From Hearth To Horizons Edited By Kate Stout 9780557939800 Books
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The history, study and community action of one of the oldest continuously meeting women's study groups in America, founded in 1886.
From Hearth To Horizons Edited By Kate Stout 9780557939800 Books
From Hearth to Horizons: 125 Years of the Social Science Club of Newton (MA) modestly describes itself as "...a commemoration of continuous study, 1886-2011". Yet the book offers a reader much more. Well-conceived and expertly executed, this unpretentious local history documents the evolving role of women in America from Victorian "ladyhood" to 21st Century womanhood or, in the words of the authors, from "Amiable Ignorance to Enlightened Equality".The Club sprang from the women's club movement, which began following the Civil War and waned only after suffrage was obtained in 1920. Although some individual founders of the Club separately lobbied for votes for women, the wide range of Club activities included projects that produced more immediate results. By the end of its second year, the Club was teaching sewing to 12 girls, an initial step which grew quickly into an annual ten-week Vacation Industrial School offering cooking, sewing, dressmaking, millinery, basketry and woodworking to 555 girls and boys, averaging about twelve years of age. After fourteen summers, the Club persuaded the Newton Public Schools (MA) to incorporate this progressive program into the curriculum. Club scholarships, each year since 1924, continue to help Newton North High School girls to attend college; and were offered for students at Hampton Institute in Virginia from 1892-1970.
"To learn more and do something about the social problems of the day" has been an objective of the Club from its outset. Throughout the Club's history, members have continued to research topics, write and present papers, from which the book includes interesting excerpts. To conduct research on Mormonism, one of the Club's early paper-writers traveled to Utah, interviewing an Elder, his five wives and 26 children. Over the years, the Club has lobbied legislators to improve conditions for prisoners, the unemployed, the poor and immigrants, and supported legislation regarding the environment, native birds, water pollution, and regulating fireworks. Their impressive array of speakers and artists has included Booker T. Washington and the Arthur Fiedler Trio.
Chapters on the Club and Newton; on the Arts; on Diversity and the wider world; on Women's Issues, and lists of Club Study Topics over the 125 years, offer the reader a fascinating survey of the changing sociology of adult women in America. Of special interest are the 36 thumbnail biographical sketches of early club members. "Who were these women?" the authors ask, as it was common until the 1970's to address women by their husbands' names - Mrs. Wolcott Calkins, Mrs. Francis Hornbrooke, etc. Thus only if they were unmarried, did they have a first name that is readily-accessible. To this reader's delight, the authors have done their homework, tracking down for us not only the first names but enough biographical details to help us make their acquaintance. Even though much time has elapsed, what fascinating women they prove to be!
Donald G. Kennedy, Ed.D. former teacher of US History and Superintendent of Schools
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From Hearth To Horizons Edited By Kate Stout 9780557939800 Books Reviews
Historians of women's experience are often torn between accepting Virginia Woolf's assertion that "Anon was a woman," and its corollary that "the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." Hearth to Horizons, a collection of essays from the longstanding - 125 years - Social Science Club of Newton, Massachusetts, provides a vibrant example of the richly textured narratives ordinary women doing extraordinary studying and writing create. Women have been meeting, talking, studying, and working together - "comparing notes" - for years and in doing so chronicle their life and their world and effect change. Ably gathered and edited by Kate Stout, writer, journalist, and editor by profession, Hearth to Horizons is a must read for historians and the general reader interested in the ways women share their minds and passions with each other. --Ann Page Stecker
Professor of Humanities, Colby-Sawyer College and author of Sisters of Fortune (UPNE), New Hampshire Crosscurrents in its Development (UPNE), Our Voices Our Town History of New London, NH 1950 - 2000
From Hearth to Horizons 125 Years of the Social Science Club of Newton (MA) modestly describes itself as "...a commemoration of continuous study, 1886-2011". Yet the book offers a reader much more. Well-conceived and expertly executed, this unpretentious local history documents the evolving role of women in America from Victorian "ladyhood" to 21st Century womanhood or, in the words of the authors, from "Amiable Ignorance to Enlightened Equality".
The Club sprang from the women's club movement, which began following the Civil War and waned only after suffrage was obtained in 1920. Although some individual founders of the Club separately lobbied for votes for women, the wide range of Club activities included projects that produced more immediate results. By the end of its second year, the Club was teaching sewing to 12 girls, an initial step which grew quickly into an annual ten-week Vacation Industrial School offering cooking, sewing, dressmaking, millinery, basketry and woodworking to 555 girls and boys, averaging about twelve years of age. After fourteen summers, the Club persuaded the Newton Public Schools (MA) to incorporate this progressive program into the curriculum. Club scholarships, each year since 1924, continue to help Newton North High School girls to attend college; and were offered for students at Hampton Institute in Virginia from 1892-1970.
"To learn more and do something about the social problems of the day" has been an objective of the Club from its outset. Throughout the Club's history, members have continued to research topics, write and present papers, from which the book includes interesting excerpts. To conduct research on Mormonism, one of the Club's early paper-writers traveled to Utah, interviewing an Elder, his five wives and 26 children. Over the years, the Club has lobbied legislators to improve conditions for prisoners, the unemployed, the poor and immigrants, and supported legislation regarding the environment, native birds, water pollution, and regulating fireworks. Their impressive array of speakers and artists has included Booker T. Washington and the Arthur Fiedler Trio.
Chapters on the Club and Newton; on the Arts; on Diversity and the wider world; on Women's Issues, and lists of Club Study Topics over the 125 years, offer the reader a fascinating survey of the changing sociology of adult women in America. Of special interest are the 36 thumbnail biographical sketches of early club members. "Who were these women?" the authors ask, as it was common until the 1970's to address women by their husbands' names - Mrs. Wolcott Calkins, Mrs. Francis Hornbrooke, etc. Thus only if they were unmarried, did they have a first name that is readily-accessible. To this reader's delight, the authors have done their homework, tracking down for us not only the first names but enough biographical details to help us make their acquaintance. Even though much time has elapsed, what fascinating women they prove to be!
Donald G. Kennedy, Ed.D. former teacher of US History and Superintendent of Schools
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