Friends of Frances Crowe, the Smith College Sophia Smith Archives and Historic Northampton invite you to
100th Birthday Celebration for Frances Crowe
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Well-known activist Frances Crowe is turning 100 on March 15th. A group of friends, working in consultation with Frances, and in collaboration with Historic Northampton and with the Smith College Sophia Smith Archives is organizing events in celebration of Frances’ life and in honor of her work.
We want to show Frances that her legacy is alive and secure, that the next generation is willing and committed to carry on with “the work” necessary to put an end to war and nuclear weapons, to secure justice for all, and to achieve & sustain a livable planet. |
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Saturday
March 16, 2019 1 pm |
Celebrate the Struggle: 100 Signs for 100 Years
Center for the Arts at 33 Hawley Street The Arts Trust Building in Northampton What better way to celebrate and honor Frances on her birthday than to show up with a sign about the issues—ones you care about and work for, and ones Frances cares about. The goal is to get you and 99 others—100 people—holding 100 signs. We will march from 33 Hawley Street in Northampton, up Main Street to City Hall, then back to Hawley Street, led by the Expandable Brass Band. Indoors we will break bread together and have brief statements from Frances, her family & friends. For more information, contact www.nohoarts.org |
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Thursday
March 21, 2019 7 pm |
Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!
John M. Greene Hall, Smith College Award-winning independent journalist and host of the daily news program Democracy Now! Amy Goodman will give a talk in honor of Frances on her 100th birthday. Sponsored by Smith College Special Collections, Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History. Frances brought the radio news program, Democracy Now!, to the Northampton area. When the local public radio station declined to carry Amy Goodman´s show, she bought a transmitter, had a friend download the programs from the internet, and broadcast them herself -- illegally -- to area listeners. To put pressure on the local stations, Crowe started a fundraising drive in parallel to the public radio´s own effort. By the time she had raised $40,000 dollars, the local stations agreed to talk. |
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Signs of the Times - An Exhibit
Friday, March 8 – Sunday, March 31, 2019 An Exhibit at the Mezzanine @33 Hawley Street The Arts Trust Building in Northampton Sculpture by Harriet Diamond including The Northampton Vigil to Lift the Sanctions Against Iraq and a new near life-size sculpture of Frances will be on exhibit along with signs from the 100 Signs for 100 Years March. At right is a section of the Iraq Vigil sculpture featuring Frances talking with two soldiers. The other figures are tiny portraits of other folks who gathered in Northampton on Saturdays to oppose the Iraq War. Image courtesy of sculpture artist Harriet Diamond (www.sculpturestories.com). |
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100th Birthday Celebration for Frances Crowe is organized by a group of friends, working in consultation with Frances Crowe, in collaboration with Historic Northampton, the Northampton Center for the Arts and the Smith College Sophia Smith Archives.
Frances Crowes holds an honorary degree from Smith College; her papers and other materials relevant to her work are held in the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History, Smith College Special Collections. Frances Crowe is recognized by Historic Northampton’s Living History Project as someone who stands in a long line of “social activism, political protest and reform advocacy….” in the city, calling her “Northampton’s best known activist for peace, social justice, and energy without nuclear reactors.”
Frances Crowes holds an honorary degree from Smith College; her papers and other materials relevant to her work are held in the Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History, Smith College Special Collections. Frances Crowe is recognized by Historic Northampton’s Living History Project as someone who stands in a long line of “social activism, political protest and reform advocacy….” in the city, calling her “Northampton’s best known activist for peace, social justice, and energy without nuclear reactors.”