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New podcast on Anne Hutchinson from Anna Pinkert and the Commonwealth Museum

5/25/2016

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Anna Pinkert and the Commonwealth Museum recently released a fantastic podcast on Anne Hutchinson: Puritan, Rebel, Founding Mother.

​Portions of the podcast were recorded in front of the Chipotle on Washington Street in downtown Boston that is the site of the house in which Hutchinson lived from 1634 until 1638 and taught her followers. 

To listen, click on the link:

​https://annapinkert.com/2015/11/02/anne-hutchinson-puritan-rebel-founding-mother/

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Time to Celebrate Anne Hutchinson's 425th Birthday, This Summer on Beacon Hill!

5/21/2016

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​I'm excited to give the keynote address at this summer's celebration of Anne Hutchinson's 425th birthday, on the morning of July 21 at the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston. This event is part of an important initiative to acknowledge and recognize America's founding mothers: 

425 Years: The Anne Marbury Hutchinson Celebration
                            July 20-24, 2016
                       

This summer the Anne Marbury Hutchinson Foundation celebrates 
its namesake's 425th birthday in three states over four days. The event-series will begin in Boston, MA (July 20-21), continue to Portsmouth, RI (July 22) and Bronx-Eastchester, NY (July 23), and return to Boston for closing events (July 24). The foundation's  mission is to raise awareness of "Mother Anne's" nation-shaping contributions and serve as a springboard to celebrate the lives of other extraordinary women in our nation's past. The 2016 Our Founding Mothers Celebration, a collaborative series of events organized by the Anne Marbury Hutchinson Foundation and other nonprofits, will focus in its inaugural year on Anne Hutchinson's life (1591-1643).

For more information:  www.OurFoundingMothers.org

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Anne Hutchinson may not be on U.S. currency, but she is in stained glass

5/6/2016

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Inside the Heinz Memorial Chapel of the University of Pittsburgh, where my daughter Clara just graduated, I was astonished to look up at a stained-glass window and find Anne Hutchinson. She is dressed in blue, with white coif and collar, standing before a man and three women, teaching. Her right hand is raised, one finger pointing toward the heavens. To the left of her hand is the Holy Spirit.
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​The transept windows of the nondenominational chapel portray figures both sacred and secular that represent tolerance, courage, temperance, and truth. The figures include Florence Nightingale, Pocahontas, Lewis and Clark, Abigail Adams, Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci, Mary Magdalene, Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickinson, Saint Francis, Benjamin Franklin, and Leif Ericsson.


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    Eve LaPlante is the author, most recently, of the biography Marmee & Louisa and the editor of My Heart Is Boundless.

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