Pownal Library Booksale
POWNAL -- The Solomon Wright Public Library will have its annual fall book sale on Saturday, Nov. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4;30 p.m. Donations will be accepted up to the day of the sale during regularly scheduled hours. Sign up for our door prizes and take look through the bestsellers, special cookbooks, history section, biographies, crafts and art history, gardening, travel, poetry and more.
The library is located at 97 Main Street. For info: 802-823-5400.
Women and the vote
POWNAL -- The Pownal Historical Society presents "A History of Women and the Vote in Vermont: Why it Mattered Then, Why it Matters Now" with Cyndy Bittinger, at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 4, at the Pownal Methodist Church. The event is free and open to the public.
"Equal rights means equal responsibility, equal justice to working men and women, equal pay for women who do work equal to that of men; in fact, the conservation of the human race." This is not a quote from Governor Madeleine Kunin. It is a quote from Annette W. Parmalee in 1917 advocating for the right to vote in Randolph,Vermont. Parmalee was a forceful advocate even nicknamed the suffrage hornet! The battle for the vote for women in Vermont was long, up to 1920 and the Susan B. Anthony amendment. Yet the movement was built on prior efforts to prohibit liquor and ban slavery in the nation (Vermont did not allow slavery). Women organized
Nowadays, we often hear of the importance of the women voter. Women may in fact sway the national election of the U.S. President. Therefore, as the slogan goes, your vote, your voice. So come and hear the history of those who lighted the way on this important issue.
The speaker, Bittinger, faculty at the Community College of Vermont where she teaches Vermont history and Women in U. S. History.
American Legion breakfast
POWNAL -- The Pownal American Legion Post 90 is offering breakfast on Sundays, starting Nov. 4. During deer season, breakfasts - made to order - will be served from 5 to 11 a.m., upstairs. Thereafter, Sunday breakfast will be served from 7 to 11 a.m. The public is welcome. The Pownal American Legion Post 90, is located on Route 7.
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