Summer Lecture Series to close with presentation on ‘Fanny Forrester’
To close out the Summer Lecture Series, which has been very successful, the Friends of the Old Town of Eaton Museum will be putting on a special lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. Refreshments will be served at 6 p.m.
The program will feature “Fanny Forrester, also known as Emily Chubbuck Judson, author – missionary and all the famous ministers and missionaries that came from the Town
of Eaton.”
Most interesting to us, there recently was a visitor to the old stone museum who actually knew who Emily Chubbuck Judson was. Of course the woman was a writer and journalist, but
still… Emily dates back to 1817.
Born in Eaton, Emily became a writer of children’s stories under the pen name Fanny Forrester. She started writing articles for the newspapers and put them together as a book of famous short tales about the Eatonbrook. The Eatonbrook is a little stream that still runs today through Eaton and behind the Old Town Museum. Then it was called the Alderbrook, and her stories of “Alderbrook Tales,” put together as a book, sold very well. Emily became famous in the mid-1840s when she married Adoniram Judson, the American missionary to Burma; her life and her writings about Judson’s earlier wife made quite an impact on the Baptist world in her time and her poetry is taught today.
Also on tap will be stories on Nathanial Kendrick, the Eaton churches, Jonathan Wade, the Rev. William Cleveland (the President’s brother) Charles Grandison Finney and so many more.
Rain date is Thursday. The lecture will be held at the Old Auction Barn on Route 26 in Eaton, next to the Eaton Post Office.
Visit our Facebook page at Friends of the Old Town of Eaton Museum for more information.