STRONG WOMEN SERIES 

The Randolph Public Library is pleased to join other North Country Libraries in a continuing series "The year of Strong Women". Three free programs are available via the online video platform Zoom. This fall, a partnership of five north country libraries is happy to resume the celebration of amazing women whose courage and determination changed the future of our country.  This series of three events is being presented by five North Woods Libraries; Berlin, Gorham, Milan, and Randolph Public Libraries and WMCC Fortier Library,  with guidance, funding and materials from New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowments for the Humanities, and cooperation of the NH State Library.

Completing the Strong Women series, on Wednesday, November 18, at 6pm we will “Meet Lucy Stone: Enter the Antebellum World of the Abolition and Woman's Rights Movements”.  There was a time in our national history when a married woman did not have legal rights to the money she earned, the property she inherited, or the children she bore.  During this same era citizens of the United States thought it a legal and rational pursuit to buy and trade human beings.  Lucy Stone, (born in Brookfield Massachusetts 1818), decided this was not the nation she wanted to grow in and spent her life speaking out for the democracy that this nation, upon its inception, had promised its inhabitants.  Crisscrossing the country, she spoke eloquently and passionately about the most important issues of her time.  A contemporary of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, the best known female orator of her era, will address the issues of woman’s rights and abolition, plus share with her audience chapters from her own life.  Ms. Stone will be summoned through the personage of storyteller/actress Judith Black, who was commissioned to create this work by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities in partnership with the Tsongas Industrial History Center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, as part of the State House Woman’s Leadership Project.  Judith’s website is www.storiesalive.com.

To receive updates for these and future programs, or if you have questions, contact one of the Great North Woods Libraries who are partnering in this series:  Berlin Public Library 603-752-5210, Gorham Public Library 603-466-2525, Milan Public Library 603-449-7307, Randolph Public Library 603-466-5408, WMCC Fortier Library 603-342-3087.

 Registration is required.

 Interested participants can register at:  www.wmcc.edu/fortier-library/.