UPCOMING EVENTS

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Walking Tour: Abolitionists and African Americans in Walnut Hills

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Presented in partnership with the Voice of Black Cincinnati.
Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 1pm
  • Start/End: Harriet Beecher Stowe House
  • ​$12 tickets / $5 for HBSH members
Did you know that Underground Railroad conductors, Olympic gold medalists, internationally-famous authors, and myriad small businesses have all thrived in Walnut Hills throughout its history? Learn about the women and men who built and invested in this neighborhood for the past 200 years.

​This walk will last just under 2 hours. ​Rain date is the following day (Sunday) at 1pm.

Museum Store Sunday 2024

Sunday, December 1, 2024
1-4pm
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
​2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206

On the Sunday following Thanksgiving, over 2,100 museum stores representing all fifty states and the District of Columbia, twenty five countries, and five continents will offer inspired shopping at your favorite museums and cultural institutions.

A Harriet Beecher Stowe Christmas with author Pamela McColl

About the Author: Pamela McColl has spoken at well over 100 museums across America, including the Mark Twain House and Museum, The Redwood Library, The Munson, The Hart Cluett, and she will be touring for 2024-2026. McColl is currently writing a book on the women of American Christmas - including the development of Mrs. Claus through a literature and the book will be released for fall 2025.
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 7pm (house opens at 6pm)
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
​2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206

Kick off the Christmas season learning about the ways 19th century abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe combined their holidays celebrations with activism.

McColl will be presenting an overview of the literary and art legacy that follows the holidays readers are provided the rich, diverse and fascinating discoveries McColl presents. Included are literary passages from Mark Twain, Louise May Alcott, Washington Irving and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book is also includes hundreds of images from the great talents such as Winslow Homer, Joseph Leyendecker, F.O.C. Darley to Andy Warhol.

​Signed copies of Ms. McColl's book Twas The Night: The Art and History of the Classic Christmas will be for sale and can be pre-ordered for pickup at the event.

Christmas Hope in Adversity (December Voices for Truth Discussion)

About the Facilitators:
  • Dr. John Getz is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Xavier University and has been volunteering for the Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House for many years.
  • Dr. Mitch Nyawalo is Associate Professor, Gender and Diversity Studies Program
    Chair, Department of Race, Intersectionality, Gender, and Sociology
Christmas Hope in Adversity
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at ​7pm (house opens at 6pm)
​Harriet Beecher Stowe House
​2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206
​Zoom participation also available
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What could Christmas mean to people in the worst circumstances? What hope or at least reprieve could it signify? In our final meeting of the year we listen to voices for truth from two enslaved African Americans and a Jew remembering his time in Auschwitz.

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SPECIALTY TOUR
​Pulpit as Pen: Considering Harriet Beecher Stowe as a Public Theologian

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About the facilitator:
Rev. Dr. Aaron Maurice Saari is a public theologian, biblical scholar, pastor, and author. He has taught at Xavier University, Antioch University, and the University of Dayton, and pastored Presbyterian and United Church of Christ congregations. An expert on the historical Judas, Dr. Saari is currently working on a book about Harriet as theologian.
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Saturday, January 18, 2025
SPECIALTY TOUR at 3:30pm
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
​2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206

In writings both personal and public, Harriet Beecher Stowe sought to reconcile her experiences of Jesus as friend with the doctrinal Calvinism into which she was born. From her first theological essay written at the age of twelve to her biography of Christ and essays about women in sacred history, Harriet rejected a Christianity focused on damnation and embraced an expansive view of God offering salvation to all of humanity, a position that often put her at odds with not only Christian leaders but also her own father. In works such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Minister’s Wooing, and Oldtown Folks, Harriet used her pen as pulpit to support abolition, temperance, suffrage, and the Social Gospel.

In this tour, we trace the development of her faith and theology from the uncertainty of her youth to her embrace of the Episcopal Church in the last decades of her life.
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Thanks to a grant from America 250 Ohio, this program is offered free of charge, however, there are limited number of participants.

This program is designed for groups--email friends "at" stowehousecincy "dot" org to get on the calendar for 2025. The first twelve programs are covered by the grant.