Belfast, Maine - “How Women Shaped Belfast” is the topic for the Belfast Historical Society meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 21, in the Abbott Room at the Belfast Free Library. Megan Pinette, President of the Society, will give an illustrated talk about Belfast women in the early years of the twentieth century and the improvements they made to the city. Among their many lasting contributions are City Park, St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, the Hospital Aid Society, and the Deborah Lincoln House. Upper-class but nevertheless second-class citizens by their sex, not permitted to vote or hold most of the management jobs that men had, these remarkable women insisted on establishing a basic social infrastructure for the city, and they succeeded.
Belfast Historical Society meetings are free and open to the public and are held on the fourth Monday of the month, April through October. Those unable to attend the program are invited to tune in to “Window on History” on BCTV-2 at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. on Thursdays and 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays. Or watch the program on the museum website, www.belfastmuseum.org, which offers new programs each month.
The Belfast Improvement Society was the driving force behind the creation of a public, seaside park for all to enjoy. Belfast City Park opened on September 9, 1906 and it remains free and open to the public today.
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