Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit National Historical Park - Northwest Notes - Speaker's Series (U.S. National Park Service)

Events during March, Women's History Month

March 14 at 2 p.m. Seattle Women in the Women's Suffrage Victory of 1910 in Washington State
Shana Stevenson a long-time local historian in Olympia, coordinator of the Women's History Consortium, will discuss the history of the women's suffrage movement in Seattle.

March 28 at 2:30 p.m. Vivien Rose, chief of cultural resources at the Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, N.Y. will address the women's rights movement from a national perspective.

Saturday, April 4, 2:00 pm

Barbara Callander and Toni Douglass will stage "May's Vote" the story of prim-and-proper Emma Smith DeVoe and flamboyant May Arkwright Hutton who worked side-by-side but seldom eye-to-eye to help win the vote for women in Washington State. Following the presentation Barbara and Toni will conduct a voting workshop for children.

Saturday, April 5, 2:00 pm

Goodwill Industries and Klondike living history volunteers model women’s fashions from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s, illustrating how the fight for women’s access to the voting booth was echoed in their closets.

Saturday, May 9 2:00 pm

Heidi Walker, local photographer and mountaineer, offers a presentation on three women who dared the mountains while others dared the Capitol. Learn about the adventures of Minnie Peterson, mountain guide, Helen Thayer, adventurer and explorer, and Fay Fuller, the first woman to conquer Mt. Rainier.