Observance of Women’s Equality Day

Check for us at food-truck Thursday on the patio of the Grand Rapids Art Museum! Once again, we will buttonhole passers-by about the 98th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and […]

Diana Barrett – WWI Women’s Cards

Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

During the week of April 27th through May 4th 1918, twenty thousand Grand Rapids women, half the city’s female population, registered for the war effort. One thousand registrars were trained […]

Educator Event: From Suffragists to Senators

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum

Attention, educators! In celebration of the centennial birthday of Mrs. Betty Ford, the Gerald R. Ford Foundation is presenting a free, day-long professional development workshop for educators focused on women's […]

Kent County Women and WWI’s Home Front Defense

Kent District Library - Cascade Branch

Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council President Melissa Fox will illustrate how in 1917 area women joined the largest wartime mobilization of their young country. Long-time ideas about food, children, […]

Janet Sheeres: The Wives (and Lives) of Early Dutch Pastors

Grand Rapids Public Library 111 Library NE, Grand Rapids, MI, United States

Join us for a riveting account of the stories of early local pastors’ wives! When Janet Sjaarda Sheeres was editing a 700-page tome on early synod minutes of the Christian Reformed […]