Add On: The Littleton Historical Society's Hannah Dodge display took place in the Houghton Memorial Building, which for many years housed the Reuben Hoar Library. An addendum: Littleton is thinking about a new middle school, which rumor has it could be named after Hannah Dodge! 7Llosefsky wrote: >-------------------------------------------------------------- >The Littleton (Massachusetts) Historical Society recently had an exhibit on Hannah Perkins Dodge, who was born in Littleton on Feburary 16, 1821, and died there on January 11, 1896. That sounds like a small town girl's life, but between those two dates, Hannah was quite an unusual woman. The oldest of eight children of Barnabas and Sarah Dodge, Hannah was good at her studies and at the age of 13 she won an essay prize from the Littleton Lyceum (the oldest continuous lyceum in the US, still active today). From the North School in Littleton, Hannah moved on to teach in nearby Townsend, then in Norfolk, Virginia; Boston, Worcester and Dorchester, Massachusetts; Kalamazoo, Michigan; and New London, New Hampshire. She finished her career in education as the first woman Superintendent of Schools in Littleton from 1878 to 1882. An artist and a poet, she also traveled to Europe just before the American Civil War. She was a trustee and secretary >of the board of the Reuben Hoar Library, among other civic posts. The Littleton Historical Society's Hannah Dodge display took place in the Houghton Memorial Building, which at the time of Hannah's service was the Reuben Hoar Library. >Educational tools like slates and readers were on display along with some of Hannah's art work. Curiously, Hannah was not in favor of woman suffrage. One of those who visited the exhibit was Laura Prentice Losefsky, whose daughter Jeanne Munn Bracken lives in Littleton and was formerly a trustee (and secretary of the board) of the Reuben Hoar Library. >Jeanne Bracken jmbracken@netway.com > >*** >This message contains parts that can not be recognized or delivered to your device but has been saved on your webmail account. It will be stored there for future access until your webmail account reaches a 5 Megabyte limit at which time it will be deleted. If you have access to a computer and wish to view the complete message please visit https://webmail.earthlink.net and enter your MailStation e-mail address and password. > -- -------------- Barbara V. Dodge Dodge Family Association 9556 Garrison Court Westminster, CO 80021 Tel: 303-237-4947 http://www.dodgefamily.org --------------