Video produced by the State of New York to promote the state’s 2017 suffrage centennial.
NEWS NOTES: Tennessee has named a street for a suffrage activist. New York’s historic equal rights attractions are getting a marketing boost from the state. As part of its “I Love New York” program the State of New York is highlighting its 100th anniversary of women voting during 2017. The campaign started with its first video recently. The ad campaign is part of the state’s roughly $50 million a year ad campaign to promote tourism and business development.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN NYS’s SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL: VoteTilla is a week-long navigational celebration scheduled for along the Erie Canal from July 17 to 22, 2017. With five rented canal boats, the entourage will leave from Seneca Falls, NY and travel to Rochester where there will be a parade and celebration at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House.
The transformation of the 1844 Seneca Knitting Mill, Seneca Falls, NY, is a historic building located on a branch of the Erie Canal system. A fundraising campaign is underway to change it into a permanent home for the National Women’s Hall of Fame. The adaptive rehabilitation of the Mill will also preserve this historic structure and honor the laborers, primarily women, who worked in the mill until its closure in 1999.
IN OTHER NEWS:
In recognition of the Seneca people and their cultural and societal legacy in NYS—especially their impact and influence on the early suffrage activists—the Middlesex Heritage Group will host its 26th annual Seneca Heritage Day on Saturday, September 2, 2017 from 2 to 4 pm. The free event will take place on the grounds of the historic Overackers Corners Schoolhouse in Middlesex, NY. Ganondagan’s Peter Jemison and Ronnie Reitter will talk about women’s roles in the Iroquois Confederacy and their influence on early feminists. The afternoon program features performances by Seneca singers and social dancers in traditional regalia, as well as a children’s storyteller. Free ice cream will be served and pies will be available for purchase. Overackers Corners Schoolhouse is located on Route 364 and North Vine Valley Road. The Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca, NY (417 West State Street/MLK, Jr. Street) has produced “4 Plays 100 Years” for the 2017 state suffrage centennial.
LENDERS TO EXHIBIT AT NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM SUFFRAGE EXHIBIT OPENING NOVEMBER 4, 2017 IN ALBANY, NY
| Albany Institute of History & Art Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History Archive Binghamton University Libraries, Binghamton University, State University of New York Bryn Mawr College Buffalo History Museum Chautauqua County Historical Society, McClurg Museum Clinton Historical Society Coline Jenkins, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Family Cortland Historical Society Diana Mara Henry Photography Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, Val-Kill Elizabeth Cady Stanton Trust Elizabeth Meaders FDR Presidential Library and Museum Geneva Historical Society Howland Stone Store Museum Keene Valley Library Kheel Center, Cornell University League of Women Voters of New York State |
Library of Congress Marguerite Kearns Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation Ms. Magazine Museum of the City of New York National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House New York Public Library New York State Department of Labor New York State Historical Association New York State Parks, Lorenzo State Historic Site Onondaga Historical Association Pam Elam Collection Rochester City Historian Rochester Historical Society Ronnie Lapinski Sax Collection Seneca Falls Historical Society Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College University of Rochester Women’s Rights National Historic Park |
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