FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT:
Friday, August 22, 2008 Ellen K. Wheeler
Director of Development & Public Relations
(585) 279-7490, ext. 12
Susan B. Anthony House and Neighborhood Association to Celebrate 88 in 2008!
Rochester, NY—The Susan B. Anthony House and Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood Association invite one and all to celebrate the ratification of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution—finally giving women the right to vote in 1920—on Sunday, August 24, 2008, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Susan B. Anthony House and Susan B. Anthony Park on Madison Street. This marks the 88th anniversary of the amendment’s ratification. It is also known as the Susan B. Anthony amendment.
The event includes tours of the House and neighborhood activities in the Susan B. Anthony Park. Susan B. Anthony, Mary Anthony, Frederick Douglass, and other historic figures may make appearances.
On display in the Carriage House will be three artifacts that belonged to Miss Anthony—a velvet cloak, an inkwell, and eyeglasses and case—that are soon to travel to the state of Washington where they will be included for the next two years in a traveling exhibit celebrating the state’s 100th anniversary of woman suffrage.
The event is open to the public.