Sudbury Valley Trustees welcomes author Elizabeth Fideler to share her biography of Margaret Pearmain Welch on Tuesday, May 15, 7:00 pm. The book, titled Margaret Pearmain Welch (1893-1984): Proper Bostonian, Activist, Pacifist, Reformer, Preservationist
Elizabeth Fideler, EdD is a Research Fellow at Boston College’s Center on Aging and Work, and author of Women Still at Work: Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job and Men Still at Work: Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job. Fideler, a resident of Framingham, was struck by the story of Margaret Pearmain Welch, and how little was known about this influential character in local history. Welch resided in Beacon Hill’s Louisberg Square and summered in Framingham, along rural Edmands Road. She defied social mores as a debutante and socialite who also worked tirelessly on women’s suffrage, reproductive rights, world peace, environmental protection, monetary reform, land conservation, and other progressive movements.
In 1974, Welch donated a total of 80 acres of land in Northwest Framingham to Sudbury Valley Trustees to ensure its permanent protection from development. A visionary for land conservation, Welch also permitted her friend Penelope Turton to found an organic farm on ten acres of the property in 1954, which is still farmed today as Stearns Farm CSA, located at 862 Edmands Road in Framingham.
RSVPs for the book talk and signing are requested. Visit www.svtweb.org/calendar or call 978-443-5588 X123. SVT and nearly 3000 members protect and care for land and wildlife habitat in 36 communities surrounding the Concord, Assabet, and Sudbury Rivers. Stearns Farm CSA is a sustainable all natural farm providing locally grown food in Framingham, with both summer and winter shares
