Archive for August, 2009
Women’s Equality Day
Women’s Equality Day did not pass unremarked in Kirksville. A group of about 25 people came to the Kirksville Arts Center to listen and think about the long struggle for women to get the vote. We heard readings from the writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth—the classic figures of 19th century American activism. But we also heard the words of Emma Goldman, Faye Wattleton and Hilary Clinton, songs like “Bread and Roses”, and perspectives on early women in osteopathy and microbiology. It felt like a vigil in some ways, the passing of a long, late summer afternoon together, re-reading and re-hearing the old texts and wondering about the new—whose words will guide us into the future?
Celebrate Women’s Equality Day
On August 29 from 3-5 pm at the Kirksville Arts Center, NEMO Now will celebrate Women’s Equality Day. The program will feature music by Laura Gruber, Peter Rolnick, and Heather Turner and the words of feminists well worth remembering. Mayor Martha Rowe will welcome us. Let us know if you’d like to participate. Who knows, there might be drinks afterwards.
