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HOW GROWING UP IN HUNTERDON INFLUENCED MY LIFE - WITH GOVERNOR CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN: Governor Whitman created the Open Space and Farmland Preservation Program for the State and also enacted the largest tax cuts in State history. An activist who speaks her mind, Governor Whitman made history when she became the first and only woman Governor in New Jersey history. Join us for a special evening with a unique, history-making, Hunterdon treasure.
7 pm. Main Branch of the County Library, Route 12, Flemington.
Free with refreshments following the talk. |
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PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 19TH
THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT AND HUNTERDON'S WOMEN WHO MADE POLITICAL HISTORY: Celebrate Women's History Month and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment with us. Author of "The Franklin Park Tragedy" and Historian Brian Armstrong ("The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Hunterdon County") will provide a lecture focusing on the development of the women’s suffrage movement in the US that resulted in the 19th amendment to the US Constitution in 1919 permitting women to vote. Profiles of the key players (Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida Wells, Alice Paul, etc.), and organizations involved with the movement will be presented along with a timeline of events from the movement’s origination in the abolitionist movement to the passage of the amendment and the first vote in 1920. Mr. Armstrong will also discuss prominent New Jersey and Hunterdon County female politicians who followed in the footsteps of the suffragettes.
7 pm. Main Branch of the County Library. Free. Reservations Requested.
Refreshments follow.
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOW!! |
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