Women's Right to Vote exhibit opens in Paradise
PARADISE — Continuing to celebrate the state's 100th anniversary of women's right to vote with a traveling exhibit, the League of Women Voters will mark its Paradise showing Sunday with an afternoon of events at Gold Nugget Museum, 502 Pearson Road.The day will go noon to 4 p.m. with the museum open to the public to browse the exhibit, produced by the International Museum of Women and the California History Center Foundation.
Refreshments will be served 2 to 3 p.m. Rosemary Quinn will give a portrayal of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton at 3 p.m. Alberta Tracy will be dressed as Anna Morrison Reed, a Butte County suffragist.
At 4:30 p.m., as part of the Paradise Speaker Series, Eileen Burke-Trent will present "Dishpans and Broomhandles: Rabble-Rousing Women of the Labor & Women's Movements," sharing stories of the less well-behaved sisters, mothers, and grandmothers of the period. Burke-Trent is a Fellow of the National Ruth S. Shur Leadership Institute of the League of
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