CCC's Street Art Contest #165 ~ remembering RUTH BLAY - StreetArt in PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire - USA 🇺🇸

Hi all 👋🏻

Today I want to share with you a recent StreetArt find from “RUTH BLAY 1737 - 1768 ~ a teacher, seamstress and unwed mother”.
I discovered this work in PORTSMOUTH while I am exploring the New England area in #america 😊 🇺🇸

I captured this #mural / #artwork on 6 October 2023 on a wall along Haymarket square. The Photographs in this post I took with my phone… 📱
As you all must have noticed 😁 I am on vacation and will be exploring some States 🇺🇸 for 2 weeks on the east coast, north of the country. So let’s have fun 😎

The first #photo will be my #entry into the “CCC's Street Art Contest #165” hosted by @digi-me
Thank you @trincowski, @heroldius, @melinda010100, @ervin-lemark, @ecency, @tobetada and @arcange and many more for supporting this #contest!

‼️If you want to know more about this contest: have a look at @digi-me ’s post: CCC's Street Art Contest #165 | 🎁 : 100% Liquid Payout and Ecency points as Prize Pool & Winners of #164‼️
It tells you the rules and how to enter. Join us! It’s truly fun around here 🤩

Let’s have a look at my StreetArt find for today:

Artists: Terrence Parker, Carl Aichele, DBG Design
Title: remembering Ruth BLAY
Location: ”HAYMARKET SQUARE” - in #PORTSMOUTH, #NEWHAMPSHIRE in the USA 🇺🇸
Work Created:… 2021

Website about Ruth: “Ruth Blay's Story“

Wikipedia about her: Ruth BLAY!

A News article about the mural you find here: Local news, Ruth BLAY Mural

Do read up on the story. 🤓
She and many other women should be remembered. 🌺

Let me show you some more captures of this StreetArt work now:

Closer by… Ruth Blay. Look closely at the details of the image you see. Everything has a meaning you will read at the end 🤓

The right sight of the StreetArt work.

The History.
You can read in the mural the following;

In 1768, Ruth Blay, a 31-year-old teacher from South Hampton, was tried, convicted, and publicly hanged for concealing the body of her illegitimate baby.
Concealment was punishable by death by hanging, unless the woman could prove the baby was stillborn. In Blay's final words, written on the eve of her execution, she maintained the child was stillborn, which she could have proven had she been properly advised by her lawyer.
She, and other women before her, were victims of their gender, class, social status, the mores of the time and harsh provincial law.
The last woman executed in New Hampshire, Ruth Blay's body lies buried in an unmarked grave in what is now South Street Cemetery.
CAROLYN MARVIN, Historian
Author of Hanging Ruth Blay, an Eighteenth Century Tragedy, The History Press, 2010

The artists, designers and many more.

I think it is great of the artists involved that they have a little part under the text for deciphering the art in details.

See this photo about it and the meaning of the details and art:

And here I want to say; that’s all for todays #StreetArt post my friends. Until the next one! 👋🏻😎
Hope you enjoyed my #photos of this StreetArt find. #haveyoubeenhere
Thank you for looking and reading 😊 🙏🏻 Stay tuned for more… 😉

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Have a great day all 😎
Grtz Jackie

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