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FAIRFIELD — The Central Kennebec Heritage Consul of Museums will offer summer programs, exhibits and activities focused on women of the past in our communities, including suffragettes.
Museum exhibits and programs will feature stories of women who played important roles in central Maine towns and communities. Some of what is planned includes:
Skowhegan History House will host a talk by Adam Fisher, of Maine State Archives, “Here’s to Skowhegan’s Trouble Makers,” which explores a group of heroic Skowhegan women who struggled for women’s legal right to vote in the 1920s. It will be held 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, at the Margaret Chase Smith Library, 56 Norridgewock Road, Skowhegan.
At 1 p.m. Saturday, July 27, at the L.C. Bates Museum, Tea With Mattie Wadsworth will be held. In costume as Maine entomologist Mattie Wadsworth, a lover of insects, Serena will protray Mattie and discuss her early 1900s insect collection, the importance of her collection and what it was like to be a woman entomologist more than 100 years ago. Tea will be served, and those participating will make an insect craft to take home.
To commemorate the centennial of women’s suffrage, the Margaret Chase Smith Library, in Skowhegan, has organized a new exhibit for 2019, “Women Must Take Full Responsibility for Their Citizenship: Margaret and the 19th Amendment.”
The display highlights Smith’s involvement in women’s groups and how she became the beneficiary of women gaining the right to vote in 1920 by going on to serve in Congress from 1940 to 1973 and run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. The Margaret Chase Smith Library is at 56 Norridgewock Ave., Skowhegan, and is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 207-474-7133 for informaiton.
The Taconett Falls Genealogical Library in Winslow will provide information about families place in the suffrage movement. Women’s suffrage was a family affair — men supported, and often outdid, their wives in the suffrage movement. Taconnett Falls looks at several central Maine families, focusing on the Connors of Augusta and Fairfield in an exhibit in July and Augusta centering on the genealogical connections of the Conner faimily of Augusta and the women’s movement. The library is at 10 Lithgow St., in Winslow, and is open 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday.
The Norridgewock Historical Society has informaton on women who contributed to the town of Norridgewock.
The Fairfield Historical Society Fairfield has selected five women of different areas of Fairfield who contributed to the town including Florence Kreger, who was involved in suffrage, as well as the first women in the Julia family.
