Swedish immigrants Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg visit San Francisco in the summer of 1915, planning to buy a car and explore the country on their way back to their home in Rhode Island. On impulse, they offer to bring along suffragists heading to Washington DC to demand voting rights for women from Congress and the President. Soon they are plunged into a difficult and dangerous journey that pushes them to the very limits of their endurance.
As they travel they encounter unexpected allies, and those opposed to women’s growing independence. Bad roads and harsh weather hinder their progress. Will they overcome these obstacles and arrive in DC at the appointed day and time?
We Demand is based on a true story. It is a tribute to the grit and determination of the women who made the trip and the suffrage movement that launched them.

We Demand is historical fiction, but Maine author Anne B. Gass did extensive research into this trip, including retracing the route in 2015. The talk is accompanied by historic slides.

Swedish immigrants Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg visit San Francisco in the summer of 1915, planning to buy a car and explore the country on their way back to their home in Rhode Island. On impulse, they offer to bring along suffragists heading to Washington DC to demand voting rights for women from Congress and the President. Soon they are plunged into a difficult and dangerous journey that pushes them to the very limits of their endurance.
As they travel they encounter unexpected allies, and those opposed to women’s growing independence. Bad roads and harsh weather hinder their progress. Will they overcome these obstacles and arrive in DC at the appointed day and time?
We Demand is based on a true story. It is a tribute to the grit and determination of the women who made the trip and the suffrage movement that launched them.

We Demand is historical fiction, but Maine author Anne B. Gass did extensive research into this trip, including retracing the route in 2015. The talk is accompanied by historic slides.

Swedish immigrants Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg visit San Francisco in the summer of 1915, planning to buy a car and explore the country on their way back to their home in Rhode Island. On impulse, they offer to bring along suffragists heading to Washington DC to demand voting rights for women from Congress and the President. Soon they are plunged into a difficult and dangerous journey that pushes them to the very limits of their endurance.

As they travel they encounter unexpected allies, and those opposed to women’s growing independence. Bad roads and harsh weather hinder their progress. Will they overcome these obstacles and arrive in DC at the appointed day and time?
We Demand is based on a true story. It is a tribute to the grit and determination of the women who made the trip and the suffrage movement that launched them.

We Demand is historical fiction, but Maine author Anne B. Gass did extensive research into this trip, including retracing the route in 2015. The talk is accompanied by historic slides.

Swedish immigrants Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg visit San Francisco in the summer of 1915, planning to buy a car and explore the country on their way back to their home in Rhode Island. On impulse, they offer to bring along suffragists heading to Washington DC to demand voting rights for women from Congress and the President. Soon they are plunged into a difficult and dangerous journey that pushes them to the very limits of their endurance.
As they travel they encounter unexpected allies, and those opposed to women’s growing independence. Bad roads and harsh weather hinder their progress. Will they overcome these obstacles and arrive in DC at the appointed day and time?
We Demand is based on a true story. It is a tribute to the grit and determination of the women who made the trip and the suffrage movement that launched them.

Maine author Anne B. Gass did extensive research into this trip, including retracing the route in 2015. The talk is accompanied by historic slides.

Swedish immigrants Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg visit San Francisco in the summer of 1915, planning to buy a car and explore the country on their way back to their home in Rhode Island. On impulse, they offer to bring along suffragists heading to Washington DC to demand voting rights for women from Congress and the President. Soon they are plunged into a difficult and dangerous journey that pushes them to the very limits of their endurance.

As they travel they encounter unexpected allies, and those opposed to women’s growing independence. Bad roads and harsh weather hinder their progress. Will they overcome these obstacles and arrive in DC at the appointed day and time?

"We Demand" is based on a true story. It is a tribute to the grit and determination of the women who made the trip and the suffrage movement that launched them.

Maine author Anne B. Gass did extensive research into this trip, including retracing the route in 2015. The talk is accompanied by historic slides.

"We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip" is based on the true story of an epic cross-country trip that took place in 1915. Launched by the indomitable Alice Paul and the Congressional Union, it was America's first transcontinental car trip for a cause- to demand that Congress pass an amendment to the US Constitution enfranchising women.

Swedish immigrants Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg visit San Francisco in the summer of 1915, planning to buy a car and explore the country on their way back to their home in Rhode Island. On impulse, they offer to bring along suffragists heading to Washington DC to demand voting rights for women from Congress and the President. Soon they are plunged into a difficult and dangerous journey that pushes them to the very limits of their endurance. As they travel they encounter unexpected allies, and those opposed to women’s growing independence. Bad roads and harsh weather hinder their progress. Will they overcome these obstacles and arrive in DC at the appointed day and time?

