Women of the New World: From the 1500s to 1776 @ Petit

About this event

Traditional histories of our country begin, for the most part, with the names and stories of White men. Renee-Noelle Felice, historical interpreter and feminist, will help us uncover the history of the women–Indian, European and African–whose tales are interwoven with those most of us learned in school. In celebration of the 250th year of the United States, she will introduce us to some of our female forebears, whose courage, initiative and endurance contributed to the founding of our nation.

Renee-Noelle Felice has portrayed historical women, including Fayetteville, NY suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage, for about three decades, on both Staten Island and in Central New York. In celebration of “Convention Days” at the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights National Historical Park (in honor of the first Women’s Rights Convention held there in 1848) she has been embodying Lucretia Mott, who presided at the first gathering. She has also taught women’s history classes at Upstate OASIS, a senior education center in East Syracuse, New York.