THE IMMIGRANT, RADICAL, AND NOTORIOUS

By NWHP admin on March 25th, 2008

PRESS RELEASE Women’s History Month

THE IMMIGRANT, RADICAL, AND NOTORIOUS
WOMEN OF WASHINGTON SQUARE
March 30

On Sunday, March 30, 2008, at 1 PM, Manhattan historian Joyce Gold will present a 2-hour walking tour through Washington Square, with an emphasis on the women who have lived there.

Washington Square has been the home of many of the political, creative, and intellectual movements in New York’s history, not least in part to its consistently amazing female population.

Perhaps in no other six blocks on earth have so many notable women lived and achieved for the last 150 years. Throughout the years, it has seen an unparalleled variety of women—working class, gentry, radical, literary, academic, theatrical, convict, and immigrant. Eleanor Roosevelt, Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Lila Acheson Wallace, Paulette Goddard, Emily Roebling, Bella Abzug, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Ida Tarbell, Emily Post, and even the woman who invented the kewpie doll, all shared this famed New York neighborhood.

Highlights of the history of women include:
—The salon of Mable Dodge, a center of WW I-era activism
—The tragedy of the Triangle fire and its role in the Ladies Garment Worker
Union revolution
—The stage shared by Bette Davis and Edna St. Vincent Millay
—What happened when Sophie Vanderbilt refused to move to Washington
Square

Other Washington Square history highlights include:
—Why the neighborhood was once called “Little Africa”
—Why there are 10,000 people buried under Washington Square Park

The tour meets at the Arch at Washington Square, Fifth Avenue below 8th Street. The fee is $15 per person, $12 for those 65 or older. No reservations are needed, but questions can be directed to Joyce Gold at the phone number or the E-mail address below.

Ms Gold teaches New York history at New York University and the New School for Social Research. She is the author From Trout Stream to Bohemia: A Walking Guide to Greenwich Village History.

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Joyce
Joyce Gold History Tours of New York, LLC
141 W. 17th St.
New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212 242 5762
Fax: 212 242 6374
E-mail: Joyce@JoyceGoldHistoryTours.com
Website: www.JoyceGoldHistoryTours.com

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