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Oklahoma artist Marilyn Artus and her sewing machine were a hit at the Maine State Museum when Marilyn added the Maine stripe to HER FLAG, a work in progress that will eventually represent the 36 states that ratified the 19th amendment.

To kick off the national Centennial, take a look back at the multimedia tour de force from our friends at LumenARRT

This year's Rose Bowl Parade included an enormous Suffrage float, as well as women from each of the 36 states that ratified the 19th amendment. History teacher Kate Kennedy, from George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, did a terrific job representing Maine. As you can see from her twitter feed, it was a powerful experience. Thank you Kate!

From the Bangor Daily News and our partners, the League of Women Voters

Thank you Governor Mills and the Kennebec Valley Garden Club! This year's holiday theme at the Blaine House, "Women in Maine History," commemorates the Suffrage Centennial and celebrates fascinating Maine women who made some history of their own.  

This year the annual parade in honor of Chester Greenwood (of earmuff fame) paid special tribute to Chester's wife, Isabel Greenwoode, a noted Maine Suffragist.

For 50 years, Augusta Hunt supported or led every movement in Maine to improve the lives of women and children. When the 19th Amendment was ratified, she was the first woman to vote in Maine.

Students at Southern Maine Community College take part in the planting this November.

Girl Scouts bring Portland native Kalie Shorr to Aura for a very special Suffrage Centennial concert

Callie Kimball's new play about two schoolteachers a century apart stages a reading in preparation for its debut on Portland Stage next year.

Falmouth High School students meet with Ocean View residents to hear what it was like growing up female in the generation just after suffrage.

Ratification, a special edition suffrage themed ale, will be released on Election Day, Nov. 5th.

Groups across the state prepare to plant daffodil bulbs on Election Day.

The Margaret Chase Smith Library, named after the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress and the first woman to represent Maine in either, had Suffrage as a theme at its annual Town Hall meeting.

Maine Women magazine hails our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to honor female activists of the past with a living memorial that will beautify Maine for years into the future.

Maine newspapers commemorate the centennial with a look back at the history of women’s suffrage in the state.

The First Amendment Museum at the Gannett House reenacted a Votes for Women march as part of the annual 4th of July parade.

 “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.” 
- Susan B Anthony

Maine's women leaders of tomorrow were inspired by the suffragists - and inspired all of us in turn - at a very special NEW Leadership program.

A new exhibit at the Maine Historical Society: Photographs of the 1925 National Business and Professional Women’s Convention