Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/13/2022
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location
Westmoreland Town Hall

Categories

On Sunday, November 13th at 3PM, don’t miss Jenna Carroll, director of education at the Historical Society of Cheshire County in Keene, as she presents “Jennie Powers, the Woman Who Dared” a NH Humanities to Go program at the Westmoreland Town Hall.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A LIGHT SNACK RECEPTION AFTER THE PROGRAM.

Jennifer Carroll has been managing historical societies and museums in New England for 25 years.

Jennie Powers: The Woman Who Dares
Jennie Powers took a stand against social vices in New Hampshire and Vermont in the early twentieth century. She was a humane society agent in Keene from 1903-1936 and one of the first humane society agents to become a deputy sheriff in New Hampshire. Jennie was known across the country as “The Woman Who Dares” cited by the Boston Post newspaper in 1906 as having arrested more men than any other woman in America. As a photographic activist, she used her camera to document animal cruelty, family violence, and wide-spread poverty in New Hampshire’s Monadnock region and beyond. This one-hour illustrated presentation from Jenna Carroll introduces us to Jennie’s life story, the work of humane societies at the turn of the twentieth century, and the politics of the Progressive Era (1890s-1920s) from a local perspective.