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GGRWHC Board of Directors
Mary Seeger,
Jo Ellyn Clarey,
Co-Presidents
Ruth VanStee,
Secretary
Connie Ingham
Treasurer
Jo Ellyn Clarey
Susan Coombes
Falinda Geerling
Sharon Hanks
Connie Ingham
Kyle Irwin
Mary Seeger
Ruth Stevens
Julie Tabberer
Ruth VanStee
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Join GGRWHC at the Following!
Mark your calendars for the following! Check for updates on our Facebook page or website, www.ggrwhc.org or by calling (616) 574-7307 or signing up for our newsletter at info@ggrwhc.org. All are open to the public. All are free, except at Celebration North Cinema and the GR Public Museum. The latter will cost entry to the museum.
6 p.m. Tuesday, November 10: Showing of a new GVSU documentary on 1940s-50s Grand Rapids Chicks women's baseball team,
A Team of Their Own. GR Public Museum. See
http://www.gvsu.edu/wibdoc/
*** 6 p.m. Tuesday, November 17
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Spirited Women: Grand Rapids and the Push for Temperance.
GGRWHC's Ruth Van Stee & Julie Tabberer will supplement the Grand Rapids Public Museum's exhibit on Prohibition with a look at the local scene during 13 years of speakeasies and bathtub gin and the stories of area women in the massive social movements surrounding the Prohibition years 1920-1933. GR Public Museum.
*** Friday, November 20, Celebration North, $10--time, theater number, and ticketing details TBA: Come to the Grand Rapids opening of the star-studded British film
Suffragette. GGRWHC will rent our own small theater, where afterwards we will talk with
GVSU women's historian Gretchen Galbraith about fact and fiction in the film itself, when the early British and American women's movements intersected, and how they were different. No longer will you confuse British "suffragettes" with American "suffragists"! In a cameo performance Meryl Streep appears as British suffrage leader Emmeline Pankhurst, while Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter play foot soldiers in the movement. For a two-minute trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=056FI2Pq9RY
*** 9:30 a.m. Saturday, January 23: GGRWHC kicks off History Detectives, GRPL's day-long offering of local history programming, with
Kindergarten and "Radical" Women in 1890s Grand Rapids by
former director of the Froebel Foundation USA, Scott Bultman. You mean kindergarten has a disruptive history? Grand Rapids Public Library.
*** 7 p.m. Thursday, February 11: Join the Grand Rapids Study Club and GGRWHC for
Community Builders: Early African American Women in Grand Rapids by
GRSC's Yvonne Sims & GGRWHC's Jo Ellyn Clarey.
Reports in 1890s newspapers on the very public lives of these women fill gaps and correct errors! Co-sponsored by the Grand Rapids Historical Society. Aquinas College Donnelly Center.
*** 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 1:
A Grand Rapids women's history "sampler" with
GRPL archive staff Drew Damron, Heather Edwards, and Julie Tabberer will feature Berkey & Gay girls during WWI, the earliest female newspaper cartoonist in the nation, and more; supplemented by an exhibit on women in the furniture industry. Grand Rapids Public Library.
*** 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 30: The
GGRWHC's annual reception at the Women's City Club will wrap up Women's History Month by celebrating the long elective history of Grand Rapids women with brand new
Mayor Rosalynn Bliss, the first woman to lead our city! Meet old and new friends! By updating your dues, you'll get a free drink!
For more details about all these events and programs,
watch our website and follow us on
Facebook and
Twitter.
See you 6 p.m. Tuesday, November 17,
Spirited Women:
Grand Rapids and the Push for Temperance
Meijer Theater, Grand Rapids Public Museum
Free with cost of admission to the museum.
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help offset the expenses associated with annual research and programs. Your membership helps to set the record straight on the women who've made history here in our community.
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Board meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at the Vanderveen Center for the Book at the Grand Rapids Public Library. If you have suggestions for programs, oral histories, or other items, please
email us
or plan to attend a meeting.
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