Commemorates Clara Barton ‘Angel of the Battlefield’
(Peterboro, NY – Sept. 2014) The Annual Peterboro Elizabeth Smith Miller In the Kitchen Tea held Sunday Sept. 21 will commemorate Clara Barton, the “Angel of the Battlefield.” The annual tea is catered by The Copper Turret in Morrisville and hosted by Stewards of the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark who will be dressed in 1851 fashions. This volunteer committee turns the assembly room in the Smithfield Community Center into a tea parlor to celebrate Miller’s Sept. 20, 1822 birth date.
Daughter of Ann and Gerrit Smith, Miller is credited with designing the trouser costume that Amelia Bloomer popularized for women’s health in her newspaper The Lily. Miller’s five hundred page cookbook was named In the Kitchen by her cousin Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The tea, which benefits the Smithfield Community Association, begins at 12:30 p.m. at the Smithfield Community Center, 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro.
To make reservations, visit www.mercantile.gerritsmith.org, information at info@gerritsmith.org or 280-8828.