SLIDES = new slideshow("SLIDES");

s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/adams_long.gif";
s.link = "downtown";
s.walks = "Downtown Walk";
s.page_link = "adams";
s.title = "Abigail Adams";
s.text = "In 1776, Abigail Adams urged her husband, John, to 'remember the Ladies' in the colonists' Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Earlier, she pleaded for an end to slavery in the new nation. ";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);



s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/hale_long.gif";
s.link = "charlestown";
s.walks = "Charlestown Walk";
s.page_link = "hale";
s.title = "Sarah Josepha Hale";
s.text = "As one of the most influential magazine editors of the nineteenth century, Sarah Josepha Hale was able to promote such emerging American writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lydia Maria Child, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony. She also spearheaded the effort to complete the Bunker Hill Monument.";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);

s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/lewis_long.gif";
s.link = "roxbury";
s.walks = "Roxbury";
s.page_link = "lewis";
s.title = "Elma Lewis";
s.text = "Boston's beloved cultural icon of the twentieth century was the daughter of West Indian natives who founded the National Center of Afro-American Artists and was awarded the Presidential Medal of the Arts in 1983.";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);



s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/gardner.jpg";
s.link = "back-bay-east";
s.walks = "Back Bay East Walk";
s.page_link = "gardner";
s.title = "Isabella Stewart Gardner";
s.text = "As a young married woman, 'Mrs. Jack' Gardner amassed an impressive collection of works of art from all over the world to fill the museum she opened to the public in 1903 - Fenway Court, today, The Gardner Museum.";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);

s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/alcott_long.gif";
s.link = "beacon-hill";
s.walks = "Beacon Hill Walk";
s.page_link = "alcott";
s.title = "Louisa May Alcott";
s.text = "The beloved author of <em>Little Women</em> about family life in Concord, Massachusetts, Louisa May Alcott was part of the Transcendentalist movement, an editor, suffragist, and abolitionist who spent most of her adult years living and working in Boston.";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);

s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/crocker_long.gif";
s.link = "south-end";
s.walks = "South End Walk";
s.page_link = "crocker";
s.title = "Lucretia Crocker";
s.text = "A passionate advocate for teaching science and for  'nature study,' Lucretia Crocker transformed how these fields were taught in the Boston Public Schools when she became their first woman supervisor in 1876.";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);

s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/cass_long.gif";
s.link = "roxbury";
s.walks = "Roxbury Walk";
s.page_link = "cass";
s.title = "Melnea Cass";
s.text = "Her motto in life was, 'If we cannot do great things, we can do small things in a great way.'  Melnea Cass did both as a tireless advocate for Boston’s African American community, earning her the title 'First Lady of Roxbury.'";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);

s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/stone_long.gif";
s.link = "ladies";
s.walks = "Ladies Walk";
s.page_link = "stone";
s.title = "Lucy Stone";
s.text = "Referred to as their 'morning star' by nineteenth century suffragists, Lucy Stone was an inspiring, tireless champion for suffrage, women's rights, and the end to slavery. She founded the American Woman Suffrage Association and published the suffrage newspaper called the Woman's Journal.";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);




s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/shaw_long.gif";
s.link = "north-end";
s.walks = "North End Walk";
s.page_link = "shaw";
s.title = "Pauline Agassiz Shaw";
s.text = "Pauline Agassiz Shaw founded America’s first trade school—the North Bennet Street School—in 1881 to provide training in the skilled trades to the growing number of immigrants who were arriving in Boston. Today, her school continues to enjoy a stellar international reputation.";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);

s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/wheatley_long.gif";
s.link = "chinatown";
s.walks = "South Cove/Chinatown Walk";
s.page_link = "wheatley";
s.title = "Phillis Wheatley";
s.text = "The small West African girl arrived in Boston in 1761, kidnapped from her homeland and sold at auction to Susannah Wheatley. She grew up to become the first published African American poet in America.";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);


s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/whitman_long.gif";
s.link = "back-bay-west";
s.walks = "Back Bay West Walk";
s.page_link = "whitman";
s.title = "Sarah Wyman Whitman";
s.text = "An accomplished artist in oil, pastel, stained glass, and book design, Sarah Wyman Whitman was also a strong supporter of women artists and writers. Her passion for bringing art to everyday life and to everyday objects was consistent with the Arts and Crafts movement, which was then in its heyday.";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);


s = new slide();
s.src = "wp-content/uploads/brookfarm_long.gif";
s.link = "west-roxbury";
s.walks = "West Roxbury";
s.page_link = "brook-farm";
s.title = "Brook Farm";
s.text = "A utopian community founded in 1841 by Sophia Willard Dana Ripley and her husband, George Ripley, Brook Farm was an intriguing experiment of the Transcendentalist movement, which attracted such figures as Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Peabody, and Louisa May Alcott. ";
SLIDES.add_slide(s);