"Sundays at Two" Series for 1999-2000 Begins October 17

This year's "Sundays at Two" series, sponsored by the Friends of Forbes Library and Smith College, will begin with a tour of the Sophia Smith Collection, the women's history archive at Smith College, conducted by its director, Sherrill Redmon. The event will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, October 17, at the collection, which is located in Neilson Library on the Smith campus.

The Sophia Smith Collection is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history. The holdings document the historical experience of women in the U.S. and abroad from the Colonial era to the present. Subject strengths include birth control; women's rights and suffrage; the contemporary women's movement; U.S. women working abroad; the arts, especially theatre; the professions, especially journalism and social work; and middle-class family life in 19th- and 20th-century New England.

Along with a behind-the-scenes tour of the collection, Redmon will talk about the pioneers and more recent developments in the field of collecting women's history and introduce two current exhibitions: one on women's athletics and another on Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that is timed to coincide with a PBS special scheduled for early November.

Redmon came to Smith in 1993 from the University of Louisville archives where she was associate archivist and had also been a faculty member in the history department. She earned the B.A. at the University of Louisville and the Ph. D. at the University of Kentucky.

The "Sundays at Two" series will continue with a lecture on
November 14 at Forbes Library by local author Barry Werth, who is writing a book about literary critic and English professor Newton Arvin, a resident of Northampton and long-time member of the English department at Smith.

"Sundays at Two" presentations are free and open to the public.

September 23, 1999