The Genesee Country Village & Museum will host a one of-a-kind luncheon at 11 a.m. on Saturday, September 23, in celebration of the state Women’s Suffrage Centennial.
Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, a nationally recognized lecturer, author and performance interpreter of women’s rights history, will present “The Rest of the Story of the Suffrage Movement,” a dialogue about the issues of equality raised by the country’s suffrage foremothers.
The luncheon will feature foods – like rebel soup and salmagundi served with suffrage salad dressing – from suffragette cookbooks published between 1886 and 1920 to raise money for the cause. The museum’s Historic Village will also offer activities that highlight lesser-known equality efforts made by women in their daily lives during the 19th century.
Cost for the luncheon is $45 for non-members and $40 for museum members and includes free admission to the museum. Tickets are available online at www.gcv.org/events/womens-suffrage-presentation.
Dr. Wagner, who has taught women’s studies courses for 43 years, is currently an adjunct faculty member in The Renée Crown University Honors Program at Syracuse University and the St. John Fisher Executive Leadership Program and is a public scholar with Humanities New York. She currently serves on the Governor’s New York Suffrage Centennial Commission.
New York State women gained the right to vote on November 6, 1917, three years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving women the vote in national elections.
The 1917 measure was carried in every borough in New York City along with Auburn, Binghamton, Buffalo, Newburgh, Ossining, Oswego, Schenectady, Syracuse and Westchester, but lost in Albany, Kingston and Rochester.
Unfortunately, neither Elizabeth Cady Stanton nor Susan B. Anthony, both New Yorker suffragists, lived to see women gain the vote. Stanton died in 1902 and Anthony, in 1906.
For further information, visit www.gcv.org or call 294-8218.
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