and familial influences that shaped this woman who gave her life to three reforms: woman suffrage, abolition, and temperance. The home includes many textiles and furnishings appropriate to the 1820s, as well as literature and other memorabilia associated with her later career.