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September 10, 2011, 10AM: Oak Hill Cemetery tour by Tom Dilley of the Grand Rapids Historical Society. Hear his theories about local women and their effect on unusual funerary architecture.
Rain date will be Sunday, September 11.
October 8, 2011: Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, Eberhard Center. Panel at 10:15AM featuring Grand Rapids women's history.
October 26, 2011, 7PM: Dorothy Wickenden, author of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, Grand Rapids Public Library, Main Branch, Auditorium, 3rd floor. There's a Grand Rapids Connection.
October 27, 2011: Induction of Valeria Lipczynski, Grand Rapids' Queen of the Poles, into the historical section of the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, East Lansing, MI Reservations for dinner required.
November 7, 2011, 6PM: Iron-Jawed Angels, Calvin College (exact location to be announced). Discussion afterward led by Professor Kristin Du Mez.
November 10, 2011, 7PM: "Grand Rapids History: The Jewish Connection," presented by Peg Finkelstein and Barbara Robinson, The Peg and Mort Finkelstein Archives, and Rabbi Michael Schadick, Temple Emanuel, 1715 East Fulton. Tour the archives.
January, 2012: Local History Detectives, Grand Rapids Public Library. The program will be held on a Saturday. Watch the web page for more information.
March 8, 2012 7PM: "WWI, Women, and the Rise of Grand Rapids Farmers Markets," presented by Jayson Otto, Grand Valley State University. Location: Gerald R. Ford Museum. A surprising story about politicized urban women on city committees.
March, 2012: Women's History Month: Focus on area women and agriculture.
In the picture here audience members wait to have their books, Elly Peterson: "Mother" of the Moderates, signed by author Sara Fitzgerald at our recent Equality Day event. Fitzgerald's talk focused on 1976 when Peterson was deputy chair of Gerald R. Ford's reelection campaign and co-chair of ERAmerica with Democrat Liz Carpenter. This year's celebration was recorded by C-Span's Book TV. We'll let you know when it will air.