Women of the New World: From the 1500s to 1776 @ Petit

Traditional histories of our country begin, for the most part, with the names and stories of White men. Historical interpreter and feminist Renee-Noelle Felice will help us uncover the histories of women—Indian, European and African—whose tales are interwoven with those most of us learned in school. In celebration of the 250th year of the United States, she will introduce us to some of our female forebears, whose courage, initiative and endurance contributed to the founding of our nation.

Renee-Noelle Felice has portrayed historical women, including Fayetteville, NY suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage, for about three decades on Staten Island and in Central New York. During “Convention Days” at the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights National Historical Park, held in honor of the first Women’s Rights Convention there in 1848, she has embodied Lucretia Mott, who presided at the first gathering. She has also taught women’s history classes at Upstate OASIS, a senior education center in East Syracuse, New York.