INEZ | Centennial Suffrage Events, June-July 2017

Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886-1916)

June 1-Oct. 9, 2017. An exhibit at the Adirondack History Museum on Adirondack Suffragists including Inez is open all summer until October 9. It is the 100th anniversary year of women winning the right to vote in New York State.

June 11, 2017 — The Turning Point Suffrage Memorial Committee will sponsor a dinner + reading of Take Up the Song, a play by her great-nephew John Tepper Marlin, at Westwood Country Club in Vienna, Va., near the Washington, D.C. suburb of Tyson's Corner, which is a shopping center on the Metro's Silver Line. It is the 100th Anniversary year of  the beginning of picketing against President Wilson for opposing the Anthony Amendment. (The following year, 1918, he spoke in favor of the Amendment. In 1919 it was passed by the House and Senate. In 1920 it was ratified by the last state to give reach the required two-thirds.)

June 22, 2017 — Margaret Bartley and Gerry Zahavi will speak about "Votes for Women" at the Adirondack History Museum, 7590 Court Street, Elizabethtown, NY 12932. Inez  was born in Lewis, N.Y., near Elizabethtown. It is the 100th Anniversary year of the meeting of President Wilson with women bearing memorials of the death of Inez Milholland.

June 29, 2017 — Showing of One Woman, One Vote at the Adirondack History Museum.

Related Posts on Inez Milholland. Her Engagement to Guglielmo Marconi . Short Biopic on Inez .  June 11 Play Featuring Inez Milholland . Edna St Vincent Millay  Centennial of Christmas Day Memorial to Inez . Seneca Falls Convention .  The 1913 and 2013 Marches on Washington .  Inez Led the 1913 Parade . Eugen Boissevain, Tough and Tender