Suffer-yet

Wow, this week has been full of suffragette!

First, over a dozen of us recoded (via Zoom) our poems for the “Vote” exhibit at the Loveland Museum. Here is the link and the password for watching: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/…/ypEqKur50mFISYnv0GPuY_8LPtjVT6a82…

Access Password: 9I#?Z1+=

Click here to read all of the poems in the collection (over 30!)

On Saturday, I went to the Library of Congress web site and transcribed ONE page of correspondence from suffragette Alice Stone Blackwell.  Here is an excerpt: “Papa is well. He has been greatly tempted to buy a fine big farm in Millford which is offered very low. He got Phebe Stone Beeman & her husband & eldest boy to go out to see it, & went out three times himself.  But this morning at breakfast he finally declared he had made up his mind not to buy it.  I think it is a wise decision, for Papa doesn't want to farm it himself, and it he employed somebody else to do it, it would eat up all the profits.”  Nothing profound there, but it provides a slice of life from a significant suffragette family in the late 1800’s.  The wonderful poem Sandy McGarry wrote for the Vote exhibit, “Letter to Martha,” in response to Bonnie Lebesch’s Nice, follows this correspondence form. 

If YOU would like to transcribe some suffragette papers (or some by Walt Whitman or others) go to  https://crowd.loc.gov/help-center/welcome-guide/

Added to that, I heard that the Pultizer Prizes announced this week included a special citation to Ida B. Wells — the journalist and suffragist who spent the 1890s documenting lynching in the United States.

I also watched virtual tour of suffragette clothing the Avenir Museum (CSU).

And, to top it off, in a book I am reading (The Republic of Nature) Mark Fiege mentions, in a Chapter about Jefferson, the “Declaration of Sentiments.”  This historic document was penned in part by Elizabeth Caddy Stanton and signed by over 100 attendees at the First Women's Rights Convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY in July 1848.  Today the   Women’s Right’s National Park web site stands on the site. 

So, there you have it:  go vote!