Celebrating 90 Years of Woman and the Vote in Newport

From NewportMansions.org

Celebrating 90 Years of Women and the Vote
Thursday, August 26
11 a.m.
Marble House, 596 Bellevue Avenue

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, a noted suffragist, called Marble House her “temple to the arts,” and used the house as a setting for suffrage rallies. Today, the arts and women’s suffrage come together as the The Preservation Society of Newport County, the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island, YWCA Northern Rhode Island, Women’s Fund of Rhode Island, the Newport Restoration Foundation and the Newport Historical Society commemorate the 90th anniversary of the 19th amendment.

Join us on the lawn of Marble House for a morning of poetry, music, and readings from historical documents on women’s suffrage by former RI state senator June Gibbs; RI Poet Laureate Lisa Starr; Amber Rose Johnson, the 2010 Poetry Out Loud National Champion from Classical High School in Providence, RI; and Lt. Col. Jayme M. Sutton, Naval War College Military Professor of National Strategy Decision Making.

Event is free and open to the public.