Author Anne B. Gass did extensive research into this trip, including retracing the route in 2015. The talk is accompanied by historic slides.

Author and historian Anne B. Gass will do a virtual presentation about her new novel, “We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip.”

The novel is based on the true story of a 1915 road trip for the suffrage cause. It is about middle-aged Swedish immigrants, Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg, who visit San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

They plan to buy a car and have a leisurely drive back to their home in Rhode Island. On impulse, they volunteer to bring along two envoys heading to Washington, D.C., to demand votes for women from President Woodrow Wilson and Congress. Soon they are plunged into a difficult and dangerous journey that pushes them to the limits of their endurance.

The story unfolds through the eyes of unlikely suffrage heroes Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg, middle-aged Swedish immigrants who own the car, do all the driving, and fix what goes wrong. The roads are often bad, and the weather is worse. They lose their way in a trackless Nevada desert, get stuck in the mud in Kansas, among many other adventures. Will they arrive in DC at the appointed day and time?

The talk is accompanied by historic slides. The 1915 trip was featured in the PBS American Experience

Gass is an independent historian with a passion for sharing the history of women’s fight for voting and other rights. She lectures regularly on suffrage and women’s rights history at schools, colleges, museums, historical societies, and other venues, and is involved with women’s history groups/women's rights groups in Maine and nationally.

Zoom presentation about Anne Gass’ new novel, “We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip.”

The novel is based on the true story of a 1915 road trip for the suffrage cause. It is about middle-aged Swedish immigrants, Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg, who visit San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

They plan to buy a car and have a leisurely drive back to their home in Rhode Island. On impulse, they volunteer to bring along two envoys heading to Washington, D.C., to demand votes for women from President Woodrow Wilson and Congress. Soon they are plunged into a difficult and dangerous journey that pushes them to the limits of their endurance.

Gass is an independent historian with a passion for sharing the history of women’s fight for voting and other rights. The library hosted Gass for a talk in 2020 as part of a “Suffrage Centennial” series. Gass discussed her 2014 book “Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage,” a thoroughly-researched account of her great-grandmother’s leadership in the decisive final years of the suffrage battle.

Virtual Talk sponsored by the Old Berwick Historical Society

This talk is based on the book Gass wrote about her great-grandmother, Florence Brooks Whitehouse, published in 2014. Florence was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons when she first joined the suffrage movement in 1914. We explore Florence’s life up to 1914 and her leadership in moving suffrage forward in Maine, joining forces with national leader Alice Paul in a desperate, last-ditch effort to ensure that the Maine legislature ratified the 19th Amendment that would give women voting rights. Slides of historic photos accompany this lively talk.

Visit the website to register or find the link to the event http://www.oldberwick.org

Questions? info@oldberwick.org

Virtual Talk https://zoom.us/j/97016032404?pwd=cks0SElsdldmR3hMMmVYcm80NUdSUT09

Meeting ID: 970 1603 2404 Passcode: 294249,

This talk is based on the above-named book I wrote about my great-grandmother, Florence Brooks Whitehouse, published in 2014. Florence was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons when she first joined the suffrage movement in 1914. We explore Florence’s life up to 1914 and her leadership in moving suffrage forward in Maine, joining forces with national leader Alice Paul in a desperate, last-ditch effort to ensure that the Maine legislature ratified the 19th Amendment that would give women voting rights. Slides of historic photos accompany this lively talk.

Website https://manchesterinklink.com/dec-21-book-talk-on-maines-fight-for-womens-suffrage-with-author-ann-gass/

Questions? ahanmer@manchesternh.gov

Virtual presentation for the Department of Education

Rhea Côté Robbins will examine the Franco American suffragist movement. She will start with information on Canadian women’s suffrage and compare it to what was happening in the United States. She will then focus on Camille Lessard Bissonnette and explore the reasons why this Franco American woman was not on the radar for the Maine women’s suffrage in the early 1900s. She will talk about her own work getting Camille Lessard Bissonnette into the exhibit on women’s suffrage at the Maine State Museum. She will end her talk looking at the women who have served in the Maine State Legislature through the years in order to connect the past to the present.

