Just look at everything we have planned!
A delightful and special afternoon at the beautiful home and grounds of Boone’s historic Lovill House.
Hearing women from 4 generations each tell her personal story on how the fight for women’s rights has affected, and continues to affect, her life and dreams.
A feast of a homecooked late afternoon luncheon with everything from baked salmon to cheeses from around the world. And of course, Bettie Bond’s famous poppyseed cakes.
A raffle of some flat-out incredible exhibits that narrate the history of women’s suffrage and that display unique antique items that reflect and recount that moment in history. Like this one:
Exhibit Narrative:
“In addition to declaring that the purpose of postmenopausal women is to raise their grandchildren and that suburban women don’t care about abortion rights, this year’s Republican Vice Presidential Candidate, JD Vance, says, “We’re effectively run in this country…by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made.” But did you know opponents of women’s suffrage activism used images of cats to attack the movement in the 19th century too? The intent was to portray suffragettes as silly, delicate, incompetent, and ill-suited to political engagement and imply that their contributions to political life came at the cost of family. In anti-suffragist cartoons published in the US during women’s insistence they be given the right to vote, men were portrayed as the homemakers tasked with caring for children, cleaning the home and spending time with house cats while their formerly disenfranchised wives voted and emasculated them. Nevertheless, women (and cats) persisted. This picture was taken at Washington cat show at the Wardman Park Hotel in 1920 and features Edna B. Doughty & Louise Grogan proudly showing off their Persian cats. Two earlier suffragists, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke, even fought back against cat abuse by taking a cross-country road trip in a two-seater car to talk about the importance of women’s suffrage, and during their trip adopted a cat that became their official mascot. They named him Saxon, the Suffrage Cat.”
When, where and how:
The “Votes for Women” event takes place Sunday, September 15th, and this will be the best $100 you’ve ever spent and supports your local Democratic Party to keep up the fight for women’s lives too. Recommended attire is white in honor of our ancestor suffragettes, and shuttle service will be provided from the Watauga County Social Services parking lot on West King Street in Boone starting at 2:30 PM.
Tickets are limited, so be sure to get yours today.
If you can’t come but can afford to pay for another woman who cannot afford the ticket cost, you’ve got an option to buy her one so she can enjoy the day on your behalf.