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Lunchtime Lecture: “Women in the Military & Hidden Women’s History”
The ‘Women in the Military’ exhibit at the Frontenac Historical Society in Union Springs is part of the Hidden Women’s History Room at the museum. Over the last three years, the Museum has undertaken research and presentations of the roles and activities of local women, whose names and activities in the history of women’s suffrage have been forgotten—or never noted. The story of the exhibit, as well as the story of women in national military history, and the stories of the local women veterans the Museum discovered fit perfectly into the Hidden Women’s History Room. This presentation tells that story and the stories within it of many of the area women who served in the military.
Join Linda Albrecht from the Frontenac Historical Society as she explores the research, conversations, and stories that went in to the creation of this newly re-designed exhibit. The lecture will begin at 12 PM in the Carriage House Theater. Program admission is “Pay What You Wish.” Outside food is welcome and encouraged for this lecture.
About the Speaker
Linda Albrecht has been a member of the Frontenac Historical Society for several years. She currently serves on the Museum Board and is an active curator and docent of the museum. After teaching reading for several years in the NYS Division for Youth, as the state juvenile justice agency was formerly known, she became the director of the Lansing Residential Center for Girls. The facility became a national model for ‘gender-responsive services’ for girls in juvenile justice which was one of three primary initiatives of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the US Department of Justice. Albrecht was a national program development consultant providing training and development assistance to state and private service providers.
After retirement, Albrecht became part of the development of the Women’s Forgotten History initiative at the Frontenac, which is situated in the midst of a historic hotbed of the suffrage movement seeking to discover its own history in that movement.