Email Rhea for the zoom link rhea.robbins@maine.edu

Webinar with Moderator: Leigh Saufley (former Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court & Dean of the UME Law School)

Panelists: Alison Beyea (ED ACLU of Maine); Maulian Dana (Tribal Ambassador Penobscot Nation); Anne Gass (Historian & Author); Anna Kellar (ED League of Women Voters of Maine); Krystal Williams (Attorney, Bernstein Shur)

Register: bit.ly/hardwonnotdone

ZOOM TALK

Florence Brooks Whitehouse was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons when she first joined the suffrage movement in 1914. This talk explores Florence’s life up to 1914 and her leadership in moving suffrage forward in Maine, through WW I and the 1918 flu pandemic. She also joined forces with national leader Alice Paul in a desperate, last-ditch effort to ensure that the Maine legislature ratified the 19th Amendment that would give women voting rights. Slides of historic photos accompany this lively talk. The speaker, Anne B. Gass, is Whitehouse's great-granddaughter.

ZOOM TALK

In February 1917 voting rights activists were jubilant when the Maine legislature approved the state’s first ever referendum on woman suffrage. The vote was set for September 10th. But even as Maine suffragists prepared their campaign to convince their men that women deserved the vote the country was preparing to enter the war in Europe. The wave of patriotism that followed the US joining the war collided with women’s efforts- in Maine and nationally- to secure voting rights for women. It also gave unprecedented power to local, state, and federal governments to limit free speech and other behavior. There are some interesting parallels to events happening today. This provocative talk is accompanied by historic slides.

In September 1915 four women embarked in an open car from San Francisco’s Panama Pacific International Exposition on the country’s first cross-country road trip for a cause. They were carrying a petition to Congress and President Wilson demanding an amendment to the United States Constitution enfranchising women. Over primitive, poorly signed roads and through blazing heat, rain, snow, and mud, they battled their way across the country, stopping in towns along the way to collect more signatures and to raise awareness that most women in the country were prohibited from voting. Gass retraced their route in 2015 and blogged about it at www.suffrageroadtrip.blogspot.com. This lively talk is accompanied by historic slides.

Exhibit opens on May 30, 2020. Museum admission is FREE and open to the public, Monday - Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. through October 24, 2020.

 In September 1915 four women embarked in an open car from San Francisco’s Panama Pacific International Exposition on the country’s first cross-country road trip for a cause. They were carrying a petition to Congress and President Wilson demanding an amendment to the United States Constitution enfranchising women. Over primitive, poorly signed roads and through blazing heat, rain, snow, and mud, they battled their way across the country, stopping in towns along the way to collect more signatures and to raise awareness that most women in the country were prohibited from voting. Gass retraced their route in 2015 and blogged about it at www.suffrageroadtrip.blogspot.com. This lively talk is accompanied by historic slides.

The Belfast Free Library will offer a talk commemorating an aspect of Maine’s History, the fight for Woman Suffrage, with author Anne B. Gass. The talk, made possible by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council’s "World in your Library Speaker Series," will be offered as a virtual program via Zoom.

This talk is based on the book "Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine's Fight for Woman Suffrage", about the author's great-grandmother. Florence was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons when she first joined the suffrage movement in 1914. Gass will explore Florence’s life up to 1914 and her leadership in moving suffrage forward in Maine, joining forces with national leader Alice Paul in a desperate, last-ditch effort to ensure that the legislature ratified the 19th Amendment that would give women voting rights. Slides of historic photos accompany this lively talk which lasts about 40 minutes. Q&A to follow.

Register Here: https://networkmaine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwofuuspj4sEtBzYzOeqslIVGufy_iuzFQi

Florence Brooks Whitehouse was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons when she first joined the suffrage movement in 1914. This talk explores Florence’s life up to 1914 and her leadership in moving suffrage forward in Maine, joining forces with national leader Alice Paul in a desperate, last-ditch effort to ensure that the Maine legislature ratified the 19th Amendment that would give women voting rights. Slides of historic photos accompany this lively talk, which lasts about 45 minutes. The speaker, Anne B. Gass, is Whitehouse's great-granddaughter.

This talk is based on the book "Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine's Fight for Woman Suffrage", about the author's great-grandmother. Florence was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons when she first joined the suffrage movement in 1914. We explore Florence’s life up to 1914 and her leadership in moving suffrage forward in Maine, joining forces with national leader Alice Paul in a desperate, last-ditch effort to ensure that the legislature ratified the 19th Amendment that would give women voting rights. Slides of historic photos accompany this lively talk, which lasts about 40 minutes.

