One-woman show on Elizabeth Cady Stanton to be presented at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

Newton — “ Winter Wheat,” a one-woman show, by Laurie James of New York City, will be presented at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Sussex County on April 29 at 10:30 a.m. The performance covers the latter years of suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who died in 1902, and will focus on Stanton’s critique of how women are treated in the Bible. When Cady Stanton married abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton, she insisted the word “obey” be dropped from the ceremony. In 1848, she and Lucretia Mott called for a women’s rights convention to be held in Seneca Falls, New York. That convention, and the Declaration of Sentiments, written by Stanton, was approved there. It is credited with initiating the long struggle for women’s rights and suffrage. While she is best known for her contribution to women’s suffrage struggle, Cady Stanton was also active and effective in winning property rights for married women, equal guardianship of children and liberalized divorce laws. Laurie James has directed Eve Ensler in “The Vagina Monologues,” and has toured in this country and abroad with her one-woman shows. She is also an author and a member of City College of New York Board of Community Women. The fellowship is located at 1 W. Nelson St., Newton. Refreshments and a chance to talk to the actress will follow the presentation. Call 845 856-8225 for more information.