The 12th annual Little York Fall Fiber Arts Festival will be this weekend at the Little York Pavilion at Dwyer Memorial Park in Preble.
The event, a fundraiser for Cortland Repertory Theatre will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
Admission is $5; kids are 12 get in free.
The event includes products and creations from knitting, spinning and felting, plus yard, pelts, fleeces, blankets, jewelry, wooden bowls and more.
Soup, chili, hot dogs, snacks and coffee will be available for purchase. All refreshment proceeds benefit the CRT Guild.
Also, The Syracuse Weaver’s Guild and EGA Central NY Chapter will have demonstrations and membership information.
Literary club discusses Bloomer, privilege
Fifteen active and honorary members of the Ladies Literary club met Oct. 2 at the United Presbyterian Church to discuss its first two reports on the theme “Women’s Concerns: Past and Present.”
Dianne Webster’s paper, “Amelia Bloomer — From Petticoats to Politics,” discussed Amelia Jenks Bloomer, born in 1818 in Homer. She was a strong supporter of temperance, suffrage, anti-slavery and education. She was perhaps best known for promoting a radical clothing style for women — a short dress with long, full Turkish style trousers underneath.
Bloomer began editing a newspaper, “The Lily,” written by and for women. She introduced Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Susan B. Anthony on May 12, 1851, beginning a long-lasting partnership instrumental in the women’s rights movement.
Karen Cunningham presented her paper titled “Male Privilege.”.Male privilege is the belief that men have an inherent right to power and dominance over women. Her paper focused on insidious effects of this attitude in culture and history. English includes many words that are gender-referential, suggesting that women are often not taken seriously. From 1777, when all states passed laws taking away women’s right to vote, until the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, women were unable to participate in government. Not until the passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 were women able to get credit cards and loans without the signature of a male guarantor. These attitudes persist as women vie for political office.
Hostesses for the Oct. 16 meeting will be Diane Ames and Chris Buck. Papers will be presented by Nancy Rehkugler and Diane Tennant.
