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Sarah Parker Remond Plaque

Thanks to all who donated and all who supported the Sarah Parker Remond Plaque Project, the plaque was installed, just before Christmas at the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome!   remondinlace-shawl

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Posted on March 6, 2014 in 19th century, Nicholas Stanley-Price, Non-Catholic Cemetery Rome, Race in America, Remond, Remond Plaque Fund, Rome

A CHANCE TO MAKE HISTORY: Sarah Remond Plaque Fund

Posted on December 28, 2011 | 1 comment

A view of Rome from the Pincio

We continue to raise funds to install a plaque in memory of the extraordinary 19th-century African American activist and physician, Sarah Parker Remond at the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome, Italy.

Have a look at the full story and the posts at http://wp.me/P1Hpyy-3Y

Hope you’ll donate and spread the word. Many thanks.

Stereopticon slide of a view of the Non-Catholic Cemetery where Remond is buried.

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Thank You & A Request

Posted on November 21, 2011 | Leave a comment

Sarah Parker Remond Plaque Fund

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OUR THANKS to all of you who filled the Salem Athenaeum on Friday for the wonderfully informative and entertaining illustrated talk by Nicholas Stanley-Price. We are grateful for his willingness to give us an evening of his brief visit from Rome to speak about Sarah Parker Remond, members of the Story and Crowninshield families, and others from Salem in Rome’s historic Non-Catholic Cemetery.

We continue to raise  funds to create and install a plaque in the fine location reserved for our memorial to Sarah Parker Remond (1826-1894), African American abolitionist, international lecturer, physician, and social activist, whose final resting place there is unmarked. 

 A total of $10,000 would fund the project, complete with a celebratory unveiling to which all donors will of course be invited, as well as a program in Salem to mark the occasion.

Momentum matters; we hope to complete the project within a year. So please consider donating whatever you can, and be sure to spread the word to others who might like to participate.

All  donors will have their names inscribed in a leather bound volume which will include historical essays on Remond’s life and legacy. One copy will reside in the Roman Cemetery Archives, another in Salem, Massachusetts.

Please send checks payable to:

Remond Plaque Fund, c/o Francis T. Mayo 

265 Essex Street, Suite 301

Salem, MA 01970. 

Thank You!

Marilyn Richardson and Francis Mayo for The Remond Plaque Fund

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Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome: Salem Athenaeum, 18 November 2011

Posted on October 28, 2011 | 1 comment

    

Echoes of Salem

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Historic Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome

 An illustrated presentation by Nicholas Stanley-Price

 Nicholas Stanley-Price, a specialist in cultural heritage preservation, is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Cemetery and editor of its Friends’ Newsletter.

He spent nine years on the staff of the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles and six as Director-General of ICCROM, an intergovernmental organization based in Rome that promotes heritage conservation.

 Friday, Nov. 18        6:00 P.M

 337 Essex St., Salem, MA 01970                                    Ph: 978.744.2540

 Free and open to the Public                              info@salemathenaeum.net

                             William Wetmore Story’s Memorial to his Wife, Emelyn                                

Sponsored by the Salem Athenaeum and the Remond Plaque Fund

                                        http://www.sarahparkerremond.wordpress.com

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