2023
Don Shump, the founder of the Philadelphia Bee Company who will be giving a talk at Laurel Hill Mansion on October 21, 2023 at 11:00A.M.
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July 1, 2023
For Immediate Release
Media contact: Barbara Frankl
concerts@laurelhillmansion.org
On July 30, 2023 music returns to Laurel Hill Mansions historic octagonal music room with a performance by the renowned Wister Quartet.
Their performance will include:
George Frideric Handel – Passacaglia
Marcel Farago – Prayer
Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen – String Quartet#2
W.A. Mozart – String Quartet in C Major.
The concert will begin at 2:00 P.M. after which refreshments will be served on the back porch overlooking the Schuylkill River. There will be an opportunity to meet the musicians at the reception.
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July 1, 2023
For Immediate Release
Media contact: Barbara Frankl
concerts@laurelhillmansion.org
Women for Greater Philadelphia are pleased to announce that on August 6, 2023 at 2:00 P.M. Daniel Adam Maltz will give a concert at historic Laurel Hill Mansion in East Fairmount Park.
Maltz, who resides in Vienna is a fortepianist, specializes in Wiener Klassik, Viennese Classicism, especially the works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Perforning on the Viennese fortepianos of their time he utilizes the vast range of tones and colors familiar to the composers whose music he plays.
May 1, 2023
For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Smokie Kittner s.kittner@womenforgreaterphiladelphia.org
Laurel Hill Mansion is open for the 2023 season.
Guided tours of this historic prerevolutionary house in Philadelphia’s East Fairmount Park are offered Thursday through Sunday from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Free Days are offered for artist to paint en plein air and for the public to play outdoor chess.
Three concerts in the afternoon will be presented in the octagonal music room Summer 2023. The Wister Quartet on July 30th, Daniel Adam Maltz on August 6th and Allen Krantz on August 20th.
A free family fun day hosted by the After School Activities Partnerships and Women for Greater Philadelphia with ASAP chess and scrabble will take place on August 8th.
February 24, 2023
For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Smokie Kittner
s.kittner@womenforgreaterphiladelphia.org
This Free online event takes place on:
March 12, 2023 at 2:00 P.M.
Register at:
www.womenforgreaterphiladelphia.org/pages/womens_history_month.html
Women for Greater Philadelphia is pleased to announce that Amanda Owen will be our 2023 Women’s History Month Speaker.
Amanda Owen, a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Justice Bell Foundation, is an author and an independent scholar of women’s history who specializes in the American women’s suffrage movement. Owen wrote and directed the documentary, Finding Justice: The Untold Story of Women's Fight for the Vote, which premiered at the National Women’s History Museum on August 26, 2020. Finding Justice has aired on PBS (WQLN and WHYY) and at number of institutions, organizations, and film festivals.
The title of the talk is:
Pennsylvania Suffragists and Their Fight for Voting Rights
Many heroes of the women’s suffrage movement came from Pennsylvania, some of the best known from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. But hundreds of women in all 67 counties contributed to the cause. This presentation will introduce you to some of these determined, courageous women.
Although many thousands of women and some men advocated for women's voting rights during the 19th and 20th century, few people today know any of their names. Yet, their descendants will number in the hundreds of thousands. Amanda Owen, Executive Director of the Justice Bell Foundation, will share information about a new oral history project dedicated to uncovering the stories of our family members who fought for voting rights. Owen features some of our brave Pennsylvania suffragists, including Elizabeth McShane and Katherine Heffelfinger, who were imprisoned and tortured for picketing for voting rights, and Daisy Lampkin and Etha Carroll Cowles Armstrong who faced racism and discrimination, yet gave their all for the cause.
Contact Smokie Kittner at s.kittner@womenforgreaterphiladelphia.org
2022
Holiday tours of Historic Laurel Hill Mansion
Wednesday through Sunday, December 1, 2022 to December 30, 2022
A Philadelphia Tradition since 1976, celebrate the Holidays with
a tour of festively decorated Philadelphia Park House Laurel Hill Mansion.
You’re invited to tour the festively decorated house Wednesday through Sunday
from 10:00A.M. to 4:00 P.M. throughout December.
On December 3rd & 4th, December 10th & 11th and December 17th &
18th visitors will be welcomed by and Tea will be served by historically dressed
members of Women for Greater Philadelphia and Friends. The Gift Shop will also
be open.
In addition to Laurel Hill Mansion three other East Park mansions are also open
for Holiday tours, they are, Ormiston Mansion, Historic Strawberry Mansion and
Woodford Mansion. All of the houses are within walking / biking /driving distance
of each other. Please visit www.parkcharms.org for more information.
The 2022 Holiday tree at LAurel Hill Mansion
Historic Laurel Hill Mansion
detail of the holiday decorations at Laurel Hill Mansion
Please contact events@laurelhillmansion.org to receive press releases about up coming events
The
Florian Trio performed on the Grounds of Historic Laurel Hill Mansion
September 17, 2022 at 2:00 P.M.
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The Florian Trio will perfom on the grounds of Laurel Hill Mansion on September
17, 2022 at 2:00PM
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There will be outdoor chess at Laurel Hill Mansion on Sunday, August 28, 2022 from 11:00A.M. to 2:00P.M. For more information please visit our events page.
The facade of the historic Philadelphia Park house Laurel Hill Mansion.
Detail of the facade of Laurel Hill Mansion