INEZ | News about Inez from Lewis, N.Y

Inez Milholland near the U.S. Treasury at the end of
the Suffrage March in March 1913. Long forgotten, she
 is being remembered well in 2020.

We just received an update from Sandra Weber, who helped produce a version of my 1998 play, "Forward into Light", at the Lewis Church, where Inez Milholland Boissevain is buried.

Sandra's email to a few Inez fans is posted below, with her permission. I have added some links to her references to save time for readers:

Words cannot express my gratitude to all of you for your efforts towards bringing Inez into the Light. Your years of campaigning and promoting have come together into a glorious force of recognition in the past year, and especially the past few weeks. I am filled with such joy and inspiration and hope for the future.
I would like to share with you a few planned and unplanned events I have witnessed in the recent days. Yesterday, at the Adirondack Women’s March at the grave of Inez, we celebrated the life and legacy of Inez, particularly the official naming of Mount Inez. Thank you, Nancy Duff Campbell. And, Molly from Adirondack Explorer is creating a short documentary about the naming of Mount Inez.
We unveiled the placing of an Inez challenge coin (sponsored by the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership) at the entrance to the Milholland gravesite. And we celebrated Alice Paul, and Virginia’s ratification of the ERA.
On Wednesday evening, January 15, I attended the creation of an Inez mosaic at the Keene Central School. This was a project of the Art Force 5 of Alfred University, which is doing an amazing job of promoting women in history. And they created an Inez T-shirt, too.
And, Martha Wheelock, they played your Forward Into Light documentary [financed by as a kickstarter project] during the creation of the mosaic. I expect you will be receiving many requests for your DVD. This is only the first month of 2020–and look at the momentum already created.
Last year I led an Inez tour for Adirondack Architectural Heritage and will repeat this year, along with an Inez lecture at the Adirondack Experience Cabin Fever Series on February 9. I am also part of a group planning a Champlain Valley Centennial Suffrage Auto Tour which includes events honoring Inez Milholland, including a celebration of her birthday (tentatively scheduled for August 2). Links and photos of the mosaic project, the coin, the Women’s March, and Mount Inez are at Adirondack Women’s March website [link is above].

Jane Barker, then Chair of the Turning Point Suffrage Memorial,
with the restored portrait of Inez Milholland, which long hung
over the fireplace of the National Woman's Party HQ in
Washington, DC. (Photo by JT Marlin, 2016.)

I could also add the Roadside Marker that was placed in 2017 to recognize this famed favorite daughter.

Also the Turning Point Suffrage Memorial planned for Lorton, Virginia, which raised  $40,000 in 2017 with another version of my play at the Vienna Country Club in Vienna, Virginia.

Also the move for women's statues in Central Park (Inez was one of ten New York Times nominees).

Also the raising of $4,000 to restore the National Woman's Party portrait of Inez Milholland Boissevain. (See photo at right of Jane Barker in 2016, at the celebration of the completion of the portrait's restoration).

Please send any other news about Inez to teppermarlin at aol dot com, or any links I have missed, and your blogger will post here as a compendium of Ineziana.