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GGRWHC Board of Directors
Mary Seeger,
Jo Ellyn Clarey
Co-Presidents
Susan Coombes
Vice-president
Connie Ingham
Treasurer
Ruth VanStee
Secretary
Newsletter editor
Jo Ellyn Clarey
Kyle Irwin
Mary Seeger
Ruth Stevens
Amy Dunham Strand
Julie Tabberer
Kate van Liere
Ruth Van Stee
Deirdre Toeller-Novak
Webmistress
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Ebony Road Players Performing
Randy Wyatt's
A Simple Question
Thursday, February 23, 7-8:30 pm
Aquinas College Wege Center Ballroom
Co-sponsored by Aquinas College's Jane Hibbard Idema Women's Studies Center
and the Center for Diversity & Inclusion,
A Simple Question
is a thirty-minute celebration of the landmark court case overturning miscegenation laws. (Seen the movie
Wyatt's five-woman ensemble piece includes a kaleidoscope of stories about interracial love and marriage in America, beginning with the famous Richard and Mildred Loving and flashing forward to real experiences in present day West Michigan. To consider how things have--or haven't--changed in fifty years, the performance will be
followed by a discussion with Randy Wyatt, author; Edye Evans Hyde, founder of the Ebony Road Players, and Latoya Booker, director of the Aquinas Center for Diversity and Inclusion.
Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary. Parking is available in the lot behind the Wege Student Center or in the lot adjacent to Sturrus Fitness Center, 1700 Fulton St. East.
Edye Evans Hyde's Ebony Road Players offers high quality professional performances focusing on the black experience.
For a nice article by Rapid Growth on the play and Ebony Road, click here:
Rapid Growth on the Ebony Road Players.
The
GGRWHC congratulates Edye
on her
2017
Ethel Coe Humanities
Giants Award!
See our website for more:
www.ggrwhc.org
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Beginning this Week
& Sliding into Women's History Month~
The 6th Annual WMEAC
Women and the Environment Symposium
Sponsoring six events between February 23rd and March 2nd, the West Michigan Environmental Action Council's
Women and Environment Symposium
will feature renowned activist Winona LaDuke on March 2nd, when WMEAC will also present its Hidden Heroine awards celebrating West Michigan women who work to protect our environment. Complete information at
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Then See You for Women's History Month!
Find the Midwife!
Discovering Midwives in Online and Offline Records
Saturday, March 4th, 1:30 pm
Grand Rapids Public Library
On Saturday, March 4th,
Janet Sjaarda Sheeres
will build on her January program at
History Detectives
with a workshop for the Western Michigan Genealogical Society. To date, Janet has located over forty-five immigrant midwives who served in Dutch colonies across the United States. She will use her findings to aid in the discovery of midwives from other early ethnic communities and share practical research tips to overcome the difficulties of finding these women who were often sidelined in early historical and census records.
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STAY TUNED! Annual Reception and Program
Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council
Wednesday, March 29th, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
ICCF Assembly Hall,
the former Blodgett Home for Children
920 Cherry Street SE
We will honor the nineteenth-century women's organizations that created and managed the children's programs behind the construction in 1908 of the Blodgett Home--currently the ICCF, our host building for the day. Guided by local historians Cindy Laug and Diana Barrett, we will see how those programs proliferated in the twentieth century and led to Mary Free Bed taking over the building for rehabilitation projects.
Appropriately, our event on March 29th will offer an opportunity to visit a building beautifully rehabilitated itself. There we will toast the recent 125th anniversary of the Mary Free Bed Guild, whose members in 2016 were inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. Free admission and free parking. Please join us, but please reserve: 616-574-7307 or info@ggrwhc.org.
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