Please join us for our first ever “Open Archives Night” on Mon., 3/25, from from 5:30-7:00PM at the Millicent Library’s Auditorium, 45 Center Street, Fairhaven. To celebrate Women’s History Month, view touch, and interpret objects and records from our Archives & Special Collections and learn about the history of women in Fairhaven.
At Open Archives Night, we invite you to interact with archives directly, becoming a historian yourself by making observations, discussing objects and records, asking questions, and thinking creatively about Fairhaven history. This is not an exhibit, but an opportunity to have hands-on experience with some of our lesser-known collections.
Meet the Millicent Library’s Archivist/Assistant Director Violet Hurst, and learn about Fairhaven’s suffragettes, who fought for their right to vote before the passage of the 19th amendment – and the resistance they encountered, even from other women in town. Read about women-formed and women-led social, political, and charitable organizations and programs in town from the early nineteenth century until the present. View nineteenth-century diaries, period clothing, and photographs, and more, and explore changing ideas attitudes among and about women throughout Fairhaven’s history.
Free and open to all history lovers ages 14 and up. Registration is encouraged. To register, please visit MillicentLibrary.Org/Registration; vhurst@SailsInc.org, 508-992-5342
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