EventsRide the women's revolution! A fully supported bike ride including breakfast, snacks, dinners, two nights of camping, and lots of women’s history! click here to sign up Details Kick-off Ceremony: 8/20/20 Ride: 8/21/20 - 8/23/20 Where: From Johnstown, New York — the birthplace of both Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her revolutionary ideas -- to her home in Seneca Falls where she shared those ideas at The 1848 Women’s Rights Convention. Visit important suffrage sites on The National Votes for Women Trailen route! Day One: Highlights include a stop at a school where Susan B. Anthony taught, and a boat ride on the Erie Canal -- an information highway in the days of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. (Choice of 40 or 60 miles.) Day Two: Visit the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s colleague, Matilda Joslyn Gage. (44 miles.) Day Three: See the home and grave of suffragist, Harriet Tubman, as well as the NYS Equal Rights Heritage Center, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Seneca Falls home. (Choice of 33 or 50 miles.) Transportation back to Johnstown provided. Don’t miss the chance to honor the work of the suffragists and the role that the bicycle played in women getting the vote! August 26, 2020 -- 100th Anniversary of women getting the right to vote nationally. CONTACT US if you would like to help brainstorm, plan and/or participate in one of the important upcoming dates in celebration of the Woman's Suffrage Movement! |
2018 Off Year Elections: "Year of the Woman"
Did Not Disappoint Elizabeth Cady Stanton would be proud! More women ran in statewide and national elections than ever before. Over 100 women will be representing districts in the U.S. House Women were elected Governors in 4 states Two Native American women elected to Congress for the 1st time Two Muslim American women also elected as firsts The first openly lesbian woman joins the House In 7 Governor's races, 4 states flipped to women governors NYS will have the youngest women ever elected to the House-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29 |
