Cobblestone articles from March 2000

Cobblestone archives from March 2000

GREAT Expectations.(feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton's early life)
March 1, 2000... Four-year-old Elizabeth Cady tiptoed into the nursery to see her new baby sister, Catherine. Peering into the cradle, Elizabeth was puzzled. She's a fine baby, Elizabeth thought to herself. Why then, she wondered, were the grownups saying,...

The Mother of a Movement.(feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton's young adulthood)
March 1, 2000... Elizabeth Cady spent much of her time after her school years visiting friends and relatives. In the fall of 1839, while staying with her reform-minded cousins in Peterboro, New York, she met the dashing Henry Stanton. Handsome, charming,...

We Will Vote.(Play)
March 1, 2000... A PLAY IN FOUR SCENES Cast: Narrator Lucretia Mott, Quaker preacher and abolitionist Elizabeth Cady Stanton Jane Hunt, wife of Waterloo, New York, banker and friend of Lucretia Martha Wright, Lucretia's sister from...

CADY STANTON AND ANTHONY Friends Fighting for the Cause.(Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony)
March 1, 2000... "You and I have a prospect of a good long life. We shall not be in our prime before fifty, and after that we shall be good for twenty years at least...." -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Susan B. Anthony, August 20, 1857 Elizabeth Cady...

A Favorite Dessert.(tapioca pudding)(Recipe)
March 1, 2000... In her later years, Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote her History of Woman Suffrage together with Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Gage. They worked hard on the project, but they also took time off to share some of their favorite recipes, such as squash...

EIGHT WOMEN Who Fought the Fight.(early feminists)
March 1, 2000... Many women fought for women's rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's contemporaries publicized women's issues, including voting, economics, public, speaking -- even the right to dress comfortably...

Did You Know?(facts about Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
March 1, 2000... Elizabeth begged to be allowed to attend college, but no college admitted girls prior to 1833. Her father suggested that she stay home and learn how to make "puddings and pies." Seneca Falls, New York, became the site of a number of...

PROGRESS Is the Law.(Elizabeth Cady Stanton's political activity)
March 1, 2000... Elizabeth Cady Stanton was convinced that "prejudice against sex" was worse than prejudice against race. Cady Stanton devoted her life not only to improving the status of women but also to eliminating the biases that limited women's...

It's a Family Affair.(great-great-great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
March 1, 2000... AN INTERVIEW WITH COLINE JENKINS-SAHLIN Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a radical thinker for her time," says her great-great-granddaughter, Coline Jenkins-Sahlin. "She also was a very witty and fabulous writer." COBBLESTONE recently spoke with...

The Women's Rights.(Elizabeth Cady Stanton's historic home in Seneca Falls, NY)
March 1, 2000... NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK Did you know that the U.S. National Park Service has a park devoted to the story of women's rights? It is located in Seneca Falls, New York, where Elizabeth Cady Stanton and several of her reformer friends...

THE SOLITUDE OF SELF.(excerpt of Elizabeth Cady Stanton address)(Excerpt)
March 1, 2000... Editor's Note: In 1892, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Isabella Beecher Hooker appeared before the U.S. Senate to plead the cause of women's suffrage. Here is one section of Cady Stanton's speech, which later appeared...

Letters.(Poem)
March 1, 2000... Classical Music A famous pianist playing at a ball -- rich people dancing. Outside, a soft snow begins to fall. A holiday party -- happy people with holiday cheer, family and friends with...

Books to Read.
March 1, 2000... The Day the Women Got the Vote: A Photo History of the Women's Rights Movement by George Sullivan (New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1994) explores the hard work that went into, and the achievements that came out of, the women's movement. Grades 3 to...

More Media.(Review)
March 1, 2000... An American Revolution: Women Take Their Place captures on video the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony, their battle for women's rights, and the story of the statue at the U.S. Capitol that honors their place...

On the Web.(Web sites with information on women's rights)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... The Women's Rights National Historical Park can be visited by going to www.nps.gov/wori/wnhp.htm. If you log onto the Votes for Women Web site at www.huntington.org/ vfw/main2.html, you can proceed to links such as the National Women's...

Places to Visit.
March 1, 2000... Johnstown Historical Society, Johnstown, New York. Located in the town where Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born, this museum contains information on her and other local notables. Susan B. Anthony House, Rochester, New York. Set in the Anthony...