PORTSMOUTH — The town will be the centerpiece of a five-day, three-state celebration of Anne Hutchinson’s 425th birthday on Friday, July 22.
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PORTSMOUTH — The town will be the centerpiece of a five-day, three-state celebration of Anne Hutchinson’s 425th birthday on Friday, July 22.
The Boston-based Anne Marbury Hutchinson Foundation’s “Founding Mothers Celebration” event series will trace the Puritan outcast and feminist icon’s path from Boston (July 20-21) to Portsmouth (July 22) to Bronx-Eastchester, N.Y. (July 23) and then back to Boston for closing events July 24).
The celebration is a collaborative, learning-event series organized by a number of similarly aligned, history-loving nonprofits, including the Portsmouth Historical Society and the local Friends of Anne Hutchinson. The celebration begins in Boston on July 20 with two days of gatherings, lectures and walking tours, plus a lecture by Eve LaPlante, author of “American Jezebel,” a biography of Hutchinson.
In Portsmouth July 22
On Friday, July 22, the celebration moves to Portsmouth, where three events are scheduled.
At 10:30 a.m., people will gather at Founders’ Brook Park for a ceremony and discussion of Hutchinson’s arrival in Portsmouth in 1638 with Rhode Island scholar Michael Ford. This will be followed by a tour of the park and gardens and an informal picnic lunch. The ceremony is free, but not the lunch.
At 1 p.m., the group moves to the Portsmouth Free Public Library to view a free Anne Hutchinson-themed art exhibit and hear a lecture by Jim Garman, town historian and president of the Portsmouth Historical Society. (Seating is limited.)
At 3 p.m., the tour will travel to Greenvale Vineyards and meet up with vineyard owner and Anne Hutchinson descendent, Nancy Parker Wilson. There will also be a wine-tasting for a fee, including the now-rare bottles of Greenvale’s 375th Anniversary label Skipping Stone white.
This tour is attracting Hutchinson fans from across the country, many of whom are descendants of the feminist icon, who had 13 children. Room on the tour is still available; visit www.FoundingMothersCelebration.org for more information.