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Wednesday, August 12, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon QUILTS: Event highlighted women9s suffrage movement Continued from page 3 sign up.= Cobb and other guild members yearned to have a special exhibit on the 100th anniversary of the ratifica- tion of the 19th Amendment date of August 18. Ed and Kathi Beacham, owners of Beacham Clock Co. in Sisters, were happy to be of assistance and 14 quilts will be displayed beginning Saturday, August 15. <A lot of research went into each one. And it was a lot of education,= Cobb explained. <When I was in high school and college there wasn9t any information on women9s history. I was really shocked to learn cer- tain things.= Cobb will have two quilts on display: <Equality= and <Liberty.= She noted, <What an interesting journey it was learning this history that we didn9t know anything about. It was really fascinating, depressing, enlightening, and a little frightening.= Catherine Anderson, a member of Mount Bachelor Quilters Guild, is honored to be a part of the exhibit. Around the border of her quilt <Equality= is written, <If not now when?= Anderson told The Nugget, <I am not new to the women9s movement. I was part of one of many groups that worked on passage of the ERA.= <The crowd of women in the middle of my quilt depicts all women but if you look carefully there is asso- ciate Justice Ruth Ginsburg, Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren, Hilary Clinton, and Gloria Steinem. The ribbons in the center are the suffrag- ists colors. They are twisted together to show past, pres- ent, future.= The ribbons in the center are the suffragists colors. They are twisted together to show past, present, future. — Catherine Anderson A member of EOCQ, Modern Quilt Guild and Studio Art Quilters Association (SAQA), Cece Montgomery9s Quilt <The Real Story of Women9s Suffrage= is a picture quilt of many of the early women who fought for the right to vote in national elections. <I am an old woman9s libber and have a passion for women9s rights,= she said. <When I heard about this exhibit, I wanted to be a part of it as I already had an idea what kind of quilt I would make.= All the quilts displayed in Beacham Clock Co. are 45 by 45 inches in celebra- tion of the 45th SOQS. The quilts all have the colors purple, white, and gold. (The Congressional Union/ National Women9s Party used gold as <the torch that guides our purpose, pure, and unswerving,= white reflects <quality and pur- pose= and purple denotes <loyalty.=) Viewers can vote on the quilts for <People9s Choice= that Saturday, the following Monday (the shop is closed Sunday and Wednesday) and on the morning of Tuesday, August 18. The hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The quilts will be removed at 4 p.m. on Saturday, August 22. At noon, on August 18, the doors to Beacham9s will be open so those inside and out may hear the clocks all chiming in unison. Around 12:15 p.m., Cobb and other guild members will usher those interested to join them at the back of Beacham9s Clock Co. on the lawn where chairs will be placed six feet apart for an audience of 20. An award will be presented to the <People9s Choice.= Carol Loesche of The League of Women Voters of Deschutes County, will speak at the event. Arlene Burns, the third term Mayor of Mosier and the Democrat candidate for District 59 State House seat will make an appearance. The exhibit will be COVID-19 rules and regu- lations compliant during the event: no more the 10 people in the building, including the three to four who work there, at any one time. Masks man- datory and six-feet physi- cal distancing at all times. If the rules become stricter between now and then, Cobb will have to delay the event to a later date. What an interesting journey it was learning this history that we didn’t know anything about. It was really fascinating, depressing, enlightening, and a little frightening. — Susan Cobb Cobb said, <I would like to thank Ed and Kathi Beacham for showing the quilts in their establishment and for the use of their back lawn for the event. I would also like to thank Jean Wells- Keenan and Valori Wells for the use of chairs from Stichin9 Post for the event.= The Black Butte Ranch Lodge will be hosting a month-long special exhibit in November. There will be 15 Women9s Suffrage quilts on display. BANR ENTERPRISES, LLC Residential & Commercial Contractor Women struggled for the right to vote By Jodi Schneider Correspondent The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a long and difficult struggle. The women9s suffrage movement is filled with extraordinary, dramatic, inspiring, complex, and too- little-known stories. Prior to 1776, women had the right to vote in several of the 13 colonies in what would become the United States, but by 1807 every state constitution denied even limited suffrage. While women had dis- cussed equality and the right to vote since the founding of the nation, the suffrage movement began in 1848 at the Seneca Falls conven- tion held in July, in Seneca Falls, New York. The meet- ing was not the first in sup- port of women9s rights, but suffragists viewed it as the meeting that launched a national movement and cause. Suffrage supporters orga- nized, petitioned, and pick- eted to win the right to vote. They worked to educate the public and lawmakers about the legitimate right of women to vote. Under the leader- ship of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Sojurner Truth, Ida B. Wells, and other women9s rights pioneers, suffragists circulated peti- tions and lobbied Congress to pass a constitutional amendment to enfranchise women. One hundred and forty-three years after the nation declared its inde- pendence The U.S. House of Representatives finally approved the Susan B. 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