Join us Thursday, Sept. 19 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the second annual women's history conference in Concord, MI.
The 2019 conference celebrates the role of women in agriculture as they effect change and explore how we can use the past to effect future change in ourselves and others.
The conference features sessions from expert presenters, including Anna Clark, research library assistant at the Jackson District Library who will speak about rural women of Jackson County and staff from the Ella Sharp Museum who will talk about the farming life of Ella Sharp.
The day includes tours of the Mann House and Concord Branch of the Jackson District Library, as well as a catered lunch.
Debra Reid, curator and women’s agriculture historian at The Henry Ford, is the conference's keynote speaker. She curates collections documenting farming from stoop labor to internal combustion engines to the production revolution, and back again to organic, slow food and grow-local alternatives.She will speak about women in agriculture throughout history.
The conference ends with a poetry performance by Lonnie Hull DuPont, a Jackson born and raised writer and editor. She will read selections from her collection She Calls the Moon by Its Name, which shares the story of a late-19th century woman as she maneuvers life challenges, family and joy of the land from her farmhouse near Moscow, Michigan. Poems will be accompanied by Clyde McKaney on violin playing music from the period.
Join the "jam" session, too! In a tasty celebration of Michigan agriculture the evening before the conference, you'll make your own preserves - all supplies and instruction provided.
Pre-Conference “Jam” Session
Wednesday, Sept. 18. 6-8 p.m.
$15 fee, all supplies included.
Women's History Conference
Thursday, Sept. 19. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
$30 fee, meals and snacks included.
Register for the pre-conference “Jam” Session and the Conference together for only $40.
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