The Nichols House Museum - Boston, MA

If you haven’t had a chance to check the news this week, let me alert you to a new feud: Demi Lovato/Taylor Swift. Seems Demi has called out Taylor for giving Keisha $250K to aid the court case against Dr. Luke. I’m sure theSkimm will have everyone up to speed on this by tomorrow morning if they haven’t already mentioned it. These little feuds seem rather petty though, especially in the wake of our trip to Boston.

While we were freezing on our Boston vacation, my sister and I took a tour of The Nichols House Museum. It’s an old house in the Beacon Hill area (read affluent/expensive) that was once owned by a woman who was an elected officer of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association, a professional garden designer and writer, as well as a woman who would not take “No” for an answer. When did she have time to do her needlepoint? (She did all the needlepoint on this canopy over the bed.)

Nichols House - Bed — Nichols House – Bed

Looking at the website for The Nichols House, I was able to read up on Rose Standish Nichols, who left the house to the city of Boston as a museum. The one thing that really stands out to me is this story, from an article by Judith B. Tankard, entitled: Rose Standish Nichols, A Proper Bostonian.

“After the First World War, she enlisted the first lady, Edith Galt Wilson, to urge her husband to include a woman among the American delegates to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. President Wilson refused, but Nichols checked into a nearby hotel and sat in on all the meetings anyway.”

Now take that chutzpah and compare it to the feud going on between Demi/Taylor. These young women have their hearts in the right places, I’m sure, yet perhaps the road isn’t as defined as it was for Rose Standish Nichols. We don’t have a women’s league anymore, feminism has become an ugly word, and young girls gang up on each other at the first chance they get. This is why I feel it’s important to go see a little bit of history in every city or town I visit. You never know what impact it might have on your life. Even if it’s just looking at an online tiff and shaking your head. 🙂

And without further ado… more photos from the visit!