This talk is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bgGKvSZNFw8
Yarmouth History Center welcomes Maine author Anne B. Gass to the Spring Lecture Series via Zoom at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, March 22. Gass will join us on Zoom to discuss her new book, We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip, a historical fiction novel that is based on the true story of an epic 1915 road trip for the suffrage cause. Launched from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco by the indomitable Alice Paul and the Congressional Union, it was America’s first trans-continental car trip for a cause: to demand that Congress pass an amendment to the US Constitution enfranchising women. Gass retraced the original trip in 2015, a century later. Her illustrated talk will illuminate this fascinating story with photos from the 1915 road trip. Visit our gift shop to purchase the book!
Anne B. Gass is also the author of the 2014 book Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage. She has lectured extensively about women’s suffrage throughout Maine and the region. Currently, Gass serves on the Steering Committee of the Maine Suffrage Centennial Collaborative and as the Maine Coordinator for the National Votes for Women Trail, a project of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites. She also serves on Maine’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women and is Vice President of the Gray Town Council.
This lecture is free and open to all. Our Lecture Series is sponsored by the Leon and Lisa Gorman Fund.