This event is sponsored by the sponsored by the GFWC Skowhegan Woman's Club and GFWC Semper Fedelis Club.

This talk is based on the book "Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine's Fight for Woman Suffrage", about the author's great-grandmother. Florence was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons when she first joined the suffrage movement in 1914. We explore Florence’s life up to 1914 and her leadership in moving suffrage forward in Maine, joining forces with national leader Alice Paul in a desperate, last-ditch effort to ensure that the legislature ratified the 19th Amendment that would give women voting rights. Slides of historic photos accompany this lively talk, which lasts about 40 minutes.

Florence Brooks Whitehouse was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons when she first joined the suffrage movement in 1914. This talk explores Florence’s life up to 1914 and her leadership in moving suffrage forward in Maine, joining forces with national leader Alice Paul in a desperate, last-ditch effort to ensure that the Maine legislature ratified the 19th Amendment that would give women voting rights. Slides of historic photos accompany this lively talk, which lasts about 45 minutes. The speaker, Anne B. Gass, is Whitehouse's great-granddaughter.

In September 1915 four women embarked in an open car from San Francisco’s Panama Pacific International Exposition on the country’s first cross-country road trip for a cause. They were carrying a petition to Congress and President Wilson demanding an amendment to the United States Constitution enfranchising women. Over primitive, poorly signed roads and through blazing heat, rain, snow, and mud, they battled their way across the country, stopping in towns along the way to collect more signatures and to raise awareness that most women in the country were prohibited from voting. Gass retraced their route in 2015 and blogged about it at www.suffrageroadtrip.blogspot.com. This lively talk is accompanied by historic slides.

Florence Brooks Whitehouse was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons when she first joined the suffrage movement in 1914. This talk explores Florence’s life up to 1914 and her leadership in moving suffrage forward in Maine, joining forces with national leader Alice Paul in a desperate, last-ditch effort to ensure that the Maine legislature ratified the 19th Amendment that would give women voting rights. Slides of historic photos accompany this lively talk, which lasts about 45 minutes. The speaker, Anne B. Gass, is Whitehouse's great-granddaughter.

Ages 4-10 enjoy a dramatic reading of children’s stories, then participate in an acting workshop with professional theater artists. We’ll use the book Hattie &Hudson by Chris Van Dusen, in which characters stand up for what they believe in & use their voices to make a change.
Cost: $15 for one child and an adult. $8 per additional person.

Florence Brooks Whitehouse was a novelist, painter, vocalist, and mother of three sons when she first joined the suffrage movement in 1914. This talk explores Florence’s life up to 1914 and her leadership in moving suffrage forward in Maine, joining forces with national leader Alice Paul in a desperate, last-ditch effort to ensure that the Maine legislature ratified the 19th Amendment that would give women voting rights. Slides of historic photos accompany this lively talk. The speaker, Anne B. Gass, is Whitehouse's great-granddaughter.

In 1841, nearly 500 female factory workers walked out of Saco’s York Manufacturing Company and paraded up Main Street, chanting and singing. Learn how a strike in one Maine town connected to national agitation for women’s rights, including suffrage.

2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment when women won the right to vote. This presentation, co-sponsored by the Rockland Public Library, celebrates that historic victory and the women who led the effort, while also providing a sober reflection on the compromises that split the movement and left many voters behind, choices that continue to echo 100 years later. The talk will end with a brief overview of the work that remains to be done. We will meet in the Community Room. For more information, email Midcoast@lwvme.org.

In February 1917 voting rights activists were jubilant when the Maine legislature approved the state’s first ever referendum on woman suffrage. The vote was set for September 10th. But even as Maine suffragists prepared their campaign to convince their men that women deserved the vote, the country was preparing to enter the war in Europe. The wave of patriotism that followed the US joining the war collided with women’s efforts- in Maine and nationally- to secure voting rights for women. It also resulted in reversals in workers' rights, and substantially eroded civil rights for women. This engaging talk includes historic slides.

Local author Elisa Boxer presents her new children's book THE VOICE THAT WON THE VOTE: How One Woman's Words Made History. The book tells the little-known story of the mother who saved suffrage. There will be a reading, a book signing, a craft, and chocolate! All ages warmly welcome.