150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments. Key speakers included Hillary Rodham Clinton and George Pataki . . . Women's Rights National Historic Park . . . League of Women Voters and the National Women's Party. At the latter booth a former officer of the NWP recounted her meeting in the 1970s with Alice Paul, one of the most forceful twentieth century suffragists and equal rights advocates . . .
[V]isiting several historical sites relating to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, and other major historical figures. I was struck by the size and ornamentation of the Victorian homes, buildings and canals, and by the geographical proximity of so many prominent abolitionist and reformist leaders.
I also explored Auburn ("home of the Baldwin brothers") and saw the modest Harriet Tubman House and its adjacent learning center and the [far] more elaborate and artifact-packed home and grounds of William Seward, Secretary of State under Presidents Lincoln and Grant most famous for his negotiations for acquiring Alaska from Russia just after the American Civil War. The Seward house impressed me more than any other site because of its vast holdings and rich interior.
The trip . . . enhanced my ability to visualize the interaction of so many important people living in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Then there was the beautiful scenery of the area. I came away impressed with the cultural richness of western New York, the natural splendor and variety of its lakes, [vineyards,] forests, vast rolling terrain.
Summer Grant Report
Erik [Donald] France
September 25, 1998
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