Wednesday, August 12, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
QUILTS: Event
highlighted women9s
suffrage movement
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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.
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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.
Anthony Amendment, which
guaranteed women the right
to vote, on May 21, 1919.
The U.S. Senate followed
two weeks later, and the
19th Amendment went to
the states, where it was rati-
fied by three-quarters of the
then-48 states to be added to
the Constitution. By a vote of
50-47, Tennessee became the
last state needed to ratify the
19th Amendment on August
18, 1920.
The following Saturday, at
noon, church bells were rung
across the land as the United
States became the 26th
country in the world to give
women the right to vote. The
19th amendment was certi-
fied by the U.S. Secretary of
State on August 26.
Today, more than 68 mil-
lion women vote in elections
because of the courageous
suffragists who never gave
up the fight for equality.
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