Sunday, June 21, 2015

97) Women's Right National Historic Park

Visited: Saturday, June 20, 2015

Our final NPS stop, as we travelled westward across New York, was in Seneca Falls.  This is a nicely done site, with a good movie, a nice (if brief) tour, and a nice set of displays.  But... almost no Harriet Tubman.  The museum currently focuses on the formation of the movement, and does a nice job with that, but doesn't carry the story through.  Apparently they are working on this, but for now it was a disappointment - having learned about Tubman's involvement in the suffragette movement, I wanted to hear more - not a void.  (Not even a showing of Suffring Without Suffrage, the old Schoolhouse Rock video.)

It's still a worthwhile stop, but hopefully it will improve enough to warrant another visit soon.

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