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Falmouth Forum Series 2007-2008
"Susan B. Anthony – the Invincible!"
January 4, 2008 - Lillie Auditorium, 7:30 PM
Lectures are free and open to the public.
Sally Matson, Actor/educator
Abstract
The feisty activist comes to life – circulating petitions, getting arrested, wearing bloomers and challenging legislators, presidents, and newspapermen. This dramatic portrayal, filled with emotional intensity, highlights Miss Anthony’s involvement in abolition, women’s rights, and woman suffrage. Letters, speeches and diaries reveal her intellect and humor as she deals with angry mobs, the 15th amendment, her trial for voting illegally, trips through the West, and famous contemporaries such as: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, William Lloyd Garrison, and Theodore Roosevelt. There are parallels to current political challenges, such as: arguments over Constitutional amendments, wage equality for women, and voting rights for all. Come to be entertained and inspired.
Sally Matson is a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Communication. She studied writing at the University of Virginia and Manhattanville College. Ms. Matson has had major roles in A Thousand Clowns, Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, The Importance of Being Earnest, Under Milkwood, O’Susannah!, The Crucible, Lysistrata, Waltz of the Toreadors, and Night of the Iguana. In addition to acting and directing for thirty years, she has been a teacher, most recently at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell. Matson performed for a Department of Defense show in the Pacific and has been a writer and interviewer for CT Cable TV. Research for the play was conducted at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard; the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA; and Boston area libraries. Matson has taken this presentation to California, Oregon, and Washington, where Anthony campaigned for woman suffrage into her eighties. Corporations and organizations such as Time Warner, Raytheon, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federation of Business and Professional Women have celebrated Women’s History Month with this program.
Admission to this Falmouth Forum presentation is free and open to the public. A buffet dinner is available before the lecture at 6:00 p.m. in the Swope Center located near the auditorium. Dinner tickets are $20 and must be purchased in advance at either Eight Cousins Children’s Books, Main Street, Falmouth, or at the MBL’s Communications Office in the Candle House in Woods Hole. Dinner seats are limited and tickets are only available until they sell out or until 5:00 p.m. on Monday December 31. For more information, contact the MBL Communications Office at: (508) 289-7423 or
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