South Vermont News

Two years before the Suffrage Centennial in 2020 Vermonters gathered to form the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance. That group, led by the League of Women Voters of Vermont (and despite the pandemic) presented:

- historian and author Annette Gordon-Reed: On Juneteenth in Montpelier

- Hard Won, Not Done: Voting Matters event 

- statewide performances of an original play 

- a virtual Suffrage Scramble 5K race

- a school discussion guide and traveling exhibit

- art work, such as Cynthia Cagle’s The Light of Truth Upon Them, a painting telling the story of women’s crusades—Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latina, and white—to have an equal voice in American democracy

- community commemoration events across the state

- legislative commemoration and an editorial featuring the reflections of state leaders Senator Leahy, Senator Sanders, Congressman Welch, Governor Scott, Governor Kunin, Lt. Governor Zuckerman, Xusana Davis, Kesha Ram, and Cary Brown

While the pandemic forced cancellation of the centennial parade through the capital, Alliance originator Vivienne Adair, with fellow members of the Green Mt Chapter - EGA continued “stitch-ins”,  crafting a Vermont state suffrage anniversary banner.  This intricately embroidered work was recently completed and features the Vermont coat of arms in the center.

Original source can be found here.