Leave hibernation for an invigorating evening with visiting historian Mary Jane Doerr. She will enhance our emerging social history of Grand Rapids women by placing them among the national movers and shakers gathering at Bay View chautauqua sessions.
In the late-nineteenth century they rode the GR&I north to gather with intellectual luminaries, to discuss exciting new ideas, and to plot courses for change. And, until now, they have been left out of the record. At last, the significance of women as key players in the history of Bay View as well as the role of Bay View in the emerging women's movement have been clarified. Grand Rapids women were there!
Gathering for Change:
The GR&I Railroad, Reform, and the Women of Bay View
Mary Jane Doerr, Bay View Association and author of Bay View: An American Idea
TONIGHT! Thursday, January 13, 2011
303 Pearl St NW
The inheritor of a family Bay View tradition since 1911, Mary Jane Doerr was especially well prepared to write the first comprehensive social history of the Association. Her new book, Bay View: An American Idea, both situates Bay View in the main currents of nineteenth-century movements and distinguishes its unique contributions-adding in those of women for the first time.
Co-sponsored with the Grand Rapids Historical Society and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. Free and open to the public.
Doerr will sign her book on Saturday, January 15, 1-2 pm, at Schuler Books on 28th Street.
