Giving Tuesday 2018 – Harison’s Yellow Rose

With a gift of $250 or more, a starter shoot of “Harison’s Yellow” rose (R.x harisonii) can be yours to grow in your own garden. This rose is extremely difficult to find, so this a rare opportunity.

The “Harison’s Yellow” rose was bred by American attorney, George Folliott Harison, and introduced in the United States by Mr. Thomas Hogg – a florist and nurseryman – in 1825 as “Harison’s Yellow”. This rose blooms in a hue of golden-yellow, has a beautiful lemon scent and can have up to 25 petals that form in a globular bloom pattern. The roses are of medium size with an average diameter of two inches. This plant can be quite bushy, climbing, very well-branched, and will grow from to three to eight feet in height. “Harison’s Yellow” is a once-blooming plant and will bloom in either the spring or summer.

Shoots will be available for pickup at the Stowe Center in April 2019, with the exact date to be determined by spring weather patterns. We will contact you in advance to arrange pickup. Rose shoots are delicate and cannot be shipped.

This Giving Tuesday, we look to 2019 and our plan to restore the historic gardens and landscape on the Stowe grounds. Having just completed a multi-year restoration of the interior of the Stowe house, it is time to turn our attention to the gardens and landscape. For more than fifty years, the Stowe Center has followed the landscape plan created by former Connecticut Valley Garden Club (CVGC) president, Kitty Stevenson, in the mid-1960s. Stevenson’s plans carefully preserved select later property owner’s plantings and purposefully added plantings lost over time that were accurate to Stowe’s residence to create a layered landscape. We will continue this Stowe-focused preservation by reestablishing and fine-tuning the nine themed gardens, plantings, and hardscape surrounding the Stowe house.

We are grateful to the Connecticut Valley Garden Club for providing funding to launch this important project and to Marci Martin, ARS Master Consulting Rosarian, for assisting on this Giving Tuesday campaign.

School Group Interest Form

School Group Interest Form 2023

Thank you so much for your interest in a group tour at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center! Please help us schedule your visit by answering the questions below.

School name:

Please suggest three dates and times when your group would like to visit. (Note: the Stowe Center is closed on Sunday and Tuesday.)

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The Stowe Center requires one adult per every 10 students.

Are there special student, teacher, or chaperone accommodations that can help us serve you best?

Do you plan to have lunch on site?

Yes, please.

No, thank you.

Are you interested in scheduling a joint visit with our neighbor, The Mark Twain House and Museum?

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If yes, have you already contacted The Mark Twain House?

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Adult Group Interest Form

Group Tour Interest Form 2022

Thank you so much for your interest in a group tour at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center! Please help us schedule your visit by answering the questions below.

Group Name:

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What date would you like to visit? (The Stowe Center typically books group tours for Thursday through Sunday visits.)

Expected number of visitors:(Required)

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Please indicate the number of adults, seniors, and children expected in your group:

Are there special accommodations that can help us serve you best?

Are you interested in a joint visit with our neighbor, The Mark Twain House and Museum?

Yes, please.

No, thank you.

If yes, have you already contacted The Mark Twain House?

Yes

Isabella Beecher Hooker

Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)
An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.

Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.

In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.

In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.