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May 11

This Mother’s Day take Mom on a very special trip—all the way back to the 19th century.
At Genesee Country Village & Museum all Moms are admitted without charge on Mothers Day.

Here she can enjoy the special Mother’s Day Brunch and Salute to Women, a daylong homage to the women who led the fight for women's rights in the 19th century. Visitors may meet such extraordinary women as:

• Susan B. Anthony, Rochester’s internationally respected symbol of the women's movement, who devoted a lifetime to the cause of women's rights, as she disrupts the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial with her "Declaration and Protest," declaring full equality with men. .

Bloomer girls

• Sojourner Truth, a former slave who became one of the earliest and most passionate of female abolitionists.
• Mary Jemison, the White Woman of the Genesee, captured by Shawnees as a child, turned over to the Senecas, whom she grew to love.
• Amelia Bloomer, devoted to equality for women and women’s suffrage, but known most for her adoption of a loose, Turkish-style trouser.

The Hutchinson Family Revival, a recreation of a music group who toured the country at mid-century advocating abolition, universal suffrage and women’s rights, and Fever Pitch , a men's quartet, will perform.

Meanwhile, kids will be able to create a lovely Mother's Day flower cornucopia for Mom.

At the nationally renowned John L. Wehle Art Gallery, Mom will also find the new exhibit Under Open Skies: Nature Past and Present along with Sweet! Desserts in America, which has been extended for this season.

This holiday Mom and her family can also:

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• Enjoy a bountiful spring buffet, served from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Reservations are required: Adults $25, youth 4-10 $12, free for children 3 and under. For reservations, call (585) 538-6822 ext. 247..
• Examine a display of period clothing (selected from the museum collection) on display at the Meeting Center.
• Enjoy the Flint Hill Dancers with Jim Kimball on fiddle, a special interpretation of the Romulus Female Seminary and a special presentation on Henrietta native Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the country's first ordained woman minister.
• Purchase propagated native wildflowers such as trillium, cut-leaf toothwort and columbine from Ellen Folts of Amanda’s Garden. The sale begins at the nature center on Saturday, May 10.