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Back to School with Miss Elizabeth Hawkesworth

September 12, 2015 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Saturday, September 12 ~ 2:00 pm
PROGRAM  Back to School with Miss Elizabeth Hawkesworth
SPEAKER  Karin Stocking
LOCATION  Christ Old Swedes Church Hall (Directions)

Miss Elizabeth Hawkesworth is a traveling schoolmarm of the early 1800s, whose personal story speaks of similar scenarios that many of our immigrant ancestors would identify with. Her late education at the Philadelphia School for Girls, makes her one of the most learned women of our age (when really only men could claim this title). While she was born in Wales, she worked as a domestic servant while living with her aunt and Uncle, Colonel Peter Hawkesworth of Hatfield Township in Montgomery County. She is the oldest child and only daughter of Mary and Edward Hawkesworth and the sister to four brothers.

Her alter ego, Karin Stocking, is a graduate of East Stroudsburg University with a concentration in musical theatre and currently works as an Executive Assistant in the pharmaceutical industry. Karin is the founder of the W.S. Hancock Society which rescued the deteriorating mausoleum of Major General Winfield Hancock at Montgomery Cemetery in 1995. The W.S. Hancock Society is the originator of the Montgomery County History Fair which will return to the Knapp Farm in September, 2016.

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Date:
September 12, 2015
Time:
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Venue

Christ Church (Old Swedes) Church Hall
740 River Rd
Swedesburg, PA 19405 United States
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