Please join Philadelphia Stories at the historic Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club for an afternoon of food, drink and entertainment to celebrate the release of Extraordinary Gifts, a book inspired by women from the Delaware Valley who have changed the world. 

Included in this book are such women of note as Marian Anderson, Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Mead, Alice Neel, Mary Cassatt and Ruth Robinhold, who founded the Philadelphia Girls' Rowing Club in 1938.

Lesley Mitchell's painting Marian Anderson of Philadelphia is included in the book. She is one of twenty contemporary visual artists and writers who created work specifically to honor these women. All of the artwork will be shown at an exhibit at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts in the fall.

The book will be available for sale the day of the event.
A $5 donation is suggested at the door to benefit Philadelphia Stories and The Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club.

image : Marian Anderson of Philadelphia, oil on panel by Lesley Mitchell