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October 16, 2024
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Let's Finish What They Started: The Long and Winding Road to Women's Equality will be held at Caldwell-Lake George Library on Wednesday, October 16th at 6:30 pm. The program will highlight the history of women's rights in this nation and the possibilities that lie ahead to help women gain equal legal status to men.
Our presenter, Patricia Nugent, writes to give voice to those who might otherwise be silenced, following a career as a school district administrator and adjunct communication professor. Feeling a deep connection to our foremothers who blazed a trail, she authored the play “The Stone that Started the Ripple” about a modern-day reunion of the founding suffragists, and published the nonfiction anthology “Before They Were Our Mothers: Voices of Women Born Before Rosie Started Riveting.” In 2018, she earned an Empowerment Project Award from the Saratoga Springs Public Library and, in 2023, she was recognized as a “Woman of Distinction” by NYS Assembly Representative Simpson. She designs and teaches courses in feminist history as well as in memoir, journaling, and creative writing. She chairs the Women's Rights Awareness Campaign for the Saratoga County League of Women Voters.
Please call the library at (518) 668-2528 to register for this event.