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march
05mar1:30 pmEbenezer Maxwell Mansion: Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte with Joseph Starita (zoom)
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Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte with Joseph Starita March 5, 2023, at 1:30 pm on ZOOM – Pulitzer Prize nominee Joseph Starita talks about Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native
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Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
with Joseph Starita
March 5, 2023, at 1:30 pm on ZOOM – Pulitzer Prize nominee Joseph Starita talks about Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American doctor in U. S. History. On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree―becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country.
By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Native woman became the doctor to her tribe. Overnight, she acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling countryside with few roads. Her patients often were desperately poor and desperately sick―tuberculosis, smallpox, measles, influenza―families scattered miles apart, whose last hope was a young woman who spoke their language and knew their customs.
This is the story of an Indian woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice, then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people―physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually.
Cost: $18, Member Cost: $14. Reservations are required and can be made ONLINE
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(Sunday) 1:30 pm
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Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion
diane@ebenezermaxwellmansion.org 200 W Tulpehocken St Philadelphia PA 19144
april
02apr1:30 pmEbenezer Maxwell Mansion: Victorian Book Club - Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
“Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.”
Charles Dickens’s Hard Times: For These Times tells a story about honoring the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and social injustice. It takes place in Coketown, where Mr. Thomas Gradgrind feeds his pupils and his family with facts, banning imagination and wonder from young minds. Consequently, his obedient daughter Louisa becomes trapped in a loveless marriage, and his son Tom rebels to become embroiled in crime. As their fortunes cross with an array of colorful characters, including a free-spirited circus girl and a victimized mill worker, Gradgrind is forced to question everything he believes in. Although written in 1854, this remains one of the most relevant novels Dickens ever created and still speaks to today’s world.
Sunday, April 2, 2023, at 1:30 PM
Cost: $10
Reservations are required and can be made ONLINE
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(Sunday) 1:30 pm
Organizer
Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion
diane@ebenezermaxwellmansion.org 200 W Tulpehocken St Philadelphia PA 19144
june
25jun1:30 pmEbenezer Maxwell Mansion: Victorian Book Club - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
Published in 1811 and deeply beloved in the Victorian era, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility continues to delight readers today. The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters – Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret – as they come of age. Having to move away from their childhood home with their widowed mother, the sisters experience love, romance, heartbreak, and reconciliation in very different ways. Austen’s book asks the question of the reader: Which is the more satisfying path through life – acting with sense, or with sensibility?
Sunday, June 25, 2023, at 1:30 pm
Cost: $10
Reservations are required and can be made ONLINE
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Time
(Sunday) 1:30 pm
Organizer
Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion
diane@ebenezermaxwellmansion.org 200 W Tulpehocken St Philadelphia PA 19144