{"id":1847,"date":"2013-08-09T07:27:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T14:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/?page_id=1847"},"modified":"2013-08-09T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:44:55","slug":"alla-paulina-wright-foster-reformer-and-educator-worcester-ma-1847-1923","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/research\/alla-paulina-wright-foster-reformer-and-educator-worcester-ma-1847-1923\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulina Wright ‘Alla’ Foster, reformer and educator, Worcester, MA (1847-1923)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happened to Alla Foster?<\/span><\/a> <\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Compiled by Karen Board Moran from the Holton Collection, Worcester Historical Museum<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, 2005. \u00a0Transcribed letters from the American Antiquarian Society <\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>are from the Abby Kelley Foster Letter Project of the Worcester Women’s History Project<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Alla Foster, Worcester Historical Museum Collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alla Foster Archives<\/span><\/a><\/strong> <\/span>from Holton Collection, Worcester Historical Museum<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Dates of letters between Abby Kelley Foster and her daughter Alla<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0available<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0at the Worcester Historical Museum and American Antiquarian Society.<\/p>\n

“Happy Birthday, Alla”<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>written using letters between Abby Kelley Foster and her daughter Alla was presented on 19 May 2003 at the Abby Kelly Foster Charter School by historians Karen Board Moran and Emily Thomas in\u00a0bloomers and period traditional dress \u00a0. \u00a0The students liked the accompanying power point slide show and were amazed to learn that Abby was a mother and experienced some of the same struggles they did in the 21st<\/sup> century. \u00a0Dress reform discussion bogged down the focus of program.<\/p>\n

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Foster Family Headstone,
Hope Cemetery, Worcester, MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What happened to Alla Foster? \u00a0Compiled by Karen Board Moran from the Holton Collection, Worcester Historical Museum, 2005. \u00a0Transcribed letters from the American Antiquarian Society are from the Abby Kelley Foster Letter Project of the Worcester Women’s History Project. Alla Foster Archives from Holton Collection, Worcester Historical Museum. Dates of letters between Abby Kelley Foster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1847\/revisions\/1859"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowonyourpast.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}