POSTPONED – GGRWHC Annual Meeting & Reception

John F. Donnelly Conference Center at Aquinas College

GGRWHC annual reception and “Suffrage Sampler: Celebrating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment,” 5:00 – 6:45 pm, Donnelly Center (157 Woodward Lane SE), Aquinas College. Hors d’oeuvres & wine; Free & open to the public. (Please RSVP at info@ggrwhc.org or 616-574-7307) Mingle with friends and lift a glass for the centennial of the 19th Amendment, […]

CANCELED – Kutsche Office Roundtable

Women Changemakers, GVSU Kutsche Office Roundtable – 11:30 am, “A New Digital Exhibit on Women's Suffrage in Grand Rapids,” GGRWHC’s Julia Bouwkamp; & 1:15 pm, "It Took a Family: Domestic Roles and the Civic Engagement of Alde Blake," Blake descendants Moana Kutsche & Robert McArdle, with GGRWHC’s Jo Ellyn Clarey, GVSU Kirkhof Center, R. 2204, […]

POSTPONED – Athena Legacy Tour: The Women Who Built Grand Rapids

Join the Grand Rapids Chamber and Downtown Grand Rapids, Inc. for the ATHENA Legacy Tour! Led by the Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council, this bus tour will explore and celebrate the legacies of the women who built Grand Rapids. Click here to register!   

CANCELED – Kent County Women and WWI Home Front Defense

Melissa Fox will present this program for the Rockford Area Historical Society at the Community Cabin. Upon U.S. entry into WWI, national women's groups transformed their organizational structures for war work. Grand Rapids women were among midwestern leaders whose pioneering efforts have been too long neglected. Get ahead of history--credit them!

POSTPONED – Remnants of History: A Tour of Suffrage Artifacts at the Grand Rapids Public Museum

Grand Rapids Public Museum

GGRWHC's Julia Bouwkamp, 1:00 pm & 6:00pm.  Community Archives and Research Center (CARC) 223 Washington St SE, Grand Rapids. To register, please RSVP at info@ggrwhc.org or 616-574-7307; numbers will be limited. See actual objects from the movement: pennants, buttons, convention ribbons, posters, a touring carpet bag, and suffragist dresses!

CANCELED – Sixth Annual Midwestern History Association conference at GVSU

GGRWHC panel: “Between ‘Suffragette’ Noise and Silent Stunts: Suffrage Print Culture in the Last Decade,” Melissa Fox, Ruth Van Stee, Katelyn VerMerris (Sophia Brewer, chair), Sixth Annual Midwestern History Association conference, GVSU Hauenstein Center at DeVos Center, Free & open to the public.  Stay tuned for more detail.

Emily Burton Ketcham Graveside Event on Her Birth Date in 1838

On July 16th, 2020, between 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm, we will honor “Michigan’s greatest suffragist,” Emily Burton Ketcham, at an informal gathering by her grave site on the anniversary of her 1838 birth in Grand Rapids. Watch for fuller directions within Rosedale Memorial Park, Standale; plan on social distancing and have a mask, just […]