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March 2011
VOL 16, NO 3
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SPOTLIGHT
Glass Art Exhibit Coming to Danville By Staff Writer
Mark your calendar for a treat on March 18. Opening at the Village art gallery in Danville is the glass art exhibit “Finding Balance: Glass art in the Bay Area”. Bay Area glass artist and co-curator Randy Strong will talk in-depth about the inner workings of glass art and the artists featured in the collection. This exhibit will be on display through May 25th. Winner of the juried 2005 and 2008 Niche award for blown glass, and finalist for 2010 – awarded by Niche magazine for the best of blown glass in the United States - Randy Strong - artist
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The coming of Spring is especially enjoyable looking out over beautiful Oak Hill Park on Stone Valley Road in Danville from the site of The All Wars Memorial. This spot is well worth a visit.
National Women's History Month Inspires AAUW historical drama the San Ramon valley during
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M a r c h is National 1st Place Winner W o m e n ' s Sharon Huber, History Month a n d 2 0 11 U.S. Marine Corporal happens to be 1967-1970 the centennial of women's suffrage in California. "Remember the Ladies!," the battle cry of California's suffragists, will be heard again when members of the Museum of San Ramon Valley reenact women achieving the right to vote in California 100 years ago. The historical drama to be performed for the American Association of University Women members and the general public is part of a series of events scheduled this year by the Museum of the
B e f o r e t h e S u s a n B. Anthony amendment to the U.S. constitution was approved in 1920, California became the sixth and largest western state to approve women’s suffrage on Oct. 10, 1911. Beverly Lane and others researched women's civil r i g h t s m ove m e n t s i n t h e 19th and 20th centuries, and museum volunteers have brought the events of the hard fought battle to life in the compelling 45-minute dramatic presentation, "Remembering the Ladies." This coincides with the new MSRV exhibit opening May 14 and running through July 16, depicting women in
the women’s suffrage campaign of 1911. Mannequins and a collection of artifacts will be on display and every Saturday, and historic reenactors will be present to talk to visitors. B eve r l y L a n e, l o c a l historian has spent months researching documents, letters and newspapers of the period. She says the Oct. 13, 1911 New York Times reported, "California farmers give votes to women," in an article which stated that the election took place on Oct. 10 and that "Granges and other farmer's organizations had endorsed suffrage." "When the Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, organized in California in 1873, both men and women were eligible
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members. In the San Ramon Valley in the early 1870s, the influential R. O. Baldwin called for both sexes to be members in a proposed Farmer's Union organization, a precursor to the Grange. On October 1, 1873, the new Danville Grange #85 welcomed 10 women and 20 men to its charter membership," according to a series of papers written by Lane for use in the upcoming museum exhibit. Lane found references to local families and records of meetings where "The question of women's suffrage was discussed at considerable length..." The Woman Suffrage Association was organized in Contra Costa County in 1870 with a large contingent from See WOMEN’S HISTORY page 5