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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreStudents at Southern Maine Community College take part in the planting this November.
Read MoreGirl Scouts bring Portland native Kalie Shorr to Aura for a very special Suffrage Centennial concert
Read MoreCallie Kimball's new play about two schoolteachers a century apart stages a reading in preparation for its debut on Portland Stage next year.
Read MoreFalmouth High School students meet with Ocean View residents to hear what it was like growing up female in the generation just after suffrage.
Read MoreRatification, a special edition suffrage themed ale, will be released on Election Day, Nov. 5th.
Read MoreGroups across the state prepare to plant daffodil bulbs on Election Day.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreMaine 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.
Read MoreMaking Our Voices Heard: Maulian Dana, Penobscot Nation Tribal Ambassador, on suffrage and the rights of indigenous people in Maine.
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