Women's Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
Women's Equality Day Celebration
11:45 am - 12:45 pm - Bolton Brewing Company, lunch at your own expense - or pack a picnic basket
12:45 Walk/March - cross the street together to the museum
1:15 - 2:30 pm Presentation - Bolton Landing Historical Museum
Dr. Glenn A. Long, Bolton Landing Museum Director, will give a highlighted tour of the museum exhibition "She did ... What?" Honoring seven historically important local women, dynamic leaders of social change. Exhibition includes suffragists Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and Mary Hillard Loines, children's book illustrator Helen Sewell, inventor Dr. Katherine
Blodgett and dancer Franziska Boas.
Pat Vaughn, Welcome - Intro to Herstory - Seneca Falls 100 Year Convention, Event recap - Federal ERA call to action.
Pop-up exhibitions- Women's Vote Centennial & Equa/i-tea: Suffragist Tea Cozies in Redwork - Suffrage sing-a-long.
Park next to the Bolton Landing Brewing Co., 4933 Lake Shore Dr. (Rt 9N) or in the public lot next to Bolton Library, adjacent to the Bolton Historical Museum and Bolton Free Library, 4922 - 4924 Lake Shore Drive (Rt 9N), a former church, diagonally across the street from the restaurant.
Co-sponsored by: AAUW Adirondack and the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County