19th Amendment Festival and Garden Party: Saturday August 22, 2009
Come celebrate the 19th Ammendment where Freedon Lives
With great entertainment in the park, a garden party at the House, vendors selling old-fashioned wares the old-fashioned
way from pushcarts, reduced-price tours of the Anthony House.
It starts at 11 a.m. with Mayor Duffy and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter unveiling the “1872 monument” at the site on West Main Street (opposite Canal Street) where Susan B. Anthony and fourteen others (including her 3 sisters) voted in the 1872 presidential election…an action that led to arrest, trial, and conviction in the months that followed. Forty-eight years later, women finally got the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution on August 26, 1920.
Come celebrate with us!
