INEZ | Interview with Francesca Rheannon

Suffragists confront President Wilson in 1917,
when access to the White House was easier!

This is the anniversary year of the Silent Sentinels from the National Woman's Party who protested in front of the White House.

The daily picketing was precipitated by Wilson's lack of response to memorials presented in January 1917 to the memory of Inez Milholland Boissevain, who died in November 1916.

For Women's Equality Day (August 26) this year, I was interviewed by Francesca Rheannon about my play about Inez – Take Up the Song – in the context of the American suffragist movement that originated in London in 1840.

Francesca interviews writers for airing by NPR stations across the United States, from Ames, Amherst and Anchorage to Viroqua (Wisconsin). Her syndicated program is called Writer's Voice.

INEZ | Centennial Suffrage Events, May-June 2017

Inez Milholland Boissevain

May 21, 2017 — University of Arizona journalism professor Linda Lumsden will speak about her book, Inez, a biography of suffragist Inez Milholland on Sunday at 1 p.m. EST on C-SPAN2.

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 Washington, D.C. It is close to the shopping center and metro stop Tyson's Corner. Black tie/suffrage costume optional.

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. An exhibit at the Museum on Adirondack Suffragists including Inez is open all summer from May 27 to October 9.

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

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INEZ | Get This Durable Enlarged Poster

The "Forward into Light" Poster.

The original Inez Milholland Boissevain poster was made for the 1923 pageant in Lewis, N.Y., where Inez was born. 

It celebrated the 10th anniversary of the 1913 march on Washington.

This march will again be celebrated on June 11, 2017 with a play, "Take Up the Song," at the Westwood Country Club in Vienna, Va.

To recognize the event, Boissevain Books has prepared a more durable version of the original poster, in a larger size.

This poster travels well and looks terrific. It is shipped rolled up in a strong cardboard tube.
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The Brennan Center at NYU ordered two of them and said: "Thank you for the terrific posters. They are really well done, and we look forward to hanging one of them in a place of honor at the Brennan Center."
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For more information contact info@boissevainbooks.com.

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TAKE UP THE SONG | Music

Dedication of the Portrait Monument,
at which Millay presented a poem.

I am looking again at the Take Up the Song Play that was produced in 1998 in Rochester, N.Y.

It might be feasible in a new production to use music for the sonnet "Take Up the Song" by Edna St Vincent Millay, upon rededication of the Portrait Monument of Stanton, Anthony and Mott.

But so far I have only found a somber composition by James Q. Mulholland. Take Up The Song | 10-96395 - Colla Voce Music. I think it needs something celebratory. Marching, something like "John Brown's Body".

HomeCatalogJames Mulholland Choral SeriesTake Up The Song | 10-96395. Take Up The Song | 10-96395. Take Up The Song. from "Mementos Of Millay" ...

"Take up the Song (forget the Epitaph)" by James Mulholland - YouTube

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The Southern Miss Concert Choir performed "Take up the Song (forget the Epitaph)", from "Mementos of ...