The Moosilauke Public Library recieves grant from the New Hampshire Humanities

The Moosilauke Public Library has received a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities to present Meet Lucy Stone: Enter the Antebellum World of the Abolition and Woman's Rights Movements. Meet Lucy Stone will be presented on Thursday, October 19, 2017, at 7:00 p.m., at the Woodstock Town Office Building.

In this first-person interpretive program, Judith Black introduces American Lucy Stone, the first woman hired by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society as a public speaker and the "Shining Star" of the Abolition and Women's Rights Movements. The presenter dispels well-worn platitudes about the antebellum North by interjecting historic and personal truths about these social reform movements. Her presentation also paints a dynamic and detailed picture of what it takes to change the world you are born into. Follow Lucy as she makes her case for tax resistance, her challenges to marriage laws and motherhood, and her pro-Emancipation response to the Civil War. Go with her to The American Equal Rights Association Convention in May 1869, where she eloquently supports the 15th Amendment, which gave African-American men the vote.

This program is free and open to the public.

New Hampshire Humanities nurtures the joy of learning and inspires community engagement by bringing life-enhancing ideas from the humanities to the people of New Hampshire. They connect people with ideas. Learn more at www.nhhumanities.org.

For more information, call or email the library at (603)745-9971 or moosilpl@roadrunner.com.