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Members Making A Difference
ECSHA Member Feature
Living History Presenter Sue McLane
We will periodically feature members who work in the community and make unique contributions. To learn more about Living History Presenter Sue McLane, an ECSHA member who is known as “The Victorian Lady” offering a variety of educational talks for audiences of children and adults, click here.
SAVE THE DATE
ECSHA Celebrations of
Women's Equality Day
Thursday, August 26, 2010
12:00-2:00pm
Women of Infuence Luncheon
Holiday Inn
308 North Comrie Ave., Johnstown, NY
US Congresswoman Louise M. Slaughter
Featured Speaker
2:00-3:30pm
Local Women of Influence
Historical Trolley Tour
Pick-up and drop-off at the Holiday Inn
6:30-8:30pm
Film Event: Iron Jawed Angels
Glove Performing Arts Center
42 N. Main St., Gloversville, NY
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"Women of Influence"
Theme Quilt Raffle
Drawing Held at the Women of Influence Luncheon, August 26, 2010
The BBGs, a Thursday quilting group of local women, made a special quilt featuring 12 influential advocates for Women’s Rights and they donated it to ECSHA for a raffle, with proceeds benefiting the organization’s student scholarship fund. The quilt is on display at the Johnstown Public Library through the raffle drawing. Click here to see the quilt and for more information about ticket sales. The winning ticket will be drawn on August 26 at the Women of Influence Luncheon. You need not be present to win. Click here to read a few thoughts from some notable “Women of Influence.”
Women’s Equality Day
August 26, 2010
Anniversary Celebration
The ECSHA organizes annual recognitions of this important date in women’s history. August 26, 2010 is the 90th anniversary of passage of the Nineteenth amendment that accorded women the right to vote in America. For more information about the history of Women’s Equality Day and our celebration events, click here.
ECSHA will host a Women of Influence Luncheon from 12pm to 2pm on August 26 at the Johnstown Holiday Inn with US Congresswoman Louise M. Slaughter, serving NY’s 28th District, as the featured speaker who will talk about women’s equality and the “Votes for Women Trail” legislation. Other ECSHA events on August 26 include a Local Women of Influence Historical Trolley Tour from 2pm to 3:30pm and an evening film event of Iron Jawed Angels at the Glove Performing Arts Center from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Click here for information about our 90th anniversary celebration activities, ticket sales, and to read a few thoughts from some notable “Women of Influence.”
Votes for Women Trail Route
The “Votes for Women Trail" route legislation received presidential approval on March 30, 2009, allowing the National Park Service, in conjunction with the National Women’s Rights Historical Park in Seneca Falls, to establish “a commemorative trail to link properties in the corridor between the eastern border of New York State and the Niagara Frontier that are historically and thematically associated with telling the story of the 72-year fight for women’s suffrage.” Johnstown, New York and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were both named in the bill as important to include and highlight when tracing the suffrage journey through New York State on this new tourism vehicle route. We will announce updates on the trail organization’s progress. For more information, click here.
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