FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT:
Thursday, October 12, 2006 Ellen K. Wheeler
Director of Development & Public Relations
(585) 279-7490, ext. 12
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Celebrate Your Vote
with the Friends of Susan B. Anthony House
Rochester, NY—The Friends of the Susan B. Anthony House invite the community to its inaugural event, Celebrate Your Vote, on Sunday, October 29, 2006. The event begins at 3 p.m. with high tea at the Rochester Club Ballroom, followed by a screening of a newly edited, 90-minute presentation of Ken Burns’ Not for Ourselves Alone at the Little Theater at 4:30 p.m. The event recognizes the 72-year-long struggle to win voting rights for women—finally achieved with the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920—and celebrates the lifetime work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to bring full rights of citizenship to women.
Tickets are on sale now at 585-381-2121 and at the Susan B. Anthony House at 17 Madison Street, 14608. Event tickets are $40.00, or $20.00 for the movie alone. Seating is limited.
Celebrate your Vote is the inaugural event of The Friends of the Susan B. Anthony House, an organization founded in 2006 by Betsy Stanton and Jolene Smith, to increase awareness of and raise funds for this National Historic Landmark house, Miss Anthony’s home from 1866 to 1906 and the headquarters for the national campaign for woman suffrage.
The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all. We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, educational and interpretive programs, and the Internet. The Susan B. Anthony House is supported primarily through the contributions of its members. The Susan B. Anthony House is not affiliated with other organizations bearing her name