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I recently took two of my grandkids to the Susan B. Anthony house. The kids have learned about her in school, of course, but there’s nothing like going to the actual place she lived to fully experience a person’s life. Susan lived with her sister, Mary, and their mother in this house at 17 Madison St. in Rochester for forty years, following her father’s death. In fact, she lived there until she, herself, died in 1906.
I’d been to the Anthony house before, but I learned two new things on this visit. I learned that Susan was a good cook, and that when a male visitor questioned how such an educated woman could be good in the kitchen, she replied that a woman was capable of doing many things. I also learned that before women demanded equal rights, girls were limited in learning mathematics to only addition and subtraction. I guess I can thank Susan and other reformers for my ability to study calculus.
It was a thrill for me to stand in the parlor where Ms Anthony was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election. I can only imagine what it was like to be there then. Why not make a visit and imagine for yourself?