"Georgiana Fulton: "A Woman to Reckon With"

“Georgiana Fulton: “A Woman to Reckon With”
Presented by Susan McGee Bailey

3:00 p.m. - Sunday, June 14th, 2015
Ledyard Congregational Church, Fellowship Hall ~ 722 Colonel Ledyard Highway, Ledyard, CT

Susan McGee Bailey met her first ‘best friend’ at the age of eight shortly after her family moved to Masons Island. Miss Georgiana Fulton’s house was on the way to the school bus stop and Susan passed her ramshackle cottage and overgrown gardens daily. The flowers sparked a conversation that led to an enduring friendship.

Georgiana Fulton (1869-1967), was an independent thinker, artist, and the last teacher in the one room schoolhouse on Masons Island. Her final years were spent in Ledyard and she is buried here in the Avery Stoddard Cemetery.

Susan will talk about Miss Fulton’s life and art, including many of the stories she shared with her as a child. The stories reveal much about Masons Island in the 1920s and ‘30s, the early years of the Mystic Art Association, and tantalizing aspects of Miss Fulton’s early life before she came to Connecticut, including her origins in Shreveport, LA and her years studying art in Paris before World War I.

Susan McGee Bailey received a BA in History from Wellesley College, an MA and PhD from the University of Michigan and held a postdoctoral fellowship in Public Health from Johns Hopkins. She directed The Wellesley Centers for Women and was a Professor of Education and Women’s & Gender Studies at Wellesley College from 1985-2011.

Program starts at 3 pm, followed by the annual potluck and brief annual meeting. The public is cordially invited!
For information, call 860-464-2040 - http://www.ledyardhistory.org