For several months a special exhibit, '"This is woman 's hour ...': The Life of Mary Baker Eddy—Reformer," has been enjoyed by thousands of visitors to Seneca Falls, a village midway between the cities of Rochester and Syracuse in New York State. The exhibit was shown first in the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls and then moved to a storefront in the village. The exhibit highlights Mrs. Eddy 's contribution to the women 's movement as the author of a landmark book on health and healing—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures—and as a religious leader and reformer.
The title of the exhibit derives from a passage in another of Mrs. Eddy's books, No and Yes, which was first published in 1887: "In natural law and in religion the right of woman to fill the highest measure of enlightened understanding and the highest places in government, is inalienable, and these rights are ably vindicated by the noblest of both sexes. This is woman's hour, with all its sweet amenities and its moral and religious reforms." No and Yes, p. 45
Our Features Editor, Kim Shippey, recently visited Seneca Falls. Here are some of his observations on the celebrations taking place there.
