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Lunch & Learn: The Life & Loves of Elizabeth Graeme
Wendy Long Stanley, author of the new historical fiction book based on the life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, will lead us through the life, loves, and losses of Graeme Park’s Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson. Left heartsick and lost after a broken engagement to William Franklin, Elizabeth turned to writing, travel, and a glittering social life for solace, before eventually entering into a secret marriage to Loyalist Henry Hugh Fergusson that would change the course of her life forever. Her book will be…
Find out more »Lunch & Learn: Forgotten Heroes – Women and the Fight for the Right to Vote
Forgotten Heroes takes the audience on the long 72-year fight for women’s suffrage, beginning at the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York and culminating with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. The program will highlight some of the determined and skillful women who courageously fought to change not only the laws, but cultural and social norms. Pennsylvania’s suffrage campaign to amend the state constitution, named the “Pittsburgh Plan” will also be covered. The program was developed as…
Find out more »Lunch & Learn: Clara in a Time of War
In a terrible time of war, one woman must fight for what she holds dear… Pennsylvania, 1777: War rages on in the American Colonies. With her husband off in the fight, Clara Fletcher is trying to survive on her Chester County farm. Danger lurks near and far. The future is uncertain. Then one day a wounded stranger appears in her carriage house, and he might not be what he seems. As Clara and her good friend nurse the man back…
Find out more »Lunch & Learn: Courtship, Sex, and the Single Colonist
Learn about courtship and marriage in early America and how it differed between the upper and lower classes. Discover what happened to bastards, abandoned babes, and orphans, and what was done at the end of life. Speaker Sue Johnston grew up in Germantown and has a Doctorate of Science in Biology and Secondary Science Education. She taught science in Upper Dublin and Souderton School Districts, and at Germantown Academy, Temple, Chestnut Hill and Gwynedd Mercy Colleges. She was affectionately know…
Find out more »Tea with Louisa May Alcott
You know Louisa May Alcott as the author of the beloved young adult novel, Little Women. Although she immortalized her family’s life in Massachusetts in her writing, she was born in Pennsylvania, just miles from Graeme Park. Join her in 1868 as she visits her birth state on an author’s speaking tour, on the heels of the surprise success of part one of her most successful work to date, Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. The program will…
Find out more »Lunch & Learn – The Treason of Betsy Ross
Join us as author Wendy Long Stanley presents the subject of her newest book - Betsy Ross. The audience will travel through the well-known streets of historic Philadelphia, down some of its seedier alleyways, into taverns, workrooms, residences, and houses of worship as Stanley paints a picture of Betsy’s environment during the few years leading up to the Revolution. Betsy’s Quaker family, her militia-member husband, Loyalist friends, and the church clergy all have different reactions to the events which led…
Find out more »Lunch & Learn: An Afternoon with Alice Paul
Join historic interpreter Chris Flynn as she presents Alice Paul. Dressed in character, Flynn portrays Alice as she fights for the right for women to vote. Alice Paul was a wealthy, well-educated, practicing Quaker, called to public service by her faith. She is considered the architect of the writing and passage of the 19th Amendment of the Constitution, which awarded women across the county the right to vote. Chris Flynn is a lifelong Bucks County resident, and retired from a…
Find out more »SOLD OUT – Tea with Harriot Stanton Blatch
Join us for a presentation on Harriot Stanton Blatch followed by a tea with sandwiches and sweets. Harriot Stanton Blatch was the daughter of suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Raised in a family that encouraged debate and political conversation, young Harriot was exposed to such activists in the women’s movement as Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony, as well as to her mother’s ideals. As a young woman, she emerged in her own right to lecture, write, lobby, and advocate for…
Find out more »Lunch & Learn: The Doan Gang, Outlaws of the Revolution
Join us for a waffle breakfast, catered hot lunch, and lecture on the Doan Gang of Bucks County, presented by the Mercer Museum in conjunction with their special exhibit. The Doan Gang was a group of British loyalists, the most notorious members being five brothers and one cousin from the Doan family of Plumstead, PA. The gang was composed of around 50 members who were accused murderers, attainted traitors, horse thieves, and ferried British prisoners of war to British lines.…
Find out more »Tea & Maternity
Tea and Maternity - how fashion, society, and medicine shaped motherhood in the 18th century Today and 300 years ago, welcoming a new child changes everything. Explore the intimate, complex world of pregnancy and infant care in colonial America at Graeme Park. This immersive, research-based program will bring to life the experiences of an 18th century midwife and maternity patient. You’ll learn how pregnancy shaped women’s daily lives—altering their clothing, diet, hygiene, and roles within the household. Discover the medical…
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