Stowe Prize Day

Special Events

Stowe Prize Day

With 2018 Winner Matthew Desmond & Student Stowe Prize Winners

September 5, 2018

A day to honor 2018 Stowe Prize winner Matthew Desmond
and 2018 Student Stowe Prize winners Wes Gobar, University of Virginia
and Zyahna Bryant, Charlottesville High School.

ACTION FAIR

Meet Student Stowe Prize winners and connect with local groups working for change. A free event thanks to The Hartford.

3:00-4:00 PM Immanuel Congregational Church
10 Woodland Street, Hartford
Across Farmington Avenue from the Stowe Center

A CONVERSATION WITH MATTHEW DESMOND
AND STUDENT STOWE PRIZE WINNERS

Host of WNPR’s Where We Live, Lucy Nalpathanchil, moderates the conversation with 2018 Stowe Prize winner Matthew Desmond and
2018 Student Stowe Prize winners Wes Gobar and Zyahna Bryant.

A free event thanks to The Hartford.

Register Here

4-5:30 PM Immanuel Congregational Church
10 Woodland Street, Hartford
Across Farmington Avenue from the Stowe Center

THE BIG TENT JUBILEE

A ticketed event with dinner, awards presentation and remarks by
Matthew Desmond, 2018 Stowe Prize winner.
Proceeds support Stowe Center education programs for children and adults.

Buy Tickets for Big Tent Jubilee

6-9 PM Stowe Center Lawn

The Stowe Prize recognizes a U.S. author whose written work has made a tangible impact on a social justice issue critical to contemporary society. Named in honor of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the $10,000 award was established to commemorate the 200th anniversary of her birth in 2011.

The Student Stowe Prize, established by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in 2012, recognizes outstanding writing by United States high school and college students that is making a tangible impact on a social justice issue
critical to contemporary society.

LEGACY PRESENTING SPONSOR

Location Immanuel Congregational Church & Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Doors Open 2:30 PM

Program 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM

School Group Interest Form

School Group Interest Form 2024

Thank you so much for your interest in a group tour at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center! Please help us schedule your visit by answering the questions below.

School name:

Please suggest three dates and times when your group would like to visit. (Note: the Stowe Center is closed on Sunday and Tuesday.)

Contact Teacher Name:

Contact Teacher Email:(Required)

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Number of students expected to attend:(Required)

Please enter a number from 8 to 40.

Please identify the grade level(s) of attending students:(Required)

Likely number of chaperones (including other teachers):

The Stowe Center requires one adult per every 10 students.

Are there special student, teacher, or chaperone accommodations that can help us serve you best?

Do you plan to have lunch on site?

Yes, please.

No, thank you.

Are you interested in scheduling a joint visit with our neighbor, The Mark Twain House and Museum?

Yes, please

No, thank you.

If yes, have you already contacted The Mark Twain House?

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Isabella Beecher Hooker

Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)
An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.

Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.

In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.

In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.