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2025 Spinning HERstory Gallery
Enjoy highlight photos from the 2025 Spinning Tableau event on August 23, 2025. Photos added weekly.
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Read article in Lexington Observer
Read article in Boston Globe
Spinning Tableau - LexSeeHer Living Herstory Team reenacts Anna Harrington's 1769 protest
Bold women assembled
Gathered at Anna's house
Guests prepared to spin
44 women and girls participated in Anna's 1769 Spinning Match
Abigail and Lydia
At some such protests, participants competed to see who spun the most
Bold women assembled
The Boston Gazette reported that 45 "ladies" participated
Bold girls participated
Anna set the pace
The women spun all day
2025 Women's Visibility Banner Honorees
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Fran Ludwig & Barbara Manfredi
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Thelma Goldberg & Nailah Randall-Bellinger
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Dr. Kamlesh Dang (with her daughter)
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Leeying Wu
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Thelma Goldberg danced her way to the monument
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Martha Wood receives yellow rose from Girl Scouts
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Cheryl Knott
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Susan held up Jackie Ward's Trailblazer banner
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Marsha Baker
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Anne Lee and Beverly Kelley with Select Board member Vineeta Kumar (who spoke at the ceremony)
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Natalie Riffin
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Jodia Finnagan & Martha Wood
LexSeeHer + Common Threads + LHS Crochet Club = 45 Hand-made squares to remember the 45 women who participated in Anna Harrington's 1769 Protest plus additional squares for Welcome Blanket project. The project was called "It's Hip to Be Square"
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Laurence co-chaired the project and oversaw volunteers at the Spinning HERstory event. Like the bold women in 1769, participants worked throughout the day, between 10 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., helping with the initial work to connect 45 squares into blankets
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Lexington High School Crochet Club joined prior to the event and stayed throughout the day to help connect squares and teach visitors how to crochet
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Cheryl co-chaired the project and set up collection baskets at Michelson's Shoes, LexArt, Munroe Center for the Arts, and Knit Tuck and Purl. This made it easy for many people to contribute
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For the third year in a row, LexSeeHer invited community members to meet at the monument throughout the summer to SewAlong, KnitAlong, or CrochetAlong
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Though the hope was to be able collect 45 squares - one to represent each woman at the 1769 protest, in the last week before the event, volunteers were very generous, and the goal was met and surpassed! The number of squares collected by the day of the event was 114.
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The Spinning HERstory event was made possible by volunteers - including a dedicated Planning Team and many volunteers who signed up to help on August 23!
Thank you to all of our supporting vendors! - More photos coming soon!
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