they moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Dickerman became the educational programming director for the Marine Historical Association, which later became Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea. She served as the museum's Director of Education, a post she held from 1946 until 1962. Dickerman was active in numerous organizations, including the American Association of University Women as president of the New York State Division. She died in 1993 at the age of 96 at the Crossroads retirement home in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, and is buried next to Nancy Cook at Westfield Cemetery, Westfield, New York. References Sources Cook, Blanche Wiesen. Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884-1933. New York: Viking Press, 1993 Cook, Blanche Wiesen. Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Two, 1933-1938. New York: Viking Press, 1999 Davis, Kenneth. Invincible Summer: An Intimate Portrait of the Roosevelts Based on the Recollections of Marion Dickerman. New York: Atheneum Press, 1974 External links 1890 births 1983 deaths American educational theorists 20th-century American educators American women's rights activists People from Westfield, New York People from Fulton, Oswego County, New York People from Hyde Park, New York Activists from New York (state)