When Abigail Adams begged her husband to "remember the ladies" in drafting a new code of laws, John wrote back that he "could not but laugh" at her extraordinary suggestion. Less than 150 years later, women were working, voting, and experiencing the first taste of freedoms unheard of just a generation earlier. This lecture traces the exciting social and historical milestones in the fight for women's rights.

Presented by Anne Barrett

Registration is requested, but not required.  Snacks will be served.

 

About Anne Barrett, Women-in-History Actress & Lecturer

For more than 15 years Anne has been entertaining and educating audiences with her lectures and women-in-history performances at hundreds of libraries, historical societies, museums and other social and civic groups throughout New England.

She is President of the Topsfield Historical Society, editor of its newsletter Local Lore, and a former history columnist in Community Newspaper’s Tri Town Transcript. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and a former Mrs. Essex County. She has held leading roles in community theater plays and musicals.

Anne was awarded Storyteller of the Year in 2006 by the North of Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau for her collaboration with the North Shore Music Theater in developing the groundbreaking Spotlight on History series.

She holds a B.S. cum laude from Colby-Sawyer College and an M.S. from Boston University.